Go Retire Psychiatrist

 It was beginning to look like I was probably not going to get human assistance with managing my new blog theme, but the WordPress Happiness Engineer saved the day!

By the way, after I switched, I couldn’t find my old classic theme listed anywhere. So, even if I wanted to flip back to it, I can’t. Maybe that’s for the best.

This is a block theme, but I’m tempted to call it a blockhead theme because I feel like I’m a blockhead trying to navigate through it. And until just the last hour, “navigate” was the key word, because that’s the magic word for getting links on the front page or home page or whatever you want to call it.

For some odd reason, yesterday I could not make a menu of the links I had on my old theme. Even the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant gave up. It even exclaimed, “Carnation is tricky!” Can you believe it? Carnation stumped AI! Give it up for human helpers!

I forgot to mention that the name of my new theme is Carnation. It’s a little ironic that the name evokes images of a smart looking boutonniere.  Until now, I was tempted to call it Tarnation, which is an old guy soft swear word expressing frustration.

That’s likely to send some older people off on a brief tangent (tangents are legal for us), which I’m now about to do. So, if you ever watched Looney Tunes cartoons and remember Yosemite Damn (no, sorry, I mean Yosemite Sam) then you need to see this YouTube on whether he ever really exclaimed “What in tarnation!”

First of all (and I’m not kidding here), why does this Mandela Effect thing get any attention about Yosemite Sam never saying “What in Tarnation!”? There are 46,000 views and over 360 comments! Does anyone wonder if he said “What in the Sam Hill?”

So, with that, what in Tarnation (remember this is sort of a dad joke about the theme) makes any sense? Not much until today. When I put my privacy policy on the header (that banner thing with the blog title at the top of the page), why did it simultaneously also get stuck in the footer at the bottom of the page? Just to drive that point home?

As it turns out, the footer is where Tarnation wanted to put the links navigation menu. Even though I simplified the menu, it would never have fit in the footer. All I really needed to know was how to put it somewhere at the top of the home page. That’s when the Happiness Engineer swooped in and rescued me and boy am I thankful.

I can do some things on my own. Like I can post a gigantic YouTube video at the top of my blog of me teaching you how to play cribbage solitaire. Can you see me now?