The Faithful Skeptic

We’re trying to wean our son from breastfeeding (he’s 18 months).  It’s going pretty well - Sarah had him down to one nighttime feeding and this week we’re stopping that.  Our method (which we used for our daughter at 17 months) was for me to get up in the night with her because I obviously cannot fulfill that need.  I think the transition is easier for our son than it was with our daughter.  But he’s still having issues sleeping through the night at 18 months.  Last night I got about four hours of sleep, but my longest stretch was 2 hours.

The transition is hard, but it’ll be worth it.  It seems like just yesterday he was an infant.

I’m a big fan of Google - usually.  I really like gmail, and I’ve publicly proclaimed my love and affection for Google Reader several times on this blog.  But I logged in today and Google Reader has lost all of my subscriptions.  I’ve subscribed to around 100 different feeds (blogs, etc.) and I had a lot of unread items that I was saving for later.  Now it is all gone.  It will be a royal pain to recreate my subscription list, if I even can.

This is the trouble with trusting Google (or any other web application provider).  This is incredibly disappointing.  Maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll fix it.  For those of you that don’t use feed readers, imagine that you have 1 million channels on your tv.  As you surf, you occasionally add a channel here or there to your favorites.  You’re not intimately familiar with your list of favorites - some you watch every day, some just a couple of times a month.  But out of that million channels, you have a 100 that you thought enough of at one point to mark them.  Then one day you turn your tv on and they’re all gone from your list.  Very frustrating.  But then Google Reader is free, and I suppose I’m getting what I paid for.

Update: Subscriptions are back!  (huge sigh of relief…)  If you’re a Reader user, use this opportunity to export your subscription list. 

Note to self - backup subscription list more often.