Last night I fell asleep on the couch watching the news, and next thing I knew it was about 2 a.m. Everyone else was already in bed, so I got up to turn everything off and go on to bed. I had left my e-mail provider and Bloglines open earlier in the evening, and as I went to turn Bloglines off, I noticed it said there were over 11,000 new posts. I thought I was seeing things a little fuzzy from my sleepiness, so I squinted and looked closer, then saw that every blog I am subscribed to through Bloglines was bolded, indicating new posts, and the parentheses beside each blog had numbers in the 70-200 range rather than 1 or 2.

I clicked on the “Bloglines news,” and it said they had experienced a small hiccup during the night and they hoped it wouldn’t cause any problems.

That was some hiccup!

I clicked on a couple of blogs and saw that there were no new posts — a brief glance through what was listed showed they were all old posts.

I went ahead and closed everything down and figured this morning I would just mark everything read and then go back and check out the ones that do tend to have posts every day. Thankfully all was back to normal — I think there were 21 new posts from the 79 blogs I’m subscribed to.

I love you guys, but 11,000 posts would have been a bit much. 🙂