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HIT IT!

While I was typing my blog item on skunks, I accidentally hit the command key and the dash (also the MINUS) key, never mind why–well I was meaning to hit the option key and the dash to get a wide dash, see. I missed. Anyway when I mishit the two keys, the type got smaller. I panicked. So I hit the same combo AGAIN! The type got even smaller than that! All of it. Everything that I had written so far.

Now let me pause and observe this obsessive action of REPUSHING the button when something goes wrong. This is not a good idea! It makes the matter worse doesn't it? It did for me. Then why is the automatic response to hit it again? Denial that the first bollix happened? A hope that the second hit will reverse the first? It is an interesting phenom. I wonder how many disasters were not so much from the first push of the button but the second try to see if the first had really turned out as badly as it seemed. But, I digress. Let us return to our story.

I stopped pushing the button. Relaxed. Breathed. Thought it out: "What could have happened"?

As I worked it through–how to get out of this mess– (a MUCH better strategy for dealing with panic). The alternative solution would be to recompose ALL of the blog but that would be very tedious as it involved three colors and a variety of other tags.

So I thought it out. I retraced my steps. I figured that if 'that' happened with a minus maybe the plus would reverse it. I gave it a whirl. I already had my worst case scenario.

VOILA! That worked.

What a discovery. Now all I have to figure out is how and why I would ever want such an effect on the page.