Off In All Directions

Let me ask you something. If a Church has a website, wouldn’t you expect to find the address of the Church somewhere on that website?? One of the things I do part time is I’m a webmaster. One of the sites I take care of is my parish website. (That particular part time job is unpaid, just for the record.) There is an actual address on ‘my’ website. Not only that. There is a map and there are directions. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?

Today I had to drive to a Church in another town for the funeral Mass for Frank’s aunt. There is no address on their parish website. Google showed me an address. It was on, oh let’s say Bologna Road. Or so it claimed. I had left early because it was rush hour. Lucky thing because I arrive at Bologna Road and there is no Church.

I call Janet. She can’t find any address for the Church, either. She gives me the phone number for the parish. I call and find out the Church is on Bologna Avenue. I had given myself an hour to drive out there. It took me half an hour to get to the town the Church was in. It took me another half hour to get un-lost.

And I come back to my initial question: what kind of stupid, sadistic person makes a website with no address? Who cares what goes on in your Church if no one can even find the Church?

Tomorrow morning I have to be out the door at the crack of dawn for the second day in a row. Fine, it’s technically after dawn but I’m sorry. 8 am might as well be dawn to me. I have to take Theresa for pre-surgery testing because she is having surgery on her injured ankle. I guess that’s what they do if everything else fails & you’re still in pain after 5 months. Thankfully, the hospital has directions on their website because I don’t think I can stand 2 mornings in a row of getting lost without becoming a violent, homicidal maniac.