Gremlin Chronicles
Admin. Chaos. Creativity. One gremlin. Many stories.
Welcome to the Gremlin Chronicles - the ongoing memoir of admin life, creative problem‑solving, and the small feral creature who lives in my laptop and insists he’s “helping”.
Admin work is serious. It’s deadlines, systems, processes, and the quiet satisfaction of a spreadsheet that finally behaves. But it’s also wild, funny, unpredictable, and powered by a gremlin who occasionally chews on imaginary wires and judges my life choices.
This is where I document the real story behind the work - the wins, the disasters, the plot twists, and the gremlin moments that make admin both a profession and an adventure.
Five Weeks in the Trenches
7 May 2026
For the last five weeks I’ve been locked in a full‑scale battle with setup, systems, layouts, spacing, and whatever eldritch creature lives inside my theme. Every time I thought I’d fixed something, another panel collapsed, another file vanished, or a gremlin popped out of a sidebar I didn’t even know existed. It’s been chaos, caffeine, and a lot of “why is this happening”.
Somewhere in the middle of the mess, I realised I was learning things — not neatly, not gracefully, and definitely not in the order any sane person would choose. But I learned how my tools think, how my theme misbehaves, how to outsmart a layout demon, and how to rebuild a page three times without crying. Mostly.
So here we are: five weeks later, the site finally looks like it knows what it’s doing, the gremlin is temporarily contained, and I’ve gained a suspicious amount of technical knowledge I never meant to acquire. Did I learn all of it? I think so. Probably. Maybe. Let’s not test it today.