One last thought

I should give some credit where credit is due. I want to announce that the wife ran the corn burner for three days while I was gone. She had a few little problems. She worked through them.

I would also confess that I came home, took a look at the fire. Thought it looked a little too fed and so shutoff the feed on the stove.

...of course, fully intending to turn it back on in 15 or 20 minutes. I forgot. The fire is out. I have to get a fire built in there again before I can go to bed. Then hope for the wife to not read my blog...

Good night.

A Technical update for those computer people who might care

Homecoming tonight. I am back in Chippewa Falls. I got a little time to look at the new server tonight. I had been looking at some software called Blue Dragon. It is free software that runs on a computer and can send out dynamic web pages, like the forum is. I had looked at it some before I left. I had downloaded the newest version and tried to install it on the new server. It would not install though. As soon as I typed in my password it would crash. I downloaded an older version of the same program tonight and it installed right away.

Ummmm, it doesn't run yet. That is sort of a down side and the way this stuff works. I will have some time to diddle with it some tomorrow night. In the meantime, I have someone to call tommorrow and see if I can use some space on one of his servers. If so, I should be able to move the forum over his server and bring it back up tomorrow night!

I am sorry to you all for all this down time. I do know how you all enjoy it. I enjoy it too.

--ja

Where did you go on your winter vacation?

I bet it was more fun than where I am. I am sitting in a hotel, so that part might be the same. The difference is I am working nine hours a day. Then sitting in a hotel, where I have very limited net access (a fact that I never realized would drive me so crazy!). What's worse, the area the hotel is located in is dry, SO I CAN'T EVEN HAVE A BEER! Aaaaaagh.

On top of all this, my web server started having some problems on Sunday night. Basically what it amounts to is the hits on the forum are pretty high. The month of february is looking like it will have the highest number of hits on my web site that I have ever had. I know you all need your fix from my forum, ( not as bad as I need a beer right now) but I will try to get things working again when I get home on Wednesday night.

Just to let you know what is going on, I bought a new computer to run the databases on. I got it about 90% of the way setup. Then I had an inspiration of what might be causing some problems on the old server and fixed those problems. That gave me some breathing room. Unfortunatly, that was the last thing I needed. I waited a couple of weeks to see how the fixes took, and in the meantime, got a super rush of work that takes me away from home three days a week.

So here I sit. I can't really make the fixes. I hate television. My fingers are already sore from playing guitar and I have really sucky net access....

Oh yeah, and did I mention, NO BEER!