This is getting silly now…

Website

My website has been up and down the past week and a half. It’s driving me nuts.

My e-mail doesn’t work, either. It’s been on and off the past week and a half. It’s driving me nuts.

Suddenly my password doesn’t work on the server, so I can’t log into cPanel (the software that helps tweak how my website works). I need to log into cPanel to fix my e-mail. I told the server people that my password didn’t work, and that their very own tech support people told me that I needed the password so I could get into cPanel to fix my e-mail. So they e-mailed the password to me.

Anyone see the flaw in that logic? “Oh, you need a password to fix your e-mail? We’ll just e-mail it to you…” It’s driving me nuts.

I have to admit, it’s partially my own dumb fault. I’m sure if I hadn’t missed that day in second grade when they taught you that “Y” is a consonant and a vowel I’d know how to run my website today. But I missed that day in school.

I had a plan. It was a good plan. I was going to switch hosting companies. I know of a very nice hosting company that would take me. Had I been bright enough to realize that I needed to pay them first, THEN try to move all my stuff over, things would be hunky-dory right now. But I’m rather dense. I didn’t set up an account, but I somehow expected them to magically fix my stuff. Once I figured out I needed to give them some moolah, I figured I was home free! All my problems are solved! But no… Alas, my stupid password doesn’t work on my old server any more, so I can’t get a backup of all my stuff to put on the new server. Nor can I check my e-mail.

Did I tell you that they said they were going to e-mail the password to me? It’s driving me nuts.

I haven’t even had time to write in my blog. I’ve been too busy wringing my hands and gnashing my teeth over my silly website and e-mail woes to think of anything else. I pace a lot now. I haven’t slept in days. It’s driving me nuts.

It’s been over eight hours since I first told them I needed my password. I should have heard something by now…

Anyway, if anyone’s been inconvenienced by bounced e-mails or the lack of this blog, I do apologize. I am trying to get things sorted out, but I really am a color-blind historian who moonlights as a graphic designing bassist. I’m just not trained for this sort of thing. It drives me nuts.

Pictures

I take a lot of pictures. As usual, you can click on the photos below to see a slightly larger version. I hope. If my website works. (It’s driving me nuts, I tell you!)

Everyone takes pictures of roses. Me too.
My medieval bunny-chaser. This actually IS my mower. It’s the only one I have.
Sioux City musician Matt D at Sweet Fannies. I like this photo ’cause I turned the flash off,
set the camera for a night exposure, and set it on the table.
The colors turned out way cool…
Music and beer. Abbey and music. They work so well together.
Dagmar and I went to Hillview Park near Hinton, Iowa. They have elk there. Elk are cool.
Cows on a hill.

Self-portrait.
Talking on the phone and taking pictures of my elusive shadow.
Self Portrait II (I must be feeling full of myself).
I like this one because it was pitch dark outside.
I held my little point-and-shoot digital camera as still as I could
with the flash off to get a long exposure.
That explains the pained look on my silly face…
(I was waiting in the car for Dagmar to come drive me somewhere.
I must have had a beer. I don’t drive if I’ve had a beer.)
If you’re reading this on Facebook, you can see the original blog at www.radloffs.net, click on “Blog.”

One thought on “This is getting silly now…

  1. VJ Pulver

    Nice mower…in our Kerch nieghborhood an old lady comes around every six-eight weeks and hacks down the green stuff with a sickle – so goes life in a post-soviet, formerly closed community here in Crimea! 😎

    VJ Pulver
    http://www.pulverpages.com
    In Sunny Crimea – Life iis Good
    (CALEB Library Site!!!!)

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