So yesterday really sucked. This post is a vent as much as anything else…so, mostly, you should probably ignore me…
I design and write computer software for a living. I am around computers all day. You’d think I would be somewhat immune from viruses as I mostly understand how they work and how one gets them. Still, somehow I got a really really nasty virus on my main development machine (i.e. my bread and butter) yesterday. I spent all day and half the night chasing down and fixing the mess that it made. Of course, I really need to be working on the demo of the new project on which I am working. It is due Monday. This is not the time to be jerking around with a virus. I don’t hate much, but I hate computer viruses and the people who create them.
I love sauerkraut. I had some last night for supper along with some Polish sausage. I am starting my training for the New Year’s day kraut feast. Anyhow, about 15 minutes after eating it last night, my throat started to swell and blister. I guess I had some sort of an allergic reaction to the kraut. I also drank a Mt Dew with supper but I doubt my reaction was to it. Mt Dew makes up 22% of my blood so I don’t think I suffered an autoimmune reaction. Anyhow, an hour or so later, my throat was fine. I still love kraut and I hate the thought of being allergic. I will certainly try it again and soon, but I will be cautious too! I can’t really figure it out, but I’d rather not get a trip in the ambulance over eating kraut. I read that the Dutch eat donuts for good luck on New Years’s day so I may have to call upon my Dutch ancestry (or make some up) and cash in my kraut for donuts. That’s a tradition I can get behind!
We also got word that our house is indeed racing down the hill to the river. A structural engineer recommended 6 helical piers be inserted under our house. It may take 3-4 more depending on what they find. “Gosh, that sounds expensive”, you might say. “You are correct!”
Once again, the blog was down. Each time it has gone down since I started (3 times total so far) has been for a different reason, but each time has sucked about the same. My registrar is namecheap.com which has been pretty good for the most part. Today, their dns servers died so when you typed in my blog address, your internet company didn’t know how to connect to my machine. I was able to finally login to namecheap so I could repoint the dns (basically, I am using a different system to map my blog address to the machine in my office). So, now we are back up, though things are still slow it seems. I think that must be a different issue…we’ll see. When you hit the blog, does it seem terribly slow? Anyhow, I’d like to say something like this won’t happen again, but I am certain it will. Until then, thanks for reading and for your patience!
