Attention. Big news coming up. You listening? You better be.
Our web server is due for an upgrade, and this will be happening roughly eight hours from now (i.e. whenever Darrin gets out of bed in the morning). So from 8am AUCST onward, expect errors trying to load any of our websites.
1. I un-archived everything that was archived, because the archive list wasn't showing up anyway. So now you can see entries back to the start of 2003. 412 entries total, not counting the one I'm writing right now.
2. To your left you'll see a menu called "Blog categories." So if you were wondering "Hmm, how long did it take Mel to get her permanent residence?" you can see it all at once. Or if you want to keep tabs on what I'm sewing or knitting this week, you can see that too.
All that sewing I want to get done, I should just have one sewing day every week. Say Friday. Why didn't I think of that before?
!@#$!#$!#$ Mambo. Of course I forgot to "publish" this post so I had to go into the admin section and publish it there. And while I was in the admin, I thought I might as well update the post because I wanted to post more anyway...and my session timed out before I posted it, and of course I had typed everything in the web page instead of elsewhere, so I lost EVERYTHING I'd added.
Ahem.
Yeah. So I'm sewing today. Two nappies. Had the pieces cut out for ages and now I'm finally doing it, because I'm sick of them just sitting there, and Caleb's outgrown the first two nappies I made, so we only have four going-out nappies at the moment.
Had a router problem yesterday. Nobody could get in, and we couldn't get out either. So we just spent the day playing Open TTD at each other and entertaining Caleb.
Yeah, I miss the comments. So either everyone's too lazy to login and comment, or I haven't posted anything comment-worthy in over a month. I'm getting a complex.
So I've turned off the registered-users-only-commenting and now everyone can comment again. And let's just hope the spammers don't work it out. But they will.
We have DSL. Still working out some of the bugs so there could be some hiccups over the next few days...but at least we don't have to put up with dialup anymore. Yay.
Firstly, yesterday I had the entire site shut down temporarily to try to stop the spammers from spamming my recipes. And then I turned it back on again, and got seven more overnight. So I thought I'd take it one step further and download the new version of the cookbook. Well. I installed it, and it doesn't work. So until such time as I can a) fix it, or b) find a new recipe component that WORKS and doesn't take spam, it's gone. If you wanted a recipe I'll be happy to email it to you, just ask.
Second, we're getting keys today. Yay. So I've got the car, and I'm going to pack it up with some stuff to take over once we get the keys, then pick up Darrin when he's finished at work at about 3. It's the last day of the school year so the staff are just having a party and getting drunk, and everyone leaves early anyway.
We're moving boxes tomorrow and big stuff on Sunday, then sleeping there Sunday night for the first time. We decided we'll take the cats over first thing Sunday morning, then Darrin will pick up Craig and they'll get the trailer. I'll stay at the new house with the cats and unpack some of the things we've brought over, like all the kitchen stuff. And then we'll probably have a barbecue because it's easy and quick and everybody loves a good Aussie barbecue.
My breakfast this morning was/is a bacon & egg McMuffin, hash browns, and hot chocolate.
Oh yeah, and I'm still pregnant. Still getting my bladder kicked daily.
All essential services (web, email, IRC) are staying here until DSL is working in the new place. We don't know when that will be because we're waiting for the phone to get turned on before we start any DSL setup. Once the DSL is running, there will be downtime of AT LEAST three hours while we disconnect everything here, pack it in the car, drive to the new house, unpack it, and set it up. Possibly longer because nothing computer related ever goes with the best case scenario.
We will try to give plenty of warning before we shut things down, but if it happens on a day we're not doing anything else, it's likely to just happen with only an hour's notice. Seriously folks, we suffer as much as the rest of you do when our servers are down (more so actually), so of course we're gonna do whatever we can to make it go as quickly as possible.
