Not much

I can only offer some links of various shapes and sizes and a big sigh of relief this morning.

Not pleasant: Ilyka contends with one of the features of her new abode in New Mexico.

Could have been unpleasant: 2900 gallons of gasoline on the ground from Dave of Fish Fear Me. The real reason Minnesota doesn’t have roaches, Ilyka.

Could have been pleasant: Greg from Geese Aplenty writes about something we have all thought about. Yes, you, too.

Pleasant but very hot: Satchmo Fest in New Orleans via Harmony St Charles.

Very pleasant: Kem describes Rehoboth Beach’s community project with words and pictures. I think its cool.

It appears everything is back to normal after yesterday’s disastrous crash on our host’s server. I was pretty down about it for a time. I don’t have a lot of time on week nights to do major computer maintenance and this was looking to be very major maintenance. The host had restored some of the site but some of the directories were missing and some of the files and directories they restored were 7 months old. I pondered taking the site down temporarily so I could fully restore it without other users adding to the problem or getting frustrated trying to. That option was also depressing. Thankfully, the host was able to recover some of the website from the affected hardware and I only had to do a few minor tweaks to complete the restoration. I have fairly current backups of almost everything I do but that would have still been a lot of work and I probably couldn’t complete it in one night. Our host has offered a service credit for the inconvenience.

3 days until Ya Boys Auction (Go Erasers), 12 days until CFFL Draft Day (Go Ragpickers), and 23 days until football season (Go Saints) begins...............

Quote of the Day

We had some pretty thick rough in our backyard and that’s exactly what I was thinking on 18, that this is no different from what I’ve done in the backyard since I was a kid.

Phil Mickelson, 2005 PGA Champion

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "Anything that can open a beer and make us laugh has to be somewhat interesting right?"