Regular readers, are thinking it’s some juicy craziness in the trailer park. No, apparently things have been too quiet. Karma has had nothing to do, so she came to stay with me, for the weekend. A three-day weekend! Maybe it’s my punishment for neglecting to blog.
I forgot to renew the blog
It seemed to start Friday. In 11 years, I have never forgotten to renew my hosting on sites. I have broken my perfect record, someone (cough) forgot to renew the blog. I don’t do the auto renew thing. It’s easier for me to pay it per year. Some may have visited and were not able to access the blog, my apologies. It took two days, to get back on all the name servers. The invoices and reminders, had been going to spam. That crisis is now solved.
Friday, I decided to upgrade the arcade. A recent notice advised they were changing a component, and if you didn’t apply the updates it would cease to function. The deadline was a couple days away. Of course, that little endeavor ended badly. The update went south, the backup I had? Would not take (corrupted). Hours of work, still no joy. I am installing another arcade now.
All my regular support, was lazing around.
Have you tried, “Rebooting”?
Saturday, I relax and continue working on the arcade project. Then the CD-Rom on the main machine went crazy when I booted up for the morning. It started a dull clunking noise, as if the laser was re-positioning back and forth. Then the tray opened part way and the computer locked up. That forced a hard shutdown, which most of the time I’m lucky, and have no ill effects. This time? It scrambled the Apache server, on the machine that handles the security webcams. Thankfully I had an image from a couple days ago, and in 4 minutes, we were back running properly (with the CD unplugged). That felt good. However, with Karma, nothing good lasts forever.
Sunday. The first morning of the new time change, the weather station was offline. I didn’t have the wireless console/receiver on the wall, that communicates with the RaspberryPi, which runs the weather site, set correctly to change the time. (That was a mouthful) So the Pi decided to pout, about the information suddenly being from the future by one hour. I reset everything and we’re back running.
Karma’s parting shot
Monday morning. Surely, since the weekend is over things will get back to normal. No. I start this entry and attempt to back-space. Several key strokes later the key bottoms out, and refuses to come back up. Have you ever tried working on the keys? The regular ones are fine, the larger ones all have a bar or spring under them, sometimes both. It is an exercise in madness. I did manage to find a manufacturing defect (plastic burr) that I removed, and it started working fine. Maybe Karma thought I was busy, and just left me a parting shot. Or was it some type of philosophical, Freudian, gesture. “Backspace”, you can’t go back? You can’t back up, and erase your mistakes? Or heaven forbid, I’ll be back!
I leave you with my broken site graphic that I use sometimes.
Comments always welcome,
You certainly have a way with words, Sir! And, difficult as it may be, you’re able to find a little humor in whatever happens. Thank you for a wonderful composition, and a very good disposition too.
Thank you Michael. I appreciate the comment, we try to find humor in everything possible.
Okay, now you’re just showing off. 😀 Tossing all those acronyms ‘n’ crazy words right, left, centre and back-spaced. All i can say is THANK GOODNESS everything’s baaacckkk. Er, right? It’s all back? BTW your cute cartoon up there (“OPPS” – or “OOPS” maybe? 😉 ) is so adorable. And that is MY parting shot.
Thank you, Ellie. Everything is back to normal. I don’t mean to come across too technical, although I do get a kick out of doing it to Michelle. I will go in the living room, she will ask me how it’s going with the computer. I’ll tell her I feel like a chef, I’m working to figure out, what hash (string of characters), goes with the blowfish (type of encryption), Then I tell her, it would have been easier, had someone not salted the hash (added extra code to the encryption “salted”).
I’m glad you like the cartoon, I can’t remember where I found it at, but I liked it at first sight, and have used it for years now.
Thanks for the great comment.
You’re funny. Poor Michelle. ?
Sounds like my worst ‘tecchy’ nightmare, Ron! Well done for getting through it with skill, and humour.
Best wishes, Pete.
I like a challenge, just not when I have pressing things to do. Solving a problem with the computer, is my version of “Gaming”, instead of playing actual video games. My coordination, is not what it used to be.
Have a great night Pete.
Yikes! That’s a lot of stuff! You should be good for a few days.
I hope so Kate, I would like to do a few little projects with the computer, instead of working on it.
Thanks for the comment.
I think I would have had a meltdown in the middle of all that. Congratulations! You came through it, sounding brainy.
Normally, in years past, I would have melted down also. I can generally fix it, unless it just outright dies, then I’ll sit on the floor and cry!
Thanks for the comment, Anne.
What I love most about this post is that almost all of it is unintelligible to me. Apparently my mind understands your neighbors more easily than technology. I kept waiting for a golf cart to come crashing through your office! Glad you know enough to fix the things I have no idea about.
I’m hoping I will have some humorous stories soon. The weather is warming up, so the park denizens will start thawing out.
There is one story/situation, that I have been trying to figure out how to write it down, without being overly long. Yet, it is so fantastical, that even I’m having trouble unravelling it. It’s so convoluted, that it makes a weave hairdo, look straight. Michelle, blew it up when she started digging. The victim is appreciative, and doing much better mentally, the perpetrators, are furious.
I really must find a way to share it. I could condense it maybe, into a synopsis. Then questions could be asked to help understand it.
Thanks as always, for the comment.
A book maybe? I love the image of a weave looking straight.
Ron,
About the incident you plan to write about, you could write it in parts.
I loved your post- the tongue in cheek humor is great. I like your take on life.
Susie
Thanks so much Susie, I am glad you enjoyed it. I enjoy sharing them. I am still trying to figure out, how to write down the sequence of events. I may give it a try soon.
Thanks for the kind words.
Oh poor you. Do you know nothing more drives me crazy, than IT and mobile phone issues. We are getting a new computer soon so that should be fun. ? Hope things are back to normal now. Xxx
Yes, real normal and quiet. Kind of puts me on edge. Weekend coming up again. Thanks for the comment, I enjoyed it. Good luck with the new computer, that is always exciting.