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I'm doing a bit better today.
An oversight of mine led to the Division's website "disappearing" over the weekend. The domain name has been suspended because the attached hosting package was let to lapse, and now whdnmra.org no longer works (thanks, DH2.net, for using two-year domain registrations, and one-year hosting). We can't get it back from DH2.net unless we pay hefty amounts of money (basically, bring the expired hosting package back current - which we'll not use) or wait a long period of time for the name to be released back into the wild.
I was chewing on myself pretty bad about this mess. I couldn't figure out what to do - to me, the honorable thing was for me (personally) to pay the lapsed hosting and get the name back. There's no way I could afford that. We have a show in a little over a month; we CANNOT be without a website.
I did NOT want to go to the Division with my latest failure.
Then my folks came over to chat about the kids' vacation this summer, and talk came around to this (Mom's the clerk - the two of us are able to make simple Division decisions). Their reaction was encouraging - they didn't get mad or disappointed with me, they just tried to understand what the situation was (complex, admittedly - why does it have to be this hard?). In the end, it was decided that getting the less expensive of whdnmra.net or whdnmra.info would be the best option, and let DH2.net twist in the wind and not throw good money after bad.
So I need to get this done today and start notifying people of the change in address. Good thing Joomla is flexible enough to accommodate this sort of change - a single line in the config file makes the whole site work with a new address.
I was also extremely anxious about grocery shopping. I'm short of cash this payday and I have no room in my overdraft protection. I hate when it becomes necessary for Jay to infuse my account.
I just bit the bullet and did it last night, and let him know that I'd done the best I could until we get paid again.
I did splurge a tiny bit (ooo $5!) and got a gorgeous binder to transfer my homemade cookbook into (upper left in the photo). What doesn't come through well in the photo is that parts of the design are over-printed with a high-gloss varnish. Click for a much larger (and less pixellated) version.
An oversight of mine led to the Division's website "disappearing" over the weekend. The domain name has been suspended because the attached hosting package was let to lapse, and now whdnmra.org no longer works (thanks, DH2.net, for using two-year domain registrations, and one-year hosting). We can't get it back from DH2.net unless we pay hefty amounts of money (basically, bring the expired hosting package back current - which we'll not use) or wait a long period of time for the name to be released back into the wild.
I was chewing on myself pretty bad about this mess. I couldn't figure out what to do - to me, the honorable thing was for me (personally) to pay the lapsed hosting and get the name back. There's no way I could afford that. We have a show in a little over a month; we CANNOT be without a website.
I did NOT want to go to the Division with my latest failure.
Then my folks came over to chat about the kids' vacation this summer, and talk came around to this (Mom's the clerk - the two of us are able to make simple Division decisions). Their reaction was encouraging - they didn't get mad or disappointed with me, they just tried to understand what the situation was (complex, admittedly - why does it have to be this hard?). In the end, it was decided that getting the less expensive of whdnmra.net or whdnmra.info would be the best option, and let DH2.net twist in the wind and not throw good money after bad.
So I need to get this done today and start notifying people of the change in address. Good thing Joomla is flexible enough to accommodate this sort of change - a single line in the config file makes the whole site work with a new address.
I was also extremely anxious about grocery shopping. I'm short of cash this payday and I have no room in my overdraft protection. I hate when it becomes necessary for Jay to infuse my account.
I just bit the bullet and did it last night, and let him know that I'd done the best I could until we get paid again.
I did splurge a tiny bit (ooo $5!) and got a gorgeous binder to transfer my homemade cookbook into (upper left in the photo). What doesn't come through well in the photo is that parts of the design are over-printed with a high-gloss varnish. Click for a much larger (and less pixellated) version.