My server company, Ipower, was down for 2 hours on Tuesday afternoon, and 14 hours from last night through this morning, so both my website and my blog were offline. What should I do? This is the only server I’ve had, and they were recommended highly when I started. They’re still one of the biggest, if not the biggest out there. But when they migrated us to the “upgraded” servers this year, it got worse and worse, with outages and slow slow interface on vdeck. My free ftp is literally 10 times faster for moving files. Now I’ll have to figure out how to move my domain, db, etc. Any…

It’s not you, it’s me. My server has been down maybe 8 times since it “upgraded.” (It’s Ipower, just fyi.) And I’ve been busy setting up my new cartoon blog, Why I Did It. (Did what? Read it and find out.) And now it’s decorated for Christmas! Also: I joined twitter and Facebook.  I’m now ready for Social Networking fun and games. Photo by Sherlock Holmes wallpaper. I like the painting. Also: I would love to write brief items, with a link, great photo, and a few pithy words to put them all into perspective. Short and sweet. But that’s not how I roll, not in this blog. Instead, I…

Yes, I know the store and the food, and will report more once I have all my ducks in a row. Let’s just say that I was on the bathroom floor for two days, and I was fortunate that I live alone. On the other hand, that’s kind of sad. I was in a haze of daytime TV watching, to try and take the pain away, when they announced the earthquake in China, so it took me a couple of days to process that. I feel so terrible for everyone there, those who lost others and those buried alive. It reminded me of 9-11, of course. And so even though…

I haven’t posted recently. I’m back, aren’t I? That’s all you should worry your pretty little head about. And besides, heavy blogging can lead to heart attacks. (Hat tip, Luke.) And I got jealous, because I took a quick peek at Stuff White People Like when lao linked to it and thought, okay, but I could have written it. (You know that’s true.) Well, it’s too bad I didn’t because someone else did, and got a huge book deal from it. He also uses the same theme I do here (in Word Press, they call the design or look of the blog a theme), MistyLook. So he’s not all that…