Year: 2002

That Hosting Company IV

Almost 24 hours of dead air…no explanation. I’ve got to find that tech support phone number while they are up so I can call next time and ask, “What’s UP!” next time I lose internet contact.

Bonus Not Serious Rant:
My No Account Parents
If they had worked a little harder I could be independently wealthy. I wouldn’t have to work 9 to 5 for peanuts. I could afford to buy the car I just got to *sit* in for 5 minutes this evening – 2003 Mercedes Benz 500SL. One of the Miata Club members who came to the meeting tonight is the GM at the MB/Mazda dealer in Augusta and they just got this one in. He brought it over for us to ooh and ahh over and we didn’t disappoint him. 100 large! For that you get seats that are heated and air-conditioned, a hard top that folds into the trunk in 16 seconds and a credit card sized gizmo that if you have in your wallet or pocket will allow you to unlock the car and start it without the use of a key….

That Hosting Company III

It was fine early this afternoon, but at 5:00 PM eastern time, poof, they were gone. 5-1/2 hours later they are still unreachable. It is not just my Miata Club site or the Bike Club site and any other number of sites they are hosting, but their’s as well. Email is also gone. It is as if That Hosting Company has been wiped off the face of the earth.

I say three in the title, but it could be four, I’m not sure. I know that since signing up in September this is the 6th major outage….I wonder how much it will take to buy my domain from them?

Koyaanisqatsi

Here is another movie I would love to have on DVD, but is unavailable. For now. According to the web site http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/ fall of this year is the target date for re-release on DVD around the same time as the theatrical release of the third of trilogy, NAQOYQATSI.

All this was brought to the front by my renting from Netflix another film with a Phillip Glass soundtrack, Mishima.

GI Joe Sized WW I Movie

Our whole front and back yards are dug up for the sprinklers we are getting put in. Looks like a scene from a GI Joe sized WW I movie. Friday they put in a new sidewalk. This one is a concrete one about 3′ wide replacing our falling apart brick stepping stone like thing that has been there since we moved in. We hardly ever use the walk, as our main ingress/egress portal is the garage, but now I told my wife that we will have to use the thing more, seeing as what we paid for it. 🙂

Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 39

18-wheelers On I-95

Up at 7:30, ate a bagel, packed the car and started home. Still raining, so there was no sense hanging around Hilton Head when we can sit at home and watch the rain. Driving west we exited the rain storm, but left the top up as the road was still quite wet and the 18-wheelers on I-95 put out quite a spray. Off the dreaded interstate and driving into Hampton, we couldn’t stand it anymore and put the top down. The windshield was occasionally getting hit with a light rain and the sky we were driving towards looked really dark gray, but we managed to last about 40 miles, until just the other side of Barnwell, before raising the top. Not 2 miles further down the road the rains came harder and we would have gotten soaked.

Started up, down a bit, then back up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 39

Watching Gulls

Raining on and off, but mostly on, all day. Went out to lunch at the Atlanta Bread Company because we like the food and it is right next to that second-hand book store where we bought some old library books to read yesterday. Ate and went back into get some more used hardcover books for less than the price of a new paperback. Yesterday’s Robert Parker Spenser book lasted all of three hours, kinda like a big ol’ piece of cheesecake; not really good for you, but delicious and sadly, over too soon. After lunch and book buying we headed back over the half-dozen speed bumps of the codo complex back to our parking spot. Still raining, so we spend a lazy afternoon watching the gulls, the waves and the TV out of one eye and ours books out of the other.

Back out for dinner, Donna wanted seafood, so we were headed to Crabby Nick’s where we had eaten before, but somehow ended up at a place called Captain’s Seafood. We had eaten there once before as well and remembered it fondly. Tonight it was packed because a church bus had pulled in about 15 minutes before we did. Still it didn’t take long to get seated and served. Something about fried seafood, a tossed salad and iced tea…mmmm good, but somehow it didn’t seem to be worth the $29 total it cost.

Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 37

Juno

I hope I stay online long enough to post this. Trying to use Juno to blog because I am in Hilton Head Island for the weekend and it is a free way to connect, but for what ever reason about every minute I get a pop up ad that fills the screen trying to entice me to use something called HotHomePages. Even if I go through the first few screens they keep coming and coming and coming. There are about a dozen of them in the background. Sometime soon they are going to overload the memory of this laptop. The bright side is Juno must think I’m surfing the web or they probably would have disconnected me by now ’cause I’m just typing….