Oddities, Profundities, Profanities and Dad Stuff
Hello all. Well here we are mid February. Winter is waning here in Utah, with temperatures are climbing into the 50’s and all of the snow almost gone. Here is where I have issues with winter.
Dogs in Grange Park, Toronto, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Now, I don’t mind the cold, or the snow, what I mind is the pending spring, and all of the mud and gunk that goes with it. Continue reading
Hello all. Well here we are again. A new start. It seems like that I am always trying to get to that new start again and again. I haven’t posted anything new for quite a while on here, why? I dunno. Laziness, apathy, too much of life getting in the way. I have a bag of excuses that I could use, let me rummage around in here and get tot he best one. I think laziness is probably the best one.
Tapping a Pencil (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I started this blog quite a while ago, just to get writing and put some things out there. I had some moderate success, people were coming by and reading, and then I just kind of faded into the wastelands of the blogosphere. That is what much of my life has seemed like lately, just fading into the wasteland. I haven’t cared. About much of anything.
Finally, now, there has to be a point of that old adage to either $#!^ or get off the pot. Well, I think (read hope) that it is time to start grunting with wild abandon. I figure a few posts and some interaction and maybe I can rely on some good folks to help me figure out what this book I am working on should do, and where it should go.
Black recliner (arm chair) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
For quite a long time now, it seems my wife and I have not had our own bed. Starting with my oldest, when she was just getting into her own “big girl” bed, she would join us in our bed at night. Made for a long night some days, with a wiggly toddler in the bed. We ended up putting a “princess bed” on the floor that she slept in until she got tired of that and then stayed in her own bed. That worked for her and my older son, but hasn’t worked out as well for my younger daughter and now my youngest son.
Amelia, my youngest is the one with a kidney transplant. She has been very clingy since the transplant, and she doesn’t do too bad staying in a “princess bed” or on the recliner. My youngest son however…… He doesn’t want to stay anywhere, except our bed. He says his bed is “itchy”. at least he has a reason. We are trying to get him into his own special bed or the recliner, but it is a fight. He likes “mommy’s bed”. It wouldn’t be too bad, except that he likes to kick and push and keeps us from sleeping well.
Hopefully, this is a phase that is wearing out. Last night, he managed to stay in his own bed. That is either a happy coincidence, or the start of something good. Has anyone else had this problem? Is this just my problem? Anyone?
Comments are below…
-Justin
You know, I love the internet for the most part. Information at your fingertips, satellite pics of your house in seconds, news almost as it happens, hour by hour weather, and idiots.
I have been here working on the net since 2008, and I have learned and changed a lot during that time. Lately, I think I have grown complacent with internet as the rest of the world has. My kids don’t remember a time without the internet. They have somewhat of a hard time going without it on vacation. I have posted before about what good it does the family to just unplug and get away from the screens. My 4 1/2 year old is dying to go fishing and camping. He loves the outdoors.
So this brings me to my point, some internet providers and domain registrars suck. Big huge deep sucking holes of darkness. The first of these I had issues with was justhost. Don’t go there, do get a site from them even though they are cheap. They will drain the soul out of you after they cancel your domain name. I had one of their packages with justinsbrainpan.com registered with them. All fine, until I outgrew the service tier and decided to go to a decent provider at hostgator.com. (you can go there). The problem was my domain was registered with justhost, and they didn’t tell me that I couldn’t use it after I didn’t have their service anymore. so I lost justinsbrainpan.com and ended up with catharsisofthebogue.com, that I registered independently with 1and1.com. don’t go there either.
Recently, 1 and 1 internet and I have been in some fun battles for my domains. There was apparently an issue with billing on my account, and they decided to cancel my account, making my sites go down as they expired. First was Ameliasmakeawish.com, followed by bkmnursing, and then catharsisofthebogue. Skip forward to a bunch of fighting, and I got most of my domains back active. Amelias make a wish and Catharsis of the bogue are gone. registered with some company in china and japan, that has nothing for content. But i am pissed. I have ported the sites to this one, catharsisofthebogue.com and Amelias is ameliasmakeawish2012.com.
But don’t for one minute think that I registered those new domains with 1 and 1. I have registered them with haylestorm.net/clients. Ok, I am biased as this is partly my site, one that I partner with Bob Hayles on, and we are now resellers of Enom domain registration. Not a bad deal either, $12.95 per year for most top level domains.
I digress. Now, I have a list of times that I am going to be transferring all of my domains away from 1 and 1 and then warning everyone to stay away from that company. The moral of the story is, watch your domains. If you are not the owner of your domain because it is free from your hosting company, do whatever you can to make sure you end up owning the domain. Then keep track of the billing and renew dates.
All in all, I guess it is ok to change domains. I did lose all of my page rank and alexa scores, and it is going to take time to build back up. So I am glad you are here reading. I did it once, I will do it again.
Thanks for reading, share the links like crazy!
-Justin
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