The Latest on Lothie

My friggin' domain's been down for a week. What happened was the cable modem went kaput. Well, when we originally ordered the service, we ordered it from Comcast, but by the time we actually got it, they'd just been bought by Time Warner. We'd already had a minor bobble when TW changed our IP without telling us. When that happens, we lose a day because we have to change it with our registrar and then wait for it to propagate. So we were already annoyed.

But then, they gave us our new cablemodem, changed the IP again, and then it turned out that the new modem didn't work the way the old one did and we couldn't administrate the settings ourselves. Which meant we had to get a router, because we didn't have anything at home that would work. So we ordered one, and it came in Friday, and we reconfigured our servers, and now DNS is propagating and the site should pretty much work again.

This is like the 5th time in a year that our domain has been down for several days, and I am so tired of it I could scream. Before about March 2006, we went a couple of years without any major problems. We thought when we switched from DSL, the problems would stop (our DSL provider was great, but the phone company SUCKS), but just since we made the switch, we've had issues crop up a couple of times. It's enough to drive me to drink. *glug glug*

Other than that, things are good. I'm sort of seeing somebody sort of new. Ha ha, how's that for vagueness? But that's what it's like right at the minute. I've got several performances coming up, starting early next month and running through early summer. I'm still teaching RE, but I'm going to have to bow out of that because I've begun chairing the music committee at church also.

Chris is starting a new job in a couple of weeks, and Bun is doing really well at school. I'm still working out, although this past week was not so great for that because I didn't get enough sleep, so I'm hoping to do really well in the coming week. All in all, we're very busy, and very happy.

Sooo happy the damn domain's back up...

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