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I’ve been a little slow these days in updating my site, and a lot of it I blame on the weather. When I started with this new format, the weather was in my favor for taking long walks around the neighborhood. Now, it’s unsafe to stay outside for too long, lest one literally freezes (okay, certain parts of one’s body can freeze). Granted, there are many other areas in the world where it’s colder, but I’m not in those places (and for good reason!). Despite the severity of the weather elsewhere, it often gets bad enough in my neighborhood that it’s not entirely comfortable to take pictures outside. That and it’s snow, snow, snow. I’m sure someone in California is awed by the stuff, but it’s hard to get motivated to take pictures of things that I find mundane. It’s funny that I admit this, considering how I often sit wide-eyed at the computer over pictures from California.

So I’ve been hurting for new “Today’s Image” images to post with each new post I want to make. It’s part of the reason why I’ve taken such long breaks between posts: I convince myself what I wanted to post really wasn’t good enough to make a post and use up an image. That’s not the entire reason, though: a lot of it has to do with me leading a dull life at the moment. The image I decided on for today’s “Today’s Image” is an old picture of clouds I had kicking around. Sorry.

In other sad news, I’m getting close to the end of my vacation images. I’m thinking only one or two more of these “dumps” left, and then I’ll be all out of new vacation pictures.

I almost forgot: my site was down for a while. I also neglected to make a link to my forum where I announced the downtime, as I figured everyone (all three, four of you) who visited it would have had it bookmarked. I assumed, that was wrong of me (and no, I’m not chiding you). What happened to cause the downtime was a simple mistake, one that I have made many times before, and I’m certain I’ll make again. I didn’t read the instructions. WordPress recently updated its system requirements, one of which my webhost didn’t support in the hosting package I had purchased. So, when I updated WordPress, it helpfully let me know that I needed a new version of MySQL. My webhost purposely didn’t update MySQL on my hosting, as the service plan I had purchased was no longer supported, and a forced upgrade was scheduled (which would include me). Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money available to purchase the new hosting plan: even worse, WordPress invalidated my database for downgrading to the previous version of WordPress. I was therefore stuck: I couldn’t run my site, but I couldn’t update it, either.

Fortunately, I was able to get the money to purchase the new hosting plan, and everything worked out rather well. Carmella’s site [carmshangout.com] was down for a bit after the upgrade, because my host missed her site as part of the collection I have. That would explain her two-day downtime.

It was an interesting adventure, and one that could have been avoided had I only read the instructions. The sad thing is, I’ve been told this many times before, yet I continue to ignore the instructions. I’ll read a manual all the way through, aside from the very first page. For some reason, I just seem to think it’s not important. Nevermind the big “READ THIS FIRST” written on the first page. I just skip through to the “meat” of the instructions, which lies somewhere in the middle of the book or page. It’s a bad habit. Now don’t get me wrong, I do eventually read the entire manual, but it usually is after I’ve already taken some course of action on the project, such as updating WordPress before checking the system requirements. In my defense, I’ve updated many times before, and the instructions appeared exactly as they had in the past. Oh well, it’s all back to normal now anyway.

Oh, and one last thing: Katren just updated The Kazette [hepworthouse.com] and would probably be pleased to have you read it.

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