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Archives for July 2007

I’m back – did you miss me?

July 24, 2007 by Tricia

I’m back!

Well ok I’ve always been here, but I’ve spent the last few days staring at the same “account suspended” or “this site can’t be reached” message that you have see if you’ve attempted to visit any of my or my husbands sites since sometime Saturday morning.

I’ve had some terrible hosting problems over the last month. My “Former” web host was telling me that I had CPU resource issues and I spent a good portion of the last month trying my darnedest to figure out what might have been causing the problem.

If I had a problem I feel that I likely fixed it, however I’m not sure I ever did after what that company did to me on Sunday! They set up a VPS hosting account because I’d agreed to temporarily move to Virtual private hosting until I could fix my problem. I said to them several times that the move was temporary so I only wanted a monthly account.

What did they do? They set up a two year package that cost close to $650!

When I got in touch with Lunarpages on Monday – the only time I could talk to a real person since they don’t offer telephone support on the weekend, I got that stupid bill sorted out and reverse and totally canceled my account.

If they can’t read support email that says “No, no don’t set that. I want more information first” in reply to their $75 per hour service charge to move my account from shared hosting to VPS hosting, and then making the mistake? of billing me for two years, and then not saying sorry or trying to even cover for themselves by saying it was a mistake … well no, I don’t want to do business with that kind of company.

I’m still going to go carefully over my sites to make sure that I don’t have a CPU resource issue, but in the meantime I’ve moved to what appears to be a good web hosting company – Host Gator – and my sites should be running smoothly from here on in.

I apologize to anyone who’s been waiting for me to write a post about their site or company during this time period. I will be working on all past requests shortly.

Now if I can just figure out how to get my primary domain out of the url of my other domains I’ll be happy. I think I’ve got to take a look at the redirects on my domains. Grrr





Filed Under: Internet, Web and Technology, Web Hosting Tagged With: account, bad web host, company, CPU resources, email, huge VPS bill, my sites, new web host, problems, Saturday, sites down, stable sites, stupid, support, taken advantage, Web Hosting

I must buy a canoe this year

July 20, 2007 by Tricia

I’m so envying my blogging friend RennyBA. You’ve seen him here many times as he’s a faithful commenter.

He recently had some very good friends come and stay with he and his family and they did some outings together. One of the things they did was go canoing on a beautiful lake. Lovely.

I swear I was born in a canoe. I used to white water canoe – now that’s an adventure!

Being Canadian you either play and live hockey or you are an avid camper and or canoeist – or something in between. Trouble is I haven’t been in a canoe in ages. It’s like a craving now after reading his posts and looking at all the photos they took.

I miss canoing and boating so much! We have a pop up trailer. I think I’m going to get a canoe sometime this summer and use it. I must get back into a canoe.

I can always store the canoe where we keep our trailer. Might as well have the complete outdoor package together right?

Does anyone else enjoy canoeing or boating?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Great Sites, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Sports, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: beautiful, blog, boating, canadian, canoe, canoing, Family, friend, friends, hockey, Love, photo, photos, posts, read, reading, recent, Summer, white water, white water canoing

Barbecue time

July 20, 2007 by Tricia

We’re having a BBQ for the first time in a while this evening. Chris has either been tiring himself out working the early early shifts or working the 12 noon to 8 pm shifts at work so we haven’t been having as many barbecues that we normal do this year.

Tonight we’re having some grilled sausages – those cheese grill’ems or however the name is spelled. I love them. They don’t love me and they aren’t good for us but they sure do taste good.

Of course we are balancing it out with a salad full of cucumber, carrot, a variety of leafy greens, tomatoes and a light vinaigrette dressing, as well as Frenched beans.

Time to eat! What did you have for dinner tonight?

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation Tagged With: barbecue, BBQ, cheese sausages, Chris, delicious, dinner, fatty, frenched beans, Green, Grill ems, salad, sausages, tasty, yummy

I’m tired of human created comment spam

July 20, 2007 by Tricia

A couple of days ago I wrote a post about comment spam. I find it really funny that every time I write a post lately about buying a home or real estate or travel that someone comes along and promotes – literally promotes – their own website in the comments.

They try to disguise it by tucking their link to whatever they are talking about but since comments from first timers are moderated here it doesn’t get by me.

Watch, I’m just going to place this link for Denver CO real estate and see what happens. My bet is that within 24 hours I’ll have at least five people come along trying to leave a real estate based comment. Well … maybe that won’t happen since I’m calling them out in this post, but that’s what has been happening. It’s ridiculous!

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and Lifestyle, Real Estate, Sales and Marketing, The Blogisphere Tagged With: buying, comment, comment spam, comments, home, human comment spam, promote, Real Estate, self promote, Spam, travel, website

Family professions?

July 20, 2007 by Tricia

I come from a large family. I’ve got four siblings. I’ve also got lots of first, second, third and so on cousins.

It amazes me when I think how well almost everyone in my family has done for themselves. No one is rich or rolling in dough, but I think just about every of my siblings and cousins has taken on a professional career or started a business of their own.

What made me think of this is that while all of us pretty much do different things from one another two of my cousins became lawyers. I just discovered that both are listed in the American Lawyer Referral lawyer directory. Pretty cool huh?

I’m not going to list their names since I try to keep my maiden name private and uh their last names are the same as one of my current names so I’m not listing it here. I am happy for them that they were listed though. Hopefully they’ll get some new clients out of their listings.

Funny that there’s only two lawyers, one doctor and one nurse (me) in the family. The rest are chemists, biologists, geologists and so on. Mostly scientists of one type or another and a few artists mixed in here and there to keep it interesting.

How has your extended family faired?

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: Art, artist, biologists, business, career, careers, clients, cousin, cousins, crohns, directory, doctor, Family, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, lawyer, listing, nurse, pain, professional, professional careers, scientists, siblings

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