Let me tell you a story.
I was off to my cousin’s wedding in Santa Barbara, CA. (Best weather in the USA, amazing breezes for mid-July, but a little boring and planned and fake-touristy at the same time.) I was going to be gone from Thursday morning until Sunday afternoon. I thought about posting Wednesday that I was going to be gone and I wouldn’t likely be near any sort of computer upon which to post, but I thought this was making myself just a little too important. So I didn’t.
Meanwhile, Network Solutions let my domain, lucky8ball.com, lapse, since I hadn’t paid the renewal bill. Understandable on both their and my parts, since they had old information (both address and e-mail) for me so I didn’t get a renewal notice. It took me even longer to realize that I wouldn’t be getting any e-mail either, since my address is tied to the domain.
Then Sunday afternoon, just as we were on landing approach to O’Hare in Chicago, a freak thunderstorm whipped up. We didn’t have enough fuel to circle, so we were diverted to Indianapolis, fueled up, and then sent back. The four-hour flight turned into seven hours. Then, back in Chicago, all the Madison flights were canceled. And guess what – the airlines don’t put you up or give you meal vouchers or anything if it was a weather-related delay. So my mother and I had to pay for a blackmail-priced room at the Hilton, sleep in our traveling clothes, then take the three-hour bus back to Madison Monday morning. Ugh.
So I come back home to find, after not posting for nearly a week, that my site was unreachable. This, for me, was sort of like returning home from vacation to find your car stolen. Well, after much hilarity and waiting on hold, the mystery was solved, and, if you’re reading this, fixed.
And they all lived happily ever after. Or something like that.