Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Apr 9 21:25:13 CDT 2003
Okay, follow this evidence of the curse. I initially built and hosted the archives on my work machine. In early January of this year, I moved the entire archives to my home machine. That was on a weekend, and that Thursday (so 4 days later) my DSL provider (IP Communications....who my ISP was leasing my DSL through) went bankrupt and just switched off their network. It took close to a month to get my DSL back up and running. When my DSL finally came back up, so I could once again 'host' the archives, I had them online, and had even built the index portion (just didn't have the search using that technology yet). Two days after getting my DSL back online (with SBC as the new DSL provider...through my normal ISP), my wife decided to move us to a new apartment (300 feet away), so I had to move my phone AND DSL (however I cancelled with my ISP, and went with SBC directly, which took close to a month to get that to go through....go figure). So mid March I finally had DSL again, in my new apartment. Two weeks ago I 'rebuilt' my website (actually it's blank, just a new theme and menus......), and last week I began putting the index capability into the search pages. I announced their existence and availability Monday night. This morning (Wednesday around 12:30 am EST), our apartment building caught on fire. 3 of the 4 top apartments are completely gutted by the fire. I am/was in the bottom apartment in the middle of the three 'gutted' ones. My apartment has a little fire damage, but a LOT of smoke and water damage. Thus, the archives are offline, once again! ARG, I swear they are cursed. However, there is a silver lining. The complex we were leasing with do not have another apartment of the same size for us. However, just down the street there is a brand new complex (with a sprinkler system and firewalls in and around all of the apartments...go figure...), which is offering a similar sized apartment, for about the same price, however water and cable are included, High speed internet is available for less then DSL (and I can get a static IP), not too mention free membership to their Golf club (course and club house). It's beautiful, and we already have a deposit down on an apartment. So, if all goes well, I'll have the archives up again in a week or so, otherwise I've been given 'permission' to move them back to work here, until I get my home system up and running. I am at work now, and have brought my home 'server' in with me (first thing I grabbed from my apartment, when a fireperson let me go in real quick)......<grin>. Everyone wish me luck, because in an hour or so, I am going to bravely clean up the box, and see if it turns on! <Keep your fingers crossed!> Drew (Who is currently chain smoking and taking several Tylenol every four hours.....)