[AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!

statistically you must have had enough bad luck now to claim only good luck for
the next 20 years.
I wish you the best, and thank you for all your efforts
Lembit

Lembit Soobik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:25 AM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!


> 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.....)
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