2009... seriously?!??!

[SallyMander]

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this first day of '09 has treated you well. Does anyone else have the problem of wanting to refer to next year as "oh-ten"? :P

:hi:

:loveya:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. It hasn't. Buses weren't running and I found out the hard way, waiting in the cold rain.

BUT the Democracy now podcast released tomorrow's episode today and the whole hour was a lecture by Howard Zinn which was great. That was a plus at least.

[SallyMander]

2. Aww man, that sucks!

But thanks for the heads up on the podcast - i should check that out.

Hope your bus is back up and running tomorrow...

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Democracy Now is by far my favourite podcast.

Having Zinn on for the hour was just a really great bonus. :D

[SallyMander]

14. I'll definitely check that out

I don't take advantage of podcasts enough -- just occasionally listen to CarTalk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. :D

[lizziegrace]

3. Happy New Year!

Yeah, what do we call next year??

:shrug:


:hug:

[SallyMander]

4. Hope you had a great night!

What did you get into last night? Our party got kinda crazy... ended up going to bed after 4am. :crazy: It had been a while since that happened! :rofl:

:hug:

:loveya:

[lizziegrace]

5. Not a thing

Lelapin's in Chicago until tomorrow evening. It was just me and the cats. I think I went to bed around 11:45. x(

I'm bringing her down to Columbus this weekend.

[SallyMander]

6. Well at least you aren't hung over!

To look on the bright side. :D

Let me know if you guys will have time for dinner/coffee/whatever this weekend - it would be great to see you! I don't think i have anything going on...

[lizziegrace]

7. We're leaving early Saturday morning.

I'll either call or text you to let you know. I have to head back Sunday morning.

:hug:

[SallyMander]

10. Sounds good!

No worries if you're too busy, but hopefully we can figure something out! :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. You just made me realize that the graduating class after this one

will sound like binary code geeks. :D

[SallyMander]

11. LOL!

People graduating high school next year will have been born in... 1992?? Seriously??? :wow:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Now, *there's* a perspective

I got socks older'n that. :crazy:

[SallyMander]

17. ...

:spray:

[UrbScotty]

23. And the one after that as well!

:D

[DarkTirade]

9. It WAS fine.

Until a couple of hours ago. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8375067">GRRRRR. Only direct side effect right now is that I have no way to send emails easily. But it's still a pain in the ass.

[SallyMander]

13. Oh, that sucks!

Sorry to hear about the issue. So someone got your domain name in the last 24 hours?? That's really weird...

[DarkTirade]

15. I'm thinking they might not actually have it.

I found the name of the company in the html, and a quick google search mentioned that they not only steal domain names but also fuck with DNS when they can. So it's entirely possible that they just have it so that expired domain names rout to their server or something. Which would explain why my old one is available now, even though it's only been 3 months since I thought they'd stolen it. And most domain name registrations last a year.

So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for now.

Still, I'm thinking it's time to start looking for a new host. This is just one fuckup too many.

*edit* I have at least two working email addresses now though... now instead of sending and recieving through my personal site's server I've got it going through my RoadRunner email address. Which I never use, but now I can use that one and my 'business' one that I had through my brother's website.

[SallyMander]

19. Ohh, gotcha

A whole world of internet screwiness that i know nothing about... :crazy:

But i would definitely switch hosts if i were you -- this one sounds like too much of a pain in the ass!

[DarkTirade]

21. Yeah.

I'm already looking.

[flvegan]

18. Cripes, I'm going to have a high school (20 year) reunion this year.

20-1 odds I don't go.

[SallyMander]

20. I skipped my 10-year

Maybe i'll try to hit the 20... but probably not. My whole high school class seems to have found me on Facebook, so i can already see who's married, reproducing, fat, etc. ;)

[flvegan]

22. I haven't been to a single reunion.

I don't think that's going to change.