Well, Everything was scheduled for the movers to load up the trucks on Friday and then drive down Saturday morning and unload. And then Ophelia entered the picture. My son sent me a rather panicky text asking if I had seen the weather reports. Well, yes, but no. So doing an in-depth analysis, an executive decision was made to do the loading on Friday as planned and then unload on Monday morning. Based upon the weather reports, the storm should be well clear by then. On Wednesday, I called the movers and they were completely oblivious to the potential of 4″-6″ in Williamsburg… So I asked if we could push…
Blogus Interruptus
We haven’t talked much about this, but Melanie and I are building our retirement home in Williamsburg, VA. This has been ongoing seemingly forever at this juncture, but in actuality since December last year. The house is nearing completion, so it’s come time to move again. Ish…. The house is NOT complete and/or ready for occupancy. Prolly won’t be for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately we have to be out of the townhouse that we rented some 2 1/2 years ago by months end. The contactor has agreed that our “worldly goods” can be placed in the house, but he will not have a Certificate of Occupancy. We can’t legally…
Apple Blossom Festival
Well, this is a bit awkward…. Completed missed this opportunity to yapp about a wonderful experience. H’mmm, “old-timers” disease perhaps? Well, we’ll leave that discussion for another day. As part of my retirement celebration, the kids and I decided to visit the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. It’s kind of an odd thing, as this is held at the same time as the Wine Festival in Winchester. The difference is the Apple Blossom Festival is free to enter while the Wine Festival is a paid entry. It made for an interesting situation getting around in Winchester, and it definitely wasn’t an ideal situation. Hopefully the Winchester folks can see…
Whew
So, I called 1and1 again this morning. The issue was there were two versions of the database for the site and the tech on Tuesday had restored the older, obsolete one. So, Rod (which I’m certain is his real name… ) dug in, and restored the newer database! Woo hoo! Saved from my own stupidity. I lost two updates, and those were easy peasy to redo. Geeze. Anyway, next time, we’ll probably queue up the “wayback” machine and look at some picture from when we were in New Orleans. stay tuned, and thanks for your patience.
Sigh…
Good intentions. I was playing around with the site on Tuesday after posting the previous message. Several themes had been downloaded, and played around with. To the point that I realized I was doing more damage than not. So, I got this wild hair that I would reset the theme settings. Doing some innerweb spelunking, the WordPress add-in WP Reset is recommended for this tasking. Obviously, I didn’t thoroughly read the documentation as WP Reset not only resets themes settings, it resets EVERYTHING, including deleting all the media on the website. Luckily, I had done a site backup, but that was basically just the text, and all the links, no…
All things WordPress
So, some time back, I stumbled across the template that I’m using for this site is Photo-Diary by Mark Sitco. If you’ve been following along, firstly my apologies, but secondly you will have noticed that I’ve tried some other themes, but eventually gave up and came back to Photo Diary. The downside to all this is Photo-Diary has been abandoned and it’s been over 2 years since it was updated. And it’s beginning to show. For good or for bad, WordPress is evolving and Photo Diary is becoming less and less compatible. Sigh. Amongst the other things going on in my life right now, I REALLY didn’t want to add…