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…
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…
Fairfax Cemetery
A couple of weeks ago, I grabbed the Fuji X100f and headed out for a walk to the Fairfax Cemetery. I’ve walked through the cemetery a couple of times before, but this trip was solely for photographic purposes. It prolly wasn’t the ideal day for photography as it was very bright and sunny that day. I’m fond of dark, contrasty imagery, and that can be a challenge in the bright sunlight. Oh well. The cemetery is about a mile away on the other side of the Fairfax Courthouse. An interesting factoid about the Fairfax Courthouse is this is where the infamous Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial was conducted. Don’t ask me…
Udvar-Hazy
One of the amazing benefits of living in the WMA (Washington Metropolitan Area) is the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. We’ve been to the center a couple of times, but it has been a number of years since our last visit. Jourdan and Stefani were in town for the 4th of July holiday, and seeing as it will be the last time that we will see them up here in the WMA, Jourdan and I decided to visit the center. It was a busy 3rd of July at the center as most folks had the day off in advance of Independence Day. There wasn’t…