I think it’s about time that the people of Kansas City collectively sat down and reassessed their winter driving skills. They clearly need some work. Snow and ice seem to bring out the idiot in people in a way that I’ve rarely seen back in Ohio, and the first snow storm of the year is apparently some kind of grand jubilee for them. Pictured is the handiwork done to Jolayne’s car today by one of our fair city’s mentally enfeebled wintertime drivers. Jolayne, fortunately, is totally fine though understandably not too happy. She was heading home early to try to miss the worst of the expected storm when another driver (uninsured, naturally) triggered a 4 car chain reaction of which Jolayne was car number 4. A pickup truck from the lane next to her sideswiped her as a result of the initial collision. A close call definitely, and we’re certainly relieved it wasn’t much worse, but it’s frustrating nonetheless. It’s a pretty busy time of year anyway, plus with grad school and her practicum and getting ready to head home for Christmas in a couple weeks we sort of had enough to do without having a car out of commission for a little while. Not that it would ever be a good time for this to happen, but this time is definitely not the best.
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
Thanks to Neal for pointing out that comments were teh borken. I’m not sure what was up with that. MT Blacklist was blowing up with errors about the regexs in the blacklist and I thought maybe there had been a new version of Perl installed or something that was breaking it. For a moment I thought I finally had no other option but to finally upgrade to MT 3.x. And then I just reimported the blacklist, the exact same blacklist that it was complaining about, and it started working just fine. Computers these days…
All good things must come to an end, including my 3 years of free hosting with 1&1. I’ve decided to stick with them and get one of their hosting plans though not so much because they had the best price or the most options (for example, no WebDAV, which would have been nice) but mostly because I’m just too lazy to transfer my domain registrations and data to another provider. I’d be interested to know how many other beneficiaries of their crazy 3 year promotion actually stuck around as well, and how long they have to keep a paying plan for 1&1 to not have lost money on the deal. So now that I’ve got tons more storage and bandwidth, and now that I’m actually paying for it, I figure I should put it to good use and maybe dust this thing off a little bit and actually post more than once every 3 months or so.
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