Aug 21 2005

Busy, busy, busy….

Published by at 06:16:31 under General

The last few days have been mildy chaotic.

On Friday we shuttled Jillian to K-W to spend a weekend with my mother (the last weekend available before she and my step-father fly to China to adopt another baby girl, my new sister Carolina). Of course this required us to drive through a “Tornado warning” only made more interesting by the current score of problems plaguing my poor GrandAm (the decision to replace it has been made, we’re now used car shopping for a suitable and inexpensive candidate). On the plus side this time we had enough time on the ground to get in a little social time with both sets of K-W grandparents, which is a vast improvement over our previous “blitzkrieg” style visits.

Saturday was meant to be a day of some relaxation, but clearly the gods were against us. On top of the number of normal chores that had accumulated we had to make ready for a house guest, and then discovered that the cat had an open wound on the back of her neck (it appeared to be flea related, as she had been scratching at the spot non-stop) which brough about another trip to the Vet, an attempt by me to bandage a cat, and then another trip to the Vet.

At some point I got an email from my hosting service advising that my website was approaching it’s bandwidth limit, I spent a few minutes in the referrer logs and discovered I had a couple of bandwidth thieves making use of my image directory, and had to take a few quick steps to correct this. The sad result is that we will likely drop offline around the 26th or 27th by my estimate.

C’est la vie, n’est pas?

4 responses so far

4 Responses to “Busy, busy, busy….”

  1. # Melon 21 Aug 2005 at 16:40:43

    So are you gonna get it up and going again? The site I mean…

  2. # Mattion 22 Aug 2005 at 10:08:49

    It’s becoming SOP recently, for you to run out of bandwidth a day or two before month end ;-)

    Dratted bandwidth thieves, anyhow!

  3. # freddyboomboomon 22 Aug 2005 at 23:07:20

    Maybe you could identify them, and we could ‘visit’ their website a little…

  4. # Mugwugon 23 Aug 2005 at 10:24:29

    Mel: Yeah, if I exceed bandwidth the site goes offline until the start of a new month. No biggie, just a PITA really.

    Dad: Yeah, it’s a little bandwidth theft here and little there, but my visits have been increasing steadily, and theres not too much extra bandwidth to play with these days (even with the majority of the images hosted offsite).

    FBB: I’m tempted…so tempted, but in most cases it’s a number of minor thefts. Livejournals and Ebay auctions, hard to get any sort of payback really. I usually just rename the files involved, and replace them with bizarre images with strange captions like “I like bandwidth theft and man spray!” and “Please rescue me from my parents basement!“..

    You get the idea, if it didn’t provide me some amusement I’d definately be more angry about it.

    -GRIN-