I am a person I didn’t think could exist 15 years ago. My cellphone is the only phone I have. I remember when cellphones were on the verge of omnipresence, I saw a fluff newspiece about crazy people who no longer had a “regular” phone. I thought the people they interviewed were the only ones who could possibly make this alternative lifestyle choice. But after AT&T pissed me off, I decided it was the last time. I never used it anyway.

In other news: Last week I bought one box of Thin Mints. When February rolls around I try not to get too excited at the thought of seeing Girl Scouts selling their wares. But this year, even though I was hoping to see them at Trader Joe’s, I didn’t. Not a Girl Scout to be found. Just when I thought I had somehow missed the season altogether, there they were. Or uh, there he was. A skinny, older man, a card table and boxes of dreams. I was somewhat apprehensive at buying from a very conspicuous non-Girl Scout. Luckily, on my way out I saw a Girl Scout. One actual single Girl Scout. I almost missed her because she wasn’t wearing her uniform. I don’t know how she pulled that off because when I was selling the goods there was no way I could get away with not wearing my uniform while on duty. Anyhow, I bought one tiny little box for $3.50. I’m not going to complain about the price or anything but I will mention that when I was a Girl Scout a box cost $2.00. Anyway, it’s better that they are outrageously overpriced because I ate the whole box, almost exclusively, in 3 days. Thin Mints are the one food item I will ignore the presence of partially hydrogenated oils in. That’s because frozen Thin Mints are like a slice of heaven with a dollop of happy childhood.

Today is my and TBU’s fifth anniversary. I was a childbride, except we’re not married. We are celebrating by remembering our trip to Costa Rica. You can celebrate too with my favorite picture of the trip.

That is from the booze cruise we went on. It’s a great business model. Take American and Canadian tourists on a catamaran. Have no guardrails whatsoever and get them totally shit faced. Seriously, policy clearly dictates that a cup should never become less than a quarter full. Make sure the atmosphere could sufficiently be called a fucking free for all. Once their BAC is at an acceptable level, hand out the snorkeling gear and let them have at it. Round them up after a while and let them hang off the vessel in order to take pictures of themselves with other boats in the frame. The booze cruise was one of my most favorite memories of Costa Rica. It was absolutely beautiful, we saw humpback whales! The sunset on the water was amazing, the horizon was dotted with jungled coastline and picturesque islands. Sweet sweet anarchistic booze cruise.

The Millionizer se dice adios

[tags]Costa Rica, Travel, Thin Mints, Girls Scouts[/tags]

I thought I’d update to the new version yesterday and be very independent and awesome. I had been avoiding this place because every single time the New Version! New Version! thingy would be up and I just couldn’t handle the added stress. But yesterday I thought, what the heck? I’ve done this before, what the heck could possibly go wrong? Well apparently everything. I swear to god, everything. I’m not going to pretend I know what happened but based on a credible source and my limited understanding I’m going to say I somehow downloaded the devil instead of 2.1.2. At one point it created a random file labeled only by . yeah a . and in it were copies of all the folders of the entire site. The site included pictures from my cousin’s wedding, my mom’s birthday and basically all of my college course work. Don’t ask me why, seriously just dont, but I thought it would be a good idea to just delete the . folder and go on. Weeeeeeell fuck me. I deleted everything. Being the genius that I am I didn’t back up the non-Wordpress stuff up because in my head I wasn’t updating them. Gone. I cried, I yelled then I called GoDaddy to ask if I could get it back. Of course we can do that, it’s just a $150 fee. He said it a little too chirpily. I mouthed, $150, to TBU and pushed through the tears to tell the guy I’d think about it.

I was so discouraged it was pathetic. I emailed this guy to see if he had any tips. I expected him to tell me to just cut my losses and start over. Well this guy is amazing and awesome and the jist of what he said was, Hey, if you want gimme your FTP info and I’ll see what I can do. I didn’t care about giving him my info mostly because no one but me really cares about themillionizer.com and also because it was a temporary. What I was a anxious about was having someone who I don’t know in the analog world do such a huge favor for me. He assured me he didn’t mind so I sent him the info and passed out after 6 hours of trying not to kill myself.

After not thinking about the disaster for almost 12 hours I checked my email from work this morning. There was a beautiful response from Brady, he said GoDaddy sucks but he fixed it. I was on the internet during a clandestine mission so I could only reply with something stupid yet thankfully brief. I don’t know how to thank you properly, so this post goes out to you.

Let’s talk about GoDaddy for a second, shall we? For the last couple days this site has been loading unbearably slow. I called GoDaddy to discuss this. They had me on hold for no less than 18 minutes. Their story was that they were, checking things on the back end here. But I know he was just playing Minesweeper long enough for me to think he was accomplishing something. His final report was that everything seemed to be working fine on their end. Why so much talk of ends? He suggested it might be an ISP issue and that I should call them. I didn’t. Why the fuck would it be an ISP issue. Unless my ISP has restrictions against just themillionizer.com, which I doubt. So when I have no fear of the power themillionizer.com holds over me, I will switch hosts. Until then, sorry if the load time is affecting you.

Where were we? Oh right, WordPress kicked my ass yet again and I have vowed to never upgrade again. I am also in the process of figuring out how to fix the general retardedness around the header and footer. I don’t feel like dealing with it tonight so we’re all going to have to live with it for just a while longer, mmmk? However, I am pretty stoked that 2.1.2 has the old toolbar for posting. I like me some easy to use toolbars.

In conclusion: thank you.

[tags] GoDaddy, WordPress[/tags]

seriously, crap