..‘til you have to find a job!

So a couple weeks back my dear friend So Lost mentioned that she was fed up with her host and I suggested mine. Since her old host was being such a DICK I offered to give her a hand getting her blog migrated to her new host. I figured how difficult could it be? I had done the same thing a couple times myself. No big deal. Heh. Yeah well the DICK host was one of those control freak types. So it was a bit of a challenge getting to her database & getting it backed up. Then I had the fun of removing all the spam crap they add to any header or footer files. But I got it all set and worked out all the bugs on one of my old domains so I knew it was in tip top shape. Then I uploaded it all to her new host so it would be ready to go once the DNS resolved…. so we waited, and waited… in the mean time she mentioned that she wanted to move her business site as well. So I worked on that while we waited (Same old DICK host as before, same weeding out of spam etc, etc) She also asked me to make it prettier. So over a couple days I got that all put together, while constantly checking to see if the blog was up yet, it wasn’t. So where do we turn now, first the registrar of her domain, and then the host. Both blamed the other. Typical, but I was really hoping it would all be the registrars fault since I was the one who suggested the host. Eek! So I finished the business site, found her a new cute contact form and everything. Showed her, she liked it and so I uploaded it to the new host and changed the DNS info. The site resolved the next day. Oh cool! Yay! The blog? Still in limbo. WHAT. THE. FUCK??? I decide to take a risk and delete the domain from her hosts server and then add it all new and shiny and stuff and then import all the files and database AGAIN. And guess what? She was back in blogging heaven! Yes! The best part? She has a nice new feed that can be read by my linklist module and now it shows when she has updated! W00T!

I was on a wave, a high if you will for about a half hour… then I realized hmm I don’t have anything fun to play with. So I was forced to actually go out and find a job. *sigh* I filled out several applications, and felt good about at least one of them. Though they are all in retail and the idea depresses me so… if only I could find something that challenges me, like how I spent my last two weeks. I would be in my glory! But I can’t afford to sit around and wait for someone to come along and need my services so job hunting I will go… and secretly hope that a mass collection of people need a little help that I could provide (And of course it would be way too much for one person to handle so I would have to share with my fellow out-of-worker SSG )

It could happen, right?

 

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