Jul 28 2008
A Blogging Break At The Beach
As I have said in the past, my husband is my resident techie. His company’s web server hosts my website. Last week I was sympathizing with Ryan at RYSCOTT over tech issues and even offered Paul’s experience using WordPress on our server. (He still may be having them because I can’t get to his link at www.ryscott.net) If I only knew what would happen within hours to me!
On this day, while Paul was in Wisconsin with our son at scout camp, the new telephone/Internet company decided to move our service without telling anyone. Actually, what happened was they forgot to tell the old telephone/Internet company about a change in the company’s move date. (Oldham Hirst Design is moving into new offices in August.)
As a result, last Thursday I was cut off from the world. My website went down. My email stopped sending and receiving. And I loved it!
I took an unintended blogging break and went to the beach with my daughters and some of their friends. Minnesota is the land of more than 10,000 lakes and one of our favorite swimming beaches is on a small lake named Whipple Lake or Whipple Beach as we call it. Here we dug our feet in the sand and enjoyed life without all that technology.
I hate to admit this, but I did love two days without a website and wondered why I’m still keeping it going every day. Paul returned on Saturday and sorted through all the issues, which was not an easy task, and restored my connections. I’m not sure that my wonderings have been answered. But, I’ve come back a little more rested, a little wiser about my time spent writing, and a lot more grateful for Paul’s skills.
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You know what? Having my site down made me wonder about the same things.
And it went beyond just maintaining a blog, but email too (which, unlike you, I still had), and internet reading in general.
I think it’s good that we all take a “sabbatical” from the daily schedule.
Ryan,
If you’re still having issues, let me know. I might be able to point you in the right direction. I’ve had great luck with Wordpress on my own Ubuntu server.