I love my GPS. I'm convinced the divorce rate is falling because couples no longer argue on long and stressful trips about where to turn off the road. Let the GPS be wrong, not your spouse!
When the kids wail "How much LONGER???" I blame the GPS for putting them thru another 23 minutes of driving torture. I tell them, "But maybe I can get it down to 22." Suddenly the kids are cheering for me to outsmart the GPS and no longer whining.
At the same time, I find myself ignoring it quite often. GPS technology is not 100% reliable. If I'm travelling a familiar road that I KNOW is under construction or bound to be heavily trafficked at this time of day, I'll ignore the GPS instructions and laugh merrily as it says "Recalculating".
Last summer we were taking our kids to a "surprise destination". The kids were speculating on why we were driving amid cornfields in Iowa when suddenly, the GPS shouted "Turn Left here to go to Field of Dreams" and our surprise was ruined. It's never mentioned a destination by name before or ever since. My guess is that there really IS some artificial intelligence behind that logic, and it gets peeved with the way I use it shamelessly.
I'm convinced a bit of a devil rests in each GPS system. Makes me like 'em even better.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Letting Go
It's a summer full of regrets so far. I regret that I haven't had more time to post comments on my blog. (I'm finally understanding the attraction of brief Twitter postings -- much less pressure to write something deep and thoughtful!)
I regret mostly that my eldest is leaving for college and my family will never be the same. That sounds so dramatic, but it's true on some level. A child is leaving the nest. We'll have extra space in the car and less food on the table. We'll have tuition bills up the whazoo. And I'll worry constantly about that girl.
It's hard to let go, dammit.
When I left for college, I couldn't wait to fly the coop. You'd think that memory would make it easy for me to be gracious about my own daughter leaving. At the same time, we're talking about different people, a different era, and a different situation. Funny how I'm more nervous about my daughter heading out into the big world than I was when it was myself. Guess that's what makes me a mom.
Regardless of all my worries and poignant reminiscing, I AM letting go. Because it's time. Because I love her too much to ever hold her back. Guess that's what makes me a mom.
Good-bye, my daughter. Fly high and shine.
I regret mostly that my eldest is leaving for college and my family will never be the same. That sounds so dramatic, but it's true on some level. A child is leaving the nest. We'll have extra space in the car and less food on the table. We'll have tuition bills up the whazoo. And I'll worry constantly about that girl.
It's hard to let go, dammit.
When I left for college, I couldn't wait to fly the coop. You'd think that memory would make it easy for me to be gracious about my own daughter leaving. At the same time, we're talking about different people, a different era, and a different situation. Funny how I'm more nervous about my daughter heading out into the big world than I was when it was myself. Guess that's what makes me a mom.
Regardless of all my worries and poignant reminiscing, I AM letting go. Because it's time. Because I love her too much to ever hold her back. Guess that's what makes me a mom.
Good-bye, my daughter. Fly high and shine.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Registrar problems with Melbourne IT
Over this past weekend I moved two of my clients from an older web server at Verio to a new ViaVerio plan. The upgrade required changes to their nameserver records. These records are managed through my reseller account at Verio, but the registrar itself is Melbourne IT.
On Thursday morning I had a frantic call from one of the upgraded customers at 6:30 AM -- website and email were down. Everything looked good on my end so I called Verio who insisted that I'd changed the nameserver record info again. My next upgraded customer then called... same problem.
I have dozens of clients, but these were the only two affected. I reset the nameserver records for both and changed all their passwords, but the nameserver records mysteriously changed again a few hours later. At this point my Verio account manager told me flat out that the problem was with Melbourne IT, but he didn't know any more than that. I spent the rest of the day manually clicking the Update button on the nameserver record page for these clients every 20 minutes or so, to make sure no one could overwrite their access again.
I got an email from Verio this morning that simply said the problem was on the registrar's end, and it thanked me for my help in tracking down the problem. Excuse me? My clients had their domain records re-routed and they're thanking me? I need a lot more explanation than this -- does anyone know what went wrong???
On Thursday morning I had a frantic call from one of the upgraded customers at 6:30 AM -- website and email were down. Everything looked good on my end so I called Verio who insisted that I'd changed the nameserver record info again. My next upgraded customer then called... same problem.
I have dozens of clients, but these were the only two affected. I reset the nameserver records for both and changed all their passwords, but the nameserver records mysteriously changed again a few hours later. At this point my Verio account manager told me flat out that the problem was with Melbourne IT, but he didn't know any more than that. I spent the rest of the day manually clicking the Update button on the nameserver record page for these clients every 20 minutes or so, to make sure no one could overwrite their access again.
I got an email from Verio this morning that simply said the problem was on the registrar's end, and it thanked me for my help in tracking down the problem. Excuse me? My clients had their domain records re-routed and they're thanking me? I need a lot more explanation than this -- does anyone know what went wrong???
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