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What, DDoS? Instalanche? Server crash? Freep?
My guess is Nazis. Illinois Nazis.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
Chutch?
channeling all the good energy to help out in Boston…
I did that with my mind.
SI: You’re only allowed to split atoms with your mind. Quit mucking up Jeff’s blog.
I feel a bit sheepish now that I put out an Important Action Alert. Basically, Jeff & his host have just both figured out that he’s way in arrears.
I think if there was a day to have hosting problems this one is better than others. I keep hearing “Is that all there is” in my head and ignoring the news while I come home to answering machine messages “just checking” on me. My own mother even. This tells me the media is being awfully silly.
Hey! Enough of that homo stuff! This is a family blog!
What? it isn’t?
Nevermind.
Are you all right, happyfeet?
echoing Dan
happy … wassup?
yes – oh yeah – totally fine – but everyone seems to think the flames are licking ever closer –
for me, this is really just another one of those deals where NPR’s coverage makes me just feel at best indifferent and at worst actively resistant to charitable feelings cause I just don’t want to be a part of what they are describing, so if I sound kind of dyspeptic, it’s kind of my own fault cause I know better than to turn them on at times like this
It’s true. Zombies are definitely worse. NPR doesn’t know jack shit about zombies.
No, but they do know that zombies raise previously unexamined questions about social inequity.
sounds like some bunnies need some attention. I’ll pet a kitty for ya. then again, she won’t be happy I woke her up and then the puppy will get all jealous and that will just make the cat angrier and we’ll all get stirred up and rowdy.
Yeah, yeah . . . suppressing the zombie vote. I know.
More espresso! Everybody polonaise!
yay! actually, had a cuppa not too long ago. had to try out the new unleaky coffee maker.
yes – the bunnies help, and the good thing is it’s been warm enough to leave the turtles outside. But you know what’s weird? Houseflies. Like Amityville horror houseflies. The big stupid easy to swat kind. But I’ve never ever had them before. I took the sleeping pills early cause we’ve been going out every night this week entertaining out of town company people so I turned off the lights and sat down in front of the monitor and BAM! there were like SEVEN on my screen. And I started bapping them with a copy of my performance review and they all fell onto my keyboard so I had to shake it out. Is this a fire thing? Like the little flies have fled all the burning whatever? Too weird, and ominous.
Put a fork in the Rockies. They are now officially done.
Maybe they can spend the offseason on a scavenger hunt. On the list of things to find:
1. The Strike Zone
2. Your team offense
3. See 1 and 2
So it is an omen I guess. Houseflies are essentially scavengers you know.
Crap. And I thought the Kid Rocks were going to beat them like a Waffle House patron.
Illinois zombies?
Wait, what?
As for the Rox, At least Game 2 was close, and both these games were in Boston, were they not?
doesn’t matter. They stopped hitting about two weeks ago, and haven’t figured out how to hit again since.
I’m pretty sure I could have hit Schilling tonight.
Speaking of not hitting, did Boyz II Men hit a single right note during that mess? God Bless Music, that was just awful!
Well, looks like I might have a solution lined up. But remember that fund raiser that I just completed? Looks like it’s going to fall $1300 short.
Well, between you and Yon and Totten and Shire Network News and all the rest, I’m all tapped out for my blog budget.
Otherwise… you know. I’d toss another 3 or 4 large your way.
“Put a fork in the Rockies. They are now officially done.”
That’s what they said about Boston last week…
You bet the whole fundraiser wad on the Rox, didn’t you?
Step 1.: We admitted we were powerless over gambling – that our lives had become unmanageable.
Continued
We’ll never know, but they might have had something going before your MVP forgot where he was.
Dont write the Rox off yet.. 1981 The LA Dodgers were down the first two games against the NY Yankees.. Lost the first two in NY.. I was standing on the street the day of game three in LA telling my buddy “..today’s the day the Dodgers come back..” when this loud mouth fuckin New Yawk expat comes up..gets in my face and and goes “Fuck the Dodgers.. They’re done.. The Yankees have better players on the bench than the Dodgers start..”
Needless to say the Dodgers swept the next four games including clinching the game 6 win in Yankee stadium and humiliating the Yankees in their own house…
If you’re out their reading this you freakin loudmouth New Yorker .. Suck it, Asshat!
(I’ve wanted to tell him that for 26 years)
I still see the Rox taking a couple at home. And I’m reminded of the 2004 ALCS and the Sox being down 3-0. I’m sticking with the Sox in 6.
SOrry about the fundraiser not meeting expectations. I kicked in $20 under my real name, but I’m not exactly rolling in cash either. I have to meet my estimated taxes come the new year, and so far it doesn’t look good. I spent way too much this month.
cranky–
I don’t think it’s so much that the fundraiser didn’t meet expectations, as that the expectations weren’t actually proportionate to what was owed.
I kicked in $20. Between cranky and myself, I hope you can dig up the other $1260. I had no idea hosting was that expensive.
I swear to God I’ll hit the tip jar, just give me a little more time to get settled. Or unsettled as the case may be.
And BTW, 8 days off didn’t help. Cheap pro- Boston TV ratings type ploy from the network bastards.
Okay, here’s another Jackson to stanch the bleeding. But, seriously, don’t spend it on rum. I mean it. Unless I can have some.
In other news, Genarlow Wilson has been freed.
What Dan said.
I didn’t tell you all the whole story, but it turns out that because of an old email address, my PayPal “subscription,” through which I paid my hosting bills monthly, wasn’t working.
And, because my host sent notice to that same old email address (even though we generally communicate through IM), I wasn’t receiving word that the monthly hosting bill wasn’t being paid.
Then, suddenly, he turned off the server, and told me I owed over a grand. I worked out something with him that allowed me to pay half now, so that the site wouldn’t go completely dark.
So, as Dan said, this has nothing to do with your generosity — which I greatly appreciate. It has to do with learning that your generosity is going to help cover money I already owed and didn’t know I owed until last evening — when what I was hoping is that it would pay for hosting going forward, and for getting myself set up to do video and audio.
Sorry for any misunderstanding. Been scrambling to try to find a solution.
As for Craig C —
Get over your bitterness already, would you? The Phillies lost. They were swept. If it makes you feel better to tell yourself had they won, they would have then beat Arizona and Boston, have at it.
But they didn’t.
Last night you saw the Rockies’ bullpen. The night before you saw a 21-year old starter making his first ever relief appearance and giving up 7 runs in 2/3 of an inning after a balk call rattled him.
In Philly, it was being told that rubbing his face on the mound wasn’t allowed that rattled him.
He’s 21. He hadn’t won a game in Double AA before pitching in the World Series. Which is why I wasn’t too concerned about the score of game one.
What I’ve been concerned about — and I’ve made mention of it several times now — is that the Rockies just aren’t hitting.
They haven’t been since game two of the division series. Which is what made the sweeps all the more impressive — but also, all the more worrisome.
I’d hoped the time off would get the bats going. But it’s possible that the month-long run simply took its toll on the Rockies hitters.
Here’s hoping home cooking and a sense of urgency wakes them up. But they do better against pitchers they’ve seen once or twice, and Dice-K ain’t in that group.
Although I think if they can make it to game five, they’ll beat Beckett. Francis, as the Phillies know, is fantastic at making adjustments, and I’m sure he’s hoping he can get a chance to pitch again this series.
What does Jimmy Rollins have to do with this? :-)
“Although I think if they can make it to game five, they’ll beat Beckett”
I know they beat him in the regular season but this will not happen. Beckett ain’t losing this post season. It’s just not happening. He is locked in and is too damned good. Did I mention that I hate the Red Sox?
Game five will be at Coors. Where Jake Peavy went to die.
I’ve made no bold predictions up til now except that the Rockies had a chance to win the wild card, and challenge for the division.
I expected them to beat the Diamondbacks, but I never said it.
So. My second ever bold prediction: if it goes to game 5, the Rockies will beat Beckett at Coors. Or, more precisely, they’ll win the game he starts.
The Rox are guilty of premature ejaculation. Any time your as hot as they were, and then have to sit around for – what- a week and a half?
You’re screwed.
I’m still pulling for them, though. Even though the Mets pulled a “Sox” this year, I think Boston might still have a good amount of choke left.