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I woke up this morning to find that, despite my Internet connection working perfectly, I was unable to visit this site. That’s odd, because this site is hosted on the same gateway that lovingly distributes Internet connectivity throughout the house. If that was working, why woulddn’t the site be? After a moments thought, I remembered that my DNS nameserver hosting expired this morning. Since 2002, I’ve been paying $30 a year to have Lanechange do my DNS hosting, but this year I decided to try a free one (hey, thirty bucks is thirty bucks). I’m now using ZoneEdit, which (hopefully) will serve my purposes. You know, it was fun to host everything here once upon a time, but it’s really lost it’s charm lately. Next year, I think I’m going to do the hosting for life thing from TextDrive. I’d do it now, but I don’t have the $470 for it at the moment. One can dream.

I didn’t get that job I applied for (although I wasn’t expecting to). However, my backshifts have been extended to the end of October. As happy as I am to not face unemployment, I was really, really looking forward to the prospect of getting off of night shifts. I’m going to try to find something between now and the end of October, at which point I’ll have to apply to keep my backshift job. Wish me luck.

Anyway, I should stop procrastinating here. I’ve got to get some more work done on the web site layout for the Discovery Centre, and I’m also trying to learn Python. So, I’ll end this here — cheers.