Vacation strikes back!
Deeps and I took an impromptu week-long vacation to Montreal. A couple of weeks ago my boss casually asked me if I’d taken any vacations this year. Aside from a quick weekend to visit the family in Indiana, I hadn’t. She suggested I might want to take a bit of time.

I think she noticed I’d developed a little eye twitch.

Rather than deal with the weirdness of flying, we opted to do a driving vacation. And with Montreal about 6 hours away by car we thought it would be the perfect destination. Now, in the past we’ve had some bad luck on vacations, but that streak had ended a few years ago. At least, it had.

We had a great time. I took the laptop in case I felt like blogging. I couldn’t get the wireless to work (probably some user error) so I didn’t bother trying to blog. Sorry, loyal readers.

When we returned late this weekend I discovered that my site was down. No big deal, it happens – I started to visit my web host’s site when I discovered their site was also gone. Then I started checking emails and logs – it looks like my site went down about the time I left for my vacation.

What happened? I can’t say – I was prepaid for another year of hosting service. And I can’t explain what happened to the small company I’d been using since 1998. Anyway, that’s what happened. I went on vacation and apparently so did my former hosting company.

Luckily, I am inclined to back up data so while it will take a while to reconstruct my site (if I choose) I have much of the content from before. The blog is intact.

My new host is bigger and more reputable and I’ve got high hopes we’ll have a good, long relationship.

Meanwhile, why don’t you read this little thread where the Internet makes fun of me and my writing! Internets, I missed you.