Some of you know that I’ve been working on a complete reboot of my employer’s website. It’s a project that has been dragging on for about 10 months, delayed several times by changes in the exec team. We now have an approved live date coming up shortly. As a result, I’m eyebrow-deep in proofreading copy I wrote nearly a year ago, reviewing executive comments and suggestions, revising as needed, and compiling a master set of…

In mid-September, petrini1  and I will be traveling to Southeastern Idaho and would like to do some sightseeing while we’re there.  We have a late afternoon to drive between Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls, and then we have an entire day to explore Idaho Falls and the surrounding area before our first conference meeting begins. My question to the LJ hive mind: what should we see?

 I spent the weekend updating my website. It was way past due for an overhaul, so it was time well spent. Naturally, as soon as I was ready to upload the pages, I discover that my host was down. That in itself  is an oddity, as it is one of the most reliable and highly praised hosts in the business. I still don’t know what the issue was, but everything was back to normal by…

Can anyone access http://www.noblefusion.com/astein/ or http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/ today? I can’t get to either of them (and, by extension, my email) or the host’s corporate site, http://www.alentus.com today. If all three are down, even the host’s own website, then this is a Very Bad Thing. I’ve used that hosting company for over a decade, and they’ve Never Been Down….

The gastroenterologist has released me back into the wild, with instructions to keep my fat intake low* and unsaturated, and to continue to take my 5 big honkin’ horse pills before  meals. He also suggested I switch from dairy to soy, but we’ll deal with that one meal at a time. I reserve the right to indulge in a small serving of Sheridan’s frozen custard once in a while. *less than 25 grams of fat per day seems to…