I’ve been back in the US for a little over two weeks now, but I haven’t had many opportunities to post blogs. I started back to work the day after I got home, then two days later Jean’s mom came into town, and when I wasn’t at work or with Jean and her mom I’ve been trying to move the website over to a new hosting company’s servers. My two year contract with Hostmonster runs out in another 5 days so I needed to either pay to continue with them or find a new company. They wanted to charge me double what other companies charge to host the site and wouldn’t give me their new customer discount, so I switched! I’ve had to download dozens of gigs of files and upload them to the new servers, transfer MySQL databases and modify paths, transfer domain registrations, point domains to new paths, etc.
Things are finally almost completely switched over. You’re reading the blog from the new host’s server right now. Should you find any dead links or pictures/video that don’t work, please email me and let me know so I can try and fix it. This weekend should be kinda busy because I have to work, Jean will be working on Black Friday and then the weekend, I need to do a little Christmas shopping and I have to catch up on my blogs. I plan on writing the rest of the South Africa blog entries and all the Patagonia entries before next Monday. Oh yea, this is college football’s rival week, so I’ll also be watching a lot of football too. The Iron Bowl starts at 11:30am PST on Friday – I’ll be watching Bama roll over the Aubie Tigers after going in to work early.
Dad is in Chicago visiting one of my sisters, and I talked to my other sister’s husband tonight to see if he wants to go to the BCS Championship if the Tide makes it there. If the Tide beats Auburn and then Florida in the SEC Championship on December 5th, Alabama will be heading to the National Championship game at the Rose Bowl on January 7th, most likely playing Texas. It would be the first time UA plays for a National Championship since 1992, plus it’s gonna be at The Grandaddy of Them All! If my brother in law comes out, maybe he’d come a little early to go to the Rose Parade and we could head down to Pasadena for some tailgating at the Rose Bowl (Ohio State and Oregon I think).
Well, the blog should be back in motion now that things are about to calm down some…
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