I talked to my parents a couple of nights ago, and my Dad mentioned that Livi’s web site had been down for a couple of days. Our sites tend to go down for a few hours here and there, so I wasn’t surprised, except that it had been days. We looked into it and it turned out that our domain registrar had the wrong nameservers listed for her domain, but they hadn’t been changed since July, so why break now? We updated the nameservers and Livi’s site was promptly up again.

Then I noticed that the most recent blog post was back in October. I don’t post frequently to her site, but I was pretty sure I’d made a couple of posts since then. Then I checked her Gallery, and the last photo there was from October 1st! I knew I was severely behind on uploading photos from my camera, but Dale’s been uploading his, so where were those? I checked my computer, and my photo backlog dated to May, so I ended up staying up late last night resizing and uploading my photos. (I made it to August before I had to go to bed.) Today, I got all caught up on photos from my camera. I think I added nearly 290 photos to her Gallery, dating back to May! (whoops)

Talking to Dale, we realized that a lot of photos WERE missing from the gallery. In October we went to California (including Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo), plus there was Halloween. We knew we’d uploaded photos from those events. So Dale called our web host to ask what was up. He was told that they recently upgraded their servers and migrated a bunch of web sites. Unfortunately, they copied over old back ups (from October) and didn’t synchronize the data before severing the link to the old servers! Because of the way the Gallery software runs, we can’t just roll back to the most recent copy on the old server. Instead, one of our web host’s staffers gets to compare the file structures between the older server and new server to get the files that appear on the old server but not on the new. I think they’re supposed to send us those files, then they’ll have to be re-uploaded to her site.

*sigh*

Dale and I have a lot of glass bottles (juice, not booze) that I finally put out for recycling today. But they weren’t collected, though the bins of all our neighbors were empty. I called our water company and was told they’ve switched recycling companies and today was the last pick up for the old one. I got the number of the new company so I could verify what they collect and they said no corrugated cardboard or glass. The lady did give me the url to a web site where I could search for a recycling center that takes glass.

I put in our zip code, and the nearest recycling center that takes glass is 11 miles away in a city we never visit. o.O

I had recently noticed a few big recycling bins outside the H.E.B. nearest us, but those only take paper and plastic as well.

I had no idea it was so difficult to recycle glass in Harris County.

Dale and I have been playing an online computer game called Team Fortress 2. It’s got a very cartoony style, and Livi likes watching it once in a while. Lately, she’s surprised us with some things she’s said.

“Watch out for spies, Daddy!”
(After I announced that there was a spy near me.) “Daddy! Go get the spy! Get him now!”

She’s narrated games too. “You are going inside. You are going outside. You go up the stairs. You go down the stairs. You blowed him up!”

And just a few minutes ago, she came to me holding a small stick like a gun and said, “the fire comes out.”
“Fire? Fire comes out of that?”
“Yes!”
“Are you a pyro?” (Character with a flamethrower.)
“Yes! I firing you, Mama!”
Then she chased me around the house “firing” me.

She had fun one day when I sat her on my lap and helped her with the mouse and she “blowed up” Daddy. I think she’s doomed to be a geek.