Melt Down

I was planning on holding the next round of the Whisper Meme in August. Up until Friday, I thought I was going to do that. Friday everything fell apart.

It started with a simple move, if moving can ever be said to be simple once you’ve acquired kids, furniture, and too many gerbils. To be absolutely sure I didn’t get caught in a bind, I had the phone company come in early to set the phone up in the new place. I’m on dial up, you know.

When I arrived with my office all ready to be set up and get back online I found a door hanger on our knob. It seems the employee from Qwest couldn’t find the box. Excuse me? Every box in the entire neighborhood is set up the same way. It’s right there on the side of the house where anyone and everyone can see.

Ok, fine. So I had to call and set up a new appointment to have the switch flipped. Lovely. I called on my cell phone and was informed the next time they could be in would be August 29th.

Uh… yeah. I said I’d get back to them.

So now I’m on a quest for a new phone company, and maybe high speed internet. No. Make that definitely high speed internet. After all, I already have a phone in my purse. I’m not desperate for a land line. It’s looking like I might actually get a land line and high speed for only $10 a month more than I’m paying right now.

That was part A in the Whisper saga. I’m having trouble getting online to do anything.

Here’s part B, which is actually a much bigger reason.

I’m moving my web site. I want to get it away from it’s current host, get my blog folded in with my main site, and get my email change to my own domain. Oh, and I’m going to completely change the way it looks and works while I’m at it.

No big deal, except I don’t know how to do any of the above. I need to hire someone. I was holding off on hiring someone until after I moved so I could use someone convenient. Guess what time it is.

The thing about Whisper is that it doesn’t work if the home page URL changes in the middle of it, and this one is going to run for six months.

So….

Please be patient with me. I’ll make it worth your while.