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And we’re back

By Jimmy Johnson

How does that song go, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Well, it’s back! It’s not exactly paradise, but it’s no longer a digital parking lot, either. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but a very nice young man named Frank, with EarthLink, fixed everything for me. I couldn’t quite place his accent though: perhaps South Carolina tidewater. It seems I’ve been gone forever, first with a lot of non-cartooning stuff that required my attention and then the big technical blow-out, but it’s good to be back. Frank did tell me I need to update my version of WordPress. Can’t wait for that.

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79 responses to “And we’re back”

  1. Ginger in Auburn Avatar
    Ginger in Auburn

    I am so glad you are back. I felt discombobulated. Now the moon is back in it’s normal orbit.

  2. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Sacra vaca! It seems like forever since I was able to view this. Anyone ever find out just what a PHP & an SQL are? [Or, whatever those initials were….]

  3. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    During the er, “intermission”, I had a great colonoscopy result: nothing adverse found and a 5-year reprieve before I need another {I should live so long!} In all my 38 years of having these exams, I have never been granted a 5-year gap. Thanks be to God – and may others receive similar good results.
    Renewed my driver’s license, too, for another 4 years.
    Managed to get a neighbor to the ER, doctor, and hospital several days last week. Also, twice to a pharmacy. The spouse was out of state; that’s what neighbors are for.

  4. Sideburns Avatar

    Yes. PHP is a scripting language used on web servers and MySQL is a database, also used on servers. There’s no need for either of them to be installed on your computer for you to be able to read this page, meaning that the problem was on the server and the error message was w0rng.

  5. NDK Avatar
    NDK

    I was starting to worry we’d never see you again. Yay!!!

  6. David from Austin Avatar
    David from Austin

    (In my best Robin Williams voice) Good Morning (afternoon)… Village!!

    Almost record cold here last week during the outage, but my recently planted tomatoes survived! They also managed to survive the pea-sized hail and 3/4″ rain we had the day AFTER I planted them. I may plant squash and sweet corn tonight.

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    No record cold – just persistently below average.
    The highs are below average lows.

    Saw geese flying South again last night. They have had enough too.

    2 Geese were on the wet spot on the lawn Tuesday.
    And a Doe was in the field across the road yesterday – since
    town is encroaching don’t see many any more. Used to see as many as 25
    at a time passing through.

  8. Llee Avatar

    Hey folks!

    We have the first great grandchild for this part of the family. 🙂 Griffin came into our world on Tuesday evening. He’s son to my niece and her husband.Genealogist buffs: what am I to him, great aunt? grand aunt? Or…as another niece introduced me to a schoolfriend, “That’s Aunt Lora, she’s only a little crazy”.

    🙂

    The kids have been trying to start a family for a while now. I think they’ll do a fine job of it.

  9.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Probably either “great aunt” or “grand aunt” will serve nicely. I addressed my grandmothers’ sisters as simply “aunt”. Both of my grandmothers had sisters nearby; none had nearby brothers.

  10. Galliglo in Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo in Ohio

    Good to see that the Villagers did not decide to move!

  11. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    It feels so good to click on that button and see all of you here! As the Brits on a show I’ve seen say: Happy Days!

  12. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    ‘Twas I at 6:17pm.

    For the Bavarian-born grandmother, her sisters received the designation of “Tante”, which is German for “aunt”.

    Yes, the familiar names, etc., are most welcome.

  13. David from Austin Avatar
    David from Austin

    Planted squash– old fashioned Yellow Straight-neck. Didn’t make it to the corn, too tired today. Even though I’m three years post transplant [yay!] I still have little strength or endurance. Hoping that will eventually get better… before I have to start dialysis again someday. I know that is coming, as the transplanted kidney is already losing substantial protein. That isn’t a good thing for a kidney.

    Don’t think I’ve mentioned here, but I will be Großvater [maybe Opa] in early August. Still haven’t decided on what we’d like to be called. My wife is leaning toward PopPop for me. My daughters loved the Dr Seuss “Hop on Pop.” It will be our first grandchild. We found out at the gender reveal last week [is that a new thing?] that the baby is a girl. Her name is to be Kathryn Grace. Kathryn was my mother’s name– though my daughter never new her. She died from a combination of kidney disease and heart disease while I was in high school.

    I’m thankful that I should be able to meet my granddaughter and have at least some time with her. Not expecting to make it to great-grandkids, but taking advantage of every day I am given. [Wow! That drifted away in a hurry. Didn’t mean to be a downer.]

    Elise and I will be traveling with the camper next week, to Beaver Bend State Park in OK. Hoping for good weather so I can catch a few rainbow trout. The nephew will be house-sitting and feeding this year’s crop (2) of beef steers daily.

  14. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Llee: I asked the same question when husband’s niece’s son was born. The family history expert said that great and grand tend to be used interchangeably but that genealogy buffs prefer grand as it keeps the same pattern as parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc. Since there is no grandfather in the child’s life, my husband has been dubbed GrandBob and I chose to be Ruth Aunt. (Can’t remember now what his mom suggested but it definitely was not my style.)

  15. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Oh yeah, the general consensus was that no one really uses Great or Grand in everyday practice – it’s just Aunt Whoever to all generations.

  16. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    Wow! It works again! Nice to see the Villagers out and about again, and to hear what everyone has been doing.

    We had a cold wet Saturday here in Conroe, and I was out in it helping with the annual Shred Day sponsored by our Homeowners Association. It started out OK, cloudy and in the 60’s, but then just got colder with light rain, and with wind making everything more uncomfortable. We were finished by 1 pm but it took me the rest of the day to get warm again. I guess I sound like a whiny baby to all of you still fighting the snow.

    Wish y’all could be in SE Texas now. The last few days have been wonderful – 50’s at night, high 70’s to low 80’s by afternoon. Great weather for pulling weeds and there are lots of them! I’ll just save up some memories for the heat and humidity still to come.

  17. emb Avatar
    emb

    Not a care in the world. Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

    https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-watering-hole-animal-camera

    Peace,

  18. Sideburns Avatar

    David, don’t forget to harvest some of the blossoms. They can be stuffed, battered and fried, used in soups or even eaten raw. Just make sure to leave some of the male flowers so that the female flowers can be pollinated.

  19. emb Avatar
    emb

    Haven’t read new posts yet, saw this crowd first.

    https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera

    Peace,

  20. emb Avatar
  21. TruckerRon Avatar

    We awoke to discover 4 inches of snow on our cars after a high in the 70s yesterday.

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E-LzN-UqD7A/WtC5QZWnPNI/AAAAAAAAAB4/9OABuPT59ZA8CuxgeBeyUXm6jPwoQvQIwCL0BGAYYCw/h1536/75dd9326-3015-4e56-b226-ed43a3f8d2a2

    Mother Nature decided to pull an April Fools Day on Friday the 13th this year.

  22. emb Avatar
    emb

    One of Brooke’s better ones. Does not suffer fools gladly.

    http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2018/04/13

    Peace,

  23. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Sideburns: “Male flowers”? “Female flowers”? I thought binary gender assignments were no longer allowed by the PC police. 🙂

    I actually once got a rather shrill lecture about how “sex” and “gender” are not (or at least, no longer) interchangeable terms. But I’ve also had lectures about “gender inequality” that seemed to deal only with pay differentials between the sexes.

    *sigh* Nothing seems simple anymore.