Introspection, Sunday

Self-worth is one of those intangibles that we rely on to keep us on course. There have been times (recently) when the only thing keeping me going was the question of who would take care of my cats. Fortunately, the feeling can be observed from the outside (I know when I’m having crazy thoughts), but it doesn’t make it easier to deal. (And I can’t drink it away… the tipsy point is also the point where I know I feel miserable; so I don’t). But, D pointed out that I’m still carrying a really large anger-grudge re former gf1 and 2. (Feel cheated), but letting that go seems to be very difficult.

IT isn't always a spammer...

So I get a message from some random extremely cute gal on facebook; and I'm wondering who she is... (because I don't recognise her name or picture). Turns out she's the daughter (24y.o.) of a neighbor of mine when I was growing up!

weird world. Very cool; but weird...

domains and registrars (rant)

And my Domain is back! (yay).

IT just took 5 days.

domains and registrars (rant)

I’m transferring my domain, because the email server/web server for it (hosted by my ex-), is having issues.

The minor fact that I have this email account and web presence linked to all my online bill-pay, contracting and job search… just makes it more important that this go smoothly. Besides, my domain registry is expiring, and I don’t want to pay for another year and have it still hosted… where I can’t control it.

To transfer my domain, I needed the Admin account to point to a valid email account. It turns out that having it point to Admin@... doesn’t work so well, because (a) the account is on the server mentioned; and (b) she turned all of the other accounts off because of the volume of spam that was coming through. (by my request, but years ago).

I also needed to unlock the domain.

Both of these require access to the domain console at tucows, which I’ve never used.

I ask for her help.

A couple days go by…

OK, now the domain admin account points to a real email address, and the domain is unlocked. Yay… I think.

So, I go back to the receiving registrar, resend the confirmation emails that are necessary to make this work; and discover that … after pasting the responses back into the forms…

The domain is now expired.

So, I call my ex- and ask her to make the domain current, so that I can transfer it.

She calls back, tells me that she cannot, because the domain is “in transfer”…

But, according to the receiving registrar; the domain is awaiting authentication by the releasing registrar.

And so I wait…