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Why, yes. Yes I do.

Since I started back working for my old client back in August, I’ve been trying to get full access to everything, especially the Linux-based Webserver that hosts our two websites. Well, today the last wall crumbled.

I finally got full ‘root’ access to the webserver, i.e. ‘God’ level. This means I can now install the new SSL certificate. . . just as soon as I can figure out where the previous guy hid it. But it’s only a matter of time.

And more importantly for the long haul, I will now be able to expedite moving the websites off the in-house server and up to Godaddy.

Colorado State University just recently accidently sent out 11,000 acceptance emails to prospective students. Including some who had already been turn down, some that had not been officially accepted yet, and some who had not even applied.

And now it looks like the The Grand 1894 Opera House down in Galveston is trying do their part. This morning I got TWO copies of this email, reminding us that we had tickets to see The Smothers Brothers on 11/11/07.

PERFORMANCE REMINDER

We’re delighted that you have tickets to Smothers Brothers on 11/11/07, 12:00 AM at The Grand 1894 Opera House.
We look forward to seeing you at the show!  If you have shared your tickets with friends or family – please forward this reminder to them
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If you are unable to attend this performance, we hope you will consider returning your tickets to The Grand which provides you a tax credit for your donation.

Thank you for being a Grand patron!
Sincerely,
Ticketing Services Staff – The Grand 1894 Opera House
409-765-1894  or 800-821-1894

This was a last little getaway weekend we had, staying at a bed and breakfast down there. But really this was a little getaway right before our big getaway. Two months later, on January 6th, we picked up our American Eagle from the dealer in New Braunfels, and one month later we were on our way to Alaska.

After I got home from work Jan and I headed back out to have dinner at Pho 20. But before we got out of the park we at text message from our friend’s Rudy and Caroline Legett. They were in the area and wanted to get together for dinner. So we told them to meet us at Pho 20.

Although we’ve talked on the phone a number of times, the last time we got together was a couple of years ago when we were both at the COE park in Fort Davis, AR and had dinner together.

Rudy and his wife shared a plate of Chicken Fried Rice and a couple of Spring Rolls, while Jan, still working her way down the Chicken menu, had the Tempura Chicken, and of course, a House Crunch Salad.

I went back with an old favorite, the Chicken Breast Pho with Mixed Veggies, a little of everything.

Everything was delicious as usual.

It was great seeing Rudy and Caroline again, and we hope to do it again soon up in Pasadena.

The Headline of the Day:  Is Your Roomba Spying On You?

Thought for the Day: 

A Hallmark greeting card that plays a little jingle when you open it has more computing horsepower than the entire USAF in 1960.

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Being an off-day from work today, you’d think I could have goofed off some, but noooo.

As soon as I got into work yesterday, the office manager told me she was getting calls from customers saying that the website’s credit card checkout was no longer safe to use. Turns out our SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate had expired this past Saturday. News to me.

But it was news I should have gotten about a month ago, but my boss didn’t forward the renewal notice from Godaddy to me. But I was able to catch up by tracking down the replacement certificate and downloading it from Godaddy.

Bu then things came to a screeching halt as I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out where the previous (dead) IT guy had installed it. As I’ve mentioned before our website is hosted on an in-house Linux server, in this case running CentOS. But the certificate is not installed where it normally would be. And not any of the other places that it could possibly be either.

So I spent today here at doing a lot more research and making a couple of phone calls, trying to figure out what he had done. But no luck so far, but I’m back on it tomorrow.

Right now there is a notice on the website inviting customers to call in their orders.Hope this will hold things for a short while until I can get this fixed.

I did take a few minutes this afternoon to go outside to fix a broken spade connector on the driver-side turn signal on the rear of the truck. Recently I noticed that often the left turn signal would fast-flash and then work the next time. Checking it out while we were up Brandi’s, I found that there was a  cracked connector on one wire, but I didn’t have a replacement with me.

So it was just a couple of  minutes today to crimp on a new one.

For you Camp Verde/Cottonwood/Verde Valley devotees, there’s a new, large RV park coming to the area later this year. The 425 site, high-end park will be located just a mile or so north of the I-17/SR260 interchange at Camp Verde, between there and the Verde Valley Thousand Trails park.

Thought for the Day: 

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