Stuff & Randomness

I love it when the engineers ask me to show them how to do something instead of just asking me to do it for them. Teaching a man to fish, and all that.

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I'm currently shopping for a web host. I had one all picked out, but after I went through the signup process and was ready to submit my payment, only then did they reveal that instead of billing me the advertized monthly fee in actual monthly installments, they wanted two years' worth of fees in one lump sum up front, which...no.

After looking around at several hosting options and only finding a couple that don't do this, I think I've made up my mind to just go back to my old host. I was always pretty happy with them, and after some comparison shopping I don't think I'm going to find a better deal for a host that both meets my current needs and provides plenty of room for growth. I was hoping to find something with an easy page building interface and/or a web based FTP file manager thingy, since until I have a home office again (which won't happen until I have a home in which to set up such an office), I'm looking at building and maintaining the thing on my lunch hours and downtime, and that prohibits installing any new design tools or FTP programs. But then I remembered that I'm probably just going to keep using Blogger to make all of my pages anyway, so that point is moot for now. My old host it is, then.

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Did I mention that the mandatory lunchtime meeting scheduled for yesterday got postponed? Well, it did, so I went to the gym to work off some hormone- and husband-related stress. I got there and discovered I forgot to pack gym socks, and neither was I wearing any. I was too afraid of getting blisters if I did anything aerobic, so instead, for the first time since the day before my wedding, I did the entire Pilates workout routine, or at least as much as I could remember, from my Crunch! Pick Your Spot Pilates DVD. People, I is sore! I woke up this morning to find that I'm one giant walking shuffling ball of ache. Owch.

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Lastly, here's a link I pilfered from Boing Boing to a video about how far the web has come in pretty much the time that I've been using it. It's pretty neat, and it tells me that I definitely need to go back and get schooled all over again in web design, because all of my self-taught know-how is strictly Web 1.0.