Weekly Wrap Up 9.15.12

What a week!  Last week I freaked out and went to Defcon 1 because of the whole scraping thing and then this week I have been plagued by shit not working and so now I'm holding at a solid Defcon 3.

First, GoDaddy got hacked or broke down or whatever their excuse is and that disrupted my service and I was offline and then once I got back on I discovered a problem with Blogger not working properly.  Even though the GoDaddy thing was resolved, lots of readers were still having trouble getting on and then the entire comments section was gone.  I'm sure you've noticed that service has been more than a little spotty and I can say we are working on it.  Well, really, the Hubs is.  I was just curled up in a ball in the corner crying mostly while he patched and fixed and finagled everything to work.  We are still in a precarious position and have no idea when (or if) the problems will be resolved, so we are in the process of making a back up plan.  At the end of the day, Blogger is a free site and I am at their mercy.  I hope they get their shit together, but I have no idea if they will.  There are a lot of other bloggers out there right now who can't do anything to their Blogger site, so I'm one of the lucky ones even with all of my outages.  Thanks for your patience this week.  Hopefully next week will be a better one!

My Visit to the 9/11 Memorial

As you know, the Hubs and I went to New York City in August.  The main goal of our trip was for me to attend BlogHer '12, but since we have friends and family there, we decided to go a few days early and see them.

The Hubs was raised in NYC and I lived there for several years.  We moved away in October 2002 and I had not been back since October 2007.

A lot has changed in the city since then.  One of the biggest changes is the 9/11 Memorial.

I really wanted to see the Memorial.  The Memorial is free, but you must reserve passes in advance so that they can control the crowd of people.  I am a terrible planner and I was afraid that if I left it to the last minute I wouldn't be able to get tickets.