… without the mooks messing things up around here. I know that there was a database issue a week or so ago.  That was a connectivity issue of Hosting Matters, and it was resolved by them. But somewhere along the line, an update of some kind came along and it got installed causing a host of problems — mainly plugin conflicts that caused several of them to disappear. There are a lot of custom plugins here that get finicky when another plugin rubs up against them.  Some will conflict and cause others to disappear.  I am usually aware of  the fickle ones and know how to update without causing those conflicts.  If one of you Management™ types notice the little red annoyance button on the plugins tab or worse yet, the “upgrade to a new version of WordPress”,  DO NOT sucumb to the siren call of those floozies.  You will only cause some problems. In a nicer tone:  Pleeeese leave the shiny buttons alone.  You might have your own WordPress site, but you probably don’t have some of these plugins that I had to modify to do what I wanted them to do here.  Picture the clown with the many poles and spinning plates.  That is me and these plugins. I am spending more and more time away from home.  Right now I am in Santa Barbara where I have been for over a week now.  I don’t have regular internet access most of the time — because I simply don’t have time.  I have different plates I am spinning and some suits trying to impose a deadline that keeps moving. Several of you emailed me over the last few days asking about the chat, the buttons, my life and I didn’t have the time to even get back to most of you.  So here I am — getting back to everyone. Chat this weekend? Dunno.  I am down here, doing a remote desktop through my computer at home right now.  There is a conflict in that file and I just don’t have the time at the moment to track it down.  If things go alright tomorrow morning I HOPE to be back up on a shuttle by tomorrow afternoon, and depending on my mood and energy, I might take time to look closer at it.  We will see. Edit Buttons, Quicktags, and Emoticons? That was an easy fix.  They are back up now. My personal life? I am fine.  This is the most fun I could possibly have right now and still keep my clothes on.  It has just the right amount of stress, the right amount of yelling, screaming, and cursing, and the right mix of me telling everyone to “get the fuck out of my booth with that shity attitude before I rip some heads off and shit down some windpipes!” Terms of endearment and sweet-talkin’ works every time.  Okay, this is an open thread I suppose.  I am outta here.

BTW:  Your Printer is a Brat

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