Month: November 2010
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hike: knob mountain / elkwallow trails, shenandoah national park, virginia
it’s interesting how the camera only seems to capture when the lady sparkler is wearing the backpack.i’m calling this the last hike of the season — and while i hope it’s not actually going to turn out that way, it is getting pretty late into November. and, while we *are* taking the backpack to Costa Rica, based on the events of today i’m not convinced we’re going to use it much.granted, sparklet had never been on a hike for longer than an hour and a half, and the lady sparkler had been on one hike since she got pregnant two years ago, but needless to say, it didn’t go especially well today.
note to self: (1) bring more food; (2) go over the trail details with your wife beforehand especially if she pretends not to care; (3) bring earplugs just in case you happen to fail on notes #1 and/or #2.
trail information:
Trailhead: 38.73885, -78.308208 (Google Maps); Length: 5.7 total miles; Elevation Gain: 800 feet; Trail Type: Loop (Jeremy’s Run Trail, to Knob Mountain Trail, to Elkhollow Trail); Skill Level: Easy-to-moderate.See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
hike: knob mountain / elkwallow trails, shenandoah national park, virginia -
turning the other cheek
sparklet had her first laser treatment tonight, the first of a series of four or five that should dislodge the port wine stain on her cheek.and while we’re most excited for people to stop asking how she got that “boo-boo” on her face, the bruising from this treatment means we’ll have a solid week of people reporting us to child protective services instead.
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what happened is that 1,101 individual, lovingly crafted blog posts had been spontaneously replaced by a single, solitary “sorry, no blog posts matched your criteria” message.
#$%&$%.
i logged into the wordpress admin and the dashboard welcomed me to edit my 0 posts.
#$%&$%, @&#$%^.
when i logged into the super techie backed (phpmyadmin, which administers that database that powers the blog) it said that the my wp_posts table — the one with the content for all 1,101 posts — was unavailable because it was “in use”.
#$%&$%, @&#$%^ — #%$&$%.
suddenly, the notion of replacing the notion of sparklet’s babybook with a happy, communal blog seemed like a pretty stupid idea.
suddenly, the notion of only backing up said blog twice in the last two years (August 2010, July 2009) seamed like a pretty bad idea.
at some point in the week hours of the morning — after two support tickets and 45 minutes of googling/panicking — i figured out that the database had “just” become corrupted, and i “just” needed to repair the table. after another 30 minutes of googling to find out how to do such a thing, i did it.
and it worked.
and now i’m successfully procrastinating on a plan to backup the website — at least until after the *next* disaster.