04/05/2003 Archived Entry: "Wiggy. But, we're back!"
O...kay.
Everything now appears to be normal with the blog, and I'm not sure why. On March 25, I added the Vegas Diary entry, and immediately after clicking the "Save" button, the blog died. The index.htm file deflated itself to 0 bytes in size, and so did the "links" and "whoami" html files. Rebuilding things didn't do a damn thing. Nothing. If I uploaded the files fresh from my local backup, they still died. Even having OzBob (our NANC server admin) restore the files from tape backup didn't do anything--immediately after being restored, they vanished into zero-byte nothingness. All the archive stuff was untouched--the blog was still there--there just wasn't an index page.
This morning, I sat down to fiddle with it, and rebuilt all the files the same was as last time, and now it works great.
I dunno. Whatever. So, everything appears to be A-OK now. I'm not sure what went wrong, but I'm happy that it's working again. Because, you know, I update so often. Going a week without updating my blog was, like, really getting to me. I was all anxious and stuff, sitting in my chair, all like, "Man, I got the shakes....I gotta update my blog...."
Right.
So, today is the day when I go try to sell my car (and yes, that really is my license plate). The insurance payments are absolutely killing me, and my brother (currently deployed with the 101st Airborne, for those of you who haven't been following the story) wants me to use his Accord for the next year while he completes his active deployment cycle. Since his car is paid for, and has a cool thump-thump stereo, I'll take the deal.
The only problem is finding someone who will pay me what I owe for the car--right now, about $16,000. Carmax's website has a little Bluebook value calculator, and my car comes up at $14,500. I'm going to actually take it in to Carmax and see what they'll give me for it, and then I'll take it up to a little dealership in downtown Houston that specialized in low-mileage cars and see what they can do for me.
Anybody interested in a 2001 Mustang GT coupe, Zinc Yellow, completely loaded with every available option, with 17,000 miles on the odo?
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