13 Thursday: There’s No Place Like Home
1. We now interrupt our regular Thirteen Thursday Program to bring you this message: This is not your average Thirteen Thursday. This is not Typepad. But it is my birthday.
2. When I heard that my server was shutting down, I kicked up my heels and followed the yellow brick road over to a new Typepad home (and some of you followed me over). But before the dust had settled, I received an email from my server saying, “Houston, we have a problem.”
3. I felt like THIS.
4. And THIS is what I looked like when I learned that changing servers wasn’t going to be as easy as it initially seemed and that it was predicted to cause broken links and other problems.
5. Tonight I’m going to a school chorus concert that my great-niece, Samantha, is singing in. Years ago I attended a talent show where she sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” dressed as Dorothy.
6. Last week I picked her up from school because her mom was at work and she had detention for chewing gum and there was no after school bus.
7. For the whole of my high school years I held a piece of gum in the corner of my mouth. Gum chewing wasn’t allowed, so I learned not to chew it in class, like I learned to stop swearing when my sons were little and whenever they were around. Once they were teenagers I started to swear a little, and in between school classes I not only chewed my gum, I snapped and popped it.
8. These days my camera is like my gum. I keep it discreetly tucked away in a pocket and when the time is right I take it out and snap.
9. I like the way you don’t have to ask inanimate objects for their permission to photograph their image.
10. My blog problem is solved. It will be changed to a new server but I'll still be on Moveable Type and may not even notice the change over. When my server first offered this latest option, I couldn't decide if I should consider it like a birthday gift or if not having a new blog at Typepad was Indian giving.
11. I’ll be at the Café Del Sol today playing a birthday Scrabble game from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. I won’t be getting people to write happy birthday messages on my pants like MARA DID last week.
12. Where have I heard THIS line before? Although I have a lot of heart for writing, when it comes to the technical part of blogging, I’m like a brainless scarecrow in the Emerald City with a fear of bad witches and a phobia of flying monkeys. ~ Colleen
13. This is your last chance to visit my “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” alternate universe and to meet my friend David HERE. Thank you to everyone who made it over the rainbow, left me a comment, and then found their way back.
We now resume our regular Loose Leaf programming.
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Comments
Gotta love technology - it makes life so much more complicated for us . . . I'm sure things will work out over at typepad. I use moveable type and host my own site, so I can't offer any advice.
Happy Birthday - shouting out loud across the blog universe!
Thanks for visiting my site and I look forward to reading more adventures from the yellow brick road.
Hey - weren't you tagged last week ... (smile)
Posted by: Christine | May 16, 2007 10:28 PM
I was having a split personality all week (or my blog was). Maybe next week I can get back on track.
Posted by: colleen | May 16, 2007 10:32 PM
Happy, happy birthday to you, dear Colleen! The technology stuff keeps me on edge regularly. I hope it all works out soon. I do, however, love, love, love the Wizard of Oz stuff! Most days lately, with the menopause hormones in force, I feel like singing 'if I only had a brain!'.
Have a great one!
Posted by: Karen | May 16, 2007 11:01 PM
Happy Birthday! Mine's in 9 days...and my TT celebrates others who turn 45 this year!
Posted by: Di | May 16, 2007 11:20 PM
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday dear Colleen,
(intrepid cyberfriend)
Happy Birthday to you!
Susan
Posted by: Susan | May 17, 2007 1:17 AM
Happy birthday.
The last time I made too many Wizard of Oz jokes, I wound up in Kansas.
Posted by: zhoen | May 17, 2007 6:08 AM
Have a wonderful birthday, Colleen. Will be late for our mutual birthday gathering this morning but hope to catch the tail end of it!!
Posted by: Gretchen | May 17, 2007 6:25 AM
For better or worse, I use Blogger and am too lazy to try anything else as the price is right. Some days it is really buggy, but most days it works for me.
Posted by: Tabor | May 17, 2007 7:06 AM
Happy Birthday, and Welcome Back (I think). Hope you get all your internet housekeeping issues worked out. Have a great day!
Posted by: susan | May 17, 2007 7:48 AM
Well now, that just stinks! I can't IMAGINE what I would do if my server informed me they were shutting down - I think I
would shut down! I'm glad to hear you had help moving things over and I hope things continue to go smoothly for you. A word of advice? Keep your looseleafnotes.com domain name. It's worth paying the $8.00 bucks a year for your identity. *smile*
Good luck in your new home!
Posted by: Write From Karen | May 17, 2007 8:10 AM
Glad I got to meet David.
Are you staying here now?
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY Birthday!
Maybe you should have everyone sign a page in your journal for your bday.
Posted by: Nancy | May 17, 2007 8:58 AM
Bless you heart. I hate all those stressful changes. This morning an email was sent to tell us that earthlink emails were being done away with and we had to switch to embarq. They make it sound oh so simple but it never ever is!
Posted by: Deana | May 17, 2007 10:02 AM
HaPpY bIrThDaY tO yOu!!! Have a GREAT day, good luck at Scrabble!
Posted by: Janet | May 17, 2007 10:12 AM
Yes, I'm staying. I never wanted to leave in the first place.
Posted by: colleen | May 17, 2007 10:37 AM
Happy Birthday! and happy scrabbling.
Posted by: Ampersand | May 17, 2007 10:56 AM
I usually just lurk but all of your references to the Wizard of Oz prompted me to write. In the background my girls are watched said movie. They love it! And just the other day my 6 year old asked, "Is there anything worse than flying monkeys?" I can't think of anything personally!
Posted by: Traci | May 17, 2007 11:06 AM
I'm confuzzled. Are you switcing domains or should I continue to come here?
I'm learning a new poetic for invented by Billy Collins called the paradelle. I might even be posting one on monday for the poetry train at creativegoddesses.blogspot.com. Fun Stuff.
Oh, and Colleen? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Many happy returns,
Leigh
Posted by: Leigh in Atlanta | May 17, 2007 11:24 AM
Happy Birthday to you, Colleen, and many moooooorrrrrre! Even though I have a free Blogspot blog, I agree with Karen that you should keep looseleafnotes.com if possible. I followed you on the yellow brick road, but had not yet posted anything before the road made a U-turn right back HERE. I thought it was amazing how simple it was to put everything on a different site and, yep, it was a bit more amazing than the Wizard was able to accomplish. Too bad.
Posted by: Bonnie Jacobs | May 17, 2007 12:25 PM
Happy birthday! Wow, you use Moveable Type. I found it extraordinarily difficult and went to WordPress right away.
Posted by: Rhea | May 17, 2007 12:46 PM
Happy Birthday, and I'm glad the blogging issues are settled! Come visit again; I promised things won't be so at sixes and sevens (and eights and nines) next time!
Posted by: Leslie | May 17, 2007 2:33 PM
haPPY BIRTHday dear COLLeen. happy BIRTHday to you!
Posted by: Pearl | May 17, 2007 4:08 PM
Happy birthday to you!! enjoy your bday scrabble
felicidades
herzliche Glueckwuensche
Another blogger in Sweden is celebrating her bday today too. I love the way blogging makes this world smaller.
Posted by: mar | May 17, 2007 4:22 PM
Happy Birthday! Hope it's full of cake and scrabble and whatever else you enjoy. :)
Great list.
~S
Posted by: Shephard | May 17, 2007 5:05 PM
Happy Birthday Colleen! P.S. number 9 got me nodding and smiling
Posted by: Unfolding Rose | May 17, 2007 5:39 PM
Happy Birthday Sweetie. xoxoox
PS I logged on to my homelink to do my banking and they changed the whole thing. I am sick of the updated technology. xo
Posted by: Sherry | May 17, 2007 6:20 PM
I love you on those "yellow brick lines"...(LOL) Great picture, my dear....My fingers are crossed and I am holding my breath---May the "CHANGE" work this time, on a permanent basis!
AND....HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my dear Colleen...! Hope you win at Scrabble tomorr----Ooops...Today!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | May 18, 2007 3:42 AM
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I think I've used up my quota of Wizard of Ozzes now!
Posted by: colleen | May 18, 2007 10:25 AM