Friday shopping

I meant to spend today working on very productive tasks, but I ended up going shopping with my parents. I did have fun, but my mom and I do not shop anything at all alike, and I get tired so easily that I end up dragging around. I made her promise not to make me feel bad this time before I would agree to go. I shop like a guy, in many ways. I am much more inclined to have something specific in mind, go directly to that location and purchase the item. I like to look at stuff, too, but I have an idea of what those things are, and it doesn't take all that long to actually look at the specific items and be done (none of those things are things my mom would like to look at.) My mom, on the other hand, will look at and touch everything she sees. We were looking at Christmas sale stuff today. I walked up and down aisles somewhat leisurely, stopping occasionally to examine something, and then moving on. When I got to the end of the Christmas stuff, I walked backwards to where she was. Eight aisles. I had left her EIGHT AISLES behind. So, I spent a good deal of time today sitting with my dad, waiting on Mom to get done. I feel bad, but I learned three weeks ago when we were shopping that I just do not have the stamina to trail behind her at all times. I was miserable by the end of the day. Today, I was tired but not exhausted.

Anyway, we had fun, but I did not finish all of those things that I was planning on doing. I signed up for a new hosting account at a new company last night, and my plan is to begin moving all domains to that new host as soon as possible. I don't get to do much web work these days, except for Mosaic Minds (which doesn't count because I have greatly reduced the amount of coding left these days to almost nothing) so I'm having fun with it, for the most part. It will take me a while to completely move everything, I think, but I was greatly relieved to find that the moving of a site using the same content management site as Mosaic Minds (M's dad's page) went relatively smoothly last night. Of course, he has six documents and Mosaic Minds has several hundred.. but hopefully it will be okay. Maybe. The second account that I moved was the one that my old hosting company turned off. I had asked them to try turning it back on, and they agreed, said they would, and.. it never happened. I emailed them again to ask about it and received no response. That's when I decided that I am sick of dealing with them. I'm giving them money every month for a service, and if they want to be bitchy about it then I will keep my money, and incidentally... the new hosting company will cost me half as much for more service. I just hope they don't complain about the amount of spam sent to the account! There were over seven thousand today sent to fake addresses before I set it to not forward to a catchall address this evening. Still, seven thousand isn't nearly the same as a million, so hopefully things have settled down.

It's nearly time for bed, but first: happy birthday to courtesy! *shmoo*