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5 minutes
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Slides change every 15 seconds automatically

See how it worked for Matt (as in Where the Hell is Matt?)
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Well… short. I like the finale. πŸ™‚

Please help Ivy by signing the petition

One of my must reads is Three Ring Circus. Tiff writes about her family of 7 kids, including little Ivy who is struggling at the moment. Β 

Reading her struggles makes me grateful every day for the health for my two. Β (touchwood)

The thing is, Ivy needs a particular drug to help her, and approval has been denied. Β Her paediatrician is going to plight her case to the drug board and in the meantime a petition has been set up to support his application. Β Here’s a summary of Ivy’s story.
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Domain dilemmas and other problems of modern life

[The title of this post is a homage to one of my favourite albums: Christine Lavin’s Beau Woes and Other Problems of Modern Life. An album with such classics as Prince Charles, Air Conditioning, Ballad of a Ballgame and Doris and Edwin The Movie.]

A shag in a tree

So you might have noticed that my domain name expired and redsultana.com was out of commission for a day or so over the weekend.

I can’t believe how bad it made me feel. Like a shag on a rock… or possibly a tree. πŸ™‚

Apart from feeling like my whole arm was chopped off it really took from me the power to communicate. It felt as if someone was compressing the oxygen tube. Yes. I was gasping.

Ironically, just the night before (at the clever dinner) I was chatting with Silvertongue about this very blog. She was asking me why I did it and didn’t it feel a bit like an invasion of privacy and how did I feel about complete strangers knowing about my life…

I told her that it was almost compulsive now. That I’ve never had success in keeping a diary but for the last five years have blogged nearly every week, lately every day. My theory is that I need you to read it to validate writing it. Which at the time felt a bit sad but then when you think about it why write a diary at all unless you want it to be read – possibly by your ancestors but at the very least by yourself.

So my obsessive compulsive blogging justified I jumped online at the first opportunity on Saturday and uploaded the photos from our dinner.

Five minutes later my site had disappeared.

What the hell happened to my website?!

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Turns out that that random email was supposed to be my email address. (I know… n00b!)

So my domain name expires and my website disappears and I work out (pretty quickly at that point) that I needed to change the administrative email address to mine and did so but then of course I couldn’t transfer my domain for 60 days under the rules. WTF!

I decided to renew my domain name with my old provider for another year, and then I find out that because it was expired it will take 24-72 hours to restore.

Well at least that’s shorter than 60 days.

At that point, I took a deep breath. There was absolutely nothing more I could do. I breathed in. I breathed out. I got a large glass of wine and watched Doctor Who and Australian Idol.

I set my alarm. I went to bed.

Today my site came back. I am whole.

Lessons Learned

Make sure the administrative email associated with your domain name is actually yours. If it isn’t, change it now. Just do it.

Leaving home

The ceiling was high, the walls white, the furniture dark and shabby. There was a leadlight window looking over a green courtyard. A single bed. A wastepaper basket.

Outside, playful shouts echoed off the high red brick walls. Joy as friends caught up after a long hot summer break. New. Shy. I stayed in my room and observed.

The room smelled of cleaning fluid and new books. The crisp scent of stationary straight from the box. Deodorant and toothpaste on the glass shelf above the sink.

It was like being on school camp for a year. I felt grown up. Responsible and excited. I was at college. Outer A 6 for those that can guess the place. I had left home.

Leaving home has never been hard for me. Not really. There’s always been a reason, an excitement to it and my parents were never ones to apply emotional blackmail to stay.
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And now I’ve left home again. Well… left my virtual home or host. I’ve changed from a United States host to an Australian.

Perhaps it was because of the nationalistic fervour surrounding the Olympic Games, but mostly I think it was because of an admiration of the person behind the host that has developed over the year on Aussie Bloggers.

Thanks for adding me to your stable Snos.

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(And Admin)

Spring cleaning

Oh not of the house – c’mon you know me better than that!

Bottlebrush

This site.

As you know I’ve been plagued by slow download times. Well, after numerous communications with my host – iPower – they seem to have been resolved.

According to them, my fault. They say they found some viral code in my widgets.php file which they deleted and the amount of streaming on this page… were they referring to the youtube clips?

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Whatever they did worked because the download speed has improved.

I’ve been with iPower for 5 years! A long time huh? But I decided – as my account was expiring anyway – to move to an Australian host.

It means that this blog might be a bit disrupted over the next couple of days.

At least (in Perth anyway) we have some lovely spring-ish weather to distract you. πŸ™‚

Billiards, boxes and bloggers – my weekend

Last night we went back to my old university college for a dinner to celebrate the recent fundraising. The guest list was described to me as “a bit random” with one old girl or boy from each year.

We met in the Junior Common Room – a place where I spent a great part of my four years at Uni. For those who might have been there too – what is missing from the photograph below?

The Junior Common Room

That’s right. Where is the billiard table?! I can tell you where. It’s underneath South Wing. What the?

The billiard table is responsible for me being okay at pool. There was one pocket – the top left – we used to call the suction pocket because you only had to get the ball near it for it to be magically sucked down.

I found out last night that when they moved the table they discovered that the floorboards underneath it had completely rotted. Perhaps that’s what caused the slant.

Anyway it’s not going to go back. They are planning on extending the common room through where the kitchens are now… but it won’t be the same.

The JCR had one nice addition though…

Pianola boxes

The olden day equivalent of a CD collection!

Pianola boxes

Oh I love me a pianola.

Much wine was drunk thanks to this lady (who I noticed didn’t touch a drop herself).

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The Chairman

In fact that probably explains why she was the one who came up with the line of the night. We were talking about my brother – who was there in her year – apparently he really hated one of the tutors and painted a rather graphic painting of her which was put up in the annual art auction… this is the students’ chance to rent a college artwork for the year and raise money for EOTK’s (end of term kegs).

The line was: “It was so graphic, that it wasn’t just her eyes that followed you round the room!”

And she seemed so demure too… πŸ˜‰

All that red wine made it difficult to get up this morning but I was due to meet fellow blogger Jaycee for coffee. We went to the Dome in Northbridge.

JJ - Cameraman

Jaycee had brought her own photographer. πŸ™‚

jaycee

What a cutie.

I always find it interesting to meet other bloggers and to see what blogs in common we read. Turns out quite a few – which I guess isn’t really a surprise as we are both moderators with Aussie Bloggers.

After yesterday’s downpour today was absolutely brilliant. Blue blue skies. One of those bright winter’s days that makes you happy to be living in Perth.

This is my first winter without a dryer so I desperately needed a break in the weather, and I was pleased for Jaycee and JJ’s sake that Perth had finally turned on the weather it is known for.

The rest of the day has just been a catch up on the washing and shopping day – oh and I have another loaf of No Knead Bread on the go… this time using “proper” bread flour. I can taste it already… yum!

Big Brother is not watching you (for much longer)

It’s over. It’s (relatively) safe to go back to your television sets. After the final early next week BB is closing up shop in Australia. I, for one, am over it. Even the die-hard fans in my office haven’t bothered tuning in.

As TelevisionAU points out – given that BB couldn’t even attract more viewers than Wayne Swann delivering his budget speech (okay it was his first one) – it is not really that surprising.

Wayne or Travis?  Australia chose Wayne on Budget night... not Big Brother.
Sorry Travis, you and your boring band of followers failed to distract Australians from a night in with Wayne.

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I like the plug-in page revamp… haven’t really played with the other stuff yet but I can tell you that the word count is 182. πŸ™‚

A note on my unhipness

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And the winner is…

Congratulations to Colin who won my little 1000 posts = 1000 ec competition.

The Draw

This is Holphin and Hugamuga who helped me with the draw. Yes it says Colin on that over flashed bit of paper.

And thank you to all of you for your lovely comments.
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Have a great Saturday!

(Feline and Trish – I drew your names first but of course you don’t have entrecard – how ’bout I buy you a glass of wine when next we meet? Or in fact meet.)

A thousand pieces of my life

What does a life look like broken up into a thousand pieces?

Much like this blog I suspect. πŸ™‚

I began writing online in 2002. I couldn’t design my own websites at work – everything was template driven – and I’d been on webmonkey and learned html so I wanted to see if I could do it.

The first thing to do was come up with a sexy domain name. It was going to be a family website so I wanted something that represented us without using our real names. I started playing with the meanings of our names and ended up with redsultana.

This is what redsultana.com looked like back then:

My original site

It wasn’t until 2004 when I met James that I started using a blogging platform – Blogger.

Here’s one of my favourite posts from August 2004 – my first month using “proper” blogware. We’d seen this Hong Kong politician on the telly and we still quote her today. I wonder where she is now?

In 2005 we took some time off and spent part of that time in Italy. Oh Italy! It was fantastic. I want to live there.

Italy

In 2006 I turned 40. That still sounds old to me. 40 might be the new 30 but I still needed to get glasses.

The Coven

And Groover won a trip to Ireland to watch the Wallabies get thrashed by the Irish at Landsdowne Road.

The Wallabies at Landsdowne Road

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In 2007, I moved my blog to WordPress and opened up to the blogging world. I’ve met some great people both online and off. And I’ve enjoyed sharing my photos and observations and endless book reviews with you. Your comments so often make me laugh! (As does this photo of my two at Ennuin Station.)

Ennuin Easter 2007

And so we come to 2008. Where I met even more bloggers through Aussie Bloggers – even face to face.

streetlight

Will I stop blogging? I can’t see it myself. I enjoy the daily discipline of putting my thoughts in some kind of order – what would I do with all those things that rush about my head at night if I had no one to tell them to?

So thank you. Thank you for being part of my life through this blog – from the beginning or from today – it’s lovely to have you drop in. And you know how I feel about the drop in!

To celebrate this milestone I’ve saved up 1000 entrecard credits which I’d like to share with you. Simply say hi in comments to be in the running and I’ll draw someone’s name out of the hat. It might be yours.

For those of you who don’t have a blog – say hi anyway. πŸ™‚

To the next 1000 and beyond!

*chinks glass*

Damn it… really must watch that binge drinking