At work I get a text from Ang (which doesn’t effect me but I still feel shaky and stressed)

Big Lots might be closing so she may have to switch jobs. She texted me to see if we’re hiring, and said Todd got a notification that the deal that kept our BL from closing got canceled by corporate, so unless something changes, the Big Lots here might close.

While texting with her, I got real cold, and spazzed. The store here seams to do real well, so I don’t get why they’d want to close it (plus it was supposed to be getting new registers)

I hope either our BL stays as is (#1 hope for her) or she gets hired in somewhere with the same range of pay

Tuesday night I partially closed my laptop to get something off of the table behind it, and the hinge crackled and partially broke!  I brought an old PC in from the garage and chatted with Dell. Apparently they only offer hardware support for up to 4 years (the old PC was 4 years and 123 days old, and the Dell tech said that in the chat). Truthfully, the PC is not usable.  The only solution Dell had was to send it to be fixed, It would cost $40-$60 for them to even diagnose it, then on top of that I would have to pay for the repair. Not knowing how much it would cost in the end, I started looking at PCs at Walmart. I’ve always ordered my laptops from Dell, so this was a new experience.

The local Walmart had a couple in my price range. The one I wound up getting it Lenovo ThinkPad 1 AMN7. It’s quite a bit slimmer than my Dell (and lighter). I had to find a workaround for the USB ports (technically I need 3 and this only has 2, but with the aid of a USB to USB-C adapter (I have 3), I turned my USB-C port into a USB (this is where I keep my bluetooth mouse’s receiver).

This is the PC I got: Lenovo ThinkPad

Yes, there are a few differences, but so far, I’m loving it.

I’ve spent more than 2 weeks having website issues.  When DewLance switched from cpanel to a different system, webmail was no longer usable (gives and error that PHP needs to be atleast 7.3, even if you have it higher) and I couldn’t use Fileazilla (my preferred FTP program — it would say retriving files, then error to saying there was inactivity for 20 seconds).  I had support tickets in, but DewLance would not address my issue (they ignored the email issue and just said for ftp for hostname use evo.decentserver.com — which I had previously told them did not work)

Anyways, I started looking into a new host because I was fed up (also, I had made my sister an email on my website, and since you couldn’t access email, she had no access to it and she uses it for Instagram), after no reply what-so-ever, for over 10 days (the previous time took 8, yet support is supposed to be 24/7), I started migrating to a new host, so we’ll see how happy I’ll be there.

I register my domain name with NameCheap, so I looked into them for hosting. Initial year is cheaper than I paid DewLance, though renewals is a little more, but it’s Cpanel (which I like) and so far (officially ALL migrated, even with the emails) so very good.

NameCheap did 99% of the migration for me, so there are a few WP plugins I didn’t have before, but my pages/posts/photos/themes are all there!

I don’t always post on birthdays, but Happy Birthday Mom (she turns 69 today)

Happy National Cat Day
Darling, Frasier, Elijah, Pumpkin, Dabbie, Lizzie, Tink, Bandit, Harold, Chester, Maverick, Simba, Valravn, Panda and Sidious

I love my cirkul bottles I have for home, and I have a few: one plastic 22 ounce (my original), 2 32 ounce stainless steel (one is rose gold and the other is Chameleon), and a 40 ounce tumbler (bright pink).  With drinking from those, I do drink more water.

I wanted to drink more water at work, instead of buyinh 5 20 Mt. Dews every week (which I am a Dew girl, I LOVE my dew, but buying 5 a week adds up)

SO, I spent some money, ordering a stainless steel 22 ounce cirkul (to JUST be my work bottle), with matching lid, matching silicone shock sleeve and a few flavors to add to my stash.

My package came today — 2 days earlier than the original estimated delivery window began.

I love that Big Lots has been getting yarn (and good yarn to boot) in the repack boxes!  This time, this is what I got (all are marked at $3.99 but some rang in at $1.99 and some and even $2

Another good yarn day at Big Lots!  I bought a second skein of Bernat Maker Home Dec, and all 6 skeins O’Go Bernat….all for under $20!!!!!

Meet our newest friend, Simba!  He was a stray that’s been coming around, and tonight he moved in

Got my themes back to how they belong!  If I’d known the fix, I wouldn’t have deleted my themes and spent $99 on TemplateToaster, but we can’t go into the past.

I did, however, lose my past themes, thankfully I had a backup of last year’s themes, so these will be good for now