Technical Difficulties...

This has just been one of those weeks! Aaarrgh! Two nights ago I learned, thanks to Freeman LC, that unbeknownst to me my domain name had expired and was up for grabs. The domain was initially gifted to me by a friend (who may prefer to remain anonymous?) and to whom I'm truly grateful - I don't know that I'd ever have tackled the project of maintaining a "vanity" website without his encouragement and his generous gift of the domain. I'm also grateful to the precious friend who taught me enough html basics to get started, and walked me through the website setup... the basics are about all I've mastered thus far, and I've been rather lackadaisical about regular updates. Both friends have long been linked from my "lynx" page, which is sorely in need of updating after the site is restored.

Thanks to Mama Liberty, my site should be accessible again sometime in the near future once we get the technical bugs worked out with some help from friends. My sincere thank you's to all concerned, and a special thanks to Sunni for her extra warmth and ongoing moral support through life's technical and emotional glitches... ;)


On a separate but related note, a dear friend has suggested that I experiment with a "private" blog of my own. I've long resisted the idea of maintaining a blog; the last thing it seems I need is another time sink and I'm content to occasionally contribute my two cents as a co-conspirator here at Sunni's.

However, obviously I need to cultivate better habits with respect to website maintenance, and perhaps keeping an online journal of some sort makes sense. I'm decidedly not up to the technical challenges of setting up a regular blog, and I'm a (notoriously?) private person... these days, it feels impossible to keep up with all my friends and fellow conspirators online. It seems as though I can hardly keep abreast of friends' blogs without attempting to maintain one of my own, but... then again...

Perhaps the private blog concept is a workable solution to keeping in touch with friends who may not have time or inclination for personal correspondence that can often feel overwhelming (as I know!). So I'm toying with the idea and would welcome friendly feedback or suggestions either in the form of comments here or email to cat_at_catfarmer.com. Catfarmer.com may be temporarily unavailable, but thankfully email to the above address still reaches me and I try to be conscientious about replying within a day or two... under the circumstances it may take me a little longer than it normally would; when in doubt please try again if I seem unresponsive! Cyberspace has a way of interfering with most-wanted messages while faithfully delivering spam and bulk mail - except when it's *important* bulk mail - sort of like the US postal service does with snail mail. Aaargh.