Playing with Uranium…and I almost lost!

Can I share a funny story?  Of course I can – it’s our blog!

When we first developed this blog, I knew that we should probably just get our own domain.  You know – the ___________.com. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I went and bought it for two years. To be honest, about six months ago I wondered when it was up for renewal, but I immediately pushed the thought aside to take care of whatever else I was doing at the time, and promptly forgot about it.

Then about a month ago, I received a notice saying that I needed to update some information  with the account, and as I normally do – I put it off. I am a BIG procrastinator, and I won’t even try to lie about that. My to-do list is lengthy, and while I do get everything done that needs to get done, my dad used to say that I was the biggest procrastinator he knew. He was telling the truth. Thankfully, Amanda is not. She is the big time planner out of the two of us, and here’s a hint: if you want something done right away – you probably should talk to her. It’s her special gift and I accept that there are times when she’s going to insist that I contact someone to find out when we’re going to be getting XXX in return. (Yes, that’s a thinly veiled HINT to someone special out there that will not be named) So, the note sat in our inbox and each day, I would see it and make a note that at some point in the near future, I needed to go and get ‘er done. That day came yesterday when I realized, with the tiniest bit of alarm, that our domain – dailyduranie.com, was about to expire. On Friday. That would be bad because while we don’t get millions of visitors here, there are a small handful of you out there that like to read the blog. (and we treasure each and every single one of you more than you could ever know!)  So I try to log on and update the payment information. Oddly, I can’t get into my account.  Everything I try doesn’t work, and so I contact customer service. It takes them 24 hours to write me back and basically tell me that they can’t help. This morning I spend time actually calling customer service, only to be told that since I don’t have the proper account information – regardless of the fact that I want to PAY THE DAMN BILL – they can’t really help me.

So at this point, I’m starting to grow worried because if I can’t renew the domain…there will be no blog on Friday morning. It’s very clear that somehow our account had been changed without our consent, so I finally admit that I have to tell Amanda. I email her and within a half hour, guess who is calling me during her lunch? Duh duh DUH….The boss!!! We go through the motions together, and then our account is locked.  Naturally.  As I’m on the phone with Amanda, my mind is spinning in a hundred different directions, trying to decide what to do next. If the domain goes down, the blog would go down, unless I fixed our proxy….and on and on and on. I’m not a technical person and the last person I wanted to have to call on this subject was my husband. So I try one last thing, and this time, they ask for a different set of information, and somehow, it works I get sent a magic email, and I’m able to dismantle the ticking time bomb. The uranium was neutralized and placated, as it may seem.

That’s when Amanda and I bought took a deep cleansing breath. We didn’t even threaten violence on anyone (much)!!!

I’m not really sure if telling this story is the right thing to do because it shows that we’re vulnerable and that whomever tried to get in almost ruined us, but I have to laugh about it now that it’s all said and done. We’re not perfect, and sometimes I make huge mistakes. I’m human, and life isn’t always easy. Daily Duranie was almost no more and I’m sorry to all of you for that. I know that my mind has not been on the band or even the blog much lately as my attention has been needed elsewhere, but the last thing I want is to let the blog lapse.

Thankfully, we’re fine and Daily Duranie will live to be written yet another day!

-R