As some of you or all of you may have heard, the Live Shops are now up to date. Melinda and Rhea worked very, very hard. I did what I could, which wasn’t nearly as much as they did but now it is my turn to work and keep the sites up to date.
I am checking them every day which seems to be working well so far. Going to keep my fingers crossed that I am able to keep up. There are many submissions a day which is fantastic. Just shows how popular osCommerce is!
Don’t forget to follow the guidlines when submitting a site so it can be listed.
If you are unsure what they are go here…
http://www.oscommerce.info/kb/280
and that will tell you what you need to know.
Gotta run, got a canasta game to play!
Have a good one.
Hope this makes you laugh, it sure did me… the truth is always funny.
10 things I learned from my spam email folder.
1. My manhood is too small. (omg I have one??)
2. Even if it wasn’t tiny, it doesn’t work anyway.
3. My mortgage interest rate is too high.
4. My golf clubs are old and outdated.
5. I am paying far too much for prescription drugs.
6. I am missing out on many opportunities to meet singles in my area.
7. There are many stocks that I have never heard of that will make me rich.
8. If that doesn’t work, I can still get rich on Ebay.
9. My long lost, fabulously wealthy Nigerian relatives continue to die by the carload, leaving me enormous sums of money.
10. My Ebay and PayPal accounts have been suspended. I need to resubmit my financial information and passwords to http://www.westealebayandpaypalpasswordsfromidiots.com in order to restore service.
Man oh man. Reformatting a computer should be such a simple thing even if it can be a headache but nooooooooooooooooooooooo my computer feels like being a… well, a you know what!
I burned 9 DVDs full of stuff I needed (ok wanted in the case of the 2 1/2 DVDs worth of music), but my computer does not want to read the majority of them and keeps saying particular items have errors. So I am currently flipping out. This means I have NONE of the websites I have been messing with, none of my graphics which include pictures that can not be replaced of my birthmother who passed away, etc etc. I can live without the websites… those can be made again but I really am freaking out about all of my personal stuff like the images, address book, text files with phone numbers on them and so on.
To top it off this all happened Friday and it took until today to get my computer to reinstall an operating system… won’t even accept XP Pro, had to go back to Home Edition (gag) and just now able to get the backup of my emails to load. Won’t load my contacts but atleast I can get the majority of the important ones from the emails. This means I now have to contact everyone I was suposed to help and let them know what is going on. 
Yuck.
Anyhow, figured I would post this here on my blog so anyone who comes to the forums looking for me will understand why I have not been around. I still haven’t been able to install any of my IM thingies so have to try and figure out all my user names and passwords. What a pain in the butt.
I am soooooooooo going to double check anything I burn from now on before I touch a dang thing on my computer. lol Oh well, such is life. All of it is replaceable eventually sept the personal pics. I will be upset about that for a very long time to come.
So sorry this post has nothing to do with osCommerce but I had the urge to post something after speaking to this very nice lady while playing canasta online.
She recently lost her nephew. He was murdered… get this… by a 22 yr old woman for a gold chain. Yes, I said a 22 yr old woman, for a gold chain.
Can you believe that? All caught on video. Kicked in the head for 20 minutes by the womans boyfriend who is over twice the kids size. There are many other things they did to this teen but I will not go into it because it is horrible and scary to think people are capable of such things.
Luckily the people who killed this teen were caught and are in prison. When they were caught they were wearing the things they took off his dying body. This poor kid was just walking to the skytrain station after watching fireworks. Shows you that you just never know when will be the last time you see someone you love. Now this is a horrible subject, and depressing and sad and disturbing but it brings home something I truly believe in which is what prompted me to make this post…
Always, always, always make sure the ones you love know it.
I make it a point to tell my husband I love him before he leaves for work every morning. I tell him I love him every time he walks out that door, or calls on the phone. Sounds silly, but even after 7 years of marriage I want to be sure he knows just how much I love him. Every time I talk to a family member, I tell them I love them. I have lost enough family members to know I never want them to leave me without them knowing I care.
Such a simple thing to say, yet so many do not say it.
Anyone else in the South US (actually all over the eastern US at this point) as sick of the storms and rain as I am? It seems like day after day for weeks now there has been nothing but hot and humid days with tropical storms, hurricanes and thunder storms thrown in… With nothing but the same (well no hurricanes so far but I am keeping my figers crossed) in the forcast for atleast a week.
It is so frustrating. Between having to shut down my computer because the storms are really bad, and not having electricity it seems I have no time to do the things I want to, like helping on the forums, answering the tons of email questions I get… or help with the Live Shops area, which is what I am going to go do as soon as I finish writing this. We are finally between storms which means I have a little bit of time to help out.
I had about 2 hours online time yesterday and spent that updating my site Home and Garden by adding a cool Amazon.com affiliate thing I stumbled across while trying to answer a question someone had emailed me about. I need about a weeks worth of clear skys to be able to catch up on all of the stuff I need to do though.
Someone send me some sun please!
