And now we can add to that last post that all of a sudden my photo, Etsy mini, and Flickr badge are now all missing from my sidebar. I’m just not equipped to deal with this today.
Not sure what is going on, but there seems to be some kind of capricious, selective electronic vortex surrounding my house.
I have been trying to get to marthastewart.com for three days now to access a couple articles of interest, but it will not let me get there. I get a “server not responding” error, no matter what browser I use. I have not found any other website that behaves this way. My husband tried last night from his PC laptop and his Palm and wasn’t able to make a connection either, although he was able to connect from the same laptop at work this morning. I’ve asked a few other people to try from assorted computers and locations, and they can all get in fine. I’ve cleared my cache and cookies; unplugged everything from the cable modem, router, and Vongage box and let them all rest for 20 minutes; restarted my computer — all to no avail.
Now, the really weird thing is that I can get to some things on the subdomain blogs1.marthastewart.com (Martha Blog, Dinner Tonight, and Bluelines [oh, alas for the demise of the printed Blueprint]), but not others (Bride’s Guide).
What little I understand of my net search results seems to point to something in the router’s firewall (although the site was working just fine last week), but I know next to nothing about networking and firewalls and am terrified to tackle this on my own lest I really mess something up (my net access is critical to my business, whereas access to Martha specifically is not). I’ll just have to wait until my IT guy can take a look at it.
Then, early this morning, my phone made a really weird beep and all of a sudden I had messages — eight of them, going back to late last week, all of them new to me. But in the meantime, I have received a few calls and checked voicemail. I don’t get a lot of calls, so it didn’t occur to me that I might be missing any. Apparently I was.
If I’m wearing a tinfoil hat next time you see me, you’ll know why.
Gretchen has some wonderful photos of Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse up. We had a beautiful view here from the edge of the woods, too.
This seems like it would be a really interesting article on the development of punctuation:
From Interpunct to Interrobang
Too bad I can’t get past the myriad punctuation errors. Irony, anyone?
I just dropped off my inventory for the Silverthorne Gallery show. Eva at Grand River Beads, which shares space with Silverthorne, was kind enough to hook up some of the members of Cleveland Handmade with what was originally going to be a one-night trunk show, but has been expanded to a month-long exhibition. Friday night from 6 to 9 is the opening reception; if you’re in the area, stop by to say hi.
The end of January starts the season of anticipation for many artists. That is when most of the summer and fall show prospectuses come out, and when we all kick ourselves for not being better prepared with all the photos, bios, and other little details we need for applications — you know, the ones we swore we’d have ready this year, unlike last year. Right. So, after all that scrambling to get it together, we sit and wait for the results to come back. Last year, I was turned down for only one of the shows I applied for, and I knew I pretty much had a snowball’s chance for that one. But, I’ve upped my game since last year, and I’m going to give that one another shot. This year’s applications will be a bit more ambitious, and definitely more plentiful, too.
I really need to get cracking in the studio…
I’m in the thick of sorting through the huge listing of local art shows I received yesterday, trying to decide which ones I will apply for this year. Cleveland Handmade is also thinking about holding our own shows, too.
May your 2008 bring joy and prosperity.
This week, I’m offering a free upgrade to USPS Priority Mail shipping within the United States for orders placed through my Etsy shop. Assuming the post office keeps its end of the bargain, orders placed by noon EST Friday should still arrive in time for Christmas (if the package is going to Alaska or Hawaii, make that Thursday).
Who knew that the photo holiday card had such a long history?
Square America‘s Christmas Spectacular: Page 1, Page 2
I thought these were a relatively recent invention, since I don’t recall having seen them before every corner drugstore got a photo printer back in the late 1980s, but apparently I was wrong.
Check out these great local sources for the fun and unique: Cool Cleveland “Think Outside the Big Box” Shopping Guide. And don’t forget to check out my own pet project, Cleveland Handmade, for links to some of the best local Etsy sellers.
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