argh

How do I do this to myself???

I've pulled another muscle, with no clue as to how I've done it (I woke up with it sore yesterday, and apparently made it worse in my sleep last night).

This muscle is the one on the front of my right thigh, as close to my crotch as it is possible to be. I had no idea how important that muscle is to my ability to get up and down from a seated or prone position to a standing one, or how important it is to my ability to walk.

Not to mention that painkillers aren't doing diddly, and it hurts. All the bleeding time.

I know it'll get well in a few days (I started pulling various muscles with depressing regularity a number of years ago), but gods, this is frustrating.

domain and webhosting recommendations

Hi, all, it's your non-tech-savvy idiot again...

Or maybe just tech-savvy enough to get me into a lot of trouble, but not enough to get me back out again.

Okay. I have a website (proudly hand-coded a couple of years ago, after much, much struggle and angst [g], and kept updated since). The domain name was purchased through GoDaddy, and costs me $15 a year, which I just renewed a couple of weeks ago before I realized I needed the second website. The site itself is hosted through my ISP, and costs me $10 a month on top of my regular bill. I have no memory of how I accomplished all this several years ago, except that it was ugly and frustrating and stretched my abilities pretty much to their limit. And exceedingly satisfying once it all finally worked.

For reasons I won't get into here, I really need a second website, with a different domain name. This would entail another $15 a year plus $10 a month if I do it the way I'm doing it now.

I'm told I can do this much more cheaply than I'm doing it right now, and that would be a really, really good thing. Almost $300 a year is way more than I need to be paying for this.

But I have no clue how to find a company that will provide this service at a rate I can better afford, with the amount of handholding I will need to get the domain names transferred and the files uploaded (actually, as long as they'll let me FTP the files using Windows File Manager, which is "open two windows, aim one at the files I want to move and the other to the FTP address, then drag and drop", I can do that part -- it's the setup and transfer that's over my head).

Bluehost was recommended to me, and at less than $30 a year for the whole thing for both websites they're certainly more reasonable than what I'm paying now, but when I went to ask some basic-to-me questions, it became very clear to me that they're not going to be willing/able to help me as much as I know I'm going to need to get everything moved and set up. Especially since I got cut off from the chat session before I was finished asking questions, and some of their own help webpages wouldn't load when I clicked on them.

Anyone have a webhosting company they love that can give me fast champagne help on a slow beer budget, and not get impatient with me when I politely hint that they're talking Swahili to me? I'm dubious about using GoDaddy for hosting as well as the domain name. No, I don't know why, but I am. I suspect it's the "we need to sell you a whole bunch of stuff you don't need" spiel every time I go to pay my annual bill, but maybe not.

Help?

this will be my last post till later

I'd say of the day, except that I hope to be squeeing at the Seahawks' unprecedented 7-1 record after the game tonight [g].

Anyway, so much for Ghost Light.

1) The only possible POV character did not work, in so many ways I could make a 100-item list of them all.

2) For the life of me I can't come up with enough plot to make a novel out of it, and it is decidedly not short story material.

3) My backbrain keeps telling me that we've been there done this one, because it's a reworking of a concept and setting that I wrote almost fifteen years ago (badly then, too -- I was trying to make a category romance out of it at the time), and I can't force myself into being interested in it anymore.

Which is too bad. I really did want to rework several of my early manuscripts (I've got about half a dozen) now that I have an outlet for them, but I suspect they're all a lost cause.

Well, I might be able to edit Much Ado in Montana into decent shape without rewriting it completely. But otherwise? Nah.

On the bright side,

1) I only have nine more chapters to edit on Cross-Country, then I can decide on cover art and start doing all the techie stuff to get it published.

2) I'm about three-quarters of the way done scanning the photos from the trip that inspired the book, some of which are going in the print version and some on my website.

3) I've collected a bunch of material on Mt. Rainier's history...

[gimps off to flip the chicken]

not squeeing

Not because the Seahawks didn't win, because they did -- 14-9.

But because that was one of their most singularly butt-ugly showings this season. And their standards for butt-ugly? Are insanely high for a team that's 7-1 halfway through the season.

At least they managed to keep St. Louis out of the end zone at the very last second, which would have lost them the game.

Ye godlings.

But they won [g]. And some basketball player who was on during halftime to advertise that their season starts tomorrow says he thinks it's going to be the Broncos vs. the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. I hope he's right about the Seahawks and wrong about the Broncos [wry g].

As I said, ye godlings.