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A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!
It was another interesting week around here. First, it was bitterly cold. The wind was crazy all week.
On Monday I finally heard back from the company which was my final shot at cloning my blog. Their email asked me to check some different options on their product and to run the backup again during the day so they could watch the process. Not happy to lose a day of work I reluctantly agreed. The backup ran all day and into the night. It got to the last 2 files and got stuck. By then the person that I was working with had left for the day. In fact, I learned the next day, they had left at about 4 p.m. our time. I had used their “24/7” chat box that evening without a reply. Sending the final message and email at about midnight our time and went to bed. I was livid! When I got up Tuesday, there was another email asking me to tweak a few preferences in their program and run it again. There was no freaking way I was going to waste another day, so I sent them a terse message and demanded a refund. It was a good thing I had not deleted their plugins because I needed to give them some new code so they would refund my money. It took a few days but I received my money back and deleted everything on my end.
Later that day I received an email from the billing department at Tiger Tech, which hosts my blog. They had several new files attached to my account that pushed me way over my allotted usage. These were the unfinished backup files that were of no use to anyone. I asked them to please delete them which they did right away and my usage was back to normal. They could have just hiked my rate because truthfully I wasn’t even thinking about these partial files, but instead, they contacted me and handled it immediately. I can’t say enough good things about the people at Tiger Tech. Too bad the backup migration company was not as customer-orientated.
On Wednesday the I’m an idiot day of the week started. While troubleshooting the issues I was having on my blog I deactivated and reactivated every plugin to see if that was causing the problem except the Jetpack and Jetpack Boost plugins because the widgets with the issues were Jetpack products. Wednesday as I was searching for a new theme on a whim I deactivated the Jetpack Boost plugin and magically my blog was back to normal. The banners were again running across the top and the GoodReads widget had both a title and content. You would think they would check their updates to be sure they worked with their other products but apparently not. I have replaced their plugin with another one that does not conflict with the others and have sent feedback to the people at Jetpack but have yet to have a reply. I am sure since I have not paid for the Pro edition, my complaints are pretty low on their totem pole. I have also turned off Auto Updates on all my plugins so I have more control and will be able to note when changes are made. Great lessons learned but way too much time spent on a stupid problem.
I still plan to update my blog with a new theme and look for ways to help it load faster on all devices but now I can do it on my schedule. A schedule where I don’t miss out on my grandchildren’s events. In fact today, I am off watching Remi at another basketball tournament.
Away from the blog I have been bingeing on Below Deck: Adventure on Peacock
A really good thing happened Friday night. Mr. Dollycas used to be an avid reader like me but after our son died he just stopped. Nothing could hold his interest. He received his own Kindle Fire
How was your week?
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Tuesday – Hidden in the Pines (A Lew Ferris Mystery) by Victoria Houston #Review / #Giveaway @crookedlanebks
Plus – Something’s Guava Give: A Tropical Island Cozy Mystery by Carrie Doyle #Review
Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent 
I still use Blogger so I don’t have to worry about hosts for my blog, but it’s not perfect. Have a good week.
I’ve been with Blogger all (almost) fifteen years I’ve been blogging. Off and on, I feel tempted to do something else, but I never have. I’m so sorry you have been having all the problems with your site. That’s very frustrating.
Wonderful story about your husband rediscovering his love of reading!
THAT explains it! I missed you! Started praying hard that all was well with you and Mr. Dollycas…
So glad you’ve resolved the problems and are back with us again… Good luck to Remi and enjoy your day!
Well I think hearing about Mr. D being able to read again pretty much made me cry.
I’m glad you were able to solve some of the issues with your blog! All that you had to deal with must’ve been so frustrating!
It sure made me feel warm all over. Thank you for stopping by.
Good Lord, as if life didn’t present enough trials as it is, we have to introduce the perils of the website and trying to maintain a blog that with one simple misplaced comma can mess up the entire road map. ARGH! Kudos to you for the triumph!
Glad you got your blog straightened out. Stuff that that is so aggravating!
Glad your husband is reading again, wish I had someone to read with me and discuss our thoughts.
I hope you have a great week!
Glad you got your blog straightened out. That must of been so frustrating.
Have a great week. .