Just how hard do I rock out?

This hard…

During a rather energetic rock out session today on my electronic drum set, I managed to snap the metal on my crash cymbal stand. Granted, I’m sure it’s not made of the highest grade aluminum, but still, I impressed myself.

Here’s the other end of the stand sticking out of the cymbal.

Tommy Lee would be impressed…maybe.

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My mom has a Wii…

My mom got a Nintendo Wii for her birthday. She also got a stereo with a dock for the iPod touch she’s getting in a few weeks.

This is the same mom that calls me several times a month with questions about “Foxfire”.

My dad explained to me how to play Wii Fit.

I don’t have a Wii. I’ve never even seen anyone play Wii Fit, let alone play it myself. I also don’t have an iPod touch or an iPhone.

What’s going on??? Am I losing touch???

If my parents starts Twittering then I know the universe is imploding.

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Grizzly Adams did have a beard…

Perhaps I got a little carried away with the ruggedness of Colorado. Or perhaps I just simply forgot to shave for a week. But either way I have a poor excuse for a beard going, with no intention of stopping anytime soon.

*Creepy picture alert*

I’ll have a post on this year’s Colorado trip very soon. But to answer the obvious question, no I didn’t see the Wysz while I was there

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Scary moment.

At approximately 10:15pm PDT I attempted to publish a blog post. At the same time, Bluehost decided to run some administrative work on my server (and attempt to login to my Bluehost account verified this). The overlapping of these two events yielded a short moment of minor panic.

As you would expect, the post wasn’t published. But that was the least of my concerns. Upon attempting to load my blog, I was greeted with this:

That’s never a good sign.

No blog posts. Not a single one. They didn’t even show up when I logged into my WordPress account management.

I stare at the screen for about three minutes or so. When was the last time I backed up my WordPress database?  Have I ever backed up my WordPress database?? All of those extremely insightful mikeleotta.com blog posts could be gone forever.  An internet tragedy!

Maybe I can still save my internet legacy. I log into phpMyAdmin to check out my database. This is what I see:

Nope, not a good sign either. phpMyAdmin thinks my wp_posts table is “in use.”  It’s not in use.  I wish it was in use. Something is corrupted. Luckily Bluehost MySQL DB management has a “repair database” option. Worth a shot…

Success! Now all five of you can continue to reference my previous blog posts. Scary, you almost lost that privilege. I think I’ll back up my database right now.

Right after I publish this blog post…what could possibly go wrong?

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Don’t not uncheck this box if you don’t want to not receive nothing

Here’s a major online shopping wtf moment…

So I made an online purchase tonight at a health supplement store.  Their online shopping is operated by Yahoo.  I’ve ordered from them before and never had any strange issues.  Plus, the shopping cart is run by Yahoo!  They know what they’re doing, right?

Hrrmmm, tricky wording, but I’m smart enough to figure out the double negative trickery at play here.  So I uncheck this box. Submit.

Ummmmmmmm…what was that now???  Just how does one “check Uncheck” a box?  Is there a separate box I have to check that will uncheck the previous box?  Maybe some tag-team checking.  Is this some sort of brain teaser worked into my order form?

Turns out the only way I can submit my order is to keep the box checked.  That means I’ll be receiving some exciting offers in my email very soon!  Great.  I can’t wait.  If the intention was to trick people into receiving spam, congratulations, you succeeded.

I’m not sure who’s at fault here, but I think I’ll just blame Yahoo.

Update:

Sent them an email describing the idiocy.  Apparently they fixed it now.

Thank you for informing us.  This problem has now been fixed.  We have
removed your email address from our bi-weekly email subscriber list.

Regards,
Customer Service

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