LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

Whoa! I time traveled a bit, it seems, to catch up on the Reverb 10 project. Happy birthday, John! Hope you enjoy your spaghetti, 4 cheese ravioli, peppercorn steak and roasted chicken at dinner tonight!

One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? (Author: Gwen Bell)

Disappointment.

>> And I know it sounds maudlin, but really, 2010 was disapppointing for many reasons, such as:
>> Despite a forest’s worth of resumes and cover letters sent out, WM has yet to find a full time job. He’s subbing, which sucks.
>> I thought the paper was doing better, but was disappointed to find that not only were we not doing better, but there was another round of furloughs.
>> The unresolved thyroid crap. I’ve taken myself off of the medicine entirely and feel fine. No more sleepy, no more freezing, etc. But I’m disappointed that I felt like crap for the entire spring and summer. I’m going to make an endocrinologist appointment in January.

>> I was disppointed by some people this year, too. Just, stuff.

(WHOOOSH!)

Whoa! It’s 2011! Neat! This is a cute hairstyle!

2011 was triumphant! How could it not be?

>> WM has a great classroom of kids this year.
>> My job is troublesome still, but I’m supplementing my income with a fledgling jewelry business.
>> We’re paying off all of our debts and are finding extra money everywhere!
>> Did I mention that we could also afford a vacation again. What a blast!
>> And I finally did that thing that I was afraid to do. You know that thing? From earlier in the year? Done. And it was great.

Too bad the world’s ending in 2012.

I think I actually need to cut these fingernails of mine.

Charlie is unimpressed.

For me, this is slipping into Howard Hughes territory. Plus, I’m typoing a LOT on the keyboard lately and it’s bugging.

This picture was taken Sunday night. I’ve since painted them teal.

What do you think of dark nail polish? Is it tacky or trashy? I think they’re fine but last week I encountered some … lascivious … comments about dark fingernail polish which left me a little bit skeeved out.

My 20 year (weep!) high school reunion is being planned. Kudos to the ones who pulled it together, because I think we had over 500 in our graduating class. Anyway, it’s going to be $78 PER PERSON. Is this normal? It seems really pricey to me. At $78 pp, I may have to break WM’s heart by not taking him. I know he’s been looking forward to it.

I still miss my cat.

And finally, I want to thank you all for visiting. Commenters and lurkers, new folk and regulars, even those who don’t read at all anymore. I don’t have a niche topic or good traffic, but I love this odd little blog of mine. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy days to come by and share it.

I’m blogging this because eventually someone will have the same issue and maybe they’ll find some comfort.

Yesterday, my blog was down for about 5 hours. Except it wasn’t.

So why did my WordPress posts disappear?

Symptoms:
1) Page not found message on WordPress blog index page on load.
2) Blog theme intact
3) When I go to the admin tool, database didn’t load all the way. So wp-admin was showing 0 posts. The comment number was showing, but when I clicked on comments, 0 loaded.

Steps taken:
1) Freak out. Freak the hell out. Believe I’ve been hacked. Freak out more.
2) Connect to my server via FTP. All folders were intact.
3) Log into my cpanel. Immediately change password.
4) The wordpress database was still there. Great!
5) Use PHP MyAdmin to browse the database. My wp_posts table was “in use.” Hmmm.
6) Repaired wp_posts table using this repair table method
7) Browsed to the end (most current records) of the wp_posts table. Saw 6 data entries for the “My Pets” page. I was trying to perform some housekeeping on it earlier and WP was acting funky. I deleted all of those entries.
8 ) Log back into wp-admin. Huzzah! Posts are back!
9) Visit ladygypsy.net. Receive no theme at all, just “Unable to connect to database”
10) Freak out. Freak the hell out. Eight years of blog. Gone!!!
11) Realize I changed my server password back in step 3. Update wp-config.php to include new password.
12) Success!

I should have realized when I saw the 404 that it wasn’t my hosting service’s problem. And when I saw the proper theme I should have realized that WordPress was working correctly.