Well, sorta anyway…
First, a day ago my blog * POOF * just vanished… gone… all of it… only thing that was left was a simple line that “it was missing the MySQL files”
My first reaction: * PANIC ! * Over four years of blogging gone… I have been blogging for 6-7 years now and I have once before lost about 2-3 years of blogging…
My second reaction: * DAMN! * It had been weeks since I last made a back up. How is it that I can never force myself to do regular back ups but I just do the panic-back up after something has gone wrong…
My third reaction: * Ooohhmmm * I calmed down, sent out a support ticket to the support desk of my hosting service and then realized that IF the blog was really irreversibly damaged, there was nothing I could do about it and I would just have to suck it up and bite the bullit and start over…
The support desk guy, Brett, got back to me and told me that I had done something that deleted my php.ini file… *I* had not done shit. My blog was working fine, I had not posted, commented, updated or done shit to the blog and mysteriously my php.ini file was gone. Then again, I had no desire getting into an endless ya-uh/nu-uh battle, so I did what he told me to do to fix it and and after a few attempts * POOF * the blog was back… Thanks Brett!
And then…
the goddamn fucking waterheater broke down again… I was at home today because repair guy was coming over to do the annual water heater check up. Cool… he actually arrived in time, he spent about 1.5 hour working on the water heater and managed to get me water pressure I have never ever experienced since I moved in here years ago. Then he left… and I had oodles of water pressure, water was spouting out of the showerhead like crazy, but it was COLD!

So I called the service desk of the firm to inform them that following their annual check up I now did not have any hot water… A few hours later repair guy #2 rang my doorbell, he tried the taps, and the water was hot as hell… Then he left, I turned on the shower and
COLD!
WTH!?! I ran outside to get him back, he tried the taps again and hot water… Then he tried the shower which was indeed cold… he rattled and checked some stuff and then informed me that it was probably my thermostatic tap that was broken.
Why the FUCK does all that crap break down when you are out of money?! Can someone for Gawd’s Sake explain that to me? I called The BIL, went over to the only DIY store that takes gift vouchers, got the cheapest crap thermostatic tap I could find, paid with my last leftover birthday gift certificates and The BIL is coming over in a few mins to install it so we can see if that will actually fix the problem…
Cos ya know… I hate taking cold showers… And there’s someone coming over next weekend that I don’t want to treat to cold showers again. He might think I do it on purpose. Ya know, to hear him squeel… * sigh *
Watch this space. I will be back to let you know if The BIL, a.k.a. The Magic Man, was able to fix the problem by installing my new thermostatic tap…
And you know… after damage to the car in December, slipping in the icy street in January, bronchitis in February, inflamed ankle joint this month and now this… I think it is time, as we say in Dutchyland, for the devil to piss off and start crapping on someone else’s pile of shit… I am quite done for now…
UPDATE Thursday Evening: OF COURSE installing the new thermostatic tap did not fix the problem… so that means another call to the service desk… having to take another day off work… waiting for repair guy to show up… and hoping to Gawd that he can find the problem and fix it this time…
UPDATE Friday Evening: So after tons of phonecalls, and everyone blaming someone else for the problem, repair guy #3 showed up and basically told me, what I already feared, that repair guy #1 had actually fucked up and caused the problem by upping the water pressure. After spending most of his time trying it on with me *GAG* he told me that he could partly fix it but has to come back on Wednesday with a few replacement parts… And how that was us actually having a date for next week *MORE GAG AND PUKE*. So the story continues (the one about the hot water, not the one about the hot date with repair guy #3 *GAG GAG GAAAAGGG*)