the best part of friday was waking up. everything after that whiplashed me into quite a state.
following my usual morning routine, my towel and slipper-clad self went to the computer to do that which one addicted to the internet does. i checked my gmail account, i made sure my paycheque had been deposited, i checked my overnight downloads. you know, the usual.
just as i was about to get dressed and leave for work, i thought to check my fubsy.net mail. i wondered why it asked me for my login info. again. and again. then i saw something which set off my panic response. buried in the traditionally cryptic outlook express error messages was “account suspended”.
oh shit.
i checked the blog and found what you all have been seeing for the past few days. oy. my mind ran through the reasons why this would have happened. it wasn’t non-payment. while i was doing my banking moments earlier, i noticed the charge for the next three months had been processed just days before. maybe my install was being used to spend spam. i’d just heard of that vulnerability the day before (and had downloaded mt 3.15 to finally upgrade, and prevent such a thing from happening). by then, i was risking tardiness, so i sent a short and harsh email to my host’s support account and headed off for my day.
my car windows took forever to defrost. i hit every red light on the way to work. i was behind every slow driver. someone had parked in my usual spot. the web work my boss-boss had for me was over-complicated by technical issues (and exposed me to the UGLY html my web replacement is putting on the internet, shaming my beautiful baby site). my boss was cranky. the thai restaurant i REALLY wanted to have lunch at was closed for lunch. mom emailed me to ask my why her fubsy email account was acting up. then she emailed to tell me an old co-worker from the golf car place had died on sunday. oh, and my site was down because something happened to spike the server load TWO MONTHS AGO and the emails they had been sending to an address i haven’t had in HALF A YEAR telling me to contact them or they’d delete my count had not been replied to. obviously.
i jumped through a lot of hoops with my host, after waiting almost two days to hear back from them about the situation. then, at one point, they wanted me to make changes to the site to fix the TWO MONTH OLD problem, but failed to realize with the account suspended, i couldn’t get to my site to make any changes. oy. i’ve spent the last few hours installing, tweaking and rebuilding. i need to do a couple more small things and then i get to ask them to move my account back to the server i pay for and out of harm’s way.
i’m really glad this weekend is over.