Server Moves, Birthday Parties, Exhaustion, and Hava Nagilla
On Saturday night, after the kids were in bed, I began moving TechyDad.com and TheAngelForever.com from our old host to our new host. This meant first backing up all of the files from the old host’s servers. (I usually keep backups locally, but they had gotten out of date.) This alone took some time. Then, I backed up the databases. Finally, I restored the whole thing onto the new hosts’ server. A connection string change (to point to the new database) and name server update later, and our websites were up and running.
If I make it sound like a quick job, however, it wasn’t. I began work at around 9pm and went to bed at 1:30 am. At this point, I had about 4 hours worth of file transfers to go. Luckily, these weren’t essential files. Had you been able to see TechyDad.com at this point, you might have noticed photos missing in blog posts or images missing from the sidebars. Still, the blog posts would have been readable and WordPress would have functioned just fine.
Since I didn’t need to be present for this file transfer to run, I left my computer on and went to bed, falling asleep at about 2am. At about 5am, I was woken up by B. She wasn’t feeling good (horrible headache) and needed my help. I got her some medicine and she went back to sleep. Despite my exhaustion, however, I just couldn’t fall asleep.
I finally fell back to sleep around 6am only to be woken back up at 7am. I laid in bed for as long as I could, but sleeping in was not an option. We needed to get ready for NHL’s birthday party.
There were several moments during the party where I found myself unable to focus and/or dizzy. Many times when I’d have liked to have snuck away for a “short” nap. (Short meaning telling yourself only 5 minutes and then waking up 3 hours later.) After the party was over, I felt the crash come hard. Still, I pushed off exhaustion.
As I sit typing this, B is sitting with the boys, trying to get them to go to sleep. I’m thinking that I really should process some of the photos from the party for a blog post. I just can’t think straight enough, though. Instead, here’s B’s post about the party. (Mine will come later.)
I won’t leave you empty handed, though. Thanks to a recent gift from Mimi to JSL, I think the Hava Nagilla will be sung quite a bit in our household:
Hopefully, by the time you read this, I’ll be well rested and coherent. If I am, then hava nagilla (let us rejoice)!
