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You recall that last week I was telling you about having too many "pots" on the go in my life? Well, I got an extra BIG one added yesterday. It is quite a saga!
I knew that the annual bill for all the sites I host at Hostgator would be due at the end of this month. I'd seen one email last week (tho' I couldn't find it yesterday, that said my bill would be over $1000. OUCH!)
So yesterday morning I went to their Support Chat window to ask about this. I was given an even higher number!! I began to cringe!
I'd also seen a deal for 10% off, so I asked about that. Then realized that whatever the US$ price was, once converted to Canadian money that would be at least 30% more. I began to cringe, but tried to be brave as I asked if there was any chance of getting a better deal because of the huge exchange rate (thanks to all the political strife over the border!)
The support person disappeared for a while, and finally came back to say that the best deal they could give was and she(?) named a price closer to $2000.
I explained to the person (the name didn't indicate if it was male or female), that last summer I was told that the old server was on it's last legs; I would need to get a new server, but they gave me a huge one called Snappy 4000. (I think that's why the rate had gone up so much).
Sparking with prayers, I tried to stay calm while I asked if it would help if I asked to have the 13 sites moved to a smaller 2000 Snappy server, as it really didn't need all the GBs of the 4000 Snappy.
Again the Support person was gone a while, then came back with a new price which was only good for this one day. It was over $900 but not $1000.
I asked for a minute to see what that would come to in CDN prices. I went to another tab and asked.... When I went back to the Chat window I reported that it would cost me $1,368.Cdn.
(I waited a couple of minutes for the LORD to answer me.) "Then I better take it while I can," I told the support person.
Things moved fairly fast after that. The Migration Team sent an email asking for the sites to be transferred over, and in their email explained what steps I had to take when they'd report that step finished.
By evening I was at the Domain Registrar to change the DNS and IP addresses myself, which I did for each site.
I had been instructed to go back to Support Chat window when that was done and to ask for the SSL security certificates to be set up for the sites. But by that time it was too late in the day.
So I went back this morning with my request. The Support person checked and said that the domains need 24-48 hours to propagate. - Well, I had finished with the DNS & IP address changes at 10 pm--- so I'll check if the sites have changed about 10 pm, and if so, I'll see if I can get the SSL certificates a applied tonight yet. - If not then, I'll try again tomorrow.
Fortunately, because the sites are still on last year's server AND on the new 2000 Snappy, (tho' not live there yet) - they are all still accessible to the public.
You see now why I got little done yesterday on my other Pots on the Go, right? But it occurs to me just now that I should be very grateful to God, for Mom's example to persevere even through hard times. Giving up is not the answer, is it?
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I'm so pleased with my cheerful and elegant irises - descendants of only 9 of these plants of Mom's that I brought with me when I moved here to this location.
This summer especially they have been wonderfully LOVELY! So I thought I might share them with you here by a couple of photos so you can enjoy them also.
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Unfortunately, the flowers have died by now, though they lasted more than a full week.
However, I have found since then, six green pods on the plants which - research shows are full of seeds. So I'm hoping to share them with others. It may take longer to raise them from seeds than from a transplanted iris, but this should make it easier to share the seeds by mail to places more far away from me here.
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I think I discovered a way to juggle projects on Sunday night when I was listing all the ones I really want to get done, but they can't all be squeezed into each day.
Then I remembered that I have long ago assigned certain projects to certain days of the week and certain times of those days. I try to leave a bit of free time between the projects, but if they have a good time slot, and I can focus on them during that time, I will feel like I've accomplished something worthwhile in that time, and can go to bed at the end of the knowing that I made some progress on certain projects.
This doesn't cram one project through a whole week or two, while your conscience keeps reminding you of another project or two you should be working on as well. (That's where frustration creeps in!)
If I plot to work on just 1-3 wee little projects after my devotional time, I clear the coast in a few days, and have time for new wee little projects.
If we plot to work on a bigger project in the evening when we have more time to focus and make real progress, we will feel successful in at least one area.
So assign the biggest projects to one or two evenings, and see some good progress on them.
In the same sense save the afternoons for the medium-sized projects, but knowing that you may have one finished in just one or two-three days, will give you a sense of success.
Of course, crises arise and we must shove our planned project aside, to take care of the immediate need.
If we chart our progress on a calendar page - it will cheer us up remarkably whenever we can check off a project.
One more tip: make a list of all the projects - even the ones that don't get a block of time assigned. Clip this list to your calendar so that when you finish a project, you can quickly pick another to do in that block of time.
Check off cross-out the ones that are done, as that will give you a great sense of making fine progress!
Then at the end of the month do crow (privately if you prefer), over the number of projects you got all done and polished off or submitted, or whatever needed to be done.
Maybe it is time to make a NEW list of Projects!?
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