.... Dudes.

It's OK that I lurk/read very very occasionally these days, and whenever I do I just wanna jump in and hug/wrap you all with bubble wrap/kick the universe's ass in your behalf, but leaving one post-in-a-gazillion-years just seems weird, right? Because I just read that 'we're hacked' post on Press and came here and whoa, what the fuck.

I miss this place. I keep thinking that if I'll re-organize my online life (oh how I'd love to quit Twitter, that time consuming beast, but I don't seem to have the backbone for this) I should have more time to read and write here.

I should really grow that backbone. Till then, my ~mas to all of you. I think of this place almost everyday.

I have to say that when I think of being "hacked" I think of people putting up new stuff at a domain or sending out spam from an email account. What exactly did they do when they hacked us? and why would our server host be mad at us?

Kat, you're my hero, and so is Grace. Also K, and even Noah. I don't know how you do what you do already, asking you to take on more is ridiculous and unfair. Grace has blossomed exponentially, and that's all down to you and K. Truancy court needs head-knocking if they have other ideas.

ita, thank all gods and little fishes for hero neuro. Can we clone him for you? Get you what you need every time, with no stupid opposing personal opinions from the people *not in pain*?

Aw, Mac. What good news, msbelle. You totally deserve BK, lady.

Oh Lee, poor Charlie. I'm so glad that you found him, and that Charlie has you, now. Ditto brenda and Darby and bonny and Cagney, Laura and her pup.

Burrell, poor Isaac. So many big emotions for such a little guy. He's lucky to have you to help him learn how to deal.

Health-ma for K-bug, Suzi, and all best luck for CJ.

And -t, days like that suck. Better ones tomorrow.

It means they loaded their own programs on our computer and used them to try to bring down other sites on the Internet by flooding them with data.

People like being right.

I think my strategy is going to be that it looks good to me from a high level and in comparison to similar roles, and that I'd like to chat about some specifics.

and why would our server host be mad at us?

For having vulnerable code, probably, and also I image we exceeded our monthly bandwidth by a lot when they did what Tom said.

ok Tom, Thanks. Is there stuff we can do to better safe guard?

At this point, I'm not sure how they got in.

Well, we put in a bid on a house. It's a foreclosure that's marked way below market for the condition and area so it's kind of an auction. We have a strong bid, but it may or may not be enough.

If we get it and sell our current house in a reasonable amount of time, then we'll own the new house outright sometime in summer to fall of next year.

Consuela, you can definitely go back to bed.

I just came from a funeral that was surprisingly hard for me. I mean, I was close to her family when I was a kid, but haven't seen her in years and years. Here's the great thing about community, though -- I was talking to a guy who I haven't seen in years and was never close to as a kid, because he's 3-4 years older, and he totally said the exact thing I was thinking about how this is the beginning of this phase in our lives.

I told his boss to thank him again for me. He made everything happen. And used words like respect and dignity, with the craxxy POV that patients warranted both.

Amazing.