A Geek Goes Flying

Saturday (puppies age: 49 days), flew up to Santa Maria to meet with Alyson Rodges at Holly’s Labradores to run the three boys in the litter through the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Test . (I had Maynard tested when he was about 7 weeks old.) I’m really glad I did. The darker boy, who really reminds me of a baby Maynard, was the least like Maynard in terms of personality and disposition. The closest match was one of the white boys, who scored almost all 3s. World: Meet Brian. I cried a little bit while I held him and he snuggled up against my chest, as I promised him I’d protect him and keep him safe. The oncologist tells me: “No one could have done better for Maynard.” But I will always   wonder , at least a little bit.

Pre-Trip About a year ago, an old friend of mine (we dated in college) and I were about to hop in a plane to hit wine country, when my mom called to see if I’d be interested in joining her on a “bucket list” trip - shark diving off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. My friend is hugely  obsessed with sharks. It was fate. We signed up for the adventure immediately, which took place about two weeks ago. The trip was arranged by Y-Kiki Divers , on the Nautilus Liveaboards ’ Explorer . Dive Gear I’m a PADI Advanced Open Water diver (and have been since the early 1990s(!?)), but haven’t been out in decades. (Bought some new equipment about 15 years ago - a never used BC, a dive computer that, IIRC, has an RS-232 serial interface...) But I didn’t need much of that. I did pick up a new mask from the local dive shop , along with some 3mm wetsuit gloves, and my old boots still fit and were in good shape. The excursion company provided everything else (rented a 7mm wetsuit along with

I’ve had several domain names with weblaunching.net for what seems like eons. Now, though, their website admin isn’t working and calls / emails to their support team go unanswered. Yikes. (Though, amusingly, I’m still getting renewal reminders from weblaunching.net. Sigh.) I rescued my main domain name (registered in July 2007) through Tucows last month; now it’s time to regain control of another Tucows domain (my oldest, registered in August of 2000), and an eNom domain (registered in August 2010). It’s always something . Tucows/OpenSRS Start with the  Compliance Contact Form . I used “Other” as the issue, and the summary read: [my domain name] expires in 4 days, and weblaunching.net's website has been "down for maintenance" since at least early July (if not longer). I have emailed support@weblaunching.net and received no response. I called 877 686 2579 and hit '*' for support and it went to what seemed to be a voicemail box with no outgoing mess