Ugh.
I use AN Hosting and my server goes down EVERY. DAY. It’s only for a few minutes at a time, but it’s still really frustrating, especially when I’ve just written a post or an email and click “Submit” or “Send” and get an error message.
So I’m thinking of switching hosts - any recommendations?
Also, today is my dad’s birthday and I have NO. IDEA. what to get him. I haven’t been procrastinating - I just can’t think of anything. He is so hard to buy for. He’d be appreciative and gracious even if I gave him a cardboard box full of lint because that’s how he is, but I want to give him something thoughtful that shows I specifically picked it out for him.
He has money, so he can buy himself whatever he wants, and usually does. Which means gift certificates are pretty meaningless. I can’t get him something useful because he can afford to buy himself the bigger better model that he would like more anyway.
He likes to read and watch movies, but we stocked him up on books and DVDs for Christmas.
He doesn’t really have any hobbies other than work…and the Dallas Cowboys I suppose. But he’s got all the desk accessories he could ever need, and I can’t get him a T-shirt or a jersey or anything because he’s not casual enough to wear that kind of thing.
So when it comes down to it, we’re usually left with trying to come up with the perfect creative “you would never think of this” random gift - like one year we got him a set of pool balls that were painted in the colors/logos of his 2 favorite baseball teams.
But there’s only so many of those kind of gifts. This year…I’ve got nuthin.
And I’ve got approximately 5 hours to turn “nuthin” into “sumthin.” Yikes…
January 26th, 2007 at 11:02 am
You could always go the cop-out route (which I usually take)…gift certificate for a restaurant or store (i.e. walmart/bestbuy/etc).
January 26th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I have the same problem with my dad…what about like a fruit of the month or coffee of the month deal? Corny, I know. But, my dad seems to dig it. Gevalia has some cool coffees.
January 26th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
good luck with the gift thing. What about a wall hanging with some pictures of your family. My dad is a sucker for pictures of the grandkids.
I use surpass hosting and have never had any problems with them. In fact, they’re one of the cheapest places I found, but they do a great job.
BTW - you’re previous post, about the aliens cracked me up, but I’m too lazy to make two comments. Katy-bug always find stuff that I don’t know what the heck it is. Maybe because they’re closer to the floor, they can see all these little things that we can’t! kudos to you for shampooing everything. I hate that chore!