Astrology chart, Monday morning & more
Phone woke me up Monday morning, and the overcast sky was dripping rain, so I really never wanted to wake up. Or even answer the phone.
But I did, a little later than usual, or little earlier than I wanted to. There’s something about the gentle noise of rain that makes for really good sleeping weather. Or maybe I was just worn out from a working weekend.
My little red headed cap friend came by for lunch and web tweaking. “How about Mexican food?” she asked. Sure. “Yeah, you’re easy, I know, I read it on the bathroom wall someplace,” she said, laughing.
My red-headed Capricorn friend uses AOL as her main ISP. Just worked out that way, ease-of-use, the fact that it’s so ubiquitous, and so on. Monday morning, my site wasn’t pulling up on AOL.
I’ve really come to hate that service. It does account for a full one-third of my site’s traffic, but apparently, they way it works, it doesn’t always work. It’s my personal nightmare, trying to handle folks complaining about AOL’s service. “Is your site not working?” or “When are you going to update it?” My site’s up and available, it depends on your own browser’s pipeline to the source. My server is geographically in the middle of the United States, safe from flood, fire, earthquakes, and most local conditions.
She was complaining about a customer of hers, a client, and I was amazed at the similarities we share between our clientele. Folks ask for advice, then they fail to follow all the advice. Or even fail to do any kind of follow-up on anything. In her earthy yet worldly-wise way, she offered up some advice that I need to remember to dole out more often, “Hope is not an action.”
I hope AOL gets better.