Leilani introduced my mom to one of her friends: “That’s my grandma, and her name is Oma.” For the non-German speakers: Oma is the German word for grandma.
Leilani still calls Andy and me mostly by our first name, very seldom Mom or Mommy / Daddy. A few times she called me “Mother” and it’s German equivalent “Mutter” – but it made me cringe so I asked her to call me Sonja again which she gladly did.
It’s way past 2am and I solved most of our problems – the blog is back and so are all of my client’s sites… Major disaster avoided. No the Keiki Blog does not look that pretty at the moment, and not all features are activated, but every other domain (and I have over 20 running from the same package) is just perfect.
The Baby Blog and Andy’s A Kauai Blog were sharing a database, like siamese twins who share some region of the brain (and I could not get Andy to allow me to upgrade his limping blog for a long time **HINT** **HINT**) I think there reason for the problem was that the shared database of the Kauai blog and the Keiki Blog (yes, got a name change too, no more Baby…) got spammed to the point that it grew too big, so all the blog software failed, and caused the servers to refuse to deal with any of my websites <geek>12+ hanging cgi processes and cpu quotas exceeded</geek>
The last thing that one of the spammers tried to insert into our database caused a problem, because the – overfilled – database quit in the middle of adding whatever viagra or refinance advertisement and did not work at all from then on. Even after 1and1 restored the order on the other domains <geek>killed the hanging processes</geek> the baby blog would not come back to life, none of its admin components worked.
I then seperated the siames twins Kauai blog and Baby blog and it required some neurosurgical skills…I did a backup of the database, deleted all the spam, and split the kauai from the babyblog and upgraded everything to the newest standards. It was the equivalent from Windows 3.11 or maybe MSDOS to Windows XP. Or maybe take a car, replace the engine, the chasis, the interior… until all you have left are the same passengers. I was actually surprised how easy it was, compared to some of the smaller upgrades, from 2.5.1 to 2.6 was just about the same amount of work… not really, but all in all it was less than 4 hours and most of the time went into figuring out what the problem was (1and1 for once was really unhelpful)
I think I wrote this mainly for my own info… congrats if you read and understood it all. (And I must be more coherent than usually at 2am)
Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla Figwort family) in front of beautiful Poison Oak
Ella and her parents joined us for the first part of our hike to Mustang Peak
Shay knows a lot of stories about Thomas the Engine
Grass Nuts AKA Wally’s Basket, Ithuriel’s Spear (Lily Family, Triteleia laxa )
Shay, Ayelett and Ella were not prepared for such a long hike and turned around.
Horned lizard. The horned lizard is popularly called a “horned toad,” “horny toad”, or “horned frog,” but it is neither a toad nor a frog.
Yes, I stalked him and trampeled some wildflowers. Why?
Sticky Monkey Face Flower and Indian Paint Brush
We reached Mustang Peak and had lunch with Lisa, Clay and Alan.
On the way back the group split, Alan and I went the longer way via Purple Pond trail and Duch trail and the rest of the group went back to where we had the cars and drove back to the campsite. Below is Purple Pond
The evening light was beautiful (once I stopped worrying that we were on the wrong trail…)
Good night Leilani…
We were 1/2 an hour late, but the nice volunteers still let us in
Grandma Rosemary made beautiful new outfits for Madeleine
Leilani still loves the little Gym. Here on this photo, a few weeks ago she wa anxiously waiting for her class to begin. I did not sign her in for the summer and fall sessions, because I am still so angry at her for being so slow and missing half the class the previous time (2 hours for lunch and getting dressed)
She loves to play dressup – Oriental Princess (probably Jasmine)
Here she is a Hula dancer
We made Gingerbread Easter Bunnies
Jumping on the trampoline
Maurice and Marianne
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