Why does life have to be a chore sometimes?

[Tenchman]

I'm zipping through posts i've missed. reason i'm on today finished a small job the other dayand now back to updating my database.
Lynn i know you had a bad time recently but how about this.

a former friend of some 20 years -architect. i had my website with a Liverpool firm who got us strated via a grant back in 1992. some years down the line mate changes work more to computer stuff. i change hosts to help.

years later turns into a complete loony starts removing e-mails which is easy as they go through his server, tells lies etc etc including letting it be known i've died. ( i had a heart attack 3 years ago caused by a work injury so that was believable)

This deleting etc is going unknown to me plus getting bugs in pc. =him again. because i had time off i had a back log plus people had private e-mail etc. it is over 18 months before i find out the fool is doing this to me.

I get one domain back inside a day or so the other two he had servers in Canada, who turned out to be real lousy scum instead of a minimum turn around of 5 days it takes me 9 months to get my two main domains back.

by now lots of organisations i have worked for over the last 38 years have now archived me as i'm either dead or retired due to ill health according to info they had off him.
Got everything moved to a temp host in late summer last year, temp host got knocked down by a motorbike ( i can see some of you grinning !! i know it is like a tragi-comedy) she is chinese so she buggers off to china to get better. leaving me with no access to my website.

finally get it all changed over with loads of hassle in early Feb this year, i have control of my website but haven't put the dozens of pics etc up as yet as i'm in the middle of sending almost a thousand letters out to both update my customer database & extend it.

Which is what i'll be doing rest of today. so if you think it is bad you want to speak to someone who is in tears cos they have held a mass for you.

or speak to someone who thought you were dead!!

I'm sure it will all right itself and i'm happy in a perverse way because i found out why some people never sent work to me anymore. it also explains why the vast amount of my work was coming through my personal e-mail as the e-mail via my site was corrupted.

ended up causing lot's of problems for me, i had to bin my hard drive as it was corrupted as well.
cost more than a grand in ink/cd discs/letter stuff/paper/stamps.
but i should have a brilliant extended database when i finish.

that is hopefully the silver lining in massive big cloud and one reason why i wasn't on forum i was either working away or working on getting this sorted.

So Lynn it may have been bad but it wasn't as bad as that was it ?

there is always someone worse off.

 

[Mike]

that's bad but looks like you've sorted it now. some people eh?

 

[kilty55]

urgh sounds a nightmare tenchman

 

[Tenchman]

It was and still is, i've had enough crap to last about two lifetimes, that injury was on a restoration job in Edinburgh funny enough.

had other stuff as well biz partner changed livery to ceramic tiling but now has a website trying to score jobs from me !!!

i'd jack for half a million at the mo never mind 1.5 ha ha.

just go fishing and chill.

 

[user123]

Heyyy Steve, nearly there, nearly there .... Go forth and prosper

 

[Tenchman]

Ha Ha i wish, but thanks for the philosophical push ! i only have about 150 letters left to write but as a bonus cos i love typing so much ( that is sarcasm for those literal people) i have been asked to write some articles !!
pity i only use two fingers typingrrr:

I will reach a tipping point where all this catching up pans's out i curse myself for being so naive & trusting on some stuff, however it stops you from becoming an absolute paranoid git if you can still think some people are worth knowing and i have have had some great feedback & support from members here on the forum both private messages & public.

Cheers G

 

[hillhead]

You need a bit of luck after all that Steve,
Its St.Patrick's day here so I'm off to chill the rest of week.
I smell beer, time to go shortly. Lol.
Go fishing steve and good luck mate.

 

[kilty55]

im off fisghing down the lakes tommorow,after some early season carp and tinca tincas

 

[kilty55]

I just got my maplin catalogue with my News of the world pack today and on page 15 they are promoting a SAD light box.

Maybe everyone needs one of these to cheer themselves up in the winter...

Light Box can cheer us all up

never tried one but i think im someone who needs to try this out,,they are about 150 quid i think i get that doom n gloom feeling right through winter...which is 11 months out of 12 up here lolol

 

[Tenchman]

Thanks And a Happy St Patrick's Day everyone i'm wearing my shamrock and will be partaking of a drop of Irish Malt later. Sinnott is a Wexford name. Cheers Steve.

Yes fishing on agenda soon Jeez you'll be lucky getting a tench Kilty Let me know if you do as you can see from my handle it's my Fav fish Good Luck & tight lines.
Don't get too merry Joe. Ha Ha

 

[Pebbs]

I think I'll move over in the boat so Tenchman can sit and fish from it, Im so sorry that youve had all that aggro. Its been so bad that Ive been grateful for the fact that some days its not raining! I still have adhesive wars going on with the lads, you men can get a bit 'stroppy' over your adhesive and grout cant you? Aww well, theres bigger worries in the world.

Lynn