My Boring Life
I’m behind…
CT beaches closed for Obama fundraiser.
Ebay tries to see how far it can push its sellers before they go away.
MA governor adds to their health care issues.
High speed chase, of a dead man.
If you’re going to offer to bribe someone, do it in a format less likely to be saved….
Bluesun, over at Dead Man Dance, saw something driving down the road….and I’ve decided that before Apollo starts shedding next spring I need something similer of my own. Apollo will love it, and I won’t have to do nearly as much brushing!! Just don’t pull in behind me, you might be blinded by the free flying fur!
And I’m SO glad we didn’t try to do it ourselves. The guy showed up with a power sprayer with a massively long hose that was attached to a resevoir in his truck, stood back from the nest a good 30 feet, and was STILL slapping at the hornets that made it past the spray. I took a quick look, the nest is demolished and there are dead hornets and eggs everywhere under it. To soon to tell if he got every single one, we’ll give it a day and then go out and cut down the nest and burn it (burn ban or not I’m not leaving it up).
For anyone in the Central NY area, I highly recommend Gannon Pest Control of Syracuse NY. The customer service was very good, and the guy showed up right on time. Their rate was less than 1/2 of what Orkin and Terminix wanted. No idea how far out from Syracuse they’ll go, but when I was setting up the appointment the receptionist made the comment he was headed to Oneida after us, which isn’t the shortest drive from Syracuse so they will travel some.
The dead nest:
So, yesterday I finally got an email from Sitemeter’s support folks. Basically an “oops, we screwed up changing servers, but its all set now!!”.
One paragraph read:
***Missing Data due to server outages*** Unfortunately, this is something that happens.
If you experienced missing data, it should have been very,
very minimal and should have only been within a 2-3 hour time frame.
That issue has since been fixed and should be appearing properly.
Ummmm, no. Lets try this basic math thing again. Screen shots taken from my Sitemeter account as of a few minutes ago:
So, the numbers from the yellow column of the 2nd picture SHOULD all add up to equal the total visits in the first picture. Right?
538+978+789+758+382+417=3862 NOT 3324 and that’s without the missing visit counts from at least one day in this whole mess which never did re-appear on the count page….
Try again Sitemeter folks.
I will say this, if Sitemeter hasn’t fixed this by the end of the day Friday I’ll be ditching them.
In the mean time, lets do a basic math lesson.
Early in the day (8:30am or so) on Aug 2nd my total visits according to Sitemeter was 2993. You’ll have to take my word for that as I wasn’t smart enough to take a screen shot (You’ll also have to take my word for the fact that it ought to have been closer to 3993 as I didn’t take a screen shot of that either).
According to Sitemeter, here are my visits for Aug 2nd and since. (this does not include MY personal visits):
So, some math: 2993 + 120 (SOME of the visits from Aug 2nd had already hit by that time, no idea how many but I’ll guess) + 117+65+37+41=3373 visits. Right?
Here’s a screenshot from my Sitememter account as of about a minute before I started typing this:
Strange how it doesn’t add up huh? Yes, I’m pissed, how could you tell?
A screenshot from my new Statcounter stats:
People searching for help on why their Sitemeter account is screwy, and has been for days, have hit my sitemeter posts 3 (almost 4!) times the number of people coming into the main page. Based on the comments I’ve been getting I’m not the only one who’s help tickets are being ignored either. Now I can believe they’re so over whelmed with tickets that its just taking time….except we’re talking basic coding issues here, basic MATH issues here, that tell me there’s a deeper problem than just data lost during a server move.
We’re on city water, but when they switched the house over the owner at the time attached a manual water pump to the well. Its decorative, but it DOES work, and we try to keep in in repair as a backup water source.
We’ve been a bit neglectfull this year, and didn’t use it till a couple weeks ago. And sure enough the wasps have made a nest inside the thing (yes its wasps, not the hornets with the giant nest, thankfully). We’ve tried drowning the nest, repeatedly, but they just keep coming back. Needless to say this is not a spot where wasp spray is a good idea.
Any ideas as to how to get rid of the nest or are we stuck till it gets cold?