Suspended

Well. So that's what I get for having a paid blog account. (Yes, paid, I know it is totally ridiculous, and I swear that in no longer than a month I will finally have moved this blog off of Typepad and onto my own domain where I only pay something like a $10 yearly fee and will use some free blog software.) Anyway, long ago I set myself up on Typepad because I suspected I would too greatly enjoy tinkering around in the html (either to make the blog work just so, or to prettify it), so I purposely chose a level of service that gives me slight bit of flexibility in the design of the blog, but otherwise no real access to the html code behind the site. To be honest, it's been nice. But it's also clearly ridiculous to pay every month for a service that the rest of the world gets for free and they are managing just fine.

This is actually related to where I've been for the past (more than a) month.

So there I was, procrastinating moving my blog, and thinking about posting, when all of a sudden my blog was suspended. Because my credit card was cancelled. Because someone had fraudently charged $4500 in pipe material to the card. And although my credit card company didn't bat an eye at the obvious fraud, they also didn't send me a replacement card. Or maybe they did, and it ended up in someone else's hands, in which case I will get to experience fraud on my card for the third time in my life. Anyway, eventually my company did send me a new card. But in the meantime, Typepad tried to charge my card and were unable to do so, so they suspended my account. (You could post comments, but I couldn't make new posts.)

I have a backlog of about a million things to post about, but don't have the time to do it now, but at least now I can post again!