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TradeShark Diary – Friday 18th October

Some of you may have been reading my diary posts on the forum. If you WERE reading it you’re probably wondering where the forum went!Diary

Over the last 2 or 3 weeks I have been making changes to the blog to improve its performance. I have been making changes to the site’s code. Some of it was direct code changes and some were by using plugins. There have been a few problems along the way.

One or two of the plugins I used to improve site performance were very powerful and broke a few things. Some were fixable but sometimes I had to give up on the plugin as it changed too many other bits of the site.

One thing I noticed was that the forum would load OK but if you clicked on the button to write a new post it didn’t work. Initially I found that there was a conflict between the forum and an SEO plugin. If I switched off the SEO then I could post on the forum. Not ideal especially if anyone else wanted to post on there. As I was pretty much the only person posting I figured I could live with it for now.

I made a few more changes and then found that I couldn’t even log into the forum.  Nothing I did would let me sign in. I thought I would uninstall the forum plugin and re-install it. It works for most plugins as the setting are saved.  There was a message that all data would be lost. Ah they don’t mean it.

Anyway, all data was lost. I have access to a back up from my hosting company but when I checked the new installation of the forum it was still broken. No one wants forums these days anyway.

So I’ll be posting on here instead. It won’t be every day and sometimes will be once a week. Anything and everything can be covered.

A quick update: The cat finally died. She was the last of 9 that we have had. We had them all at once for while. That was interesting. Ellie was 19 years old. Blind, incontinent towards the end and diabetic. At least the new leather sofas are safe.

TradeShark Diary - Friday 18th October 1
Watching the French Open with Ellie

I have been chased by a copyright scammer for the last 6 months or so.  They had sent me the final, final final warning before they might take me to court. Haven’t heard anything for a week or so.

   
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Ho Ho Ho! How do I get myself into these things?

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had been asked to play Santa at a local Nursery. It seemed ages away when I agreed to it but now it’s tomorrow.

 

 

I'm hoping the big chair is for me
I’m hoping the big chair is for me

I am just hoping I can get through it without any of the kids recognising me. I don’t want to be the “Santa” who gives the game away.

 

jesus

 

The baby Jesus being black is a twist to the tale….

 

santashark

So the plan is:

In

Ho Ho Ho

Who’s been good this year?

Pressies

Ho Ho Ho

Merry Christmas

Leggitt

 

Wish me luck………

 

UPDATE:

Well that was fun.

Around an hour before I was due to leave the house I started to get quite nervous. I got to the nursery at 9:30 as planned. Their nativity was due to start at 9:30 and I was due on at 9:50. One of the wise men hadn’t turned up and the start was delayed by around 40 minutes. No one had told me when I arrived that there was a delay so I got into the Santa costume straight away. I was using the upstairs bathroom to change.

It was so hot upstairs and I was getting pretty hot in the beard, wig, hat and costume. It was quite uncomfortable. Finally I heard “We wish you a merry Christmas” coming to an end downstairs which was my cue and I made my way to the stairway that reached the hall right outside the room the Nativity was in.

I walked into the room and stopped in my tracks. It was PACKED. There were around 70 people in there! Nothing was as I had seen it in my head and for a second I froze. I told myself, “just give a big HO HO HO, MERRY CHRISTMAS” and wing it from there.

So I made my way through the crowd at the back of the room. Everyone had stopped talking and turned round as I entered.

I put my arms out wide and boomed, ” HO HO HO HAPPY NEW YEAR!”

For fuck sake.

 

It wasn’t really salvageable but I added, “….but let’s get Christmas out of the way first! ”

 

I walked to the front of the room where all the kids were sat on the floor looking up at me. One little girl burst into tears and screamed.

 

After that it more or less went OK. I handed out the presents and got the hell out of there. On the plus side at least no one will be asking me to do it next year!

 

   
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