Butch's blog

A quick follow up on JB and the great epic trek into parental hell that started Monday.
He's doing much better. Much, much better.
Jacob's color is back. And he is now starting to tell me that he's bored. Which says to me that he wants something to do.
I expect that we'll start slowly returning to whatever passes for normal around here. The big problem is that we were not able to establish the new (read: summer) normal before a somewhat tiny vestigial flap of tissue decided it wanted everyone to pay it some attention. So, now we start trying to return things to normal, whatever that means.

Forgive me if the typing is weird. I'm doing this on my phone.
Friday night JB was a little congested, but we live in Virginia Beach and school just got finished, so allergies and colds happen.
Saturday we went to the beach, and Saturday night JB was complaining he was dizzy. We figured he was dehydrated from being at the beach and in the sun for a couple hours.
Yesterday (Saturday) he ran a fever, but nothing else seemed wrong. At this point we were figuring it was a cold.
This morning, Nat and I slept in from the school year 5:30am start. It was 6:30 when we started to get up, and JB comes into the room telling us that his stomach hurt. There wasn't anything really wrong with this, until he curled up on the floor of the bathroom when we asked him if he was going to throw up.
Seems this the "my belly hurts" means "I am doubled over in pain and there is nothing anyone can do about it"
JB might be a bit overdramatic at times, but this was way different from normal.
We did get him back in bed for a bit. He started to act like he felt better. He even started to eat breakfast. And then he started with the discomfort again. At this point it is all way too familiar.

Happy Birthday, to you! Happy Birthday, to you! Happy Birthday, dear Macey! Happy Birthday, to you!

We all wish we could be there with you, sorry you're not feeling well.

Today is my 37th birthday.
Yesterday, the neighbors used my birthday as an excuse to throw a patio party (not that we really needed much more of a reason than it was warm). And it was a surprise. Would you believe the first surprise party anyone has ever done.
Honestly, it's just another day (that just happens to be a national holiday).
So, we had some drinks, some coffee, some cake, a noticeable Marti Gras theme in honor of the beaded necklace that I found on my car a week or so ago, and there were some funny gifts.

On another front, today is Quit Facebook Day. And I'm tempted to quit facebook. But I'll leave that for another day. QuitFacebookDay.com

And on the final front, today is Memorial Day.

Yesterday I noticed a problem while upgrading some of the modules that run the site. It should have been an easy issue. The version numbers for one or two of the modules did not reflect the versions that had been installed, and this was making another module complain, because at least one of the versions not being reported had a security problem.
I did some poking around and realized that I must have put an earlier version of at least one module in the wrong place, and the system was still seeing the old version in the wrong place, not the new version I just tried to install.
So, I went about and fixed this. I deleted what I thought were the wrong versions and made sure the new versions were where they should have been.
And that's when I made my mistake. I worked without a backup.
Some of the modules I use rely on other modules. The layout of some of the pages, including, it seems, the admin pages that only I see, fall into this category. And all of the relationships between modules, and where files are stored and how things go together are all stored in the database.