quite a productive morning. with brian gone and no longer yack-yack-yacking in my ear all day long, i'm free to turn my attention to other important matters. sent in my money for my high school 10-year reunion, so i feel like i'm locked in now to going. swapping emails around with the two other people besides ryan that i've stayed friends with, and we're all making each other go, so it might almost be fun. i also decided that i'm a bit fed-up with my current hosting provider's lack of .net support, so i've spent some time this morning looking for other hosts. i've found a few that look ok, but i think i'm going to go with alentus. 400mb space, 8gb transfer, email, etc. for $25 a month ($27 if i get the webtrends add-on). i'm more into updating my site than i have been since i started it 4 years ago, and i can't keep trying to hop back and forth between my brinkster account and this one everytime i want to do something. it would be nice if i could get a site that also did perl so i could host my own Movable Type site, but i think that blogger is just fine for me.

of course, moving a site means moving the domain. i have long since forgotten my network solutions (now verisign) account info, so i went to try and retrieve all that stuff. of course the email address for my admin contact is my defunct forwarding address that those mail.com fuckers changed their pricing policy on after i had paid up that address for 3 years. oh, well... it was a nice side benefit to drop that email, since it was getting a lot of spam. anyway, finally retrieved my account number and got to their "forgot password" page, which gives you a choice of questions, and want you to pick the one you picked when you signed up, along with the correct responses. i had completely forgotten which question i picked, so i started answering them in order. of course you get only 3 tries, and there were 4 questions listed, so my account is now locked. sent an email to them to find out how to get my password back, and we'll see how long it takes to get that all sorted out.