So I get home from Greece super-late Thursday night, go to update my web log, find that my web site has disappeared, and, like the other 500 or so steady readers of this blog, proceed to thoroughly freak out.

After a quick WHOIS query, I discovered that my domain had expired three days earlier. Odd. It was set to automatically renew itself every year. So I emailed my web host – the renowned only2dollars.com. I didn’t expect to hear from them for another week since that is what happened the last time I had to write them with a problem (whaddaya expect for only $2?). But they got back to me in only a few hours and kindly pointed out that my credit card had expired. I quickly updated my personal details for them and crossed my fingers – “Please don’t have deleted all my files. OH SWEET JESUS, PLEASE!!!”

Since you’re reading this entry on the same beautiful web site that you have all come to know and love, I guess you can figure out how the whole thing ended. Thank heavens.

Moral of the story: back up your files!

While I go and back up all my wedding and honeymoon photos, why don’t you *click* on that cute little hamster provided by Jared Purrington: