Plesk and the Continuing Saga of My Car (aka the bad comedy)
I got home from France last night at 10pm, went to bed at 11 (had to call everyone and tell them I made it), and was up again at 6am this morning. Did I mention that total awake time yesterday was 25hrs? anyway, I went on over to Pleth this morning to fix the problem they've been having with a server. Every single time I get on an airplane, something breaks with one of their servers. Last year when we took the kids to France, I got frantic phone calls while in Little Rock and Houston, and when I was going to Bulgaria I spent an hour on the phone in Atlanta trying to walk them through something. This year, the whole thing crashed as we were starting to board our flight to Paris. Go figure.
Anyway, after figuring out that Plesk is indeed truly stupid (and that having old code that stores everything in a BLOB (binary large object) makes for some SQL craziness) I got most of the 275 emails that I haven't looked at sorted through. Greg went home sick about 12:30 this afternoon, and not long after that I got a call from Mark Martin Ford to tell me that they've finally got my car fixed. I bought a 2005 Mercedes-Benz E500 4-Matic in February and it's had a leak in the right front suspension since I got it. They took it to Little Rock to get it fixed by some independent mechanic 4 times before finally taking it back to Riverside Motors, who had to order a part from Germany, to finally fix it. Long story short -- I've not driven my new car a lot. In fact, I've driven a beat-up Ford Tarus and a brand new Kia Sorento more. I can't gripe too much -- they've been extra good about it and have spent a LOT of money getting it fixed. When they called to tell me my car was ready, I excitedly went to get it. Got as far as Hawgs Exxon to get the aforementioned Dr. Pepper when I noticed that my passenger fog lamp was busted. It was in one piece when I left it there at the beginning of May. This will make the 6th time they've had to fix my car. ARGH!!!! At least this time they can change the fog lamp assembly in Batesville (I hope. It looks like 2 screws hold it in place).....sigh....