And the Fun Never Ends....

June 24, 2009. I mean June 30, 2009.

I hope I got the date right, to be honest I have no idea what day or even month it is.  The last few months have been a blur and I have been more caught up in school than work.  After a much needed vacation last two weeks ago I am sort of back in the swing of things.  Except for the fact that I lost my camera in Tahoe, and I need to start exercising like pretty fast.....no really I do.

And worst case scenario - email is gone, dead.

So, I noticed last week that I was getting no emails, I mean not even SPAM emails offering to sell me pharmaceutical drugs or some enlargement thing I did not want.  My friend said - that is good, it is quiet....it was too quiet if you asked me.  Then my husband forwarded me some emails, I never got them.  He sent them again - nothing.  Yesterday we figured it out..........

When It Rains....It Pours

There is a problem with the name-to-address mapping with the new ISP.  They did not set up the address mapping.  In plain english, the mail servers of today will not respond to mail from a server they can't find the name of.  So you sending me an email to jamie@jamiespnd.com - ya good luck with that.  It is not working.....did you hear me?  I am um, well bummed?  Frustrated? I am in shock....cause after my last post you saw all that I had been through.....right?

Ah well, at the very least things are slow and I am hoping no one is looking for me.  My husband keeps saying I probably missed that email from Oprah asking me to be on her show, that guy cracks himself up.  I just feel bad and hope people don't think I have been rude.  Or worse, thinking I went out of business....now the word frustrated does not seem to be good enough, eh?

800 Number Not So Much

As I am fighting with my email company I get like three, yes three phone calls....from people asking IF I am still in business.  Um, yes I am, why do you ask.  OH the 800 number was disconnected.  Uh......that was like 9 months ago - but okay I get it.  I try to explain it was a cost cutting expense and no one really used it....all three companies swear they did (of course).  My response was sort of like - well not on a regular basis, so we got rid of it.  But I swear we are still here.  And while I am on the phone I am in the process of sending an email to all my accounts stating the whole email problem......not the best image, but I was trying.

That Was Then, This is Now

So, now it is all fixed and I am getting the spams, the emails - all in uh let's say 4 times.  Yes - I get every email 4 times that is - oh well, at least I am getting them.  Our orders email is all fixed.  I am  now able to focus on the new products I have been working on for months, and I mean months.*

*Sorry no photos with this post, as I mentioned earlier - I have no camera and I can not put pictures up.  Don't get me started, I hope to have a new camera soon - no really, I can not live without it.

Comments

[kyoot]

Well we'll just call those other 3 emails back ups for "check and rechecking" purposes ? :)

[Sharon]

There is a saying that when everything seems to be going wrong, something big is trying to be "born." Maybe all the chaos is meant to keep you distracted until all the pieces fall into place for something good. I hope that's true.