Kyle M. Perkins

Today was a very snowy day. Lots of snow and not a lot of travel. I wonder if we'll be snowed in tomorrow or not. Hopefully not.

Not much really happened today. Keat had the Marketing Plan to work on and finish, which she did while we watched a number of American Dad episodes. I received a call on the 800 number from a potential client, and after the call was done, I was super excited: the potential client fits our target market perfectly! I mean, after revamping our current marketing strategy, we're seeking out organizations and businesses who have gone through a web designer/developer/firm already and were dissatisfied with the results, either through the vanishing points of contact to the updated site design, and even with something as simple as missing updates. When the client becomes frustrated with their current site provider and they want to seek out a better firm, that's where we come into play! As the motto says, "Simply Professional, Professionally Simple™", and we hold that true to today!

I also received an email from the support guy saying that he couldn't find anything wrong that would cause the downtime on the server. He said that there was a cron job (Geek-to-English: a cron job is a scheduled task in a Linux system) set to run every 30 minutes, and he changed it to every hour. I haven't received any downtime-related emails since about 6 or so tonight, so I guess that solved the issue. I checked the cron jobs and only saw 1 other cron job aside from the one I set. The other cron job was a system-wide backup (or so I can guess), and doing one every 30 minutes may cause the downtime issue. As I said, I haven't received any downtime emails since then, so hopefully that solved it.

I also received an email from our vet-tech friend discussing Chi. She said:

Cats go into heat from about Feb to Nov. They usually don't go 
 
into heat in Dec and Jan, though they can certainly do so. Cats 
 
essentially go into heat all year long, constantly, until bred. 
 
They can go into heat, be out of heat for a week, and go right 
 
back into heat. they can even go into heat while still nursing 
 
their young, and get pregnant again. They are very prolific 
 
breeders.

Apparently, female cats can go in and out of heat quite frequently (just great) and she gave us a reference to check out for getting Chi spayed. If all else fails, we can take Chi down to her and she'll do it (although she's about 1.5 hours away from our home, so that may take a while or a weekend trip). Chi's been pretty good all day, especially when she was asleep on the bed. BUT when she was up and about, all we heard was "MEROW MEROW MEROROROW mrrrrrRRROOW" again and again and again (she likes to turn purr's into meow's). I think my favorite phrase today was "Chi, I love ya, but please SHUT UP!" I think I also said "For the sake of my sanity, please SHUT UP!" a few times during the day. I know Chi didn't listen, but it felt better to say that. Although it's been a pain trying to keep her from peeing on stuff.

One last note: ......GREAT SCOTT!!! There's a Back to the Future Game! Saw it on my reader via GameTrailers.com, and just had to share it! After 25 years, when the first one came out, there is finally a BttF game! YAY! Had an interest in obtaining the trilogy, and found that Wal-mart has it for $32! What a deal!

Another last note: the neighbors finally came home and took care of their dog. The "female" came home at about 6am and stayed for a while, then we knew she was gone when the dog went "HROOOOWWWLLLL" again. We realized that both of them came home around 6pm, so (for the dog's sake) we're glad they're home.