This weekend was the 1st Shining Star Motorcycle Rally in Fort Stockton. Named after a Texas YES! designation the city received, the rally hoped to raise money for various community groups. The group that organized the rally wanted to incorporate the honor of being a Shining Star city into the theme of the rally. The Hardworking Rural Community Award Program annually spotlights Texas communities for economic prosperity and innovation, with the highest award being the Shining Star. Last year, Fort Stockton was singled out as the first recipient of the Trailblazer Hall of Fame Award for scoring at the top for the past three years.
Being the first year, attendance was a little low, and some more vendors would have been great. But they more than made up for it by having my favorite band in the whole world headline the event: the Thumpin’ Puppies. They played all Friday night, and closed out the event on Saturday night.
Here are a few photos from the concert, ride, and rally. Click on thumbnails to view larger photos.
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I have slept for 2-3 hours per night, each night, all week. Because of some persistent server problems, which I couldn’t be reassured that they would not keep happening as they had for the past few weeks, I moved all of my sites and clients to new servers.
All 34 of them.
All of them this week.
I’m tired, brain-mushy, and not just a little irritated that I couldn’t just leave them where they were. I had been with that hosting company for many years, and all they had to do was reassure me that the problem WAS fixed. But since they couldn’t, now I have to keep my fingers crossed that I made a good choice in the replacement company. Only time will tell that.
But, it is now early Friday afternoon, and the last of the sites is now live on the new server. Email seems to be working, I didn’t screw up any of my databases in the process (that was my biggest worry!), and my phone has not rung since 8 am this morning.
For those of you haven’t read any of my previous posts regarding telephones - I HATE PHONES.
So the silence is such a blessing after this week from hell, that I think I’ll go take a nap, then fire up the bike this evening. The Thumpin’ Puppies are playing the Shining Star Motorcycle Rally, and that’s where I plan to be for most of the night.
Thanks for bearing with me while the site was up-and-down for the past 2 weeks. I hope it’ll be steady here on out….
Server problems should all be completely resolved now. Thanks for waiting this out with me, and hopefully now we can get back on track…
My host is experiencing some server problems, and as you have noticed, the site has been unavailable off and on for quite some time. I am hoping to have this resolved very very soon, so PLEASE bear with me. The host is hoping to have all reliability restored. I’ve been with them for many years now, and this is the first serious issue I’ve had. I know it is frustrating, but I promise it will be better than ever very soon now! Well, at least I HOPE it will be! In the meantime, because of these issues, please use this email address to contact me instead of my westxdesign address:
renee.gaylor[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks again for your patience!!!
warnings like this get your attention...
TORNADO WARNING ....
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* ... TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
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renee: enjoying new music from scott & dan :) (separet, very different not 'scott & dan' but "scott" and "dan" (via Twitter / renee)
renee: going through LP collection and seeing which i haven't bought CDs for yet...ooo...Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell! (via Twitter / renee)
