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Thursday, October 03, 2002
I'm very, very annoyed right now with Seanic.
Deep breaths. In. Out. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10...
Seanic does my hosting, see. They're the folks that keep www.jeremybear.com up and running. In theory, anyhow. As of this moment, my website is defunct and God alone knows when anyone will be able to read this blogger again. So, essentially, I'm not posting an update right now, I'm typing nothing into thin air. It's therapy. This isn't an entry in the Blog... it's more like a dirge. I'm mourning the loss of my presence on the information superhighway.
Okay, that's a bit dramatic, but I'm still very very pissed. Right now, a very retarded-looking placeholder page greets visitors to my site. The sad thing is, it's not even a placeholder for my own homepage, it's a placeholder for someone else's. It encourages visitors that some website called http://plain.rackshack.net is coming soon. (by the way rackshack.net appears to be some sort of online hardware retail store... what???).
Not only that, but my art@jeremybear.com email is fritzed. It's all very ridiculous. Hhh...
I suppose it could be worse, though... after all...
No, forget it. I'm not going to give these people the benefit of the doubt. I'm annoyed and enraged and I can't get at my email and I can't update my site and I can't transfer files through FTP and it's all because Seanic wasn't able to keep their promise of %99.9 uptime. It's been the better part of a day (I discovered this issue before going to bed last night). Typically, it's a couple hours a week or a half-day a month that things go screwy with my email or with my site, but it's never been this bad. Oooh, this is very upsetting. Big as life, right on their homepage, it says "GUARANTEED 99.9% UPTIME OR MORE"... Guaranteed? Oh really? Or what, my money back? Well, lay some cash on me, baby.
By the way, I think it's significant that Seanic's own site (www.seanic.net) isn't down. Apparently, they don't trust their own server to host their own site, or they'd be down as well.
Oooooooohhhhhh, this is such a pisser.
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On a lighter note, today was Carey's first day of work. Training actually. She's on her way home now. Congratulations, Care.
Not that anyone can read this.
Grrr.
posted by Jeremy Bear 3:13 PM
Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Stacie has returned. As I wrote on my homepage:
 Update: Stacie Albrecht
As it happens, Stacie turned up today (Wednesday as of this writing), safe and hopefully sound. Apparently (and this is a third-or-fourth-hand report), she went temporarily goofy on Sunday and decided to drive away for a couple of days without telling anyone. While this isn't very in character for Stacie as far as I've ever known her, we're all thrilled that she's unharmed.
But, do your civic duty and squelch the email-forwarding wildfire by informing those that you've written to or spoken to about this that she's indeed okay.
For the newspaper account of the story, click here.
posted by Jeremy Bear 1:29 PM
I do realize that it's 4:00 in the morning and I wish I could say that I'm posting at this ungodly hour because I'm an early riser , but the truth is, I simply haven't made it to bed yet... I doubt I could sleep if I tried... mostly, it's because of two terribly, terribly disturbing emails I received earlier in the evening.First, I got this one from a former co-worker back in Canton:
I know that some of you are far away, but if someone is missing, they can end up farther than you think.
Attached please find the Stacie Flyer. Please forward to all friends and family - especially those out of the North Canton area. I used to work with this girl. If you could please forward this flyer to everyone in this area, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Krisite
Shortly thereafter, this came in:
hi there. i know that i haven't talked to you for some time, but one of my friends is missing and if you happen to have any information on her, i thought it would be worth a try... she has been missing since sunday - she never picked up her kids on sunday - yes she has 2 children and it's not like her to do this kind of thing...
attached is a missing persons flier -please look it over and hang some up!
thanks, monica
Kristie, Monica and I worked with Stacie Albrecht at Innis Maggiore Group a few years back. She's genuinely one of the sweetest women I've ever met and a dear friend.
And she's missing.
Although the flyer outlines all the info below, here it is, just in case you have issues looking at the file (.pdf format):
Stacie Albrecht
Last seen Sunday, Sept. 29. in North Canton, OH
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 130
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Car: 2000 Ford Focus 4-Door, Light Blue w/ Liscense # BFV8031
(Small dent on passenger side, "Goddess" sticker on back bumper)
Any information please contact the North Canton police:
330-499-5911
This is the flyer that Kristie and Monica are passing around. Please download it and post it somewhere. I'm very worried. Usually this kind of thing is reserved for people on the news or friend-of-a-friend stories, but this time it's... well, it's Stacie. We're praying that she's okay and the explanation for all this is something really stupid and embarrassing, but... take a good look at the picture above and to the right. Click to enlarge it. Download the flyer and put it on a telephone poll. And, if you don't mind terribly, say a prayer for her safety.
Thanks.
posted by Jeremy Bear 4:29 AM
Sunday, September 29, 2002
My wife has a job. She's employed. Not only that, but she's living in that most blissful of hours: hired, but not yet working. The job-hunt pressure is off, as is the work-day pressure... for the moment, anyway.
She's been hired as a server at a country club here in Long Beach. So, at the very least, we can now pay most of our bills. It's called Virginia Country Club and, thankfully, it pays full health benefits. So cheers to Carey Bear for coming through for the family! Hip hip hurrah!
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What else... ah, yes. Check out the latest script, if you can stomach it. Sporting a stylish title from none other than Dave & Renee Reinke of Worthington, Ohio... I give you: The Trouble with Sleeves. (I'd wanted to do something along the lines of an earlier script, Diff'rent Drunks, for awhile [i.e. something lawsuit-worthy], so there you go.) Thanks, Dave & Renee. Next time we're in town, the Coronas are on me.
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Yesterday, Carey and I purchased California car insurance. Let me assure you: she ain't cheap. Back in ol' Ohio, I had several speeding tickets on my record and we were fully covered. These days, I've only got one lingering ticket, which will be off my record come April and we're shivering down in Minimum Coverage Land. And, would you believe it, it's still far more expensive, just because it's California. How does this happen? Was there some sort of state-wide town meeting 50 years ago?
CITY COUNCILMAN: Gentleman, let's make tonight's proceedings short and sweet. I've got an early tee time in the morning. Madame Secretary, the first item on the agenda?
MADAME SECRETARY: Yes, sir, Item One: Legislation to make everything in the great state of California more expensive than anywhere else.
CITY COUNCILMAN: Ah, yes. Are we all familiar with this bill? Can we go ahead and vote?
MAYOR WHOEVER: Eh, if I may have some clarification, Council... we're proposing to inflate the price of everything in California. Insurance, living expenses, property, rent, groceries, clothing... everything. Is that correct?
CITY COUNCILMAN: That is correct, Mayor.
MAYOR WHOEVER: And for what purpose?
CITY COUNCILMAN: Welllllll... I don't know. Because we can, I suppose.
MAYOR WHOEVER: Okay. Just wondered. Continue.
CITY COUNCILMAN: Very well. All in favor?
EVERYONE: Aye.
CITY COUNCILMAN: Opposed?
EVERYONE: ...
CITY COUNCILMAN: Vote's unanimous, bill is passed. Madame Secretary, next order of business?
MADAME SECRETARY: Yes, sir, Item Two: Legislation proposed to allow all California mailmen to behave as abusively as they see fit...
Ah, who knows. Back to insurance, though: we are a bit nervous about this minimum coverage business. Wrecks happen all the time around here. In the past month (and, sadly, this is no exaggeration) two major collisions have happened right outside my window. (Both of them while I was typing Blogger entries, oddly enough...) I'm talking hardcore, grisly accidents... bits of hair and blood in the windshield and all that... ick.
I think it's because the streets here in Long Beach were devised by some sort of psychotic booby-house refugee or perhaps an orangutan. It's I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E to make any sort of right or left turn with any level of certainty here. All parking is on the street and most streets are one-way and there simply is no such thing as a Point-Of-Vision, so even right turns out onto any kind of major road are, by necessity, accompanied by a string of Hail Marys. You just never know. It's a numbers game, frankly, and one of these days our number will come up.
And, yet, we only have minimum coverage. Sweet Lord, protect us.
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Working on a whole bunch of websites and other arty little doodaws, so hopefully I'll have a slew of fun things to post in the portfolio section soon. Oh, and I'm still working on that screenplay. I'm really stuck on this one scene right now, though, and it's making me crazy. I'm seriously considering a reevaluation of a couple of major plot points right now because even I'M getting bored with a few of these scenes... when your own script bores you, that's probably not a good sign.
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A very happy birthday to one of my favorite sisters in the whole world, Erin Bear Burtoft. Today (whoops... look at the time... I guess it's yesterday at this point) is her 25th. You never forget your silver. Speaking of forgetting, though, I forgot to call. I'll make a point of dropping a line tomorrow. Jeez, I'm such a prick. Sorry, Erin. You know I love you, baby, but I'm way too self-centered to behave like a decent human being. At any rate, hope 25 is the best year yet. XOXOXOXO
And, speaking of birthdays, my wife has unsubtley let me know that, indeed, her's is coming up in less than a month (Oct. 20, as it happens), and she does have a wish-list on amazon.com. For those interested, said wish list can be found here. Let the shopping frenzy begin.
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I'm off to bed.
posted by Jeremy Bear 3:03 AM
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