My site and it’s children (Growing Up Geek, Twev1701.com) have been experiencing a lot of annoying outage over the past few weeks. Normally it wouldn’t bother me too much but A) It now directly effects our podcast, more specifically, our iTunes download feed. B) I haven’t heard squat about what is causing the problems or what my hosting company is doing to fix the situation.

Imagine my surprise (and relief) today when I got an email from my hosting company.

As you may have noticed Globat.com has been having some short outages on the server named Montserrat where your website is located.

We are planning to perform maintenance work tonight, February 27, 2008 after 10 PM Pacific to replace a disk drive that we believe is causing the problem. The maintenance outage should not last more than an hour unless we run into a serious problem.

We expect this maintenance to either resolve the problem or provide us with additional isolation of the problem for full resolution.

So, it would appear that that have somewhat of a clue as to what’s going on and are at least trying to fix it. This is good. My annual hosting fee is due in 2 months and I have seriously been shopping around for a new host this past week since my sites seem to be down more then they are up. Hopefully the new drive will make everything shiny and happy again.

On the front of my failing health, my fever finally broke last evening. I have been fever free for the past 24 hours and am feeling somewhat human again. I even went out with Jess today to her foot doctor and shopping afterwards. Jess got the clear from her doctor to return to work, but when we went to Target to let them know, it’s not that simple. Target needs to send forms to the doctor to have him fill out and then send back to Target ‘officially’ letting them know she can go back to work.

I love Red Tape.

So, while she was in her HR office going over that stuff, I went and bought some new shower curtains, and headed over to Circuit City which is next door. While there, I saw that ‘Beowulf’ had come out on DVD, and Circuit was running a great sale on it. So, I picked up a copy. As I was heading to the register, Jess called me and said she was done. I told her I was next door and she came and met me — with a bag full of new shower curtains. We had said earlier that morning that we needed a new set. But apparently, we never discussed who would pick them up. I thought I would be the nice guy and pick up a set, and she thought she would do the same. We considered taking a set back, but since we typically change our shower curtains every 3-6 months, we figured we would just keep them and be good for a while. After all that, we headed to Bed Bath and Beyond and picked up a set of new burner pans for the stove. Exciting purchases, I know!

On the way home we debated dinner, and after everyone talking about pierogi on Twitter over the weekend while I as sick, I needed some. So we headed to the grocery store and picked up some, came back, cooked them up with some butter and onions, and watched ‘Beowulf’.

I have to be honest, I rather enjoyed the flick. It’s not a cheesy as I thought it was going to be.

One a totally unrelated note, I got to spend a night with my girlfriend Jess last night. Noticed I didn’t say my wife Jess, but my girlfriend Jess. What’s the difference? I got to spend a night with Jess that I used to have with her when we were still dating. It started off around 10:00pm when we were trying to decided what movie to watch. Instead of another movie, I suggested something different. I suggested she watch ‘The Big Bang Theory’ with me. I have already seen all the episodes that were released, but I thought she would enjoy the show as much as I did. After the first episode was over, I looked to her for a reaction. She immediately wanted to watch the next episode. After the 8th and final episode, she was totally bummed out that there were no more episodes. She loved the show and said those guys are just like me and my friends. I would have argued with her if she wasn’t dead on. After that, it was about 1:00am and we headed to bed — where we laid there and talked until 5:00am.

Now, I’m not making the insinuation that my wife and I don’t talk. We talk more then any other couple I know. (Okay, we talk but just not about who’s buying shower curtains!) But we laid there last night, and talked about everything. Our past, our future, our present, and wild what-if scenarios. We both discovered that we would welcome a threesome in our relationship, but both probably be too chicken shit to actually go through with it. We also discovered that we both need to be a little more selfish. We’ve both trying to make each other happy too much at times. Then we had a littler ‘marital time’ around 5:00am, got a drink afterwards, and went to sleep. I can honestly say we have not done that since we were dating.

It’s really sad to say, but I have seen more of my wife I the past 4 days because I was sick then I have in the past 4 months. It’s something that we’ve both realized, and we both want to fix. So, from here on out, we’re going to try and spend 1 night a week together. Wether it’s watching a movie, playing a game, or just laying down and talking, we’ve rediscovered how much we really like spending time with each other.

Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go watch a late movie with my wife before we have to go to bed.