Grade 2, Day 1

by JustBeachy on August 18, 2008

School started back today.

I walked brother in and stood with him for a few minutes.  I asked him if he wanted me to wait with him or go, and of course he said, “go.”  He has always been so independent when it comes to things like this.  He is not afraid of new or change.  I guess he figures he has been there before and there will be someone he knows or he will make a new friend.

I know it is a good thing, but the first day of school still leaves me with tears in my eyes as I walk alone to the car, knowing that my children are growing up.  I know I could jokingly say they are tears of joy, but in honesty, it is sorrow.  Another year.  Another year older.

Sister started 10th grade today.  No words can discribe my feelings about that.

I took today off, as I usually do on the first day of school.  To me it has always been a day of reflection, a day alone in the house filled with quiet and solitude.  The school year has started - this usually is the only day of rest and solitude I can claim for the next school year.

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How Well I Remember The Dinosaurs

by JustBeachy on August 15, 2008

This morning brother and I were on our way to work, when he asked, “Mom, what would happen if it con… contained?” To which I must magically know what and or who he is talking about. Sorta like him asking me, “Has it been an hour?” to which I must know, an hour since??? Course I don’t know and he usually gets frustrated before he even starts his conversations.

So this morning his contained, was actually a deployed, and he was talking about the airbag. I don’t like him to sit in the front seat because of the airbag, so I have scared him to either a life of fear or back seatdom, for fear it will deploy on him. Anyway, the conversation went on and came around to him asking me if I’ve ever been in an accident or deployed by the airbag. I told him of the worst accident I had been in as a teen and that we didn’t have airbags back then. Of course, he asked about a hundred questions, taking us to what happened, where we hurt, was anyone else hurt, did we go to jail, why is a judge so mean, making good choices, and tickets that have to be paid.

Yes, my sister and I hit a guy on a motorcycle on our way Christmas shopping, he was flying down a hill in the dark with no light, we turned left. He hit us, we hit a telephone pole, we were bumped and bruised pretty bad. He had a broken leg. We went to court, no one went to jail, judges aren’t mean they just uphold the law. If you make bad choices, you have to be willing to pay the consequences… My sister got a ticket.

His next question was, “how much was the ticket?”

“Gosh, I don’t know son that was like 25, um 28 years ago.”

“Whoa, good thing there weren’t dinosaurs back then!”

Good thing son.

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Iframe Malware in Wordpress

by JustBeachy on August 14, 2008

So, apparently, those comments and emails I received actually were a real issue? I was playing with my site today when I should have been working, and I upgraded to Firefox 3.0. When I did this, the next time I viewed my site I got a great big black screen with a Big Red Warning that my site might be infected. This was after I upgraded to 2.6 and imported my posts back in. The script was actually in my posts.

I guess google is doing this big campaign, and at the same time, wordpress was having a security issue with some of its versions, and I guess if someone knew what they were doing they could register on your blog then infect your posts with a hidden iframe script? I remember a few months back some jibberish registering as a user .. I was nice enough to even send them an email to tell them there was no need to register (and that I had deleted it), and if anything were private only, only friends and family would be allowed to view it. bastards. I don’t know if wordpress fixed the deal, but I guess if you turn off anyone can subscribe than you are secure? (hopefully)

Anyway, I found two iframe scripts in two different posts and deleted them. I then found a site where you could check do a check for parasites and it kept bringing up a hidden iframe almost the same as the deleted items? I ended up exporting my post into a text document and then searching for the “traffic statistics.” It brought up both the deleted script and also two other auto saved / revision posts that had the hidden script in it.

I deleted both posts and my site tested clean. What a big pain in the ass this has been today.

Here I am wanting to make my new template all pretty pretty, and I have to spend the whole day figuring out how to find crap I have no idea how to find. Google is great at telling you you have a problem and then they get all technical and dont really tell you what or how to get rid of it. Also..It would have been really nice as a subscribed google account holder, if they would have notified me that my site may be infected instead of just slapping a big ole Risk sticker on my site. Google’s taking over the internet and wow, we have no recourse.

Bottom line for me is to keep my wordpress software current with each revision and subscribe to the rss the feeds.

I really just wanted to post this here in case someone else like me is flagged and is searching “mostly to no avail” about what it is and how to fix it.

You can enter my site now :)

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Very Frustrating! Very.

by JustBeachy on August 11, 2008

I can’t get my feed’s to work. arg.

Fixed! :)

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I Know You Will Be Asking

by JustBeachy on August 11, 2008

I told you I needed change.  This is a big change, yes?  Actually, a few people had commented on a Malware warning they had received when they visited my site, then this morning I received the same error at work.  Guess it was time to upgrade to 2.6, cept, um, I didn’t want to read the “upgrade” stuff, so I just deleted the old site and upgraded.  I know right.

Anyway, this will force me to spend time changing things around :)

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Ahhhh

by JustBeachy on August 9, 2008

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I love this hotel. It has become our favorite place to come relax.

Sent via the iPhone

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