Apologies are in order for all of our regular readers for our lack of being here over the July 4th weekend.  It turns out it’s molting season for flying squirrels, and one of the things jumped right into a relay box and fried itself, causing our website to be knocked offline for a period exceeding 24 hours.  Terribly inconvenient that, after our high readership on Friday, following you-know-who doing you-know-what, and breaking news and what-not.

In all seriousness, there are no flying squirrels near my home, and even if there were, they don’t have the technical prowess to take someone’s website down.  My IP hosting service, on the other hand, apparently does.  I tried to have them switch something on one of my other sites, and they did it to this one instead.  Some technical thingy behind the scenes, and they cut the red wire instead of the green one, and I was out of business very sudden-like.

As a Christian, however, I note that God (and when I say God I mean the God of the Bible, the Christian God - which is the only true and living God) in His providence chose to teach me a valuable lesson about functioning on the internet and not giving clear enough instructions to your IP host technicians.  And He did so on a weekend when everyone was barbecuing and watching pyrotechnics, rather than reading pages on the internet.  Lesson learned, Father.

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