server issues

Jeff · January 06, 2003, 01:01:01 PM

Yep, had some today, I think I got em straightened out now. Forum should be back to speed.

Tom · January 06, 2003, 01:48:31 PM

I sure am glad it wasn't my computer. I was just about ready to throw it out of the window. :D

Had to go watch a Marilyn Monroe movie until I cooled off. ???

Don P · January 06, 2003, 03:27:21 PM

Whew I thought I did it with my sorry picture postin'...things just ground to a halt.

Bibbyman · January 06, 2003, 11:17:06 PM

Tom, was it "Some like it hot"?

I managed to get to watch that one again too sometime after Christmas.

Mary and I got to stay a week in same hotel that most of the movie was made in. In the movie the hotel was in Florida but it was actually the Del Coronado on Coronado Island in the bay in front of San Diego, CA. Quite an historical place. Other parts of movies were also shot there. The writer of the book "Wizard of OZ" was staying there when he wrote the book.

ADfields · January 07, 2003, 12:16:04 AM

Never herd of Coronado Island, is it in San Diego Bay or Mission Bay?
Andy

Jeff · January 07, 2003, 02:09:08 AM

Still seems to be something going on at 5:00 AM.
looking into it.

JeffS · January 07, 2003, 04:12:54 AM

Coranodo island, I believe is in the San Diego bay. I was there one time when I was pretty young. There is a Navy Seal training facility also on the island.

JeffS 8)

OneWithWood · January 07, 2003, 05:08:21 AM

0806 Indiana time (is there really any other?)

Jeff, the server seems to be running better but is still not up to its usual blazing speed. Just an FYI

Bibbyman · January 07, 2003, 06:02:42 AM

Alls I know is that you go downtown San Diego, take a right and head towards the Pacific Ocean and take a big humpback bridge over to it. It's not an island at all but a peninsula that connects to the mainland to the south of San Diego. The south part is some public park or beach area, the middle is private owned - where the hotel is - and then there is a Navy Seal training base there somewhere on the bay side I think. You can see them running up and down the beach in front of the hotel and doing their sea exercise out on the ocean side - jumping out of helicopters and being picked up in rubber boats, etc.

What I found neat was there was no air conditioning in the hotel. It was the middle of summer and would be 75 during the day and 65 at night. In San Diego it would be 95 and further inland it would be a 100 or more. NO INSECTS!

It's been about 15 years ago that we staid there. The rooms were like $200 a night and we were placed in a room on the land side about 8'x10' with 7' ceiling height - probably meant for servants of those that staid over on the ocean side. It was comfortable enough but was over the kitchen and service entrance. Ten time a night we were awaken by truck backing into the service area with their back up beepers going off and trash cans clanging, etc.

The next morning, we asked the desk clerk to move us to the other side of the hall to the inner courtyard side. He diddled on the computer and said he found us a better room. We gathered our stuff and were moved to a room or rather a suite of rooms on the ocean side. Wow! Two TV - one large. The bathroom was larger than the room and bathroom we had before. Heck, the bed was bigger than the room we had before. Ceilings were more like 10' and a balcony overlooking the beach and outdoor restaurant below, etc. We had arrived!

This was when Mary was the fanatical manager for a local insurance company and they had sent her to this convention. I had really nothing to do all day. I had found a local café not far from the hotel were I could get some real breakfast for $2.95 that would hold me until Mary got done for the day and we'd go out somewhere for supper in San Diego. (ie. The Corvette diner) I took a couple of rolls of pictures while walking around the beaches and parks. But I had them developed there on the island and they screwed them up.

Tom · January 07, 2003, 06:39:47 AM

still slow at 9am and 9:30

I don't know if it would be worth going to Cal. to see MM's room or not? I don't think so. She sure is something on the screen though. ;D

That bad motel room thing can happen anywhere. I was in New Market and just crossed the river into the mountains when it got too dark to travel. I pulled my motorcycle into a little motel and got a room. In the middle of the night an earthquake hit..... and a tornado...... and a truck wreck!!

I ran, eyes wide opened, to the parking lot in my skivvies and looked back at the room. There was a train track behind my room at about roof level on the mountain and no more than 20 feet behind it. :-/

Jeff · January 07, 2003, 12:16:53 PM

Things seem to be good here now. How has the forum acted this afternoon? I have stff to do this afternoon and evening so will only have a moment or two to check in here and there.

I think the server logs were clogged and also the email log. I dumped them all. Carters foods which I have on this webserver was the culprit for the email log. 100 megs of log file. Everytime they tried to send a mail it would write to the end of the log which the email server had to read to do. There went our resources.

OneWithWood · January 08, 2003, 09:07:02 AM

DonT know about yesterday afternoon but it is back to its normal speedy self this morning.
Thankx

whitepe · January 09, 2003, 08:06:43 PM

I've been to San Diego several times for
the big yellow worm but I've never stayed at
the Hotel Del Coronado. But I did walk inside to look around
and took a few pictures outside. It has quite
a spectacular construction made with wood of course.
Got to spend a weekend and rented a sail boat and
sailed in the bay. Kinda scary staying out of the way
of aircraft carries. Anyway, I saw this rather unusual looking
ship named the Laney Chouest (spelling? ). It looked
like the front half of a great lakes freighter.
Several years later when I was watching
a Natl. Geographic special on TV about the Solomon Islands
and Iron Bottom Sound which is now where several
naval vessels from WWII lay at the bottom of the ocean
as a result of navel battles. In the special
there was the Laney Chouest, the support ship for
Robert Ballard's deep diving expeditions. It was
a fascinating special.

My late uncle Donald White, was an army veteran
of Guadalcanal in the Solomons. He went into the service weighing 200 pounds and came home a mere 120 pounds.
Conditions were miserable on Guadalcanal.
He always said that when the lizards jumped into
your foxhole and the parrots got quiet then the
enemy was near. Somewhere in my mother's house
is all of the letters that my uncle wrote to my Mom and
Dad during the war. I hope that we can find them someday
and read them. I remember seeing them in the late 1950's
and early 1960's but I was too young to comprehend
their meaning.