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alpep
Posted 2003-11-26 8:34 PM (#200463)
Subject: website problems


Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 10581

Location: NJ
Hi everyone.

Missed us? Yes I know you have and all of you have e mailed me.

The short story is that there was a billing snafu with the hosting service.

All is better now and I am glad it is.

Oh hell, I missed you all too!
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Slipkid
Posted 2003-11-26 9:26 PM (#200464 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301

Location: south east Michigan
Billing problem? Do I need to order a few more OFC t-shirts to help out? :)
Brad
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Old Applause Owner
Posted 2003-11-26 9:27 PM (#200465 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
July 2003
Posts: 1922

Location: Canton (Detroit), MI
Al, we missed you, too!!!! :)
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Paul Blanchard
Posted 2003-11-26 10:14 PM (#200466 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
February 2002
Posts: 1817

Location: Minden, Nebraska
I started getting all mushy and stuff, missing you guys terribly. Or maybe it was like withdrawal symptoms.... :rolleyes:
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JohnnyMac
Posted 2003-11-26 11:24 PM (#200467 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
February 2003
Posts: 99

Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA
I was amazed at how much free time I suddenly had. I was on the verge of getting some work done. Hope THAT doesn't happen again! :D
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BruDeV
Posted 2003-11-26 11:30 PM (#200468 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
January 2003
Posts: 1498

Location: San Bernardino, California
"I want my OFC"
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Nils
Posted 2003-11-26 11:42 PM (#200469 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 1380

Location: Central Oregon
Wow, I just checked in from a web site that was trying to teach me to read music. I was getting a headache. Al you got the OFC got back on line just in time. Thanks.

/\/\/
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TRboy
Posted 2003-11-26 11:48 PM (#200470 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
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Posts: 2177

Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR
I started to break out in hives :eek:

:D :D Glad you're back Al :D :D

Mike :cool:
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Stevechapman
Posted 2003-11-26 11:50 PM (#200471 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
April 2003
Posts: 2503

Location: Fayetteville, NC
Eureka,
I don't have to take anymore Morphine :D
I'm Glad The site Back!
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Bailey
Posted 2003-11-27 12:58 AM (#200472 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005

Location: Las Cruces, NM
Who the hell cares?

I just shut down my computer early, beat my wife, kicked my dog, and put the little kitty out in a snowstorm for meowing to be fed.

With nothing better to do, I went to the IRS to negotiate an outstanding bill. When I arrived I could see what looked like the CA wildfires in the distance through the arched door with the "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter" sign. I went in and took a number and was happy to see it was a "2" I failed to note the infinity sign after the number. Sitting in the waiting area was like a dentist's waiting room, except the moans, screams, and shrieks were much more frightening. I saw an elderly maternal like couple go in ahead of me, and 1 infinity later they crawled out, naked except for scotch taped on IRS publications just sufficient to keep them from a public lewdness arrest. I was ushered in to the interview room just as they were hosing down the chair to remove the blood, sweat, and vomit. Setting on the desk was a stack of clothes and personal items, including 4 gold filled teeth with the roots still covered with blood, and two fingernails with jewelled inserts approximately the size of the matronly lady seen crawling out. I was asked politely by the man with the whip to present some identification, that is, my wallet, my jewelry, my shoes, my glasses. When I objected, the man with the branding iron became terribly agitated and I conformed immediately. We discussed my payments as I relaxed on the rack and grew 6 inches. I was so happy to leave with my taped on IRS publications that I signed over my Social Security and all my other retirements, my home and my car. They let me keep a shopping cart for my computer from which I am logging on. Thank God for the kinder and gentler IRS.

I didn't miss Al at all.

Bailey
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Jeff
Posted 2003-11-27 8:18 AM (#200473 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
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Posts: 863

Location: Central Florida
Glad y'all are back!!!

I was starting to feel like Dorothy in Oz, wondering if I'd ever see home again... There's no place like home... There's no place like home... There's no place like home...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jeff
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Old Applause Owner
Posted 2003-11-27 8:34 AM (#200474 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
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Posts: 1922

Location: Canton (Detroit), MI
Bailey's story reminds me why I missed this place!!

Now, the IMPORTANT thing....Bailey, did the IRS let you keep your OVATIONS???? ;)
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TRboy
Posted 2003-11-27 4:21 PM (#200475 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
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Posts: 2177

Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR
I actually thought that P.E.T.A or the S.P.C.A shut the site down because of the very last post I made before it went down was the post about the white kitten with the blue paper taped to one of it's paws..............(see New Member topic) :D
. . . .

Mike :rolleyes:
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Bailey
Posted 2003-11-28 1:24 AM (#200476 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005

Location: Las Cruces, NM
The IRS let me keep my instruments as my only remaining financial support as a panhandler. They did, however, force me to take an IRS sponsored course on panhandling, which mostly was concerned with the 27 forms required for proper reporting of panhandling income and quarterly filing. They assigned an agent to accompany me and see that I complied. As you might suspect, he played a confiscated 1958 Montgomery Wards bass with a 2 watt amp and only knew 2 songs, which he couldn't remember. Two days into the panhandling gig the state of New Mexico took my instruments for back state taxes. Fortunately they returned them after some guy named alpep chewed them a new a-hole when they tried to sell them on ebay as 2003 collector's models.

Had a great turkey dinner down at the mission, but I can't seem to get rid of the bass player, he follows me around saying things like "It was Good Night Irene, that's what it was I knew, or was it Blowing in the Wind, c'mon just play two bars, I know I can follow if you just play it right." I'm thinking of turning him in to the IRS.

Bailey
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grrroovedude
Posted 2003-11-28 7:59 AM (#200477 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
February 2003
Posts: 299

Location: Netherlands
Unfortunately my computer crashed at the same time, so I thought it had something to do with my computer.

Glad to know it had to do with billing issues.

Good to see all are back (and my computer is up and running too again!)

Martin
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willard
Posted 2003-11-28 8:11 AM (#200478 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
November 2002
Posts: 1300

Location: Madison, Wisconsin
I thought this whole thing may have been a scam building up to the OFC store and that Miles and Al had taken the millions they've made in the past few weeks on pens and mugs and split the country to spend the rest of their days in the Bahamas spendin' our cash.
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alpep
Posted 2003-11-28 10:01 AM (#200479 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 10581

Location: NJ
billions of dollars are made on those pens and t shirts.....
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Slipkid
Posted 2003-11-28 10:16 AM (#200480 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
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Posts: 9301

Location: south east Michigan
Our company's computer also crashed & burned the same day. We got a virus from somewhere. When I could not get the OFC I thought it might have been the same problem. For a while I was worried that our I.T. people were going find that the bug came through the OFC. I would have been sliced, diced & shipped of to scapegoat city.
Brad
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willard
Posted 2003-11-28 10:35 AM (#200481 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
November 2002
Posts: 1300

Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Our IT people have installed filters for all sorts of sites to keep us from going to places like auctions, entertainment, and news/weather. For some wonderful reason, they haven't blocked the OFC or Ovationguitars.com. I'm waiting for a report to come out someday that lists the places visited by my computer cause I don't think I'll be able to blame it on the cleaning people.
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2003-11-28 11:05 AM (#200482 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


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Posts: 15651

Location: SoCal
"entertainment"

Is that another way to say "porn"?
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willard
Posted 2003-11-28 11:41 AM (#200483 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
November 2002
Posts: 1300

Location: Madison, Wisconsin
That too. No, entertainment is when you try and find out who Michael Jackson has buggered now and Google send you to a site like The Star or People Mag.
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2003-11-28 1:16 PM (#200484 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 7209

Location: The Great Pacific Northwest
Hi Everyone,
Wish I could say I missed ya, but I'm in the Carribean just heading home now. Sorry about the web problems, which were basically due to me not getting a security email I needed to respond too for them to complete the billing transaction. I guess timing is everything. Again I apologize for the interruption, and will set something up so this can't happen in the future.

Take care.
P.S. One of the performers is using a beautiful slim body Adamas II with textured top. Another example of thin does not mean low volume or diminshed tone.
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Beal
Posted 2003-11-28 3:44 PM (#200485 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems



Joined:
January 2002
Posts: 14127

Location: 6 String Ranch
Bailey,
Love your stories. I guess that makes three things in life you can never get rid of, gum on your shoe, the IRS and a bad bass player. Keep us posted on his progress. Once you get them trained they're almost worth keeping around.
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Bailey
Posted 2003-11-29 2:52 AM (#200486 - in reply to #200463)
Subject: Re: website problems


Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005

Location: Las Cruces, NM
cwk2

If you have ever seen "Waiting for Godot", you would know that me and the bass player were like the man who completely dominated his servant, with a rope around his neck and shouted orders, he told the man to "think", I told the bass player to "play". He responded with the bass lines to Rachmaninoff's violin concerto and Orange Blossom Special when I said that wasn't good enough, he did yhe whole Beatles Anthology without a hitch.

I turned him in to the IRS, I don't need no steenkeng bass player that is better than me.

Bailey
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