Daily Archives: 2021-09-05

Frustrating morning and half the afternoon trying to find out why some particular part of the HostPapa web space isn’t working as expected. I wrote up a trouble ticket last night and today got back a reply which basically said “This is how it works”. Infuriating as I had myself said “This is how I think it works but it doesn’t”. So they agree with me how it is supposed to work but totally ignored my problem being that it did not work that way.

So today I did some careful tests to make the actual behaviour clear. I got about ⅔ the way through when, without warning, the HostPapa ticketing system logged me off – too long without finishing. So I started again and got it finished only for me to be BLOCKED when trying to submit it. Looks like it wasn’t happy with the content that looked like code. Happily I had a backup copy this time so I took screen shots of the reply, it took three screens, and successfully submitted the three images. I now wait for an explanation.

In checking the sheep today I found that ewe #712 had two lambs so that accounts for the extra lamb I counted yesterday and last week. So I retrospectively altered the journal to reflect the extra lamb. The tags have been delayed by lockdown so I haven’t actually tagged any lambs yet and the correction is just a paper adjustment.

The expected end of lambing has come and gone but there are still eleven ewes who have not lambed. A superficial visual inspection leads me to believe eight of them may still have lambs this season.

Oak Avenue Weather:0℃—20℃ no rain [78.280] TdT eggs=3