After much drama with my provider, I finally got ahold of them and got them to update PHP and what not behind the scenes, so my countfour sites are back up and in business with the latest version of WordPress. I always cross-posted things, so no worries on having to check multiple sites, I had just let C4 slide because I couldn't get them to update it, probably because of overactive spam filters. A message directly through their support site (versus an email) finally worked. Yay technology.

Just went through a power hiccup here for about an hour. I think that's the longest outage we've had since we moved here. It's newer (2010) construction with buried lines, so we're fairly insulated from storms and the like (*knock wood*), unlike the pole-wired neighborhoods around us. So that was a trip, and got me out of a couple meetings. Though I may have to go to the office tomorrow - the work laptop is no longer charging, and reboots and other plugs aren't doing the trick, so the power brick may be fried. Whee!

I think I've finally decided to hang up my memberships in USA Triathlon and the DC Tri Club. I haven't raced since 2012, I have no plans to get back into race shape since I can barely keep up with a minimal running schedule without injury, and it's just not worth the constant reminders that I'm not racing. So when these expire at the end of the year it's time to hang them up for now and not renew. And keep searching for the exercise that I want to do now. Did get in a nice bodyweight workout while the power was out, that my arms will be paying for tomorrow.