Squarespace Sucks
I kind of got forced on them last year when Google Domains, who’s been my domain name registrar for years now, stepped out of the space and transferred all of their accounts to Squarespace. I almost avoided it by migrating a few at a time over to Cloudflare, who I’m a big fan of for numerous offerings, but apparently I missed the expiration dates on three of them and they got transferred to Squarespace instead.
No big deal for the most part, except that this week when I finally got around to moving them, I found that Squarespace doesn’t make it as easy to transfer out as most registrars do!
Simply put – normally you 1) unlock your domain; 2) request a transfer out code; 3) place the order with your new registrar; 4) approve the request once the new sends to the old. The whole process can be done in an hour or less, depending on how fast systems get updated.
Except at Squarespace, they take five days because they don’t allow you to do step #4 above and instead make you wait out a timer, which is stupid. They say it’s for security purposes, but if someone hijacks somebody’s email, chances are they can stretch it out for five days to beat this arbitrary timer, too!
So I’m frustrated because the transfer requests that I did on Wednesday won’t get finalized until Sunday, which is just annoying because it should’ve been all done by now. Grrrrrr…
So Tired of Politics
Still, I’m nervously awaiting Election Day next week because I think the results are going to be an utter shitshow either way.
I desperately want to avoid another four years of Trump because I think he’s going to be an even bigger asshole than he was last time. Yet it really scares me how close it is right now because that tie translates to, what, 75 million Americans who think that Donald Trump is the leader America needs?!
I’ve said before that Trump’s first presidency really gave assholes permission to be who they are, to the point where this time around, dare I say that now I think they’re proud to be assholes? Hell, I saw a definitive change with my Dad and his family – racist and sexist and homophobic jokes were now ok to say openly instead of underneath your breath, and those thoughts that you used to know better than to speak out loud were normal banter because, well, if it’s ok for the President to talk that way!
I don’t want my kids learning about how to speak and act from a leader like that, and it’s scary that more and more of my neighbors apparently disagree. I don’t know what the solution is because the divide seems to be growing larger every day, but how can you even try to please both sides when one side just wants to see everything burned to the ground???
I haven’t cast my vote yet – tomorrow is my last choice if I’m going to get it done early – but as much as I’m ready for it all to be over, I think we all know that it simply isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
Whether or not we’ll get there without another insurrection – only time will tell…
And So It Is November…
I, for one, am definitely grateful that the heat has finally died down!
Boy, that was a scorcher of a summer, and it didn’t make it any easier that I couldn’t go in the water at all due to my dialysis catheter and a pending surgery that I’m still waiting on. Hopefully by next spring it’ll be all worked out because I really did miss swimming with the boys and messing around with our snorkels and diving for toys on the bottom.
Needless to say, it’s been kind of a rough year.
Dialysis has had its ups and downs – my prescription was ok for a while, then I started suffering from symptoms, and then suffering from tweaks to try and prevent said symptoms. The last couple of months, I’ve just been really tired, which I’m not supposed to be with the kind of dialysis that I do, but I also wonder if it could be partially nutritional because I know that I’ve lost some muscle mass and don’t often get the right kinds of foods that I need to … protein being the big one, namely because it’s a lot compared to what I had to limit myself to before dialysis to give my kidneys a break.
Of course, dieting is always hard for me because I stress eat a bunch and life right now has been nothing if not stressful! I’ve actually tried to give myself a break because the last time I stopped scrutinizing my calories, I started feeling better – I think because I was cutting things too close, but I’m sure I’m probably overdoing it nowadays as I’ve seen my weight (and blood pressure) slowly drifting upwards.
I’d really like to get a routine going again that has me doing some exercise most days, eating a balanced diet, and putting in work during normal hours instead of wherever I can do it like I have unfortunately been doing lately. It’s just so hard to get started – particularly when I’m literally doing upwards of 12 hours of dialysis a day, every day! It can get depressing when I stop and think about it, which I don’t want that to be my perspective because I’m very much grateful that I’ve been able to do it for the last ten months to keep myself alive.
It’s a lot to handle, but it certainly beats the alternative. Not to mention, for all I know it could be years until an organ becomes available – I see people on Reddit talking about doing it for quite a while, so I know that I really need to make the best of it and settle in for the long haul. Better to be surprised when I do get that call than waiting by the phone staring at it every single night in agony…
And so although I think it’s going to be a different kind of Christmas than we’ve seen in recent years, I am looking forward to getting into that frame of mind here in the next couple of weeks. The kids are at the perfect age to awe in it all and I truly want to soak up every ounce of that enthusiasm as I can!
We’ll get there one day at a time, and be grateful for the experiences along the way, and hope we don’t have another four years of being led by an asshole, however at least my life should be rid of Squarespace by the end of the weekend. It’s a start.