Well, in all honesty, I had put up a lovely review of the games and our trip through Wyoming and South Dakota as we wound our way home via the northern route.......and that night all hell broke loose with GoDaddy, the forum crashed and I was up until after 2:00 AM the next morning on the phone (my dime) with GoDaddy trying to figure out what they did! Up the next morning and on the phone with another guy from there for 2 hours (my dime) and now we had a forum, but it was the 2010 forum! And we still have a secondary forum site that I never put up! That afternoon, I called again and got another guy (my dime) who told me basically that they had wasted enough time on "my" problem and that they weren't trained to fix the kind of problems "I" had. I HAD??? It was THEIR crash that gave us the problem! So, after that smashing support, I went to the Simple Machines Forum group and posted a step-by-step of all the things that GoDaddy had done (and claimed to have done) to see what help I might get there since the forum IS an SMF forum. After about 2 hours on there, one of their techs posted and said she could help me but had to have our login so she could access the databases for the forum. So.........hmmm. I checked out her credentials and changed our password and gave her a new set. I kept our telephone ID secret so if anything went wrong with her, I could call in to GoDaddy and have the passwords reset. She went in and had it to where it is now in about 30 minutes. I changed the passwords back and .........we lost all the posts from the 21st and 22nd.....including Stirling's great pictures of his new marching banner setup and the links to videos of the Tattoo I had posted and a few other pics of mine. Will try to get them up in the next few days again...
So......I don't have the energy to redo all the story. Suffice it to say we had a wonderful time with all the CO Thompsons. Maggie Jones (new genealogist) had a continuing table of interested people (thank you!) and we were all busy talking to people who stopped for information. We talked about what personas we should be doing...and really, we should be portraying Border Reivers (in how we dress) rather than wearing out kilts. It would take some research and lots of us have our kilts for formal events, but that maybe we should play up the Border Reiver angle to further differentiate us from "other highland" clans.
What do you think?
