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How To Not Go HAM On Folks

December 11, 2013 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Ever faced a situation that made you want to go straight HAM on folks? Wanna know how to prevent it?

That’s how.

(or, you can do this):

If you tried to visit the site yesterday, you probably received a “File Not Found 404” error message or saw our domain name with a huge “X” next to it.

*Takes deep breath*

Thanks to The Swirl World fans on Facebook who gave us a heads up and let us know we had trouble in our online Swirl Paradise.

Seems the bots that be at our web hosting service Bluehost.com went wonky on me. I had 4 domains – A Swirl Girl dot com and A Swirl Girl dot net, and ditto for The Swirl World.

Well, the dot nets were set to expire, which was fine with me – at this point, all I want to keep are the dot coms.

Whelp, guess which ones Bluehost let expire – even after I’d made FOUR phone calls to them telling them the notification emails they were sending had the wrong addresses?

*Takes yet another deep breath*

I’ve been informed by technical support that clearing the cache in your browser will do the trick.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Just the thought of this even happening is extremely irritating.

Sigh.

*Thinks of hot guy*

Swirl on.

Join in the Fray: What do you do to “Keep Calm?”

Announcement: This is a No Censorship Zone

April 3, 2013 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 7 Comments

With that being said, please know that a rant is coming tomorrow.

You have been warned.

Join in the Fray: What pushes your buttons?

I’m blogging every day in the month of April in Blogher’s NaBloPoMo Challenge. Thanks for reading, and feel free to comment!

The Secret I Can Finally Tell You

November 6, 2012 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 6 Comments

Me (whispering):

Pssst! Hey you! Come here . . . . closer . . . . closer.

I don’t know about you, but I for one am glad that November 6, 2012 is finally here.

Thankfully, Election Day voting will be in full swing by the time you receive notification of this post. Because the election is now underway and whatever will be, will be, I can finally tell you my secret.

My typing fingers – the fingers that have been itching to reach out and respond to all the hateful, bigoted, inane, stupid, inflammatory, and idiotic Facebook posts and Tweets I’ve had the unfortunate experience of seeing in my feeds – the fingers that want to come back with retorts and matching jabs – those fingers have been tied for about the past two months.

Oh, I admit that every once in a while, I slipped up and wasn’t able to resist responding to something here and there. (A Huffington Post thread exchange comes to mind . . . .as well as a Facebook discussion with an old friend regarding “legitimate rape” . . . . ~Le sigh).

Yet, for the most part, I have forced my fingers to back away from engaging in politically themed arguments with people and used all the self-control I could muster to make ASwirlGirl just. shut. up.

Whew.

Now come closer, so I can go ahead and tell you my secret:

The reason why I had to tie my fingers is because reading those comments pretty much led me to the same level of intensity – and results – shown in this video (thanks for the link, Toni_M!).

Watch and learn, people; watch and learn.