K, so you might have noticed, but the website was a bit messed up this past weekend. Let me explain what led up to this…

First off, it was Saturday night and i hadn’t worked on the site nearly all week. I was going to have three midterms, but one of my teachers postponed it until later, so I lucked out until Friday of this week. It was about 11:30 and I decided that I had better start working on my site a bit. There was some work that needed to be done on the products with their prices, so I downloaded the spreadsheet from the site and made the changes en mass, thus saving me TONS of time so that I didn’t have to do it manually one by one. Only problem was, when I uploaded it, it assigned the categories into the most random of categories. For example, our wrestling mats were showing up in the wrestling shoes categories, along with most of the singlets.

I tried to delete the products and upload them again, but this created a brand new problem. Instead of having one random wrestling mat in the wrestling shoes category, I now had two wrestling mats where they didn’t belong. Begin panic mode… So I continue to work on it until 1:30 in the morning, successfully getting four or five of each product on the site, but in the most random categories possible. The best part is, it had to stay like that all weekend.

So Monday I get into work and get slammed with call; thankfully, none were about the screw up. So around 7, I finally get some time to work on it. I finally get it so that only one of each product is on the site, but it still didn’t solve the randomness of the categories. So I give my programmer a call; I’ll call him “D.” Basically, he’s the programming Demi-God. If you have ever seen the movie The Matrix, he can read the screen better than he can tell what is happening by looking at it. Yeah, he’s that good.

So I give him a call and within five minutes, literally less than five minutes, the site is fixed and I’m owing D lunch. Thank goodness for programming Demi-Gods!! Saved me from a panic attack. Much thanks D and thanks for doing that while you where at home and supposed to be with your kids. Hope your wife doesn’t hate me too much!

PS…

Here is the wrestling picture of the week!! Maybe I need to start doing this by the month… Any thoughts?

Steve Mocco (red) battles Tommy Rowlands (blue) in the Freestyle 120kg division championship match during the USA Olympic trials for wrestling and judo on June 15, 2008 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Neveda.

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