It
is with great sadness that I must announce the closure of
SiteHoundSniffs.com on September 27, 2017. The email address
associated with the site (jerryebeuterbaugh@sitehoundsniffs.com)
will also come to an end on that date. So, if someone sends you an
email from that address or leaves a comment on your site appearing to
have something to do with SiteHoundSniffs.com after September 27, be
assured that it is not coming from me. If you want, you can email me
at fishhawk7@gmail.com.
What
you just read is now on the home page of SiteHoundSniffs. I had such
high hopes, but there is simply not enough traffic to justify the
expense required to keep the site going for another year. It was
because of our main computer suddenly dying on August 9th
that kept me offline for around three weeks, and the $210.00 we spent
upon purchasing a refurbished one ate up the funds that could have
kept SiteHoundSniffs going.
Another
reason for ending SiteHoundSniffs is that I am to spend my available
time and energy upon writing again, and the content of many pf the
articles to be published here will undoubtedly upset a great many in one
way or another. Alas, there does not seem to be a lot of tolerance
going around these days—even among the more bleeding heart liberal
types.
Oh,
and I am to start leaving regular comments here and there again,
which will certainly stir-up some “stuff” when I may not be in
full agreement with the author of the article or even some of the
other commentators. Be assured that my comments will always be
respectful, but that does not count for much to far too many when I
am trying to convey something they vehemently disagree with.
Oh
yeah, I foresee getting into all sorts of trouble, which would cause
most advertisers to shy away. It probably would not help drive more
traffic toward SiteHoundSniffs, neither.
It
was an easy decision to let the site directory end while I was
thinking that only three people had visited it in July. A closer
look at the stats available to me proved that I had been looking in
the wrong column. For that total of three in July was referring to
the average page-views per visitor, and SiteHoundSniffs had actually
received over 40,000 hits in July. When consulting a very close
friend, he wondered just how many of those hits came from
web-crawling bots—not actual people. Nonetheless, we simply cannot
really afford to spend the $200.00 necessary to renew for another
year, and our Heavenly Father wants me to focus upon the real purpose
for entering cyberspace in the first-place.
Yes,
that includes publishing at least a couple more books. I have two
more crumbs/chapters to add to the end of [The
Crackerhead Chronicles] swirling around in my head, as
well. I will see about converting [FishHawk
Droppings] to pages instead of posts to make it easier to
insert new books in the order they should be read.
When
the previous main computer died, we lost use of MS Office. The copy
we had was from 2010, and we had already installed it upon the two
computers allowed by its license. So, I am learning how to use the
free [Apache
OpenOffice] program, which is proving to not be as
difficult as I feared. I have discovered that it can even convert
documents into a PDF!
Arlynda
and I's physical health is as poor as ever, but at least we do not
appear to be getting any worse. Arlynda's mother (who had been living
with us) dying last January 15th) has been a rather
bittersweet experience (to say the least). At least we have been
able to clear-out some of the clutter. She had a lot of hoarder to
her, and we still feel like we are doing something wrong when finding
an empty cat food tin and throwing it in the trash. Be assured that
we sure wish our turns to be delivered from this prison of a world
will come much sooner than later.
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