I swear I paid the light bill folks....
Actually - we had a software crash. Has not happened before. Previous and comparatively brief outages were caused by our hosting service performing "pre-failure" maintenance - which was removing and replacing hard drives which were at the end of their life cycle. This time, because it was not the hosting service - we did not have a back up of the site that was recent -as in - same day. So - it took a couple of days and multiple phone calls - but finally the hosting service was able to get us re-booted. I have purchased a daily backup service now - so that should we ever experience any outage again, we have a current copy of all the posts and will not lose anything. So - if you had post that were made between Dec. 3 and today - please re-post them.
Thanks
T