The Old Website

 Yesterday I did something I haven't done since last summer- looked at the e-mail on my website e-mail.  I always had an e-mail account connected to my website (same domain) but last summer everything disappeared.  The company I was with folded into another company, and I was in the hospital, not in shape to do anything about it.  When I finally got out of the hospital, everything had changed.  What's more, I couldn't even remember the address of my old e-mail page, much less the password for it.  The website itself was just gone.

I put off doing anything about it for a while, but I do keep getting these e-mails from my new host, talking about checking to see if my accounts are still valid or when they will expire, but I have no way of finding out what happened by replying.  I learned recently that we have been offered a show at the Jersey Shore Arts Center, but the e-mail that Jeanne had for me was this mail I had no way of accessing.  For now I told her I was interested in being part of it, but I decided maybe I should deal with it.

So I got on the phone with my new host yesterday.  First, I found out that my accounts renew in June, so I am okay there for now.  Then I got transferred to a tech person to deal with that e-mail.  After a lot of back and forth, I was given temporary access to it.   The last time I was there was probably last May or June, and quite a few e-mails had popped up in the meantime.  Most I ignored, as I could, but a few I answered, things written to me personally, ranging from a few months ago, to last year.  I also wrote down a lot of addresses on paper, in case my access disappears again, so I can get in touch with some of these people from another site.  For example, I found some communication with a couple that had expressed an interest last year in buying a few old saints I have the blocks for, if not the actual prints.  (they came to my Studio and saw the blocks) There was no particular hurry at the time, but based on e-mails sent, it looked like they wanted to buy two, and she requested two in particular.  I verified that I have the blocks, but I never got around to printing them.  What with the hospital stay and all that, I forgot all this.  (this communication was last spring/summer)  One of the prints is post-grad, and I have a small photo of it in a show I had in Iowa, so I can probably figure out the colors.  The other is from the original bunch done in Carbondale, and if I have a copy of the original, it's in storage.  I might be able to remember it, but I may have to call this a new edition.  In any case, I will need more ink and watercolors, so this won't happen any time soon.  My first step is to contact my collectors and see if they still even want the prints.  

As for my status with this new company, they were supposed to send something to a working e-mail that would allow me to choose a new password for this other e-mail account and I will be able to access it more regularly.  If that doesn't work, I'll be back on the phone with them soon.  Then I will deal with my website, but that's a problem for another day.