I had an issue yesterday with my web hosting company, Ionos, about a domain name I ordered for Hudson. The one I initially bought was not going through, so I canceled it, and bought a new one with his handle, closehudman.com, as he sat here.

I had my hosting site open, ready to see it appear, but it did not. You need to set up the domain and link it to a subdirectory on their servers, then you can upload code and make it come alive!

So I called them. I love Ionos, you get a four digit pin number when you click the phone icon, while you're fully logged in on their site. Within seconds of dialing, you are speaking with a real human being, asking for that pin number. Once they receive it, they know 100% that I am the owner of the account, and they have everything right up there on their screen.

As an old tech guy, I am so glad to be able to experience this kind of connectivity. It seems that all calls are heading down to the Philippines, and answered by sweet women who speak fair English, with names you can barely distinguish from their greeting.

So I'm sitting here in southern Tennessee this morning, talking to a Security person, who I was directed to by another lady.

She and I hit it off and by the end of the call I was telling her about a friend of mine who has a house in the Philippines, that I'm welcome to use. OMG, I'm hitting on a young woman that would maybe like to meet an old American!

Woah, wait! It didn't go that far, she told me to wait a day, and everything should be fixed.

Ah, what did I call about, and what needs to be fixed?