Hostpapa, did you kill our dreams like Freddy Krueger?

We’ve been without internet the last 3 days and have come to find our site is down. All of our posts, pages and comments had vanished. It seems our web host, hostpapa severs went down and around the same time we lost everything and our database shrunk to 0mb. Sent an email to hostpapa support and got a response saying “We don’t backup customer files, it’s up to you. case closed”

I have to say it’s pretty shitty customer service from hostpapa.ca No apology, no explanation why the servers crashed, no nothing. The only way I knew their servers went down (which they didn’t admit) is because I have a third party reporting service for outages. Also a friend of ours uses hostpapa and she actually got an email.. where the hell was ours?

Anyways, so we drank our troubles away through many pitchers of BeerLao, pool with the A-Team and many whisky cokes. This morning instead of tubing we nursed our hangovers and got ready to get our dream back up and running again. Lo and behold, I do an upgrade to the newest version of Wordpress and it magically all reappeared like nothing happened.

My guess is that hostpapa realized that killing baby kittens is wrong and decided to make it up with this magic. But really, did wordpress magically have a backup we didn’t know about somewhere in cyberland?

None the less, sorry for the hiccup, we’re now back to our regularly scheduled program starting Monday.

We met a family of pretty darn cute Pomeranians during our stay at Sam’s Place in Kanchanaburi. The youngest, BeeBo, is competing in this years “Who’s the Cutest Pomeranian?” contest. A yearly event showcasing cute Pom’s from across the world. A very tough competition to be in and judge as all Pom’s are born with that “I’M SO HAPPY YOU JUST CAN’T HELP TO TALK ALL HIGH PITCHED AND FUNNY AT ME” look to them.

BeeBo was kind enough to show us some of his cute techniques that he plans to use to win this years contest, here are just a few of his skills.

Extreme close ups are not a problem

Cute begging technique from afar

And the closer… how can you not love this face?

You get them BeeBo!! But you really has some tough tough competition to go up against… just look at last years winner:

Meet Chester, Bobbie and Stewie. These poor little guys have been submitted to an early life of wearing pink tutu’s. All too soon they will be submitted to a life of living inside a purse and wearing tiara’s. You can help save these three loveable chihuahua’s from a life humility by heading over to Bangkok’s Chatachuak Weekend Market and adopting them!

While your there make sure to check out the rest of this massive market that covers over 35 acres with over 5000 stalls! You can find anything and everything you need (from clothes to livestock), all with an eager Thai ready to do the bargain game on a calculator. It really is quite an experience!