My day began shortly after the last one ended. Emmett's been up since about 4am. He's miserable and couldn't sleep.  We moved downstairs to the couch and he had a popsicle to help numb his mouth. It's about 7am now and I traded off with Lizze, so I could get some sleep... This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

Okay, I've talking about these loud cannon blasts that have been happening almost every day.  They happen in the afternoon, evening and in the wee hours of the morning. For example, the one that just went off and woke me up. Lizze actually called the police yesterday morning because there were two blasts around breakfast time. She called the non-emergency line and explained what's been going on and apparently we aren't the only ones complaining.  The problem is that they can't locate the source of the explosion. We know the general area because smoke can be seen rising above the treeline, after each blast. We're really close to whatever is being set off.  A few of my neighbors have said that there's some dude with a cannon and he has…

Emmett is miserable and is having a really hard time sleeping.  We keep rotating between Tylenol and Advil to keep the fever down and help with the pain. He's in a bad place and so Lizze, God love her, is snuggling with him on the couch.  This was the only thing that calmed him down after the last time he woke up. I know she nit comfortable but I respect so much how she willing to deal with her own pain, in order to provide Emmett with comfort. I wanted to grab a picture before I tried to move him back to bed.  He transferred to his bed just fine but I going to wait a bit before going back to bed, just in case he gets up again. Lizze…

Emmett John is in a great deal of pain.  It kills me to see any of my kids suffer. My heart has been breaking for my sweet little boy since yesterday.  The fever disorder that Emmett has suffered from, for the last two years has officially made it's return after a about a 7 or 8 month hiatus. It began about two days ago when Emmett became cranky and started falling asleep during the day, which never happens. Then we noticed the first of what would become many mouth sores. By this morning, his mouth and throat were full of them and for the first since shortly after his surgery, he actually spiked a high grade fever. I thought that we had finally seen the last of these when they…

I'm pleased to announce that Lost and Tired is officially running off our new, upgraded server.  Hopefully, this will eliminate the performance and database issues.  The site should load much faster and be much, much more stable.  With any luck, I should have a lot more head room and this will fit for the near future.  You may experience intermittent downtime as the DNS propagation finishes up over the next few days. You can see in the picture below how throttled and choked off this site has been.  This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

Hey everyone, I wanted to give you a head up because I'm forced to changed to a new server.  Right now I'm on a shared server and I'm being constantly throttled. That means that my site uses more than 7% of the available CPU power, my site comes to a crawl until my usage drops.  This is related to the traffic or so I'm being told.  I will be moving to a VPS or Virtual Private Server.  This will give me the head room that I need to continue growing. The next steps would be a dedicated server but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.  It's always nice to hear that your site is getting much traffic for the server your currently on.  It means that tons…

For those of you that missed my post from early this morning, Child Protective Services has officially closed our case.  You may recall that we were the victims of spite call to Child Protective Services.  A spite call is basically when someone knowingly makes a false report, with the specific intent to do harm and create drama in someone's life. I feel very strongly that's what happened to us and while I don't know for sure when it was, we have a pretty good idea. While this person was unsuccessful, in the sense that we prevailed in the end, they did succeed in turning our lives upside down. We were under investigation for weeks and while many others go through a much longer period of time, it felt like an…

There were two explosions this morning.  They were close enough that they shook the windows of our house.  Supposedly, it's a cannon. You heard me right.....a cannon. There is talk throughout our neighborhood that someone has an antique cannon and they fire it off from time to time.. If this is true, this person fires this damn thing off at all hours of the day and night.  We will be awoken in the wee hours of the morning by this same explosion.  It's scares the crap out of the boys and shakes the entire house. We called the Police again and they are sending someone out so we can point them in the direction of the explosion.  This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos…