Peoria Pundit is now operating at pundit.blogpeoria.com.
Please adjust your blogroll.

Please direct all Blogger Bash inquiries, suggestions, insults, etc to Cory. He has assumed responsibility for planning the next bash, which is set for the fifth Tuesday in September.
I promise that I will keep my complaints to myself. And no excuses about not being able to find a babysitter.

If you see a notice, do not be worried. Just an upgrade in progress.

The notorious Rob Smith often blogged about the effect red toe nails had on him. So I saw this pic, and though of Rob:

CUTLINE: Tracy Roberts, 33, of Rockville, Md. has her toes nibbled on by a type of carp called garra rufa, or doctor fish, during a fish pedicure treatment at Yvonne Hair and [...]

I promise to stop with the about nuts & bolts stuff and start posting about news, politics and the media again real soon (promise), but there is some business that needs to be addressed.
I got kicked off my last host because of the strain it was placing on the shared server i was using. Well, [...]

I just made a nice, long post about articles in today’s Journal Star. I hit the publish button, but the server was down and the post has been lost. Sorry. Don’t feel like re-writing it.
Hosting company has figured out that the best way to deal with the issue is to wait for my emergency trouble [...]

I am fine, thank you. Yourself. I came home from work to find the entire neighborhood was without power. It seems like all the homes on the Columbia Terrance and Randolph-Roanoke neighborhoods were without power, although the the street lights on Randolph were working.
I don’t know when the power went out, but there were downed [...]

July 29 is the fifth Tuesday of the month, and tradition calls for a Blogger Bash.
We’ve done the chain hot-wing-joint thing.
We’ve done the other-side-of-the-river thing.
Let’s do it old school and meet at the site of the FIRST Peoria-area blogger bash and do it up at the Recovery Room. 802 W. Pioneer Parkway in Peoria. Say, [...]

A look at The Blog Peoria Network this week:
Rob ranted away about the Heller decision:
I’ve heard joyous cheers throughout the freedom loving world today. And while I don’t share the unbridled enthusiasm of the many, I do feel damn good. DAMN GOOD!
Ok, why not great? Scalia left a little loop hole that I didn’t like, [...]

His handle is “scifiguy” and his site is Random Rants and Ravings. He’s even followed my advice and posted an “About” page:
I live in the East Bluff neighborhood, so there’s plenty to rant about. My pet peeve here are the inconsiderate boobs who think it’s ‘cool’ to crank up their sub-woofers and rattle the [...]

Remember Angela Anderson? She ran for Peoria City Council three years ago and almost got on the general election ballot. She became a pal and a supporter of this site.
Then she moved to Florida. Something about she and her children wanting to continue to live with her husband, who was transfered by his employer [...]

Apparently, there’s something screwey in the theme I’ve been using (which is also the theme I have set as the default). Commenters cannot comment, or so my e-mailers tell me.
So, I’ve decided to do a test run of the lastest and greatest version of Mandigo. It’s an option-loaded theme, an works well for folks who [...]

UPDATE: For obvious reasons, I’m keeping this post at the top of the page:
UPDATE 2: I’m a little bit over halfway there. You guys are generous.
I’ve found a new host for Blog Peoria (which includes Peoria Pundit, Peoria Illinoisan, Knight in Dragonland, etc). The new site will cost roughly the same as the one [...]

I’m working today, and what little time I am able to get for blog-related activity is going to investigating the best way to move and update the Blog Peoria site. So there’s won’t be a lot of time to write things.

For brevity’s sake, I’ll post the letter I sent to C.J. Summers in reply to his email:
Here’s what I know. My server on which blogpeoria.com sites are hosted was experiencing heavy loads all day yesterday. I submitted five trouble tickets on the issue, one each time the server was down.
I was beginning to discuss moving [...]