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Witness is gone...

moonunitPosted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read

But not because of why you think.

Or at least what some of the lurking folks will think.

I received a notification from @ijmmai 's bot to tell me I was missing blocks. Arrrgh I thought to myself, what's gone wrong now. Everything had been quite smooth in the recent past. So I kicked my old ass laptop to life, and tried to initiate a session to my witness....

DEAD SILENCE ON THE LINE...

WTF I thought to myself, so I had to go into my instance provider and see why the instance was powered off. This had happened before so I was expecting the same thing. When I logged in there was a nice red message for me.

"UNABLE TO BILL YOUR CARD, YOUR INSTANCES HAVE BEEN DELETED" or some such shit like that. What has happened here, my card that it was registered to is currently locked as I was on furlough until very recently, I haven't had the money to make payments to it so I froze the card payments which froze the card (fair enough).

But why didn't I receive any notification from the provider to state this?

Turns out I did! However Gmail had somehow decided these were spam and dealt with them as such.

Well it's not all bad news on the post. As I mentioned I WAS on furlough. While I was I got chatting to a person I had collaborated with from a different company. We had worked on a number of different projects in the past bringing products to market for franchise groups. Something that I really enjoyed.

We got chatting about me being on furlough so we did a quick interview. 2 days later I was speaking with the CTO, who I also worked with on the other projects. He said they didn't want me for the more junior positions. So now I am managing some pretty large scale projects 6k plus sites for one brand. Introducing new products to them and working with them through product life cycle etc. The company are really great, the teams are so positive, an extremely supportive and group of people. Everyone from front line customer services all the way up to the C level are just fantastic.

Yeah, great, but this post was about your witness, right? Yes, back to that. I need some time. Some space, I can't guarantee I will have the small amount of time that running a witness actually takes. There is also the small matter of renovating this massive old house I crazily bought too 😂🏡

So for now, I won't be spinning it back up.

Can I ask anyone who has voted my witness, please remove your votes. Thank you for your support since I first spun that sucker up, but I don't want a dead node like my own to stand in the way of active witnesses.

That's not my style.

Until the next time!

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