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Beacon Hill Block, 2240 (&c) Airport Boulevard: December 2022   11 comments

Posted at 10:31 pm in closing

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(The two pictures directly above come from commenter Jimmy -- Thanks! I have the feeling someone else sent me some others as well, but I can't get to that hard drive right now unfortunately)

Beacon Hill Block was the strip mall on the corner of Airport Boulevard & Boston Avenue which housed, among other businesses, the former Lizard's Thicket and Subway.

I have not been by lately, but commenter Brandon Brown says the signage indicates a Murphy's Express will be going in here.

Here is a not particularly informative notice from West Metro News.

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(Hat tips to several folks, including commenters Gypsie, Matt & Brandon Brown)

UPDATE 26 January 2023 -- Work continues:

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UPDATE 17 April 2023 -- The new Murphy Express on this spot is now open:

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Well, This Is Embarassing!   8 comments

Posted at 1:52 pm in commentary

Christmas Eve afternoon, I made a "Merry Christmas, Columbia" post, and signed off to enjoy the holiday.

The next time I tried to access the site, late Christmas Day, it was down. Since I had notice from GoDaddy that they would be doing a disruptive upgrade soon, I figured they must have thought that Christmas Eve was somehow a good time to do it. (It's not -- nobody wants to deal with stuff on Christmas Eve!).

Anyway, I didn't have time over the holidays to deal with what I figured would be re-uploading files, configuring web servers and restoring databases, and then after New Years I got sick as a dog and just didn't have the energy to approach it.

Yesterday evening I finally felt good enough to deal with it, went into the control panel and thought: Wait A Minute! There were no reports on any server activity at all -- So I clicked on the virtual POWER button, and now all is back.

I certainly didn't turn it off, and there's no point pursuing it as I'm sure nobody at GoDaddy will admit to turning it off, but off it was turned.

The good news is: Hey that was really easy to fix!

The bad news is apparently the upgrade still is coming at some point in the reasonably near future.

But anyway: Happy New Year, Columbia!

Written by ted on January 8th, 2023

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