We lost two-plus hours this morning as I scrambled to rebuild the scripting.com server. 

A mysterious outage. I tried to reboot the server over and over, and it wouldn't come back. So I created another instance, but kept making mistakes with AWS. Then after fretting and thinking of a million other ways to do it, I sat down with pen and paper and wrote down, step by step, what I thought would work. Then I did it. It worked.  

Moral of the story, there are no shortcuts possible. You must pay the piper. And as Jerry once sang, so wisely: 

I know the rent is in arrears.  

The dog has not been fed in years. 

It's even worse than it appears! 

See, Jerry was a musician, but he understood programming. 

Namaste y'all! 

Still diggin.