Your Captain Speaks – Here ‘Til 2012…By Mistake!

Hey all! Not too much happening tonight. I got out of work about 3 hours ago and I haven’t really been doing much since. I’m watching Family Fued right now on GSN and I spent some time browsing some older posts here on the blog. I have an interesting story about this blog…

So, last night I decided to go ahead and renew my domain name (yourcaptainspeaks.com) for one more year. Well, the PLAN at least was to only renew it for one more year…but that’s not exactly how it turned out. I went to Paypal and filled in all of my information and all that good stuff, then I clicked the “submit” button to send in my payment. Well, after about 2 minutes or so, a message came up saying “please print your receipt for future reference.” I had no receipt, and another message came up saying “transaction failed.” So, I looked over all of the information, and it was all correct, so I clicked “submit” once again. The same thing happened – the “print receipt” message and then the “failed” message. It was a tad confusing to say the least. So, to make sure the money didn’t actually come out of my account, I went and looked at my checking account balance and it came up as a $1.00 payment. The domain name is $5.00 and the domain mapping is $9.97 – so it should have been $14.97 total, not $1.00. So I went back to Paypal and it showed no transaction had been processed. So, once again I filled in all of the information, clicked “submit” and this time it just froze, so I clicked it once more and it said the transaction was successful. I thought I had finally gotten it to work. Well, it worked alright…3 times. I went to WordPress to make sure it extended my domain name until October 2010 – but instead it extended it until October 2012. Yep, three of the times I clicked “submit” it actually DID go through, but came up in error by mistake. So…$45.00 and a 3-year extension later…tada! So have no fear – Your Captain Speaks is here….until October 2012!