I’m beating myself up right now because I allowed something to happen that I could have easily prevented. I purchased the domain name for SammyYammy.com the summer of 2003 when he was only a few months old, and over the years, I had renewed the domain registration before it expired.
This time when the domain renewal notices came (and there were many of them filling my inbox), I was complacent and busy with other urgent activities in my life, and I just kept putting it off. Yesterday, I finally took a moment and made myself sit down and take care of the renewal. Today, I am filled with regret because SammyYammy.com is now owned by someone other than me, and I only have myself to blame.
I haven’t lost any of the information I had stored at the site because I had transferred it all to this WordPress page (SammyYammy.wordpress.com), but the domain is gone unless the current owner agrees to sell it back to me or the current owner doesn’t renew the domain within the next 12 months.
Even though I didn’t update it as often as I had hoped over the years, Sammy’s website was and is one of the most important things to me. Instead of forcing myself to step outside of the whirlwind of urgent tasks and obligations, I continued to allow a truly important thing to be shoved farther down the list. As I look down the list, the sad reality is that there are way too many other important things–needs, people, tasks–that have slipped to the bottom. That’s gonna change starting now!
Sammy Yammy and HoPE 
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