I would like to thank everyone who bought records from me last night (while I was out with my wife, seeing the New York Dolls play at The Fillmore in New York -- awesome show!), whether you bid on them, used the "Buy It Now" option or both. I just finished sending out invoices for last night's activity.

Next, I see how many buyers paid. 23 -- great! So I know that I have to box up 23 orders. Not a problem since I received my order for 200 boxes a few days ago and I have plenty of reinforcement pads and shipping tape.

I wonder how much money I have now! All I have to do is go to paypal.com and....."Page Not Found. Firefox can't find the server at www.paypal.com."

So I checked the router. The lights all seemed to be working properly. I tried to go to paypal.com on another computer, but still no luck. I waited a half-hour and tried again. Still down.

OK, so I'll list a few records and try again later. I go to Auctiva.com, log in and go to my listings page. There, I noticed that there were 26 "errors" in the batch of 62 items I scheduled to upload last night. So I clicked on the '26' to see what the problem was and found that I needed to make a payment on my eBay account.

No problem, I'll just go to my account in eBay, click the Seller Account link and make a payment using the 'one-time payment' option. This wouldn't be a problem, if the paypal.com server wasn't down!

OK -- back to doing listings. I can't do that either. For reasons unknown, I am unable to see the images in my saved listings. Instead, I see white squares with "No Picture Available" displayed for each saved listing. No doubt some maintenance task is being performed at auctiva.com.

I guess I won't be able to print PayPal shipping labels either, so I might as well just take a break. Hopefully, the people at PayPal and Auctiva will get their systems working again soon. Let me check just one more time.

Oh well, everything is working again. So much for taking a break. Get my tape gun ready! Hey look -- 3 more people paid! Thanks!