So the blog us back up after being down for 4 or 5 hours, basically the install went.. “pretty smooth” however the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin actually screwed the install up enough to allow it not to happen.. after I eventually started deleting things in hopes of fixing things the situation started to get brighter… lucky for me I started with UTW. .
Anyway… eventually got the upgrade to go through but still had a broken .htaccess file (which I had changed in an attempt to fix things early). It’s all good now.. and I do realize nobody cares.. on the bright side.. 2.4 should work perfect out of the box and my big worry about the two plugins we also worked perfect. *woot*
Now I can finally write a new original post. 
Great job, baby.
I think you deserve a “reward” for all your hard work. 
2.3 screwed me this morning… had some error in my template and there was no info about how to get rid of it. I went back to 2.2.1 lol :d