Today is the first day of Chinese New Year, The year of the Ox. Happy new year to all BC participants,
Joanne

Yesterday I "ran" the Sisterhood Shabbat service at my synagogue here by having the other ladies do the various readings necessary to follow the service. Most of it went well. I was given the task of paraphraising the Torah portion.

shalimar

Here I am again, begging for votes instead of nominations. As of late today, Jan. 24th, only four people have voted, including myself. That's not nearly enough for a fair tally. There are a lot of very good stories that really do deserve recognition so I hope to see a lot more votes soon.

I check my stories listing several times a day, when I can, to see if there are any comments that need to be replied to. I had noted of late that the hits on all of my stories (there are only four) had basically dropped to zero on all chapters with just one or two hits here and there. Suddenly,over the last two days, all four novels are getting four to a half dozen or more daily hits for most of the chapters. "Who is Sylvia" is getting quite a few hits and it's not even a TG oriented story, although one character who makes a brief appearance is.

I see from the list of my stories, that Bike's initial episode has passed 8500 hits. So hardy souls are still taking the long ride to catch up with the present.

After her appearance on Midweek (BBC Radio4) a few weeks ago, she's now in Guardian Weekend - the Guardian's glossy magazine, with a far from flattering photo. Not quite sure what she hopes to achieve apart from explaining how she spent  £60,000 on surgery - I'd want a spare body for that, still some of us have to succeed without facial surgery or voice training.

Judge for yourselves. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/experienc...

Angharad.

I am having trouble logging in. When ever I type my pass word, nothing happens. I just get sent back to the home page without being logged in. The only way I can get logged in is to request a new password every time. What am I doing wrong.

This comes from a suggestion on Crystal's Cyberboard about an indexable story link database. BC already allows for a link database but I can easily add a capacity for indexed and searchable specialized story links on BC. In fact, I just did. :) These story links would be for stories not stored on BC but on sites that allow such linkage and with author permissions for such linking.

But...

When I started writing Luck Be A Lady, it was begun as a take-off on an idea presented to me by Prudence Walker. When I began telling the tale, I had an ending in mind.

For all those who have gone before, when do the butterflies settle down?

A few weeks back there was a bit of dialogue about making payments (to Hat box)that remain anonymous and protect payer from other exposure (e.g. credit card statements). There are pre-paid credit cards (Visa, Mastercard intended as gift cards) that can be purchased with cash at a variety of outlets. These can be used on-line e.g. with Amazon. These will provide sufficient curtain of privacy or limit financial exposure when dealing on-line for one off transactions. There is a small charge for the card but the simplicity makes it worthwhile.

While I was washing up after dinner, my computer anti-virus software picked up a nasty, which it has dealt with. I have no idea whence it came, any more than I understand the minds which create them. I suspect that they are created by adolescent minds - irrespective of actual age, and are probably male. I'm not sure whether I want to punish them severely or pity them. As no harm was done, maybe the latter this time, on previous occasions it has caused damage and I didn't feel so amicable.

While I might be cutting my own throat, hit and comment-wise with this, I feel it's only fair to let everyone know that Luck Be A Lady is incomplete, ending with Chapter 8. There WAS a chapter 9, but I have decided that it is non-canon, and it will NOT be re-posted here, or anywhere else.

Since I wrote the story, so much has happened in my life and it seems my muse has gone on semi-permanent vacation. Thus, the story remains in it's unfinished state, with no inspiration in sight for a close.

Hi folks,

I'm happy to tell you, the DNS issues from around lunchtime CET today are solved now. I also fixed a few mistakes at the forum software itself. I hope everything is now running smoothly.