This blog is intended to be a heads up.

TLDR:

• Hardware Upgrades "soon" but actual date unknown
• Database Upgrades even sooner, within the next 2 days

After the recent downtime where I had to do way too much data recovery, we put in plans for new infrastructure upgrades and improvements with help from a QnEZ Customer.

OK, I'm writing a story in which an IT troubleshooter needs to locate an unknown virus and irradicate it without destroying the data.

The fictional device has a 1 gig solid state C drive and a Terabyte drive D. I'm presuming that the virus would have compromised something on the boot drive.

C drive is using 79.6 of 97.8 available
D drive is only using 4.75 of 931 available.

The site was out for more than an hour today due to movement of equipment at our ISP. They apparently unplugged us in the move, but we're back up now.

They will be doing more equipment moving this week so we may experience more outages.

Sorry about that.

Hugs,
Erin

Yup, cloudflare, the webservice to defend against ddos attacks can fail.
Fanfiction.net cannot display a single story right now, try and get thrown into an infinite loop of trying to get past the cloudflare loading page.

So, I do apologize for my silence as of late, but I have a good reason for that. In my previous blog I mentioned that I was working directed (mandatory) overtime and, well, I have been working fifty hour work weeks for the last three weeks straight. No word on whether or not I will be working it again this week so I cannot say whether you'll be seeing another serial part this coming Saturday or Sunday. So, I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

I do apologize and hope you have a deliciously devious night,

Well hello there,

I know I've been a bit absent as of late and I do apologize. There for a while I thought I might drown amongst the tide of chaos, but I held on for dear life and have washed back on shore. There are a lot of details I WON'T get into, but suffice it to say there was a lot of drama in my personal life. There has also been a lot of positive change and progress made, I am now living as myself full time and in about half a month I will be hitting a full year on HRT! Wow, I can hardly believe that it's been that long!

So after posting up four full-length novels and not getting much of anywhere with them in regards to readership or comments, I got told several times that people don't like stories posted in PDF format.

I find this attitude truly baffling!

Scanning the recent offerings here on BCTS I came across this on the front page.

Jacinta, part 20

Submitted by Debbie V on Thu, 2021/07/22 - 11:18pm

Debbie V

Mature Subjects (pg15)

7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words

Transitioning

Real WorldRomanticSweet / Sentimental

College / Twenties

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Has anyone else noticed this website has gotten noticeably faster recently?

I stumbled across a website advertised on a youtube channel, so take it with a grain of salt, called World Anvil that may be a useful world building tool supposedly good for plotting rpg fantasy/sci-fi and in my opinion possibly other types of stories.

Disclaimer: I have not used this and I am not sure how the site monetizes the use of anything you create on the site, maybe there are non-web type software similar to this for story development but it seemed interesting that such tools are available.

The web site is www.worldanvil.com

I'm taking a short writing hiatus, there are a lot of factors but most of it boils down to just taking care of myself and my mental well being. My mother has been creating a lot of drama related to me being trans. In short, she's not taking it well. I thought I might turn her into an ally then come out to my father, but that is looking... unlikely. I plan on coming out to him probably in a few weeks time after directed (mandatory) overtime ends at work.

Hope everyone is well and is having a delicious devious weekend,

I'm going to share something a bit different this morning. A fantasy humor piece resurrecting a character I created close to two decades ago. I hope you enjoy. There is no TG whatsoever.

Song of the Dwarf Daniela A. Wolfe A lone traveler in the woods is set up on by bandits, but what happens next will change his life in the most unexpected way.

Editing the latest Legacy chapter is taking longer than I expected. I’ve found a lot of overused words and it’s a pain in the butt eliminating them. I’m hoping to have it up some time Saturday or at the very latest Sunday morning.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I’m going to bed…

Have a deliciously devious night,

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Legacy of Earth: Genesis Ghost from the Past By Daniela A. Wolfe After recalling the events following her grandmother's passing, Kayde finds she needs to blow off some steam. Khala is all too happy to oblige.

Today marks the beginning of Genesis, Part 2 of Legacy of Earth.

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Legacy of Earth: Genesis Bloodborne By Daniela A. Wolfe Several weeks after her grandmother's passing, Kayde is still struggling to come to grips with the repercussions.

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Sorry for another late posting, my mother fell last night and I spent the evening checking in on her and helping her out. She's banged up, but I think she should be fine.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright A Good Frisking By Daniela A. Wolfe A trip through security hits a snag and Kayde finds herself at the mercy of spaceport security agents.

So I am sad to say, there will be no Legacy of Earth this weekend. This week I came out to my manager and tomorrow afternoon I plan on coming out to my parents. I just don’t have the energy or desire to get any editing done.

I do apologize and hope you have a delightfuly devious weekend,

P.S. Please wish me luck, I am nervous as hell about telling my parents.

HELP! Just now I was trying to insert a picture in a PM. When I tried to preview the message, the message disappeared and when I tried to reconstruct it, all but three of my pictures have disappeared.

Is there any way to get them back? There are a lot of them that need to appear in current stories, both mine and other authors.

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Blast from the Past By Daniela A. Wolfe When Khala shows her memories of the fall of the Endeavour, Kayde must witness the death of her mother through her own eyes. What new revelations await her?

The Cloudflare page that BCTS is being routed through has broken my @Voice Aloud Reader (text to speech) on my Samsung Android tablet. I can route to and read the stories on BCTS using my eyes just fine, but when I select a story to be read with @Voice Aloud Reader, the text from the Cloudflare page is what gets sent to the @Voice Aloud Reader app. I've tried clearing the history in the browser I'm using (Chrome) with no change/improvement.

Just wanted to give everyone (that's not on Discord) a heads up as to what has gone on the last couple days.

About 2 days ago(?) I was told by others that the site was down. I went to investigate and found the "Front End" servers each with a "load" of 200+

I killed varnish, to let the front ends slow down, I did some maintenance, and then I edited the virtual servers to upgrade them from 4 to 8 cores of processing power.

Once rebooted everything seemed to be fine, and even a bit snappier so I was happy with this result and let it fly.

Just a notice before I get to our regularly scheduled programming. As per this blog, I will be removing Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series, from Bigcloset Topshelf and my website soon. So if you haven't read it and still want to, you may want to get on that.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Make a Splash By Daniela A. Wolfe Resigned to his fate, Jek finds his way into the Conclave shower room where his transformation at the hands of Khala will begin.

Just a notice for those who don't already know. As per this blog, I will be removing Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series, from Bigcloset Topshelf and my website soon. So if you haven't read it and still want to, you may want to do that.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Raising Cayne By Daniela A. Wolfe Aboard the Valiant, Jek must not only face down Kaya Briggs, but also the headstrong Colonel Cayne. To make matters worse, a new danger lurks on the horizon.