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Hugs,
Erin

The last day at the Con I was struck by an incredible lack in the world of a specific thing that I knew I could do. I spent most of the last day collecting info and opinions about this idea and most of the drive back thinking about it.

I'm going to be the San Diego ComiCon and in San Diego generally from Wednesday through Sunday. I'll have my laptop with me wo I won't be out of touch but I won't be sitting in front of it doing other stuff and checking on the site every half hour like I do when I'm home.

My little dog and I were playing on the front porch, me throwing her favorite toy and her chasing it. At the far end of the porch, she tried to grab the toy, stop and turn around all at the same time and I think she hurt herself.

This is what Piper posted at CSS:

Tomorrow, all the sites we host will go away. The downtime will be somewhere between 6 and 48 hours.

How many people base stories on dreams they've had? I had an odd one last night, got up this morning and wrote it up. I've done very little to make it make more sense but it's posted over on http://Fictioneer.org.

This kind of thing happen to anyone else?

Hugs,
Erin

Since there are so many comments I'll leave this message in place. As of about 3:30 PM EDT the power has been restored and all of the critical servers are back in operation. One of the general use systems that runs my lightning detection system is having problems but it isn't as critical as the other servers were.

Bob Arnold

Bob tells me that power is out due to lines brought down by winds in his area of central New York. May be back up today but more winds and storms expected, so it could be a while. Bob will remove this notice when the power comes back up. He's fine.

Pretty sick this evening with hayfever and what feels like an incipient sinus infection. Let's hope it's just hayfever. I've got finals this week and next starting Thursday, but they're playing four of my pieces in the composer's recital at college. I hope I'm not too sick to go.

In the future, I'd like to request that people who want to violate the rules of posting here, or annoy others for such transgressions, or anything that does not contribute to the peace and tranquility of what is essentially a library -- I'd like to request that all such disturbances, disagreements and denunciations take place while I'm here at my desk and not in bed, at dinner or in the bathroom.

Thank you all and hugs,
Erin

Appearances can be deceiving.

If anyone sent emails, including ones with stories attached, any time during the last two or three months, please send them again. My email save file got corrupted and I've lost a bunch of emails and no way of knowing which ones I lost because I don't have them to count them.

I hate this sort of thing. My redundant backup turns out to be incomplete so that was no save.

Please, if you sent anything important to [email protected] in the last 90 days or so, send it again.

Hugs,
Erin

Getting some teeth pulled tomorrow, so I may not be on much. Also, my iMac seems to be ill, freezing at odd times. Hope that can be solved.

The server is up and is running a version of BC and it looks pretty good for moving the site tonight or tomorrow. The problem will again be propagating the domain so that bigclosetr.us/topshelf will take you to the right site. So, I'm going to set up a temporary URL that will take you to the new site if you can't reach it through the usual address.

Stay tuned for more info.

Hugs,
Erin

Yes! There are ten new stories up at Crystal's! Yay!

Despite our best efforts, the new server slows down to a crawl in the middle of the afternoon, Pacific time.