Having some trouble getting things done, you may have noticed.
It's not just stuff on the site. I need time to recover which I will, I'm pretty resilient about stuff like this but just bear with me while I work through it.
With "Miles and Miles" to go, we learn a bit more about Birdsong and the man he has promised to kill. Please take a look and leave a comment if you would. :)
Something stupid happened and I have to be gone again today. Bob and Sephy know how to get in touch with me and I will have my laptop along. Beeeee gooood.
I don't watch football usually, but I would watch it more often if games were as good as the fourth quarter of this Superbowl. Two excellent teams, two fantastic quarterbacks, head to head competition between the minds of two great coaches. Wow!
The Pats didn't let themselves be outplayed, they just got out-lucked by a Giants team that made no important mistakes. Double wow!
I've got to unplug the voting module because of security problems. There is no update for this yet, I may have to do some coding on it myself. Sorry about this, we've all enjoyed the voting.
BCs network connection has been off and on this afternoon. At least two outages of more than two minutes. I've got a trouble ticket in on it but an intermittent problem like this can be the very crawdads to diagnose.
The node counter table in the database got corrupted during the crash early this morning. The system seems to have crashed due to a power brownout, probably due to high winds in LA. Bob and I will try to fix the database table tomorrow but I still haven't tracked down the My Stories problem.
I haven't done any writing since Mom got really sick, and me too. But I'm sitting here listening to Tom Petty, Dave Matthews, Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Randy Newman (my iPod is confused, too). Something happened, a song. Imagine this written and performed by one or more of the above guys.
I don't know if anyone noticed but the front page now holds only six days worth of stories instead of seven. Since multi-chapter stories are allowed only one entry in the upper part of the page and the lower ten or so spots are taken up by blogs, this means that in six days there are about 40 different stories going on at BCTS. Whew!
Mom is still in the ICU but the doctor's seem upbeat. I'm home. Tomorrow is my brother's birthday. Still got bronchitis but I think I've got it on the run.
My cold has mutated into bronchitis, combined with my chronic sinusitis and now I'm having asthma attacks. I've got medication for this so I'll be okay, just miserable and a little short-tempered for a bit--one of the asthma meds is a steroid.
I've spent most of my time since Saturday in bed while Mom's situation has moved only to stable. Still no prognosis for when she might get out of ICU.
I'm subject to COPD so I've got orders from my doctor to come in with a bad cold for prophylaxis against opportunistic bronchitis. So I'm going to the doctor today myself.
My mom is not stable with her breathing problems so they are concentrating on getting her stable so they can do more tests. My brother is working at home today so he can be on the phones and catch a plane if needed.
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1001 Third St.
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