The California wildfires are sufficiently distant from where I live that my mom and I are in no immediate danger.

No one has commented on the insanely cute picture of a kitty in a jack-o'lantern I decorated the hatbox donation side panel with. I can't understand that. Don't you guys know how hard it is to find a picture like that? A public domain one that I can just use without worrying about it?

Here's the note from Kim at Crystal's:

Tomorrow (Sunday, Oct 7) morning the servers will be going down at around 11:AM EDT. We'll try to have things up and operating normally as soon as possible. When they come up, the IP addresses will be different, so there might be a delay as the new DNS propagates.

- Kim

Little Katie, aka K.T. Leonard, is in the hospital in Florida with a bloodclot in the lungs. They think. Unfortunately, she has medical contraindications for the usual treatment for this condition, blood thinners, and she is in a lot of pain. She's been staying with her pastor lately, she's a Christian, and she would appreciate any prayers anyone might wish to make on her behalf.

Thanks,
Erin

TopShelf was down for a little over an hour this morning, no idea why but it's back up now. :)

- Erin

Monday, Sep 3, 2007 set a traffic record at BigCloset, well over 4300 visitors in 24 hours, more than 5% over the previous record set in July and nearly equaled in August of just under 4100. In fact, the average daily traffic for the last week is 3999, the highest weekly average ever also. :)

Submissions are also up and comments and sales through Doppler Press and activity on the ads at BC, it's all good. :)

Shall we have a Halloween story contest this year? Several people have suggested it in PMs....

- Erin

Jennifer deals with the gunman in the forest and then with some of the consequences before discovering ... well, that would be telling. Read it.

http://stardustr.us/belle_of_the_ball_chapter_twenty_six

- Erin

Doing my laundry. Everytime I do laundry lately, one of my washcloths disappears. Very mysterious.

Repost to Stardust at http://www.stardustr.us !!

The commenting proportion is similar to BC, there's a lot of overlapping readership so some of your old fans are bound to be reminded of an old favorite and Bob Arnold is just a nice host!

Note the posting restrictions at the top of the Stardust main page, they're different than BCs. :)

Hugs,
Erin

Apologies in advance if things don't get done promptly around here, my back is really hurting. :(

Not serious, this happens from time to time, I'm usually okay in a day or so, but I'm probably going to be spending a lot of time out of the house.

Hgs,
Erin

I may have started something.

BC and Stardust (and perhaps now Tor der Traume, in German) are the only open TG sites, I think, where this story could be told in this way. Since I did Urban Renewal, Adonna has begun Blue Moon at Stardust and now Angharad with Easy as Falling off a Bike here: serials told in daily, or almost daily, short episodes. Edeyn's two recent serials may qualify for this category, too. :)

What shall we call this new artform? :)

- Erin

...the cable connecting our mobile to power burned up mid-morning. What with having to leave for a doctor app, it took about nine hours to,get fixed. And $300.

But all seems well now, except that during the frenzy of plugging and unplugging I can't find my phone charging cable. :(

Hope all ofmyou are well. :)

Hugs,
Erin

The BC server went down for about 90 minutes due to excess heat in the server farm. At the time, I had taken my mom down to a fastfood place so she could cool off. :) So that's why it took so long to fix cause I did not report it by phone until I got back.

It's okay now, I hope.

Hugs,
Erin

From my brother:

"People who live in a social vacuum should be wary of strange attachments." :)

Okay, I needed that laugh. :)

Hugs,
Erin