The newest Beastly Thoughts is up at Number Please. The guy in the foreground is a drawing of my roommate, Adam Sanford. When you read the cartoon, you'll know how appropriate that is. :)
I've resurrected my old comic strip, Beastly Thoughts and have been posting the old cartoons with a few new ones intended for the mix. It's at Beastly Thoughts. Take a look and make a comment. :) This is what I was doing last night and why I slept so late this morning.
This one is from me. I don't know if Angel is coming here to look, I've communicated with her by email and with Jill but who knows.
Angel has apparently deleted all of her stories except A Life Ever Changing which she says she regards as belonging to BigCloset. I thought all of the writers, editors, commenters and readers belonged to BC in exactly the same way that BC belongs to them. And in a much more important way than it belongs to me.
For those that remember me mentioning this earlier--my roommate Griff and I developed a webcomic together called, "Alistair 2 Zook". Griff is now in the middle of getting degrees in sociology and no longer has time to do any cartooning. So, I took a try at it.
Our new server seems to have had some problems, it's been up and down several times today. The techs at the ol' server farm suspect a bad power strip, so they moved it across the bay and replugged it in. Hopefully this will solve the problem. Eh-yup.
While the numeric address is up there, do not bookmark this site. It probably wouldn't work later if you did. Things should be entirely resolved sometime tonight or tomorrow. We've done all we can today, we're just waiting for new addresses to propagate through the web. ;)
I just rented a new server and in order to get the best price I could, I paid for a year upfront. That's $2126, quite a hit on my credit card, about $190/month, amortized with interest. Next year it will drop to $1776, equal to about $148/month and I intend to pay cash.
First, anonymous comments have been turned back on but with a spam filter now. This also means that if anyone accidentally posts the exact same comment twice, it will be marked as spam and not appear until I can look at it. You'll get a heads-up notice on screen and I'll get an email to take a look if this happens. Also, comments that contain a LOT of URLs will be marked as spam until I look at them.
From time to time during the day and evening, I check the chatrooms to see if anyone is there. If you want to meet me there, send me a private message. :) I seldom go more than three hours between checking things like PMs and the chatroom so it's good to plan ahead but it should be workable.
Anonymous comments have again been turned off due to spam. Sorry, but we've gotten nearly two hundred spam comments today and it takes time to delete each and every one. I'll be working on ways to block the spam while still allowing anonymous comments. Click [Annonymous Comments Off]:read more to see how to leave comments without creating a BC account.
The newly added Google search capability does not yet work well for BigClosetR.us or QnEZ4U.com domains because they have not been spidered. It will work later but it does work fairly well for ateros.com, the domain where the classic and original BigCloset domains still reside. This is a test, it is only a test, if it turns out to be worthless or worse it will be discontunued. :)
Because of a change in directory structure on the server, users may have to log back in. After this, BC will be reachable via http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf directly rather than being redirected to qnez4u.com.
This is a holiday dish I make, usually by request. In fact, since I invented it, I get asked to bring it to practically every potluck and/or group dinner I go to. :)
What's going on? Back when every post required editing by me before posting, I sometimes had 20 or 30 stories in the queue, eight or ten new ones every week. Now that posted stories appear immediately, posting has slowed down to two or three a week.
Fourth one in two weeks. Last week, the qnez server went down then over the weekend and again in the middle of the week, the bc server went down. Now it's the qnez server's time again. Grr.
As if I haven't had enough of it in my life, I'm moving again. :)
Griffen, the cartoonist for whom I write Morty, and I, plus Griff's partner Danny, will be taking an apartment together in September. It's only a few miles away so I can continue to keep an eye on my Mom, which is good, and I'll be spending almost half my time here at Mom's. But I've discovered I really can't do much creative stuff with Mom in the same house. <sigh> Never could, I've always done my writing in coffee shops when I live with Mom.
That's the old server, the one that runs my qnez, ateros, fictioneer, beastlythoughts and about 25 other domains admined by Theresa Sanchez; this time it isn't hackers but the ISP that operates the server farm in Texas. They updated some software on my server at midnight last night and now pop access to email does not work, nor do a lot of control panel functions for the server.
Since I spend about half an hour to one hour a day deleting spam comments by unregistered users, I'm going to suspend commenting privileges for unregistered user for the duration of my trip. Sorry about that, I hope to be able to restore such privileges as soon as I return on or about July 6.
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