This weekend has been a case in point for what can go wrong.

Piper's move from one apartment to another across New Jersey got complicated by bad plumbing, bad weather and a bad disk drive. Yesterday, while Piper was getting a moving van, loading it and taking some things to storage, the BC database went flakey and corrupted four stories, maybe five. Cat and I, working with a few telephone hints from Piper managed a rescue of 98% of the data and got the site back up in less than five hours. Piper would undoubtedly have been able to have done it faster and might not have lost a few kudos and comments doing it. We are stressing the database servers on BC mightily and have a plan to ease that as soon as some other things get done, including Piper's move.

Later last evening, a server running a few smaller websites (including one we use for passing large files back and forth) lost a hard drive, one only ten months old, so we think it may be under warranty but we bought and had a new one shipped to Denver to be installed Tuesday or Wednesday by the fine folks at FDC.

This morning, the database for Crystal Hall went down. We should have that back up this evening and not to worry too much, the site is redundantly backed up. Piper is busy cleaning her old apartment and I would prefer she do the work because Cat is out of town today visiting friends in London and I don't know all the passwords on that site.

There's less than a week left in the month, we just had a $160 unexpected expense and we are still short of our goal for the month. If you can give, we will appreciate it and it will help us stay online. Here's the Amazon Hatbox Link and the link to Janglewood for P**P**.

Thanks.

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Cat, Kate and the gang.