Well, I'm sure I would have gotten nominated for a Bloggy is they just had the right category: "Best Clan Lord Web Log With Almost No Clan Lord In It."

BlogVoices, the discussion system here (and on other blogs as well) is closing up, due to hosting issues. It's now an open source venture, and he's going to put the pieces of the system up for download, including data. With luck, I can shim the code on to Pair, and make it available for my various blogs, as well as the few friends I've infected with the Blogger/BlogVoices combo. Least I can do. Unless, of course, BloggerPro opens its doors and reveals that it has a discussion system.

Big mess at Alchera. The player database became corrupt, and was causing regular, frequent crashes. In the end, we had to untrain all the players, and convert their training to experience. Unfortunately, there's no exact way to do this, and it looks like we came up a bit short. I think we're going to reward another dose of experience out, which will hopefully put the players a bit ahead of where they were before the problem. It's better than doing a full reset, for sure. And, with any luck, the crashing will stop. After the initial hassle, I think the players will be happy with the final result: a chance to retrain, an experience bonus, and a more stable more available server. We're trying to make the best lemonade we can from the situation.

In an ironic twist, I found a cell phone on the subway late last night. I discovered how hard it is to return a lost cell phone. I called the provider, and they were no help, because it's a pre-pay phone. After doing a search of their records, the two best options were to either call the numbers in memory and ask around (not advisable at 1:30AM) or to drop it off at a store. I think the latter option is a bad idea, since they can't find the owner in their records. They'll just resell the phone. So, now the phone is sitting next to me, and I'm hoping the owner will call soon. If he or she doesn't call in a few hours, I'll start calling numbers in the memory. Note to self: next cell phone I have, put a sticker on it with my home phone number, like under the battery or something.

Today is Jennifer's birthday. Happy Birthday Jen. She doesn't read the blog regularly, but she's been a great friend to me these past years. I'm going to get her (more irony) a prepaid cell phone. She always goes on and on about how awful cellphones are, but she never had a problem borrowing mine to make a call when we are out together. She never had a problem with it until I lost mine. She's finally realized it might be nice to have one, but she doesn't want to pay a service charge. Since I'm the one who convert the analog girl to a PDA (a Psion no less, before Palms were the big thing. I've put probably 5 people on Psion organizers.) it makes sense I'd push her into the wireless world.

Conny will be here in no time. My week is full up too. A dinner with Jen and friends to celebrate her birthday tonight. Wednesday might be a poker night with some guys from work. Thursday is Nosfaratu (the original silent, black and white movie) shown with live music. I'm seeing it with Jennifer, who has never seen this classic bit of filmmaking. It's all the more relevant with the current movie Shadow of the Vampire, which is a fictionalized treatment of the making of Nosfaratu. Makes sense to see the original first. Friday night we celebrate Alexis' one year in United States. Saturday, Conny comes.

Now, when the hell am I going to get my disaster area of an apartment in order?
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