Well, dear readers, you won’t believe it. I can barely believe it myself and yet I must because it happened before my very eyeballs. Last night, shortly before midnight, the server which hosts this here site (and several others) malfunctioned. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, for the third time this year the server malfunctioned and this site was not accessible. Now, you know that I strive to keep this site accessible but, I suppose, these things happen. I am told they will happen less once we are moved to the big-boy server in a few weeks. In any case, I will keep these here notes short and sweet rather than long and sour because who knows if anyone will be reading them.
I really do wish this nagging pain in my lower back would just get going, would just vamoose, would just amscray, but no, it is hanging on like an unwanted party guest.
Last night I dreamed I was at Manderley. In my dream I was in court dealing with the old bad business. My lawyer was antagonizing everyone and finally he took his pants off and exposed himself and then began drooling and screaming and he was carried off to the lunatic asylum. That did not bode well for a good outcome, but luckily a few moments later in dreamtime my new lawyer, who looked like Richard Mulligan or, in fact, may have been Richard Mulligan, was doing a great job, everyone loved him and it became quickly apparent that I would prevail and win the case. Then I woke up.
Wasn’t that a lovely dream? Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I have no idea if anyone will be reading these here notes or not.
To read or not to read, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous servers I know not, I care not, I just want the fershluganah site back up and running. What am I, Shakespeare all of a sudden?
Don’t be a stranger this weekend – we’re going to have lots and lots of surprises do don’t miss out on them. That is, presuming the site is up and running. And don’t forget to check out the new entry to Juliana’s Journal. We are using this week and next to catch up and get almost current. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must continue entering the second phase of fixes, I must sit on my couch like so much fish, I must eat various and sundried foodstuffs and I must do errands which need doing. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, two volumes of film music by Georges Delerue all done for the films of Philipe de Broca. Quite lovely. Also a newly released CD of Bernard Herrmann’s western TV scores for CBS. DVD, Mr. Blake Edwards’ The Tamarind Seed, one of the few Blake movies I’ve never seen. I’m forty minutes in and it’s quite handsome to see but quite turgid to watch. It does feature Miss Julie Andrews and Mr. Omar Sharif, who are both quite handsome people, and it does feature a beautiful quite handsome score by Mr. John Barry. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely posts, shall we? At least, I hope we can have loads of lovely posts.
Addendum: It is now twenty-two hours later and we are hoping the site will work for at least the next two days, until Mr. Mark Bakalor gets to a computer. He got this up with the aid of a tech while he was en route to Northern California. I can only say this: It will never ever happen again. He is switching us over to our new server at the beginning of the week and that server has backup systems in place. To say that I was apoplectic all day would be a vasty understatement, oh, yes, a vasty understatement. However, we did not lose a day and that is what I was most worried about. Okay, we have an hour and forty-five minutes to get to a hundred posts. Go! Also, I’ll put up tomorrow’s notes a bit later, like tenish.