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Ever tried to hold an irc network together with bubble gum and chicken wire?

I've been trying to tell people for the last year that having 6 of your 8 servers in California was not conducive to stability, even if the servers were normally rock solid individually. Yes, 3 of those servers are mine, but when I got them, they were the only servers out there, and they were not bought to all be hooked up to the same network when I originally purchased them. In the last 3 days, we've had our Chicago Server die (and take services with it) and tonite, we lost 3 of our California servers apparently because of complications from the wildfires. We even lost my Unknown server for a while, but we got it to respond eventually.

With 3 of our remaining 4 servers in California, we may be reduced to having nothing but our German server soon... I wasn't planing on adding the St. Louis server till after Christmas, when "I could afford it". Looks lke I may have to buck up and go into debit to get that wonderful dedicated machine now, rather than later.

Random irc moment of the day...

[15:58] * &Underdog can remember when almost everything was server contained <_<
[15:58] <@Namegduf> UD wins a retro point.
[15:58] * &Underdog remembers when memoserv was a hot off the presses newfangled idea
[15:58] <@Namegduf> And still no one uses it.
[15:58] <@Namegduf> It's the multiple desktops of IRC.
[15:58] <@Lkeas> heh
[15:59] <@Glarbex> I use multiple desktops.
[15:59] * &Underdog remembers when operserv didn't exist, and all that had to be regulated through the olines
[15:59] <@Namegduf> OperServ is bizarre.
[15:59] <@Rimblade> OperServ is a bully.
[16:00] <@Glarbex> OperServ claims to serve the opers, but in fact it seeks to enslave us all!
[16:00] <&Underdog> botserv was not even a concept then. Hostserv didn't exist as such...
[16:00] <@Namegduf> HostServ should be merged with NS.
[16:01] <@Namegduf> It doesn't do anything but provide an interface to set options on nicks.
[16:01] <&Underdog> we had to walk up hill to school, both ways... in a blinding snowstorm...
[16:01] <@Namegduf> Hehe.
[16:01] <&Underdog> :)


[16:04] * Rimblade is now known as Rimeating
[16:04] <&Goofy|Around> I now picture Rimblade eating wheel rims :)
[16:05] <&Corwin> Or.. ehm..
[16:07] <&Underdog> have a wheel good time with that dinner there...
[16:08] <&Ferret> Cheese wheels!
[16:08] <&Goofy|Around> UD with pun >_<
[16:08] <&Goofy|Around> :P
[16:09] <&Underdog> yes, there are cheese wheels, if only you can... ferret them out.
[16:09] <&Underdog> and yes, the wheel joke deserves a RIMshot <_<
[16:10] <&Underdog> I'll stop now.
[16:10] <&Ferret> UD is channeling Artix
[16:10] <@Namegduf> UD is doing it better. :P
[16:10] <&Ferret> Slightly

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Why does it seem like crappy things keep happening  to people I care about? People who have already had way more than their share of crappy things happen to them to begin with?

I don't just mean one person, I mean, several of them. And I don't just mean kinda crappy things, I mean, really crappy things. The kinds of things that make me lay awake at night and wish like hell that I could do something to ease their pain kinda things.

Why is it that when crappy things happen to people I care about, I never seem to know what the right thing to do or say is anymore? Man, I used to be good at that. Somewhere along the line, I guess I lost that ability somewhere... and no, it's not under the bed or behind the fridge, I checked there already.

Meh, I should be working on those character sketches for auntiemeesh, but somehow, I just can't bring myself to care about that right now.

To those of you on my friends list to whom this applies, I love you and I'm thinking of you. It's not a very clever, or awe inspiring thing to say, but it's the best I can come up with right now.