Sapphire just relayed news via TG Fiction mailing list from Nanomage's sister Kat, her brother died about a week ago of heart failure. He had several ongoing health problems.

At 2:05 pm PDT this afternoon, we hit 200 users at the same time. Because of a minor auto-update scheduled at that time, this caused a database "brownout". I took Apache and Mysql down and restarted them so some of you likely experienced a few mysterious messages while trying to load pages.

A friendly place to read, write and discuss fiction...

Database got corrupted during power flux at ISP. Spent almost 3 hours repairing it. Going to bed. Some data (node counters, history, logs) rolled back to previous week. Sorry about that.

- Erin

The house always has the edge...

Birdsong -10- Virtue.

by Joyce Melton

I bought a fence for my doggelle and put it up today. Now I'm in pain, hope to be feeling better after taking pain meds but need to flake out for a few hours at least.

The doggette had a good time in the yard though, she caught a three inch long grasshopper. :) It was almost worth kranging my back to watch her. She didn't know whether to attack or run and hide. :)

I was lying in bed reading and Cuddles lying next to me. Some big truck passed on the street and shook the house. Cuddles decided someone must be in the house and started growling. I got up to go to the living room with her, she wouldn't go alone, to show her no one was in the house. She was right behind me.

What's a desert without pyramids? Big piles of reasons and complications and relationships...

http://fictioneer.org

- Erin

Old friends remember what you like....

At http://fictioneer.org, please check it out and leave a comment.

Thanks,
Joyce

Having some trouble getting things done, you may have noticed.

It's not just stuff on the site. I need time to recover which I will, I'm pretty resilient about stuff like this but just bear with me while I work through it.

Hugs to all,
Erin

He changed his name but he could not change his nature...

The second installment of my suspense novel or whatever it is, is up at http://fictioneer.org.

Please take a look and tell me what you think.

Hugs,
Joyce

Piper has Crystal's Storysite and, I assume, the other sites associated, working on the new connection. Nice and quick. :)

Hugs,
Erin

Feb 28th is the second anniversary of Bob Arnold's Stardust site. There are stories that are posted there first or only, so take a look. :)

We are all made of Stardust!

Hugs,
Erin

The voting on the Novel contest is delayed again while I beat some software into submission.

- Erin

Just so people know, here's the graph from Sitemeter of monthly visitors for the past twelve months. :)

Hugs,
Erin