It appears that all the electricty that my computers (currently colocated with a friend living in his mom’s basement) consume is starting to get noticed. This means I get to start looking for a new home for them before they start getting turned off (by the mother, and then turned back on by the friend, but possibly not until after I want to use them) on a regular basis.

This is simultaneously a request for a new location (one with unmetered electricity please; I don’t want the machines to wear out their welcome like this again), and a warning that my email may become unreliable again.

a few days back, the hard drive on the firewall connecting my mailserver to the internet died. i was expecting to have to spend the better part of a day, and a nontrivial amount of money, fixing it (and have to catch a water taxi home). somehow, i managed to get a working system going on Yet Another Spare Disk Of Leandro’s, in about 4 hours, and i was able to catch the club tender home (and not even on its last run!)

this was pleasing.

this was also why any mail sent to me in the past few days has not yet received any response. it’s still trickling in.

a pair of flies just had sex on my keyboard. they do not appear to have left any mess.

i now have working rights in just about the entire western industrial world.

i am still a credential whore.

within the past month or so, i’ve gotten a few cues to resume using livejournal.
i checked, and my reason for stopping appears to be gone.

it looks like my highly intermittent posts, and somewhat less intermittent replies just might be back.