... da hell?

risu just put out the call that we have no power at the Murkworks. To wit, WTF? We've managed to get one of our servers shut down cleanly, but we didn't get the other two down before the UPS died. GUH.

So. If y'all can't get to resources on murkworks.net, that'll be why. Apologies to those of you who frequent the MUSH. We'll come back up as soon as we can.

In the meantime, anybody needs to ping me, please to email my gmail account instead of my murkworks one, or call my cell if you're local.

ETA 11:01am: Puget Sound Energy says there's apparently a circuit out in our neighborhood, and there's an estimated repair time of 'noon'. I wonder what took it out!

ETA 11:53am: And we're back! Yay!

The rest of the weekend report

There were actually other things I did besides editing like a mad editing thing this weekend, which is pretty much why I'm starting this new week off short on sleep and probably already having had too much caffeine. All things considered, though, the weekend was good indeed.

Saturday night solarbird and I went up to Avatar Gaming & Gifts in Everett to see Alexander James, the Heir to the Heatherlands, perform. Boy continues to have some fine pipes, and he's got a loverly new dark-wooded guitar and a new song about Beltaine fire, too. There was happy word that finally, finally, the Heather Alexander songbook should be shipping out some time this week. I've still been twitchy about getting my copy. While at the concert we saw a few familiar faces from Norwescon as well as technoshaman, so that was cool.

A good chunk of Sunday morning and afternoon went to Dara and me meeting up with mamishka for Street Fair, which turned out to be nine kinds of fun--and even aside from the enjoyment of meeting up with the Meems, we all wound up spending way more money at the Street Fair than we have in years. Egged on by Mimi, we got some super-cute clothes: a cute top and a multi-colored jacket thing for Dara, a neat brown jacket for me and a multi-shades-of-blue lighter jacket thing (like Dara's but only blue) and a new hat for me. We also picked up our yearly supply of nifty soaps and some nice-smelling stuff for my dry skin, and we saw a few familiar folks and said hi (notably, our friend Danny!).

And there were KITTENS. Did I mention the kittens? There was this booth run by an organization called Purrfect Pals, and they had a cage full of kittens that they were letting people come in and swoon over. They weren't adopting them out, but the lady running the booth said that they were her "marketing staff". Snicker. mamishka reports that they are in fact the organization through whom she got one of her current cats, so we'll have to keep this in mind for potential New Kitties at the Murkworks mileage.

There was also working on the current Project From Hell over the weekend as well, which is now targeted for shipping on Wednesday at oh-god-no-thirty in the morning. We're going to have to see if we'll make it. If we do, I may actually get Friday off by way of a thank you from my boss, which would fail to suck.

And now there will be further working on said Project From Hell, but also some Doctor Who, because Meems is about to come over and watch with me. Yay!