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Not in the Mood for Seafood

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
My aunt and grandma were shopping all day and decided to buy some boiled shrimp and crabs. When I got in the car my aunt was like "Your grandma bought you some crabs." I said "Oh." then she went. "Oh?!" I mean what did they want me to do? Jump for joy? I'm too tired to be excited over seafood. So they left me like four crabs and some of the shrimp and was like you can eat it tomorrow if you don't want it now. I don't even want it tomorrow! I'm not in the mood for it. *sighs* And when I don't eat it they gonna get mad and call me ungrateful and everything else. Oh well.
I hate Speech! Everything was going well... well, sorta until the news that we have finally come upt to getting ready to deliver speeches. First we had to pull names for groups. The first name she pulled to pick names for Group 1 was me... so I'm in a group with five other people. The only group of six people. Fine, maybe this speech thing won't be so hard. Maybe. I dunno.

We all decided on finding five topics each so that we can have a list of stuff to narrow ideas on and do the process of elimination the teacher was talking about but it's like WHAT! I'm not all that interested in much stuff. On top of that the teacher don't want us to pick stuff that has been overpublicized which rules out the Iraqi war... FINE WITH ME. Then there's the two guys in the group who wants to do Sports. HELL NO! So sick of talking and hearing about sports.

So anyway wednesday when I went to school I didn't really have anything, but I did think of two. I thought of Censorship from watching Lincoln Heighs and I thought of Health care from dealing with my grandpa. Turns out one of my group members thought of the same two as well as Iraqi war, but we ruled that one out automatically. So I still have to find topics. We actually developed a list of like 15 or 16 topics in class wednesday, but the teacher made us committ to a source.

I committed to finding info from MSN. Why oh why did I ever do that. I should have took Oprah or Dr. Phil because MSN is... AHHH *pulls hair*
Andrew committed to Yahoo and radio talk shows. Stephanie committed to news magazines. Whitney committed to the newspaper. Matt committed to CNN. And Devain committed to talk shows.

I guess Health and Fitness can be a topic... right? And... and... oh hell I don't know. WHO'S BRIGHT IDEA WAS SPEECHES ANYWAY!

Barbie anyone?

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 9:00 PM
In PirateQueen0405's latest update of Scissors she mentioned a hatred of Barbie lol. And today when I watched this vid from Communitychannel I thought back to the story and it made me laugh. So here's to you PQ, enjoy.

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Week 99 - Oneshot - stealth

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 3:53 PM

Title: The Art of Being Sneaky.
Author: Sango Shadowphoenix
Word count: 4321
Rated ‘E’ for Everyone
Canon Universe, Post-Naraku, Modern Era.
Disclaimer: InuYasha and its characters belong to Takahashi-sensei. So does Tessaiga, of course.

Summary: The good news: Tessaiga has finally been found. The bad news: Sesshoumaru has to steal his own family heirloom, Kagome is as clueless to old courting customs as she is prone to sticking her pretty neck into troublesome situations, and the aforementioned demon lord wants to tie the knot with the girl with the pretty neck. With, of course; not on.
Warnings: n/a

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When I logged into LJ just now I got...

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 1:44 PM

Welcome back, akay_gemini

Oops! Looks like Frank's nibbling on the wires. Please try again in a few minutes. If you continue to get this error, let our Support team know. (Frank tells us the servers are delicious.)


the one i got in october was funny too )

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks [info]mhwest and [info]dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Baby Update

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Dante is not only a boy; he's gonna be a soccer player. Two days ago when I was going to bed, the little guy kicked me good. It was the first kick that I felt and was certain was a kick and not something else (gas bubble, etc) and for a first one it was a hard one! The next 5 months aren't gonna be much fun, me thinks.

Having my tooth extracted last week sucked. It should be all nice and healed by now, but there's a shard of tooth or bone in there working it's way out of my gums, so it's still sore. *pouts* I wish it would just come out already or quit it. Sheesh.

And yeah, that was basically all. I'm just posting to whine... and tell ya about da bebe.

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