Sungak – Page 23 – The Kind Healer

Annoying Weekends

As other folks on MystBlogs have made me feel somewhat better about my past weekend (i.e. misery loves company), I’m obligated to give back and post the rather roller-coaster-like fun I’ve been through.

Before starting, note that my ‘weekend’ normally starts first thing Friday morning, as I work 3rd shift. With that out of the way…

Fri afternoon – Planned upgrades to our backup system at work. Went smooth (so I should have realized something was amiss), done about 3 hours including cleaning up after.

Sat – Rather hellish experience with the second half of said upgrade. Included two hours following a red herring (bad tape made me think at first was a bad drive) and five hours on the phone with EMC (whose tech was really cool for someone on-call on a Saturday evening). Ended up my being stupid and not doing something out of old habit to clear part of the system configuration. *Huge-HeadDesk*

Sun-Today – Being ultra-careful and getting things back in order again. I’ll probably be still doing this another day or so. *sigh* Thankfully that was interspersed with nice weather on Sunday and Monday – enough so to run up to the NY RenFaire, so it was not all bad. Just annoying as ever…

–TSK

Updates

As I’ve left a couple things up in the air…

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Dentist – Visit #2 was last week, got things sealed up and a better temp filling in place. Now on the waiting game for the infected area around it to heal.

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SL Forums – It’s been clarified that only certain sections of their forum will be closed. In particular, the ones either 1) not directly involved with SL discussion, or 2) exploited too much by trollers. Also the group forums, but that’s in a few months.

That comes down to their General sections as well as Land and Economy, for the biggest offenders. Hopefully, that will calm things down a bit.

I may even consider ResModding again…

–TSK

Things You do NOT Want to Hear From Your Dentist

“Are you sure you’re not in pain??!?”

This was from an emergency visit yesterday, when a tooth chipped a bit. And no, I was not in pain at the time, believe it or not.

Turns out it’s totally dead, the root’s all gone and festered. I should be picking up meds to help with the final (internal) cleanup this afternoon.

Thankfully, this dentist is a cool guy, and the cleaning was smooth sailing (though expensive x.x ). At least two visits to go before its done though, including the post and crown work.

–TSK

SL Forum Closure – Feelings

More fun with Second Life today. A post on their aggregate weblog has announced that their local forum will be phased out.

Personally, this is mostly a good idea. The only reasons I use it today are the Personal Message system and perusing the scripting section. Both of these will be problematic going forward, but I’m going to inquire about hosting the existing (Scripting Library) content for the sake of sharing the information with the Teen Grid folks. That will likely require stronger controls about who’s allowed to post. Still thinking about it, and will inquire with Linden Lab…

As for the Personal Message system, I find it exceedingly useful to communicate with other SL residents offline (and in particular from work). This was crutial during my holding and maintenance of Numbakulla island, as the core officers are from the UK and I work 3rd shift EST. So I’m intensely curious how I’m going to be talking to folks offline from here on. The LibSL project is looking more useful than ever…

Anyway, slight rant over, off to craft an email or two…

–TSK

Pics Link

Meant to post this last week, but weekend was hellish (short form – I learned how Linden Lab felt when they lost their colo last year):

http://www.sungak.net/av/pics/sl-pics-final/

About 99% of that is Telador. Warning though, some are large, even after a reduction to JPG. That’s due to the screen size it was taken at mostly.

Anyway, still got to kick the video into gear, but for now I’m more inclined to bring up Blender and fiddle with my shell instead…

Edit – Oh, as for Second Life, I started fiddling with sailing agian. Registered a number and all. Will see how that turns out.

–TSK