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I am currently working on things to try to get everything up and running as it should be. I finally have ‘direct’ access to the mySQL tables, which helps. I seem to have got email … sortof … hopping along a little… it should be working … soon enough. Unfortunately, every email sent to every modernevil.com email address this weekend may, in fact, never arrive.

Hopefully, mail-sending servers are persistent and will retry and retry, because if they retry now-ish, their messages should begin to creep through.

I’m going to have to call everyone to give them their new email settings, but … that’s later, I think.

First, get the site working.

I just woke up.

Sigh.

Maybe I’ll try a sleeping pill at 9 tonight. Depends on my progress with the site today, I guess.

Oh well.

I took two maximum-strength sleeping pills a little after 11 tonight. Hopefully they’ll knock me out soon.

I’m still working on getting things set up on the new server. It’s going as slow as ever, if not slower. Not as many problems as I had at the start though, so maybe things will go well in the end.

As Iain said, I’m planning on doing another Four-Hour Comic next Tuesday, December 9th. I expect it to go better than last time; I’m going to try not to use complicated layouts to tell the story as much, and if all goes well, maybe I won’t be doing another totally self-referential comic.

I can feel my mind slipping away. You can’t tell too much here, but my fingers are missing keys in the other windows I have open and I’m making little mistakes. I’ll stop after this blog. That’s … 16 ‘done’ of 34 blogs to move. And then I’ll have to shore-up everything Friday night to be sure no posts slip through between now and then. Mostly comics left, but … it’s all gotta be done. Some of it twice.

I’m really going now. Slipping away. More tomorrow. Hopefully by going to sleep now I’ll be able to wake up in the morning tomorrow.

I can’t seem to sleep. It’s 2:30 as I start this, and that’s too late to take a sleeping pill. I should have remembered to take one at 11 or 12, but … I thought I’d be able to get to sleep, I’ve been so tired lately. Sick, really, if I stand I get woozy and light-headed, and if I exert myself at all, I’m out of energy right away, but as soon as I laid down to try to sleep my mind wouldn’t shut up.

I’ve just spent the last half hour singing to myself, trying to clear my mind, but to no avail.

I spent my waking hours today working on getting everything moved over to the new server space, and I tell you it’s a lot of work. Not the sort of work that makes me tired, mind you, because I’m just sitting here, typing, copying, pasting, moving files around… basically no effort is required of my body, so I hardly notice I’m sick. But man. I spent almost nine hours on it today and I’m only about 1/3 of the way through it… maybe a little more, since it’s started going a little faster… I planned to put the hardest bits first and the easiest bits towards the end, and I guess that should speed the rest of it up a little, but … there’s just so much…. it seems like busy work, because it’s just the same thing over and over and over, back and forth and back and forth, moving the site over a little bit at a time.

And joy of joys, because I have to do it this way, every single “permanent” link to any individual post, anywhere on Modern Evil, is changing. Also, and I’ll email everyone about it, but every user account’s password is being reset. Wheee! Not until the server switches over, of course, but … you’ll see. Hopefully though, once we get settled in, they won’t be the devil.

Of course, the temperature isn’t helping. I … I made an error in judgement, and even though it was just barely dropping below a comfortable temperature as I went to bed, I put some wood on the fire… shut down the air almost all the way, and lay down, thinking it would slowly keep the room about a reasonable temperature. And I don’t know if maybe my fever broke and my body temperature dropped or what, but the temperature wasn’t over 79 degrees … much hotter than I expected, but not so hot that I expected to be this uncomfortable. Earlier today 74 felt cold.

I also just got 4 Mouse panels from someone who wasn’t sure he knew how to do the other 3 he’d volunteered for. Except that the 4 panels he turned in are far and away the best panels I’ve received for the Mouse Project. (No offense, Iain, but I linked you to them, you have to agree!) Now, if I can get the panels from Cat Garza, or if Michael Patrick hadn’t dropped out, there was a small chance these wouldn’t be the best panels in the entire comic, but as it is now … WOW. So I offered him money to do the other three panels. And offered some suggestions as to how to make drawing them easier. And kissed up to him. And if he still says he won’t do them, then I’ll have to do them, and then … then … well, then my pitiful panels will have to follow his gorgeous ones. Sigh.

Anyway. No clowns trying to eat me, just my own mind.

Three-thirty now. Getting a little weary. But that could just be my mind thinking about sleeping. In which case when I go lay down, I’ll be just as awake as ever.

Anyway, I think I’m going to try. Another fifteen minutes trying to get this things to post, and I should be done for.

Except in case of unexpected problems and/or catastrophes, I will be moving Modern Evil over to 1&1’s servers next weekend, December 5-7. There will be a period between when I initiate the change and when it propagates across the internet where if you make a post, it will very likely be lost forever. Iain, Mo, this doesn’t apply to posts of your sites, just posts actually made on Modern Evil.

SO, after around 5PM, MST, on Friday, December 5th (815.0 A.C.), and until you see a post from me that says something like “Everything moved over okay, go ahead and post!”, please do not make new posts on Modern Evil.

Also, as of … let’s say last Wednesday, if you make any changes to your Modern Evil templates, or upload any files, please let me know what files you uploaded and what templates you changed. I have already mirrored the bulk of Modern Evil’s webspace over to the new servers, and will be putting the finishing effort on that all this week. Partially due to my bandwidth limitations, I do not expect to try to do a full mirror again, so if you don’t let me know what changes you’ve made, they may not migrate, and you will have to make them again.

Finally, if I run into catastrophic failure any time this week, or during the shift this weekend, the site may be inoperable for longer than the weekend. I would like to apologize in advance for any difficulty that continues Monday and beyond. I’m just trying to get off Easyspace.

Thanks.