h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*the cleaning bot knows what to do by now, as soon as it gets out of the closet*
*Mindspring lounges on a cushion and watches the bot do floors and flat surfaces ... and her cage*

*Meanwhile Lil cleans the kitchen and makes ready for the new work week and a new onslaught of newbies*

I have become my mother. I love a clean place.

*appears out of service lift briefly dropping in to say hello*
'Hello'. As for cleaning. 6 hours sleep, followed by blits on house, egged on by partner, finishing the bathroom (put up shower rail & curtain), hoover the whole place etc., etc., All is well. Gp's arrived safely and now quick logon to keep abrest of things, prior to not being able to log on for 2 days!!!
Love you and leave you
PS Sporky really needs to get some sleep. If he comes online tonight, tell him I said s
Ciao
B-17
* take service lift down again. closes gate should anyone else widh to use it *

Hallo Babel. I am indeed on tonight, and I see you're still at work *nice feature of AOL*

Hmm... MikeA, if you copy http://www.crosswinds.net/~sporkulious/Pics/404_error into your browser, you can see the pic. I didn't realise how obscene Crosswinds was until just now. And I do need more sleep! However, there needs to be more hours in the day in order for that to happen

Ain't it the truth.

Another half hour and I'll have a paradigmatic Kliban up for viewing... How was your weekend?

Very tiresome Plus, I have to be up at 5am again tomorrow- my mother is going in for a historectamy, and I'm the driver

Commiserations.
Hope all goes well.
Surgery is hateful but sometimes necessary...

Yuppers. No worries on this end though.

Gor! Only 19 people on h2g2- and the speed is sweet!

Check out http://www.h2g2.com/A336007 -- you need a laugh.

Yes, I've seen that. Says a lot

I bet you have all the books.

Not all of them- wish I did though I love sorts like this. I especially like Edward Gorey. Right now I am exploring designer webpages- and I am getting sucked right into them! So many nice, sexy, intelligent people! So little time! (alternatively, one could say "so few condoms;" but not in this crowd )

Oh, Edward Gorey is brilliant.
Have you read Dreams of a Welsh Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McKay?

I'm about to turn in -- gotta put the cafe on self-serve, then I'll be back for a nightcap.

no, I haven't

I like the Kilban cartoon. (A quick bookmark to get the new conversation)

Mornin' Phil! I'm just off for doughnuts -- back soon.

Hi there Lil,
Seems a bit quieter than when I was around yesterday. I could hardly move at times
Is there any news of when the new stuff will go live?

I don't know. Ripley is still being tested. TThey must all be pretty busy, because I submitted my last batch of articles about a week ago and still haven't received my next batch: this usually happens by return of post, practically.

I expect the net to become intensely busy any minute actually -- Monday morning bidness -- which is why I've defensively started new threads, for relatively easy download.

I'm sure we'll be told when the new system goes up (Should be able to spot the difference )
There's a lot of new entries on the front page today, but I've had some document contains no data errors for some

Well, h2g2 has been consistently flaky (if you know what I mean) for nearly a week, now. It behaves, in fact, exactly like an overloaded database. Yesterday it was quite unpredictable whether I would get snappy response or DNS messages or pages loading in original ways not intended by the programmers...

I'm going to make a fresh pot of tea.

Hmmm, overloaded DB, just what it is at the moment...
I was only on for a part of yesterday evening (about 9pm to 11:30pm UK time) and towards the end it was getting better, but at the start it was terrible.

Although I'm not a tea drinker, my mother has instilled in me the idea that if you are a tea drinker (or with someone who is) make a cup of tea and all will seem better...