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

Hello everyone,

I thought I should drop in and admit to being alive, if nothing else.

There's now very little chance of me actually writing a journal entry about the Tasmania trip, which is a pity, but so much time has elapsed that it would lack any immediacy at all and would be rather dull to read - let alone to write. Maybe next time.

Anyway. In the last week I've been to Melbourne and back, spent an entire day in a meeting with various people who want to lynch each other, pondered possible reasons for a subordinate to be such an inert mass (no conclusions yet) and almost inevitably had another day of illness yesterday. Or to paraphrase - I've been busy, and now I'm tired. But I am lurking as and when there's an opportunity.

If I don't put in much of an appearance over the next few days, I'll definitely be on the new site as soon as it's available and I'm within reach of a computer.

I'm getting quietly excited about the change to a sane moderation system. I wish the new Mods (and all the other volunteers) all the best with setting things up.

Ivan.

*hugs*

have a nice quiet weekend and a nice cleansing or two

I have jury duty next week, so I prolly won't get onto the new place till next weekend

Jury duty! I hope that you don't get picked, and that if you do it's nice and straightforward...

It's good to hear from you, Ivan.

Take care of yourself, and we'll meet in the other place.

Yes, take care Ivan, and good to hear from you. Any predictions for after the move?

I predict a tremendous sense of anticlimax among those who won't have a volunteer role to keep them busy. After all, it's not the apocalypse...

I also predict that I'll periodically get distracted and wander off for varying periods. At other times, I'll just have long naps.

Come to think of it, the condition I'm in it's a good thing that I *don't* have a volunteer role. I'd have to resign for health reasons.

"I predict a tremendous sense of anticlimax among those who won't have a volunteer role to keep them busy. After all, it's not the apocalypse..."

Me too. At least, that's what I hope, at any rate!

Glad to see you posting again, Ivan. It's always comforting when you check in, even if, as you say, it will be from time to time.

Mmmm, nap...

Nice to see you again, Ivan.

Well, I guess there won't be that very much backlog to get entangled in when first arriving to noohootoo. That's adownside when being a not daily visitor at present. I've learned to skip most of the backlog, but that of course makes me a tad out of context.

But you can't be everywhere all the time.

Hi Ivan, glad to hear you're still about.

The backlog should settle down once we're Over There.

The backlog's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. A good early indicator of the success of noohootoo would be an increase in the backlog after I've been away for a weekend. Let's see how we go.

There was a time when I could have provided a decent backlog for you, single-handedly. Alas, no time this month. Why on earth does hootoo have to move at the exact same time that the merger at work is finalized? I haven't been able to do much around here at all.

I know that feeling. Once upon a time I could have spent ages here writing all sorts of stuff, building up a backlog for someone else, but RL has been so serious over the last year that I've lost the knack.

Regarding RL being serious, I hope everything is OK. I haven't checked the backlog. I'm glad you're here, anyway.

To cut a long story short, my workload has been absurd because of deadlines imposed by Parliament, and my health gave way for reasons that are not due to, but are not helped by, the workload issue.

I'm a lot better now than I was a few months ago, but the fact that I'm writing this at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon, from home, indicates that today wasn't one of my 'good' days. Still, missing most of a day in the office is streets ahead of taking more than a month off as I did earlier this year... I'm reasonably relaxed about the rate of recovery.

YaYaYa typical winging Ivan

At least you haven't been shot , stabbed with kitchen implements and set on fire lately..



well you know where we all are again.. ( we've moved from the closet to under the bed )