Another public service announcement from your selfless host
December 13, 2003 at 8:34 pm | In yulelogStories | 2 CommentsThis is my bit of public service announcement for the weekend — and I wish I could do more: Emma sings in a choir, Viva Chorale. They’re putting on a feast at the University Club — a Renaissance-inspired “Courtly Choral Feast” with a boar’s head procession and everything, to start at 6 pm on Tuesday December 16th. The choir is selling tickets, and if you’re in the Victoria area reading this, and are up for an evening of grand feasting with musical entertainment, please consider getting a ticket. Call the VIVA office directly at 250-472-2655 to buy your ticket — $43 for a fabulous buffet: choice of 5 salads (Greek, Waldorf, Caesar, Five Bean, Curried Rice); Roast Baron of Beef; Roast Turkey with Cranberry Sauce; Vegetarian Lasagna; Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes; Seasonal Vegetables; Fresh Baked Rolls; Fresh Fruit Platter, Cheeses, Mousse, Fresh Fruit Tarts; Tea or Coffee. Tip and GST included. Hey, it’s a deal, comes with choral singing, too! Consider supporting the choir…?
Someone tell Mark…?
December 13, 2003 at 8:15 pm | In yulelogStories | Comments OffFor at least the past 7 days, I have not been able to access wood’s lot. (Mark: I see from referer stats that you have visited my site: I tried sending you email and it was returned as “undeliverable” and with “fatal errors”!) I can’t get to this site. And it’s very strange, as other people elsewhere can. Doug of Dynamic Drivel sagely suggested — after I contacted him via email — that it might be a routing error (huh?). I managed to get my husband Werner interested in the problem — he knows quite a bit of technical stuff, about as much as I don’t know, so …um, actually he knows quite a lot. Doug had suggested it might be a Telus problem, and given that Telus is majorly fubar’d up — in other words, they’re total idiots, everyone hates them, too — that was a possibility. (Our home IP is through Pacificcoast.net, which eventually routes through Telus.) But it wasn’t Telus, as the traceroute Werner did went well past Telus; he went on network-tools.com, he pinged the IP address from our internet provider as well as directly from a Massachusetts source he accesses directly because of his work, and it was always the same: …nada. The trace times out, it dribbles away, the site is not accessible. This is driving me crazy. Now I just heard from Doug again that his traceroute search turned up the same situation: time out and so on. It looks like the www.ncf.ca server has a problem. Someone call ncf.ca, call Mark, get it fixed. I can’t stand to think of all the stuff I’m missing….
Think Different
December 13, 2003 at 7:35 pm | In yulelogStories | Comments OffListening to Ella Fitzgerald give her best to the xmas spirit as she Wishes You a Swinging Christmas — it’s the only favourite around our house — Emma said, apropos of Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer, “Boy, those other reindeer are real sucker-uppers.” Hahaha, she got that right! Nasty stupid buggers, the lot of them! Exclusionary thinkers, all; not inclusive at all.
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