[Helpers] !!!@&*^%#!&$#!!!!!

Druout at aol.com Druout at aol.com
Mon Aug 7 16:39:22 PDT 2006


In a message dated 8/3/2006 10:56:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes:

Having  to move my account in the middle of summer, two years in a 
row sucks  buffalo farts. 
Dear Angelique,
 
I'll say!  :(    I just noticed we are now 498  members!  So two more to go 
until I guess people get bounced??
 
If there is anything I can do, let me know.  My arm can work short  spurts, 
but that's better than nothing!  
 
Great about the new computer!   Of course that always means tons  more work 
moving files!  
Again sorry about the spam list on the poll files.  They didn't  seem to add 
to my personal spam burden, but careless in any case.    

>I accidentally 
>knocked a plastic jug of pace picante sauce off  the counter and it 
>exploded. The lid popped off .. .... There  was/is 
>tomato sauce and onion bits spattered 360 degrees in my white  kitchen from 
>floor to ceiling. Fruit flies love salsa.
 
Very funny/awful.  Sounds like you are ready to explode as well!   :(    I 
think this dreadful Fire Dog year has added to everyone's  being unable to keep 
up.  I've always been careful to keep ahead of things,  but not this year!  
 
Hope you had a great pagan convention!!
 
Sending love,
 
Hillary
 



I had  not even gotten everything repaired from 
the last move,... like the search  engines for the Klist and tea room 
archives. It all feels quite hopeless  at the moment because I am 
overwhelmed. When I have too many things that  need doing, pulling at me I 
get stressed and  cannot do anything...  I'm about at that point now.  Maybe 
writing it out will be a  release...

I have been trying to stop loathing the web  migration procedure so that 
it will be smooth. Last month I had a funny  thought of moving anyway, 
perhaps if I move voluntarily every year things  won't get so catastrophic.

Richard presented me with a new  computer when he was here... a fast one 
that can do video  editing!   I have been going through the old one, moving 
stuff,  archiving and deleting. Going through about 90 g of files going back 
to  1996... what a mess.

I've also been doing some other  maintenance type stuff, trying to 
organize my many mailboxes so the spam  and spam bounces get deleted 
automatically without any genuine mail going  missing.  .. and that means 
tracking down every address I use and  making a forwarder for it so the 
catchalls become spam bins. I deleted  thousands of spams from my webmail 
the other day.

I  also discovered some spam leaks... email addresses not properly spam  
proofed on web pages.  Some list member addresses too... I felt  terrible 
for having overlooked that.

The worst problem  with mail going missing was recently getting emails 
like  this:

>It has been over a month since I have sent payment. I don't  know if it
>is AOL email or some other reason that I can't establish  communication
>with you. I am trying a different email service. Any day  is fine Late
>afternoon or evening your time is good. Send a date,time  and number
>and I will send another email to  confirm.

ouch. Very bad. Horrifying. So I have been busy  with damage control.

In other news.. my main housekeeper  has been off for the past month, and 
I am being buried in my own clutter.  I have not even completely unpacked my 
suitcase from Europe yet. druid is  way busy, his three weeks sailing 
vacation got cut down to one and he is  having to work overtime. I have been 
giving him extra TLC... he gets  seasonal affective disorder, the man really 
needs his "green time"   and I have been letting him go fishing instead of 
asking him to help with  house things.

We came home from sailing to discover the  kitchen had become a fruit fly 
farm... and they were living in the garbage  disposal, and even pouring 
bleach and hot water down it has not  helped.

druid and I have both been too busy to properly  put everything away 
after sailing... which enhanced the fruit fly farm  well beyond my 
tolerance.  Today while attacking the situation by  setting out a glass of 
sherry for them then sucking them up with a vacuum  cleaner, I accidentally 
knocked a plastic jug of pace picante sauce off  the counter and it 
exploded. The lid popped off ..  I think it must  have been fermenting, that 
is the only way it could have erupted with such  velocity. There was/is 
tomato sauce and onion bits spattered 360 degrees  in my white kitchen from 
floor to ceiling. Fruit flies love  salsa.

Camel broke, I could not deal. I walked away from the  mess, took off my 
salsa spattered clothes in the laundry room and had a  time-out.

druid dealt with the worst of it, after we got  back from the chiro but 
I am still going to be spending my evening wiping  salsa stains.

On the list of things for august is a number  of large house projects, 
like rebuilding a set of stone and cement steps  going down into my backyard 
that had been neglected for 5 years before we  moved in.  I weeded them and 
pressure washed them two summers ago...  and they collapsed. The weeds and 
dirt had been holding them  together.  I have to dig out the old steps, and 
all the dirt and  weeds to make a steep vertical trench to fill with the 
several tons of  gravel waiting in  a pile out front, then sculpt new steps 
out of  stone and cement.

Heavy work, great for building muscle  and bone density but hazardous 
too. Lose my balance on the slope while  carrying 50lbs of stone... ?  Slow 
and steady.

I  always come home from sailing with an interesting collection of 
bruises  and injuries gained by losing balance inside a sailboat on rough  
seas.  Tonight druid commented on a black and yellow smudge at my  temple. I 
hit my head on things on three separate occasions, but that one  was from 
when he accidentally clocked me in the head with an electric boat  engine. 
ow.

>  I'll store all of that info off-line until  everything is working 
> again.  Sorry to hear about the mess. :( I  know it's not the first time.

I've temporarily deleted the  fscnew folder, after backing it up on my 
hard drive. Seems part of the  reason for cpanel migration not working well 
in the past (and deleting or  messing my lists)  may have been that it 
chokes on accounts that are  more than 2g so I have been deleting 
non-essentials that can be restored  later in hopes that it will ease the 
transition.

I  have not examined the samples you sent. I hate watching myself, and I 
am  afraid of putting my hyper self-critical energy into the Shakti matrix 
of  the work, which could happen if I try to force myself.

I  will examine them when it feels right, when I am inspired,  in a frame  
of mind to enhance the message with love.  I trust your judgment, and  for 
the time being, I really would much rather other helpers review the  stuff 
and give me feedback.

I'm sorry the lag is  causing such a problem. I have not noticed it in 
the tape when recording  and I don't know where it came from.

I probably won't get  back to editing the FST lessons until Sept. I have 
done the first 40, and  the word docs were uploaded to fscnew before I left 
for Europe.  I  know some of those 40 are still missing bits and pieces, 
homework  assignments etc.

I don't know how far Sachiko got with  putting them into the forms.  I 
think we got sidetracked with fonts  and then I left for Europe. I'll try to 
respond to May's emails in a week  or two but you might not hear much from 
me until Sept. Most of the  projects helpers are working on are not 
dependent on my editing timeline  so no worries. Keep at it please.

I'm off to a pagan  convention this weekend, Friday to Monday. I'll be 
doing a third eye &  discernment workshop, volunteer.  The new hosting 
account is set up.  I'm going to put in the request to move servers when I 
get back.
I hope to have a relaxing time because I am feeling kind of worn out  
and beat up. Still have to pack... this particular convention is fun but  
many times I have been ill afterwards. The past few years it is just  
projectile puking on the way home.  Today I have found myself  wondering why 
I am going... but I have made commitments and it is too late  to back out now.

One thing that astonished me about the  pix of my tour of Europe was how 
much younger I look in the photos where  you were showing me castles and 
Stockholm. I think it was the beneficial  effect of both of you snacking on 
me. Thanks so much! A photo of me today  would probably look like something 
the cat dragged in... if you could help  I'd surely appreciate it!

Gotta go... thanks everybody  for sticking with  me.

>Namaste!
>Gustaf
>
>-----Ursprungligt  meddelande-----
>Från: helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org  
>[mailto:helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org] För Mystress Angelique  Serpent
>Skickat: den 3 augusti 2006 00:34
>Till:  Kundalist at kundalini-gateway.org
>Kopia: Helpers at fire-serpent.org;  Stephen Kowalchuk; Richard Burnett
>Ämne: [Helpers]  !!!@&*^%#!&$#!!!!!
>
>
>     My  webhosts 30 minute support guarantee went out the window this week..
>so  did their 99.9% uptime guarantee, July was more like 94%. The first  post
>in the archives this month is a test post from the provider's  tech... the
>fact that it happened on Tuesday and my support request was  sent in the wee
>hours of Sunday... arg.
>
>     I've spent the past 2 days shopping for a new host.
>
>   Ya know, fire-serpent.com has been moved to another server in  whole or
>part every year since it opened, and the K-list has gone down  and been
>revived more times than I care to count.  It has been  plagued with various
>problems since it was first opened 10 years  ago.  The lighthouse spell is
>supposed to protect the server from  the Shakti energy...
>
>      !!!@&*^%#!&$#!!!!!
>
>      I'm going out  of town this weekend, Friday to Monday afternoon so
>whether things get  moved tomorrow or next week is anybody's
>guess.  Unfortunately  only about 10% of members will get this message... 
sigh.
>
>   I've chosen a Canadian host this time... enough with this cross  border
>shopping!
>http://www.monsterhosting.ca/
>
>
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