A girl should be two things...

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Just wrote one of the best papers i've ever written. I'm freaking excited.

But if I hear another words about fucking Oroonoko i'll kill myself and return from the dark place I end up and eat them.

I have a alternative community network brand concept with assets I wish to share without my attempts being considered SPAM as was my prior post. I am not the most articulate so you may see my need to solicit help thus my intention in joining this community.

Ultimately I wish to develop partnerships with those who can mutually benefit. If there is another LJ community which my project is better suited, please advise. Your constructive input will be most appreciated.

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My boyfriend and I have been fairly obsessed with spaetzle ever since a recent trip to Virginia, where we had the good fortune of coming across a German restaurant that served a vegetarian spaetzle dish. This was further fueled by an episode of Lidia's Italy we saw on PBS this Sunday; Lidia prepared whole wheat spaetzle, and served it with beer-braised beef and gravy. This prompted me to find myself a recipe.

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Here's a picture of the spaetzle on their own, so you can see the nifty little guys:



We smothered it in mushroom gravy, and MAN was it tasty.



Everyone make spaetzle! Fun to say, and even more fun to eat! :o)

it's neopets 10th birthday. Has it really been that long? Have mercy.

The site has changed a lot since I was on- it use to be mostly 12 and up with kids here and there. The plots were hard, shit was difficult and winning stuff felt good. Now that Nickeloden and Viacom own NP its not so fun anymore. The latest plot is a click one, and is so simple a first grader could do it. *sigh* I remember the first plot I played--- Lost Desert and you had puzzles. Had to find things different throughout the world. A whole lot of shit. lol. Even when the site started to change they still had the Altador Cup. Those weeks in summer are amazing, and I end up playing tons. This year all the hard work was a let down- people would out hours into making rank "All Star" and someone who played less ended up with more points than them. Or about the same. The prizes were rushed and nothing was worth it.

But I digress.

I can't really believe it but after like four or five years Dre went home. Like home with his crazy momma home. I dropped him off there in confusion and he was being so damn secretive...but he's at fucking home. Anyone who...doesn't get why this is a big deal:

His mom is crazy. She beat him with a bat, tried to stab him, and who Eric says is partially resposible for Dre turning out the way he did. (When told this she replied he was "boog" (is that right? lol) and a bad friend and thats why Dre ended up where he did).

Anyway, his old house number which I could never forget but confuses me popped up on my phone and well i'm at a loss. I'm happy he's back there because he's no longer in the street but...oh well. I'll take what I can get.

I keep asking why he choose to leave where he was staying and he says that he and Al got into a fight. That he dislikes him cuz he's stupid. I have to wonder- what could make him hate this person he's been getting beat for (long story) and going to jail for...seriously.

Halloween was fun- got drunk in Ann Arbor at a random house with friends. Its amazing--you can just walk into any house on a block, not know the people, and drink their beer. Coolness.

So yeah. Hopefully everything works out. I'm just fucking sick of all this up and down.
~Brit

p.s. Next semester I am taking three english classes, a chemistry class and a Journalism class. Death awaits.

I have a few items for sale, check them out!! It's a mix of make-up & jewelry. `=D

Make-Up & Jewelry

I am a 21 year old Dutch lady and I am so very happy! I am happy to become a young mother.

I am on the skinny side, does anyone have advice on what you must especially eat? Thank you! I try to eat more healthy and go to bed earlier already.

Two purses for sale, shipping is 8.00 flat rate usps priority for the Coach wristlet, and $11.00 for the Guess? purse. These purses are brand new, never used, tag still attached. Genuine brand, no knock offs or your money back. Price negotiable, be reasonable, I just got fired. :/



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any young moms in the Tacoma, WA area? i'm moving up there this weekend to stay with family and I'm really looking to meet some girls to share experiences with. My best friend has a 1 1/2 year old, but I'd really like to talk more with someone going through things with me. I'm leaving behind 4 friends right now who are either expecting or just had babies, and I'm really going to miss comparing cravings and whatnot ^^

alittle about myself... I'm Niki, 21 and i'm 14 weeks today. I'm due May 1st [though I'm sure it'll happen a bit earlier then that] and really hoping for a boy. I'm a single expecting mom, baby daddy isn't sure what he wants to do right now so I'm going to stay with family while he gets his stuff together :p

anyone interested in making new friends, feel free to say hey~

also if you have a babycenter.com profile, add me there too! http://community.babycenter.com/profile/zombiedesu

♥

EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side.

Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station.

Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be.

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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.

Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(

Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.

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status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D

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So I'm about to get my hair done and I'm quite excited. It's such a cold day here at home but I'm happy I'm here. Dre and I hung out last night and he was mad at me because I didn't get to him on time but he couldn't stay angry because I had for some reason developed a lisp.

Felix, my truck is dying and I need him to get to GR tonight. Youmacon is tomorrow and I may go to that or Ann Arbor.

My thoughts-- I'm watching Martha Stewart and I find that ahe seems ao different now than before jail. Like she seems less bland and awesome. I never got my chocolate browine ice cream bars recipie.

Another not on my hairdresser-- their impressive two room shop is now one-- it's seems like it was hastily done too. There's. Story there I'm sure.

Last but not least I register for
Classes today for spring. So far I want to take 15 hours of English-- which I may regret.

I'm off!
-Britt

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I saw this recipe in Rhode Island Monthly and emailed it to my son who lives in RI. He made the muffins and called me to tell me "they're delicious - you should make them!" So I did. He was right :-)


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