Back again, with the technical details

My cousin told me the other week that he accidentally referred to Emelyn as ‘Emelyndotnet’. In which case, I think I should point out that although Emelyndotnet has been rather shaky all week due to technical issues, site namesake Emelyn has been doing just fine.

(The long technical story, for those interested: Emelyndotnet, jasoncookdotcom, and some other domains that Azure and I tinker on are all graciously hosted by our old friend Andy, who happens to own a couple of aging Unix machines that sit in a server cage somewhere outside of San Francisco. This steadfast pair of machines - incidentally named Chunk and Sloth - have been generally reliable, but are showing their age a bit. One of them recently went haywire, taking down a bunch of other computers in the same facility; so it’s therefore being put out to pasture.

As I type, our sundry domains are being migrated to a shiny new hosting facility - thanks once again to Andy - but like any move, there’s the usual broken plates and glasses and hardcoded-virtual-include-file-paths to be dealt with. Things should all be swept up by the weekend, though.)

Anyhoo. Like I was saying earlier, Emelyn (not-dotnet) is chipper as can be. And really talkative - she’s taken to cooing at anything and everything she fancies. Az and Arps went back for a second helping of Pride and Prejudice at the Big Scream showing yesterday, and apparently Emelyn started ‘Awoooo Awoooo’-ing at Mr. Darcy, at a volume that had lots of heads turning and laughing. (Wish I’d seen it, too.)

Tonight will be my first night away from Azure and Emelyn; I’m headed to an overnight work-offsite-thingy somewhere in the countryside. Next week I’m in Germany for a few nights and the week after it looks like I’m in the States. But as far as travel goes, that’ll be it for awhile. Good thing!