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I'm not worthy
*drops and grovels*

I don't know HOW you get through life without notifications.

But you have my love and awe.

FOREVER


*dying*

Good Lord, Joss.

I should have known.

I should have KNOWN....

and there's still an hour and a half left... o.O

EDIT: Summer, those glasses are bad. :(
EDIT 2: Summer, you are a tad CUKCOO... o.O

[spam post: 3]

that every answer is the wrong one?

THREE birthdays today
even if two are fictional

Happy Birthday to little_swirl, Kasey Cain and the Queen of the Outer Zone!

*cookies*
*confetti*
*alcohol of your choosin'*

Kasey and the Queen - there be a party at the tavern (most likey)
little_swirl: I wrote you an Alice fic. With a great BIG Tin Man reference. :)

Have a great day!!

In other news... Yeah, I've got nothin'. Except that I wrote a 600-word Alice fic in about 20 minutes. O.O

Steve is up to MUCH no good, as well.... SHOCKER!

I need to pimp out demilos_wagon and tm_challenge today. As well as work on the wagon fics I plotted yesterday.

Also:
VOTING for Round 4B - Glitch is open at tm_challenge
VOTING for Round 4A - Are You Ready to Rock? is open at tm_challenge

**EDIT Wed Dec 9 00:28:16 UTC 2009 **

The notification system has been fixed in the new release... we are currently processing the queue, which is upwards of 12m jobs... please bear with us while our workers chew through this large queue and get your notification / emails out. Some may come more quickly than others due to weights on the notifications themselves, but we are hoping in the next 24 hours to have all the queues cleared and all notifications delivered that had been queued up over the past few days.

Again I apologize for this inconvenience, but we are almost out of the woods as soon as we are done clear cutting some of the forest ;)

Thanks,

** END EDIT**

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

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* The brother sent a text that the plane goes to Vegas after New Orleans, so he might not get off. He's dressed up real nice sans tie, beacuse, well... I'm also hoping that his flight is on time, because I need to get the rest of my Alice fix tonight.

I WILL NOT DRABBLE AT WORK. *Gibbs-stares at self*

* Dad is home sick from work today - VERY ill yesterday. Mom was sick last week. Glad I wasn't there. SERIOUSLY.

* Thank you again for all the birthday wishes. The inbox is overflowing with snowflake cookies and notifications - I don't think my Facebook has ever been that busy, nor will it ever be again!

* You may have noticed BLAME put on me by Bad Horse. Personally, I didn't think she would do it at all... and I still blame Steve. However, because I wanted to keep my word: steves_the_boss It's under construction. Clearly.

* Congrats to TCU and Boise State - the rest of college football fears you both. YOU ROCK!

* Oddly, I did more work in 20 minutes than I usually do in two hours... and all that in the half hour BEFORE I usually get to work. *snort*

* LJ is KILLING me with the notifications. That last one was from THREE days ago! *facepalm*

* I forsee a day of spam, over many comms. I apologize in advance. *nods*

PIMP TIME:
LAST-MINUTE
* Round 4A over at tm_challenge closes this afternoon. The mods will try and keep things easier from now on. Or not

VOTING
* Round 4B VOTING is open at tm_challenge. There is much pretty Glitch to ogle. *nods*
* Challenge 49 VOTING is open at disneychrtricon. That lady is a riot!

FANFIC
*It's holiday time again, which means Antoine DeMilo is back in town! demilos_wagon is now open for Year Two. This year, instead of a fic exchange, the format follows that of comment_fic, wherein you post a selection of prompts and receive your gifts in the form of a comment-sized fic or more, depending on your muse
* Round 5/Image Challenge 06 is open at tm_challenge. This goes back to the "old way", with nine (9) image prompts. Up to three entries per entrant, etc.
* The Second Annual Seasonal Challenge is open at tm_challenge. 100 prompts to use as you see fit. Team it out, or not. *thumbs up*

ICONS
*Challenge 26 is open at woz_stills. Theme is the holidays! I want to see some Santa hats on the flying monkeys, people!!
* Challenge 59 is open at classic_disneys. Theme is Hades! \O/
* Challenge 50 is open at disneychrtricon. He's Captain Jack Sparrow!
* Challenge 173 is open at disney_hush. Theme is Mary Poppins, who's practically perfect!

Did I forget anything?? o.O

It's December 7th.
Take a moment!


/soapbox

For the new Sci-Fi production of Alice:

new_wonderland new_wonderland new_wonderland

Alice starts now. On Sci-Fi. :)

*bows to Tim Curry*

Spoilers beneath the ( CUT )

I LOVE THIS SHOW. Even if it gets bad. I love it.

EDIT: ( I CALL IT NOW!!! )

*panic*

BERFDAY!!
Happiest birthday wishes to blade_girl

*cookies*
*confetti*

I hope you have a wonderful day!

And, happiest HALF-BERFDAY wishes to Jason Isaacs!

More later!

Happy Birthday to the BOSSMAN!



Ironically, quite literally, as it is also my boss' birthday, today.

I am frozen like a damn popsicle. Crazy weather! *glares*

Had a lazy day of NOTHING... it's kinda pathetic. And there's no food, so I'm contemplating suggesting we go out.

But, that would require me putting on pants.

o.O

Anyway.... that's it from here...

Who knew a simple LJ post would make me cry....

Lovecup, my Lovecup:

Sight, because I love to read. (See previous Writer's Block.)

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

And, fun fact: When someone says 2012 is a disaster movie, they aren't kidding. It was RIDICULOUS. Not in a bad way - okay, the plot was a little out there, but Chewie was EPIC; and I recognized the one guy, but can't place why; John Cusack was just *sigh* and Oliver Platt was an ass. But, I still love him. And Blu! SINGING! :)

Got to to work to find the largest damn brownie on my desk, and the COOLEST card in the history of birthday cards.
The inner:

SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER
THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF STARSHIP ERIN.
HER 30 YEAR MISSION TO EXPLORE BRAVE NEW WORLDS.
TO SEEK OUT NEW CIVILIZATIONS.
TO BOLDY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE.
HECK... WHO ARE WE KIDDING. YOU'RE 30.
YOUR "BOLDLY GOING" IS WHEN YOU DRIVE TO THE 7-11 TO PICK UP MORE PEPSI.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER AND HAVE A
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I really love my coworkers. *laughing and crying*

Oh, today...