The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[RMDupree]

It would make sense.

Lord knows I can't make any sense of what it's creator intended it be.

[Ramius]

To display just how silly Skippers get out at sea for too long... here's a message the *I actually sent* to a navy ship, priority: CO TO CO:

It says:

"Pardon me sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?"

[Ramius]

Oops: "Pardon me sir, ~but~ do you have any Grey Poupon?"

[RMDupree]

Now THAT'S funny!

Did you get any?

Tell me you did.

[Ramius]

Note to self: There is big BIG fun to be had with these things. :-)

[Ramius]

We did... the Skipper of the Navy ship launched a small boat and sent over a jar of Grey Poupon.

I kid you not.

It was a fine moment. :-)

This happened up in Prince William Sound while we were up there with a veritable flotilla of Coast Guard and Navy ships doing various activities related to the Exxon Valdez.

[ecurbh]

Still not a happy camper... the website is back up, but it has reverted back a month. :(

I can restore the structural changes we've made, but the the actual posts and textual changes have been lost.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Or maybe like a bunch of half-starved lions

Nah, it was more calculating than that... even the supposed low-end players had schemes going, kissing up to the power players in order to better their own positions.

Or as Corwin said, in The Guns of Avalon: "... a gang of mean little old ladies in a combination rest home and obstacle course."

[RMDupree]

*shakes head disbelievingly*

Incredible.

[Ramius]

Oh, that blows.

They lost a lot more than DNS servers if they're restoring content from backups.

That's lame. A month old? That ~wallows~ in lameness.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Ditto to what Ramius said.

[RMDupree]

:-(

[Ramius]

Here ya go:

"Blow it out your shorts" :-)

[Ramius]

My apologies for abusing the semaphone giffys folks... it's just that it's been *forever* since I've done any of it. Need a refresher, fer sure... but I've been having way too much fun.

I'll try to keep it to a minimum. :-)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Ehh, didn't bother me none.

[Ramius]

semaphone? Ack... semaphore. Yeesh.

[ecurbh]

Hehehe, thanks.

I'm still waiting to hear from them again, in case this is just an interim step.

[Ramius]

I dunno... restoring from a tape is never really an "interim step".

Strikes me as odd that their backup regimen is merely a 30 day cycle. If you can do it monthly, you can do it daily. That's not right.

[RMDupree]

Hope I did that right. :-D

I'm off to bed.

[RMDupree]

See everyone tomorrow. Gots to sleep off this crappy mood.

I'm out of Kahlua. :-(