...I've been struggling to find words for most of the day.

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Every so often, logging in to my Patreon account will generate a popup: this is generally the site trying to tell me about a new feature. In this case, I've been given the ability to write posts which only members on the 'Free' tier would see. As discussed in an earlier blog, anyone can join without actually making a pledge, and it gives them the ability to -- read certain posts. So now I can put up things just for the free members, and

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Just a little 5.2 (or so) Richter. My entire building swayed for several seconds, and I had one item fall off a shelf. Other than abruptly-spiked stress levels which don't want to go down again, that's it.

...it's not as if I haven't dealt with this before. I used to live on a volcano. Having the local landscape play Vibro-Massage with the world was quasi-normal. But I don't expect to go through it here.

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In the present, I haven't been having a good couple of days.

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I promised a transparent vote. As such, I took screenshots of the Google Surveys results. However, those images are currently being hosted by the chat server, and nothing else. Those links have a nasty tendency to break, and I may have to replace them several times.

...I swear this isn't stalling.

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Final notice: you can vote through midnight Eastern Standard Time today, aka 'March 8th'. After that, the polls close.

As of this writing, there are 116 ballots in. Last year's total was 125, and I'd really like to beat that. (I really wanted to see a 10% voter turnout as compared to my follower count, but... dreams.) And if you don't make your voice vote-heard now, then you don't get to complain about the results after.

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I'm reposting this because the original intent was to have this blog visible from the userpage until one day before voting deadline: at that point, I was going to put up a One Day Left To Vote blog entry. Apologies for the extra notification.

As of this writing, there are ninety-nine ballots in. I'd like to beat last year's total, which was 125. Two hundred is the dream.

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I need to establish a basic fact immediately: this is my fault.

I wanted to leave the convention/art poll blog on my front page for the full voting period. Total attention on that. Nothing else. (Please vote.) I was deliberately putting off any other blogs until after the results went up. Which meant I had to hope for no emergencies, crises, disasters, or anything darker.

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Here we go again.

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I'm launching the 2024/5 all-followers MLP convention poll tomorrow. This is going to mean struggling with Google Surveys. And I've been wondering: would I rather battle against a program which is designed to torment the user, or try to cross Sicily via mass transit again?

...
...I swear I'm thinking it over.

September 24th

Hello, insomnia. So much for hoping you'd gotten stranded on the other side of a border.

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