c_morganstern

I mean that, by the way.

Before bringing the game back, I want to know how people want to handle our unplanned hiatus. Ingrid and Angelica, at the very least, were potentially experiencing some pretty serious effects of the Wendy Goldman plot.

We could:

1. Pick it up now in December, and treat everything that's happened in the meantime as past business.

2. Do some mini-weeks to get caught up. For example (assuming I'm ready to go by Sunday), next week we could do Entry 26 (November 30 — December 6, 2009) for Sunday and Monday, Entry 27 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Entry 28 on Thursday and Friday, and Entry 29 on Saturday and Sunday. That, I think, would get us caught up. We could spread it out a little more, too, although we wouldn't get caught up quite so quickly (unless I can get something up by tomorrow night, which is possible).

3. Some other wonderful idea you have.

Let me know what you think. There aren't very many people in the game, so everyone's opinion really is important.

We got the CD we needed this morning. Finally. With no notice from Microsoft that it was on the way, regardless of the thing on the original invoice that said they would e-mail me when it was shipped.

Anyway, depending on how we do with getting everything loaded and updated, we could conceivably have the game going again in the next couple of days.

**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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