Hanging In There

I think I've found the process that is leaving files hung in memory on the Server.

Unfortunately, the fix will have to wait until tomorrow, because I have a dentist's appointment in the morning and would like to be vaguely coherent when I arrive there.

Save the Titanic!

Meanwhile, back at FilkONtario, I took one look at the required words for this year's at-con songwriting contest -- tweed, stilettos, prophylactic, titanic, and penguin -- and concluded that I was woefully short on ideas. Ok, I also have to admit that my first thought was that I didn't want to write a song that had nearly as much sex in it as the words would seem to require.

And some time on Saturday afternoon, my subconscious finished chewing on the question and spit out an appropriate, but completely (more or less) non-sexual plot line. I could work with that! :)

I don't know if it was because attendance was down or because of the choice of words, but there only ended up being three entries in the contest. (Four, if you count andpuff's contribution that she didn't get to perform after leaving early due to a death in the family.) I ended up finishing second behind mrgoodwraith's similarly themed -- in that the Titanic was involved -- and quite funny song, "Break Up", which was just fine by me.
( Lyrics inside... )

Or as daisy_knotwise said after listening to the song, "Spiders and snakes."

True enough. And it's been a long time since I read my Fritz Leiber...