Nobles down for a visit

Today was a productive day at work.

I knew there were plenty of things to do before our guests arrived tonight. I made a call to the guy who bought the Mr. Do! from Rob Caroll to talk about some photos.

I then sent out an email to Canon about upgrading my scanner to work with Vista 64 bit. Then there were a ton of the little time consumers that add up. I had to clean the guest room, take care of letting out the dog and feeding him, and unload the …

NOS Circus Charlie

On the klov forums there was a poster that claimed he had a NOS set of Circus Charlie sideart. This got posted in the forum that got start in 2006 about a guy looking to reproduce the sideart from another set of NOS sideart.

He basically hinted at the fact that it was for sale, and he was taking offers. I posted that I wanted to get some photos of it before he sold, but I am not holding my breath. Ideally I would like scans if it is NOS, but …

WordPress 2.2.2 still crashing my server

Well, after a long day, I didn’t get anything figured out.

I made a long, detailed post on the WordPress forums about my issues, but not one person replied. I don’t know if that is a newbie thing, that no one responds to new posters, but the forums seems heavily trafficked.

I thought briefly, that made I had to update my .htaccess file for the blog. But then I figured out that WordPress doesn’t come with a default .htaccess file, you have to make one. It seems like most …

Cap Kit for Wizard Of Wor

I finally got the capacitor kit for the Wells Gardner monitor today. Last week, when I had the whole week off I had intentions of going up to get the Wizard Of Wor Cap Kit, but wanted to combine a trip with something else, or take a bike ride. Well, needless to say, I never got around to it.

So, I got stuck with it this week, and it involved two long trips to Meunier (Indianapolis) to get it. One day to drop off the list, and then another day to …

Nokes is jumping on our bed

I really thought he was too small to do it, but he has started.

Lately he has been waking us up around 7:00 each morning. He’ll hop up on one side of the bed, paws up, usually catching us on our arms or back, giving us deep scratches (no matter how much we trim his nails). If you came in and saw us, you’d see our big queen size bed, and us huddled in the middle by the morning in anticipation of being shredded to pieces.

He has been sporatically been able …

WordPress is maxing out my server

Well, I figured I would encounter issues when I was converting my blog to a WordPress website, but I didn’t figure it would be this big of a deal.

On Monday night I started having issues with my admin interface. My posts would time out, and the website itself took forever to load. Not only was I losing work, it was frustrating me that I couldn’t be productive. It felt like the whole server was running slow.

Well, turns out my website was crashing the server, timing out the processor …

Reproduction of Circus Charlie Sideart

I have seen two posts in three days about having some reproduction art done for this game. I know very little about it, but thought maybe I should capitalize on that and work on making some vector tracings.

There are very few collectors listed on VAPS with this game, but I emailed the few that listed as having a dedicated upright cabinet.

I have heard back from two of the three I have emailed, hopefully I can get some good photos.

Talking to another reproduction artist in email today, it sounds like he …