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A quick note in case anyone checks here see what is happening with Chance's Archive. Due to medical issues and bills I can't afford to pay the domain renewal which is due on the 30th of May 2019, but will be able to pay it on the 11th of June when a Amazon check has cleared for me. It should take up to two to three days to get up and running again after I have paid it so the site should be back up and running in two weeks time - by Friday the 14th at the very latest if I need to actually doing and by the 12th at the earliest if it's 100% automatic...

I am so sorry about this, I had to choose between the paying the domain or the hosting fees and this seemed the lesser of the two evils...

I'm not a Willam Shatner fan but I thought people might appreate this short video :) -

"William Shatner asks John Edward if he has ever considered that he may be psychotic and not psychic!"

There's a really good Dr Who comic - starting on this page - which is defintly worth checking out! But 2 warnings - 1) It's still a WIP and 3) for those slash fans out it's very gen so.... :)

Unfortuntly I got a phone call yesterday afternoon to tell me I *hadn't* got the job at MOTAT :P At least I've got a number of other jobs applications in the pipe lines at the moment and I do actually have a job at the moment so it could be a lot worse!

If anyone is feeling overly generous and are planning on buying something from Amazon.co.uk - Science Fiction & Fantasy Books - and/or Amazon.com - Science Fiction & Fantasy Books.

The google ads on CSI Slash look to be a completly dead end unfortuntly, as people just arn't clicking on them now. (There was an intial burst of clicks when I first put them on the site, but it's slowly died down to the point that no one is clicking on them anymore. And if the site doesn't get at least 2-5 clicks each & everyday it's kinda pointless as how much I get paid per click depends on the Click Through rate - which is how many clicks my ads get per 100 page impresstions. The lower the CTR the less you seem to get paid per click, (now it's averaging between 1c & 5c per click :P ) Given that my site's stats say I get between 400-600 unique visitors to the site each and every day, this is very disappointing :(

I was actually shorted listed for a job at MOTAT here in Auckland, which I was *very* startled by. (For those of you who don't live in NZ, MOTAT is the Museum of Transport and Technology, and is one of the bigger museums here in Auckland.) I don't know if I've got the job yet or not, as they're still interviewing people, hopefully I will get it as it would be a massive stepping stone towards getting a better job somewhere like the big Auckland Museum and/or Te Papa. (Again for non-NZers, Te Papa is the "Museum of New Zealand", which is in Wellington and is essentially the Wellington Mueseum).

Hopefully I will be getting something better fast, as I've having to sell stuff on Trade Me, (the NZ version of ebay), just to get by :P

Everything has fallen to pieces for me again, just after I'd started to get everything sorted out too :P I guess it's one of those 2 steps forward 1 step backwards, but it is more than a little depressing. The fact that I've been working night shifts at North Shore Hospital recently and am having a lot of problems sleeping during the day isn't helping *sigh*. I'm just going to have to keep telling myself that things are going to get better and hopefully I'll start believing it soon rather than later. I guess it's good that I actually have a job etc. If I could just get on top of things before other things start to fall to pieces on me again I'll be set.

If anyone of my flist is planning on buying anything from Amazon.co.uk I'd *deeply* appreate if you'd use this link - Science Fiction & Fantasy - before you add anything to your cart & then buy it, as I currently need just under 7 pounds before I get a chq for 50 pounds and that kind of money would be a massive help! (And no it won't cost you anything extra :) ) The link for Amazon.com is - Science Fiction & Fantasy.

For those of you who are following my site - CSI Slash sorry about the low number of stories added, all of my regular authors seem to be on holiday from writing at the moment so I've only been able to add stories as and where I get them :( But it does mean I have been able to catch up on a few stories I've missed, which is good. I'm proberly going to have to update the main section of my site too. If anyone does have any CSI stories - any series, any slash or gen - and you are happy for me to archive them could you please email me here, with the stories or links to them. Thanks :)

"and let them go to page 123 of the nearest book and transcribe sentences 5, 6, and 7 onto their blogs"

"'The Unified Field Theory,' he resumed, 'has remained an incomplete structure - even today. No one can properly claim to make a complete "recheck" of "that theory" in my view. Of course, there have been contributions toward the goal, and several papers with the title (the German is 'Einheitliche-Field Theorie'), but the substance of these papers is not "complete" in the sense in which the Special Theory of Relativity is "complete" and the General Theory is deeply developed..."

meme taken from gialiat. I think this what I get from having a pile of strange books sitting next to my computer :P I won't bother tagging anyone in partcular, so if haven't done it yet and want to...

I'm sure everyone knows the rules for this already! You post upto 10 wishes, which can be anything and cost anything from free to asking for your own house. You then go and try to grant at least 1 other person's wish whether you know them or not. This for my site - CSI Slash - more than for me exactly.

1) If you have any CSI Slash, either m/m or f/f or gen for that matter, and wouldn't mind it archived on my site please email me with the details and I'll put them asap.

2) If you have a slash site or a lj a link to http://chance.popullus.net/csislash/index.html would be wonderful! If you have a link to the site at slashcity, updating it would great too :)

3) If you buy anything from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk I'd be eternally gratfull if you used of the site's links first - Amazon.com link - C.S.I. New York - The Complete First Season
Amazon.co.uk link - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Part 2 (buy one, get one free*)

3) I despritly need more subscribers or donations via PayPal -

The subscribtion links is here. The site is 100% depenant on getting donations & subscriptions from the readers in order to stay up, so anything extra will make a serious difference!

Thanks :) Merry Chirstmas!

I'm surpisingly happy at the moment. I shouldn't be given how little sleep I've gotten over the last few days and the fact that I'm not really going to have a day over until after Chirstmas. With the expection of one Wednesday in about 1&1/2 weeks time and that's nly beacuse I flatly refused to work. (I have a Chirstmas party I want to go to). My manager had know about it for 2 months and had orginally said I could have the day off completly, no problem and had already arranged to have someone else cover my shift... Then last week she tried to take it back and have me work that day as well. I have been reading Hello Laziness! by Corinne Maier which is amusing, even though I'm not taking it seriously :)

I have been thinking vaguely about doing my own Chirstmas Wish meme, but the things I really want noone on my flist can give me :P (Like a decent job!) It's gotten to the point that I've been thinking seriously about applying for a job at the new Borders store that's currently being built on Lambton Quay. Though if anyone is already planning on buying somethin from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk I'd *deeply* appreate it if you used one of my links before ordering anything -
Amazon.com link - Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Amazon.co.uk link - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) [Children's Edition]
(Yes I know I'm pushing it, but I'd love you forever if you did remeber to use one of them espically if you're nice enough to remeber to use them on a regular bases! There is currently a link to Amazon.com on my lj user infor at the very least and I proberly should get around to putting up one to Amzon.ci.uk). Seriously I would be extremly gratly :)

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