[Bnomic-private] sigh

[Mark Haywood]

>I'm still here.
>
>I found out that I'd missed large parts of the database when I was doing
>my last-minute backup, and the last full backup I have from before that is
>from the beginning of the nweek.
>
>So until Joel gets settled in wherever he's gotten off to, we're still
>basically frozen in time, under whichever rule it is that requires
>everything on the ballot to be publicly displayed.
>
>Which works out well because I've got bigger things to worry about.
>
>I'm going to be blunt, folks. My personal life is pretty well falling
>apart. I'm not actually homeless, but my housing situation is rather
>tenuous indeed at this point. I've driven about five thousand miles in the
>past couple weeks. (The sordid details will soon be posted at
>metadave.net.) As I may have mentioned, I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm
>very cranky indeed.
>
>I've never done something like this before, so feel free to laugh (or
>forfeit the Nomic, as you see fit), but I'm screwed and I could use your
>help.
>
>If the many hours I've put into this game have provided you with even a
>little amusement, and you have a dollar or two that you can spare, and a
>PayPal account, well, you can finish the sentence.
>
>The game will go on, either way, as soon as Joel gets nomic.net back
>online, but this earns you my undying gratitude -- which just might be
>more valuable than B Nomic Shillings, the way the economy's going these
>days.
>
>Anything collected in excess of my immediate needs (basically, lunch and
>maybe gas for the car) will be saved for future nifty stuff, like maybe
>buying "bnomic.org" or something and giving players bnomic.org email
>addresses.
>
>I'll get down from my whiny bitchy soapbox now.
>
>...dave
>
Is there any way in which someone else could temporarily become 
Administrator? Or can we pause (not freeze thanks to a loophole, but stop) 
the game for a bit? You're hardly being whiny or bitchy, you've clearly 
devoted countless hours to this, and you're entitled to say when things are 
not going well enough to allow you to continue doing so.
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