CavernSense

The Cavern closed on April 9 as several groups of people around the cavern celebrated or mourned or comforted each other or gazed out onto the lake or into the myst in quiet solitude. Near the end we suddenly received a message that the cavern would be closing. That was quite a shock. It was at that moment when we all realized we wouldn’t see each other again, nor explore, nor laugh or dance together. Tears issued in abundance for a while.

Suddenly I couldn’t communicate with anyone. They were there, but they weren’t “there” any longer. I thought of the death of a loved one, whose body remained while the soul/spirit left it. Everyone just stood there, motionless, as the Beam from the Great Zero continued to pass through the Pub. It seemed emptied of life.

I finally left. The next day I tried to return (just had to, I guess). The gateway was closed. I tried a different route, one I hadn’t used in a few months. That one worked, but things were different. There was no communicate with others through my KI, nor could I tell if anyone else was in the cavern. Links to new areas were gone, too. I realized I was back to being there alone, or once again out of time/space phase with anyone else who might be there. With a sense of sadness I recognized the cavern I knew before I knew others might also be there.

I wonder if this is part of what the bahro can do — change KI frequencies or even the magnetic frequencies of the ages so we can’t see each other. Maybe the books were still there but now I can’t see them. But then, why would they do that? It doesn’t make sense to me right now.

Anyway, it’s a lonely place again. That much I do know.

Oh my gosh, the closing of the Cavern is coming…..

There are some beautiful tributes to our community. They all make me cry. I’ll update this post as each one comes out.

“Don’t Give up, Uru.” Project Video by Marten, Tweek, and Erik: A Music Video to “Don’t Give up”

“Remember MOUL,” by Leighana: Music Video

A Memorial Video by Libera: “Remembering”

The Cavern Choir has had their final concert. There are links to a beautiful video by Veralun in several formats on the MOUL forum from the Under the Roots Party.

I’ll add more as I become aware of them.

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~Must get more tissues. I do believe I will cleanse my entire body of toxins during my shedding of tears for MOUL.

I thought I should add a category about Common Sense. But there really isn’t any here.  I mean, I don’t have any. And people in the Uru Community are way beyond common sense. They arrive equipped with CavernSense. It’s much deeper, more expansive, more sensitive to things they and others need. They may not USE it but they HAVE it. The seventh and eighth senses, you know the one’s that connect us all together and ….

but I digress. More about that another time.

Rest assured, should I find some common sense somewhere, I’ll be sure to make a note about it.

Last Thursday, April 3, GreyDragon posted that Cyan wanted to keep us all together on a common server and give us tools with which to care for the Cavern. They are just waiting for Game Tap to decide whether they will release the rights.

What a wonderful surprise. My spirits lifted over the course of a few hours, and my whole life/goals seemed clearer again. Isn’t that something?  I’ve seen that some people don’t believe it will happen, and others wait with baited breath.  Some will never know because they left long ago.  Such is life I guess.  But I’m happy.

So here is the post I should have posted a couple days ago when I ended up doing the WordPress upgrade. I’m still laughing about that. Check29cents

“Know when not to start upgrading.” Ignore that message about the out of date version!

Well I didn’t listen.

Our web host provider, BlueHost has very nicely added a new scripting program, SimpleScripts, that installs various web programs for us, like WordPress, Joomla, ZenCart, etc. I have irritated my friends for years with all my hype about how great BlueHost is, and so of course this should be a great addition to their service. For a couple of the programs the installation went like a breeze. Faster and more up-to-date than Fantastico, which wasn’t bad at installing, just slow at recognizing new versions. I was tired of manually upgrading because of that. So I thought to myself, yay, this is the answer to all my time-consuming manual upgrades.

…..because you know those folks tend to upgrade frequently…..

Well, it didn’t work. I first tried an install and named my own databases so I know what the heck database goes with what blog. No way. config file not found. So I asked Simple Scripts to do a new install and control everything (so I could see how it worked). No way again. Huh? Now the login file wasn’t found. Looked around the WordPress forums, found a few ideas but no answers that worked. Went to the BlueHost forums, no answers there either.

Sheesh.  After three hours, I went back to the manual install and created a new database. Name the database here, add a user there, unzip, upload, add a few lines to config.php, dum dee dum… Point to the install file, and presto! In ten minutes I had the new installation running.  Upgrading the old took a bit longer, but nowhere near the time to use the installer.  Still can’t figure out what is wrong.  I still think BlueHost is the best thing in host servicing, because they got right on the problem and had the same thing happen that I did.  They are working on fixing what they can, and the rest is up to SimpleScripts.  Guess I’ll go back to manual upgrading.

The most humorously annoying thing is that it took me even longer to sit here and complain about it than it did to do the manual upgrade.  Now I’ve spent four hours on it, when all I wanted to do was write a short entry here about how glad I was that Cyan is trying to keep the Uru Community together on one server if they possibly can.  A bit about their post yesterday on the MOUL forums, to be exact.  Heh, I still have to add that entry here.

Next time I take my own advice.