The Wheelhouse - Week 14

Oct. 28th, 2025 05:28 am
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 Good Morning,  

Well, it's far too early for it to be "good", but "Morning" at least!

The new twist is up: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1207947.html  and so are the prompts  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1208099.html

I
've already gotten a question about the prompt situation so I'll clear it up here.  YES. It's 2 entries.  NO, it's not 1 entry where you incorporate both, unless, I dunno, you want to write 2 entries where you incorporate both.  :D 
No, if not a pick one of the other. It's 2 entries.  
That's why you have a week.   Well that, and my schedule.  :D   If the Wheel had chosen 5, yes, I would have given you even more time!  (Although let's be honest - a week for 2 entries by traditional old school Idol standards is pretty good.) 

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I've had a few people ask about my arm after that blood donation. It's healing. Still is bruised and a little tender.  I did have it confirmed this weekend by a friend who was a former nurse that this wasn't normal.  She agreed with the theory that my boss raised that the needle was dislodged and went through my vein. Otherwise I would NOT have been in that much pain and wouldn't have the bruising I do. 

So now I need to accuse someone in Idol of paying them extra to do that!  :D 

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THE FEST was amazing.  Because it's always amazing.  <3  

How was YOUR weekend? 

Prompts- Week 14

Oct. 27th, 2025 10:24 pm
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 The Wheel said you get 2 prompts this week.  So let's see what they are!  *spins wheel twice* 

a nail is driven out by another nail

and

ambuscade





The deadline to link BOTH of these entries in the thread below is Monday November 3rd at 7pm ET.  

Have fun! 
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 *spins wheel*  TWIST!

OK. Nice.  But WHAT twist?  

*spins the wheel again* 

 Multiple topics (random number generator 2-5 to determine how many)

Oh that's fun! I get to spin the wheel again!!

Oh come on, just 2?

Where's that Chekov's Gun? I want to shoot this wheel! ;) 

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There was a 5 way tie for the person with the fewest votes who wasn't eliminated. So I need to ask the Wheel how that will be handled. It came up as "Wheel Decides Who Is Eliminated", which in THIS case means that the wheel will select 1 of you to receive those 2 byes to hand out.

Who will it be?  This isn't as suspenseful for you as it is for me, since I write these in real time!

4. *counts* Congratulations [personal profile] hafnia ! Let me know where you want those 2 byes to go.

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btw - Not sure if I mentioned it, but a vial WAS found this week. So make sure to send in your accusation and who you want to give the antidote to!


Results - Week 13

Oct. 27th, 2025 08:26 pm
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I just got back from FEST in time for my therapy session and then to come close this poll! :)

(well OK, I posted a few things on FB too! But still, the point stands!)

There was one person going home this week and it's[personal profile] legalpad819 !

Sorry to see you g... what are you doing? Why do you have gun? What are you.... oh... BAM!!!! 

She just shot her own elimination with Chekov's Gun!!!  The elimination is now dead. 

(and the gun, having been used, disappears) 


Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

Voting - Week 13

Oct. 21st, 2025 09:52 pm
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A few words from [personal profile] clauderainsrm:


Another week, another poll! *spins wheel, watches as it goes by* We are losing 1 contestant this week! Apparently the Wheel is deciding to drag this out! :D Maybe it likes torturing you.

The poll will be closing Monday, October 27th at 8pm ET. I’ll be at FEST (as is usual for this time of year. So long time for voting, probably a shorter window for writing next week… or an extra long one! Who knows! The Wheel hasn’t told me yet!!)

Good luck to everyone!


Poll #33751 ’WheelofChaos-Week13’
This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 38

Vote For Your Favorites!

alycewilson's entry
12 (31.6%)

bleodswean's entry
12 (31.6%)

drippedonpaper's entry
13 (34.2%)

flipflop_diva's entry
12 (31.6%)

hafnia's entry
12 (31.6%)

halfshellvenus's Bye Week - Votes Do Not Count
4 (10.5%)

inkstainedfingertips's entry
20 (52.6%)

legalpad819's entry
8 (21.1%)

l0lita's entry
18 (47.4%)

muchtooarrogant's Bye Week - Votes Do Not Count
3 (7.9%)

roina_arwen's entry
12 (31.6%)

unicornfartz's entry
16 (42.1%)

Week 13 - The Accusation

Oct. 21st, 2025 09:28 pm
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 Another week and another shot at ending the evil plans of the Killer(s)! 

First, let's dispense the antidote.  This is now voted for by everyone left in the competition. Which makes it more interesting to see where everyone else is looking for potential targets.  The vote wasn't even close this time around - the antidote goes to [personal profile] inkstainedfingertips  - who enjoys a refreshing beverage.  But not much else other than that. 

The vote for the Killer was even more lopsided. Every single vote, except two (for different people), that came in all identified the same person. That diabolical mastermind who has been pulling the strings, and killing off the competition one by one! 

The group have finally come together in the strongest possible way to accuse [personal profile] muchtooarrogant of being a Killer!

The silence feels the room as people wait for what will come next... the next dramatic exposure... 

and they wait... and wait... and then start swearing because the Killer(s) got away from them one more time!

The Wheelhouse - Week 13 - 2

Oct. 21st, 2025 12:05 am
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 Some people attended "No Kings" rallies this weekend. 

I did not.  I attend the "Yes, Supreme Evil Overlord" rally. I was the only attendee.  I had a sign with my picture.  

It's only a matter of time though before the streets are flooded with people calling for me to claim my rightful place as ruler, of everything!   ;) 


Until then though, you are stuck with me reminding you that you have until tomorrow to get me those Accusations as well as your choice on who should get the antidote!

Oh yeah, and of course there is a little writing competition going on as well.  Maybe you might want to participate in it!   ;)  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1206077.html

I
f you need a bye though, there are still 2 contestants who have some to hand out! (2 each):
flipflop_diva
[personal profile] legalpad819 

So if you need one, let them know and they will tell me!!

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How is your week going so far?

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
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