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Friday, January 06, 2006

Jazzer checks in! 

For three months Andy "Jazzer" Fitzpatrick, mastermind of Paranoia-Live.net and member of the Traitor Recycling Studio, has been missing in action. Nobody knew where he went or why. Then suddenly, today, he popped up in my instant-message friends list.
Session Start (APVarney:Andy Fitzpatrick): Fri Jan 06 15:12:51 2006

APVarney: Egad! Andy! Where have you been? I heard your computer died.

Andy Fitzpatrick: Yeah, it's barely breathing. Unless you have several hundred pounds (or dollars) making holes in your pockets, I'll just have to stick to my original plan and scratch enough dough together for a new hard drive. I've got a couple of hundred saved but that's about eight or nine hundred short of what I want. I'm getting something half-way decent this time or nothing at all.

Apart from my hardware problems we've had Real Life crap to deal (including but not limited to Jan having a serious health scare). (Jan is my partner of ten years. She's fine now.) Not to mention my 'business partner' leaving his wife and kids to settle with some girl in Transylviania, of all places.

APVarney: Are you coming back to P-L.net, or the Traitors?

Andy Fitzpatrick: If the machine holds out. I've only just got my email working again and am slowly sifting through it. I'm going to pop back in tonight probably, once I've got the skinny from Takyn-U. Or maybe not. I don't even know what my IC status is!

I hope to be online for the foreseeable future. I'll probably take the plunge and buy a new drive before my hand is forced. If that happens, I might disappear for a week or so.

APVarney: What, formatting it?

Andy Fitzpatrick: No, if this one goes down and I have to await the new one. Still visiting P-Live?

APVarney: Five times a day or more. People have gone beyond "I miss Andy" and into "Those were the days, back when Andy was here."

Andy Fitzpatrick: Yeah, yeah. Well, it's still standing so that'll do fine.

APVarney: I'd like to post your status on the development blog. What do you want to say?

Andy Fitzpatrick: I'm still here, I still love you all. Especially if you want to give me money for a new machine.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 5:19 PM

Comments:
*NetGoddess starts a little hacking job: a sudden jump in the price of Vita-Yum here, a bevvy of random fines there...and redirects all the credits to Jazzer's bank account after skimming a little off the top for herself*.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 06, 2006 9:03 PM
 
Do we assume the "skim" is 99.99%?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 07, 2006 8:47 AM
 
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