Rosio Pavoris a blog

Classes have started again, and are tiring. Not so much the classes themselves (hell, even I can manage the first month or so at this point) as the getting up early and the moving about on foot all the time and the having to remember to eat and things. That, and it’s interfering with me being able to play KoL at lag-free hours.
Still, schedule’s not that tough, really, and a lot of the nubies aren’t all that bad. I’m probably getting along with them better now than I did with last year’s batch after four months. And last year’s batch was already pretty coal. Kind of miss them. The early classes were cool. I miss Katia (or however you spell that), too. Though I have to admit, in terms of hotness, this year’s a lot better than last. Even our token Dutchie is pretty hot. (Last year, it was a guy. >.>)
I also don’t think I’m behind with anything practical this time around. I have all of my books, I still have the practice CDs on my HD, I extended my train thing (with a year, to my mom’s chagrin; bloody expensive, that), and I even picked up some real dictionaries (same series/publisher as the kanji dictionary I bought last year). The cash I have on hand has gone down by a *lot* in the past week, but I’m still fairly affluent (505 € for university enrollment, 35 € for each of two dictionaries, 432 € for the train thing, 50 € for Myst V CE (side-effect of me being in Leuven), 10 € for Going Postal (paperback version at long last), about 20 € for random food this week… adds up to 1,087 €; quite a bit, even by my standards).

I’ve rewritten bits of the main site to list all hosted blogs on a page of their own. Also made room for (links to) our store, if Roberts ever gets around to finishing the rocketfish pic. I should probably poke her about that again. If she can’t find the time, we could use the original one, I guess. Spreadshirt is more flexible than Cafepress when it comes to adding text to shirts anyway, and I’m almost entirely sure we’ll be going with Spreadshirt.

MSAIT rollover was three days late, because of the barbecue thing and the grandfather’s birthday party thing and the university introductions and the actual classes. Ended up getting it done on Wednesday night. Possibly not as eloquent as I would’ve liked to have made the descriptions, but the other option was waiting until Saturday. I’m not actually sure I’ll be able to keep this up with seven players (rednwhite quit last week, voluntarily).

Oh, and what I actually wanted to talk about: bandwidth.
It’s October now, so I’ve got statistics for September, our first full month of uptime. SWBHG has been running for most of that month (since the 4th), and I burned some bandwidth on other things. Anyway, numbers:

Total usage for September 2005: 3.94 GB
Busiest subdomain: swbhg.rotahall.org with 3.3 GB
Second-busiest: www.rotahall.org with 137.14 MB (Because of my Music folder; I should give that a subdomain.)
Third-busiest: lbrs.rotahall.org with 122.46 MB

forums.rotahall.org used 97.39 MB, which is less than what it used in August (117.63 MB). The least busy subdomain was rouge8.rotahall.org (0.02 MB), because that’s just a forwarder. The least active actual subdomain was community.rotahall.org (1.00 MB), because I closed that off to the public.
goldfish.rotahall.org used 25.23 MB, mostly because of the forums, I’m guessing, and the bandwidth consumed in uploading and configuring those (the actual posting is negligable; I’d like to say that’s because people only post once they’ve thought everything over carefully, but really, it’s pretty dead).
Of the five blogs we host, mine was the most active (18.28 MB), and Lori’s was the least (marginally; 1.18 MB).

We get 20 GB of bandwidth per month, so we’re still pretty safe, I’d think.

Exciting, isn’t it?