Hugo nominating ballot PSA

For anyone who is nominating for the 2016 Hugos: I got another “here’s your latest ballot” email from MidAmericon II this morning, even though I hadn't made any chances since the previous email about it. (Yes, there have been a lot of those emails lately.) When I looked at the ballot, it turned out that the system had pasted in duplicates of some of my nominations, overwriting some other works I am nominating. I suspect I’m not the only person this has happened to, and I would advise everyone to look at their ballots.

Unfortunately, this isn't something the sysadmins can fix by rolling back the database, because doing that would risk losing changes people meant to make.

ETA: Have heard back from MidAmericon assuring me about normalization, but that won't fix the problem. The problem isn't that the system thought I was nominating some things twice, it's that it dropped some of my nominations.

moving in: slow but steady progress

I and cattitude have now each cooked a couple of meals in the new apartment, though we're still figuring out things like oven temperature. We're pretty well stocked on basic things to eat, drink, and cook with, some of them (like all the spices and a lot of tea) brought from the old place, and others (including milk, olive oil, and flour) bought here. I also bought horseradish this afternoon, just because I could—the best I could do in Bellevue was a horseradish-and-stuff spread, and now I have a jar of Gold's horseradish. We also have proper seltzer and a few Macintosh apples.

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