Another night that I didn't sleep, and when I finally head off to bed in the morning, I still have trouble falling asleep. I wonder where this all is leading? I need a serious energy boost, so I'm heading off to the store to grab myself a cart full of fruits and veggies.
Oh, last night I threw the first ever club FK try out in Second Life - the purpose was to see what needs changing, fine tuning and what still lacks - and it was a massive success if you ask me! I've got pictures somewhere, and may put them up later if I can find them. Poor brain, acting all wonky.
The only thing that went terribly wrong was a L$ 2000 sploder that distributed L$ 95 instead of 2K, and those who "won" didn't even get paid because the system wasn't able to process the transaction requests. Sure enough, I can't help it that the servers (owned and operated by Linden Lab, creators of SL) are not being able to keep up, but I felt so miserable.
There were a bunch of people that had shown up for the try out - much thanks to Bellagirl, the new club FK Hostess - eagerly anticipating the distribution of a considerable prize, and then it fails terribly. Good thing this happened during a try out/test run and not during opening night!
For the record : everyone who had paid into the sploder pot was fully refunded - I keep logs of everything that happens - so no one lost though they didn't win either. What had to be the apotheosis of the night became a nightmare reputation wise, even if I got nothing but positive feedback from everyone when I refunded them. Most even said that they were surprised by the efforts I went through to make sure everything was fair. I think it was only normal to do so, but apparently not everyone honors the same attitude...
The sploder is off till further investigation shows me what caused the problem, and how I can fix it.
What a night...