Good morning, good morning, good morning-ah! -- John Lennon, The Beatles

Good afternoon. Another fun day starts.

the fun need never end

also good afternoon all

No more Mr Cactus?

6 days since I put in for deletion, still no deletion.... meanwhile, I've taken literally hundreds of points worth of hits to my rep from "User was removed".

I can't even get arrested in this town, it seems

I'll get my cactus and 4 letters back sometime

That needle attack for 9999 damage is fierce. What are you going to do without it, @mag ???

stealth

@mag ah, I know that well. In my case, it came from years of being bullied to the point I became very good at hiding... now I use it for sneak attacks. I don't hide anymore.

I'm finding it harder and harder to answer questions these days.... my heart is just not in it.

You know what blows? Discovering that the sql statement I spent 2 hours working on yesterday never got made into a stored procedure.

I love the fact that you can debug SQL. After having problems in 2,000 line stroed procs, it's saved me a number of times.

@ChrisE oh yeah, nothing like lost work.... I accidentally saved over a file with a previous version once, lost about 3 days work.... DOH!

My procs are never more than a couple hundred lines at most. I like sub-procs better.

@RichardU Back in 1986 I was writing an accounting program. I had the payroll module written and was going to take it to the office to deploy. I needed to put it on a floppy so I did a "del . /y". It came back instantly and the sinking feeling came over me as I realized I deleted my entire module. that's when I learned about Norton Utilities. I was able to restore most of it but it was still several more days of work and 6 hours of terror

@ChrisE the younger generation will never know the struggle....

or, the abject terror of your floppy drive not being able to read the disk....

or your backup

@RichardU True story. What is understood by you but people raised in the age of internet also may not appreciate that not only did I need software to undelete, I had to drive to a software store and wait for them to open and hope they had what I needed. No downloading. :)

@ChrisE yes, the days of the "sneakernet"

Or hunting through magazine covers disks to see if one of them had a freeware version of something you wanted.

@Snow ah yes, I remember it well. That, and all the freeware/shareware out there that wasn't loaded with malware

I remember a few cover disks that had free viruses included.

and trojans

Funny fact. My high school was the Trojans.

Isn't that a brand of....? Oh.

ikr? We were the Homer Trojans. Could be worse. A nearby school were the Harper Creek Beavers.

@ChrisE when Trojans meet beavers, there's always a d.. Richard,.. around

@ChrisE I've got nothing to say but it's okay (I always enjoy good Beatles lyrics in the morning)

Another 30 point hit to my rep because "user removed"..... I wonder what kind of hits people will take when my account is closed and all my votes are reversed. I don't down-vote often

The votes will probably remain. I don't know what SE do on the background, but there's a fair bit of checking and work to be done with high rep users (and users who have made a lot of votes themselves).

cv-pls leave Unclear leave approved without my concern ,How to react?‭ - MURUGESAN‭ 2019-10-23 14:56:07Z

@Snow apparently, there's a bit of a backlog, but they're not sending out any emails asking people to stay. I wonder what affect it would have here, as I think I'm currently I think.... #5 or 6 of all time

@SouravGhosh looks like a severe language barrier there

@RichardU why are you doing that? Wouldn't it make more sense just to ghost?

@RichardU They've given you a ticket number and a number in the queue? Must be like being on a call to cancel Netflix.

@Snow yeah, its been a week. My interpersonal skills account was gone VERY quickly though, which is for the best as I simply cannot manage to phrase anything in the way they want me to do so. Rigid thinking gets in the way sometimes. If I can't say what I mean, I can't say it at all.

@Snow actually, it's like trying to cancel with AOL, back in the day. With AOL, I actually had to cancel my credit card to make them go away

@RichardU Yes, looks like it is. If the OP tries to clarify, I can help (I speak the common tongue), but they have to be responsive.

@SouravGhosh I've posted a comment asking the OP to edit his question and post in his first language and make you can translate better if he does that. It can't hurt to try.

@ChrisE Sure

Well, I think I know why they're delaying my deletion.....

Note that this loss was due to a post being deleted. There’s nothing there that indicates that it’s a user who self deleted.

Yeah, I lost a few hundred myself that way

thousand, rather

The fun never ends, does it.

Ah, well, the entire CoC FAQ got deleted.....

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/…

@RichardU I seem to be losing a lot of rep with user removed as well...... but not worried, don't even know how I got all the rep to start with. More interested in seeing if my last couple of excellent answers beat my downvote high score.

@RichardU I don't really understand the concern. Are you leaving stackexchange? If so, why do you care how quickly your account gets deleted? Why does it matter? (Serious inquiry)