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I'm proposing some extra activities for this Forum, to give artists and writers more choices... and something to do between finishing one challenge and waiting for voting and the next subject. I'll make some posts, and then bracket them with an explanation... but can only type so fast! :( This challenge will run from mid-month to midmonth. I'm choosing something to begin with, and then we'll continue with a vote for the theme for following months. In our regular challenge, the winner chooses the theme, in this challenge series, the community does. As proposed, it won't have winners, but be something fun to do and perhaps allow us to bestir those creative juices. Without further ado... Mid-month Challenge #1: "Where does MySQL server go when it goes away?" On vacation to a resort where, instead of always serving, it gets waited upon? On a continuing adventure (SQL after SQL)? Into "the wired" (as in Lain)? Dancing naked upon some singularity in a space-time buffer? Maybe MySQL thought it was YourSQL and had an identity crisis... so checked itself into a clinic? Or maybe it just hopped the memory bus out of town? Maybe it is a hostage in need of rescue? Or maybe it is in Vegas, cashing in the chips. Your challenge will be twofold: how do you show "a server" so that it is recognizable (physical, virtual, data, the box with glowing dials, what?), and how do you show that it is "gone away" (postcards, doctor's description of symptoms, drunken trail of destruction, hole in the wall, extradition order, what?) As usual, any format: written, photos, renderings, drawings... use whatever you need to show what happens to a MySQL server when it isn't at work but gone off somewhere. I hope that you have fun with these proposals! Carolly

MySQL server has gone away - flying off into the sunset.

MySQL server has a headache,taken a couple of tablets and gone away for a lie down.

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I've put my interpretation in the Gallery. Doing something this abstract is quite a change for me! Carolly