So much for my "teaching" debut

I'm both a bit irritated and relieved at the moment. I thought I'd be leading my first discussion group in SL this afternoon, but I just cancelled it. They're apparently have some major issues with the system, turning logins off and on, etc.

I knew I was having a hard time getting the question slides to load inworld so I could then place them into the slideshow viewer (which took quite a while to rez, itself). But then I couldn't teleport into Covenstead, at all. I'm thinking that if I can't, others can't, so what's the use of attempting to have a discussion group?

I sent out the notice informing everyone of the postponment until next week. Five minutes later, the infamous blue message tab from Linden Lab appears saying that they're giving the all clear and that everything should be working normally now. This begs the question...what is "normal" to Linden Lab?

I finally managed to teleport into Covenstead...after the postponement notice had gone out. I just wanted to make sure I could still do it, I suppose. (After all, I do have a cottage there still!) Once I was in, then I couldn't get back home to Morgaine. I finally had to teleport into the hub directly across from the treehouse and then fly up.

Gee, and I thought Wednesdays were bad for SL! These Sundays are killers!