Message to Bob:
No more vacations for you, dood.
Thought it was pretty ironic and frustrating that things were fine until I went out of town for a few days. Aside from working on new features and business development, it's not like I very actively *do* anything to the site, so it should've done just fine in my absence.
I'll watch it closely tomorrow. You don't know it like he back of your hand anymore the way I do, so I might see things that I can fix in seconds. For example, I have no idea yet how expensive the batch-reading by author thing is and will watch that tomorrow.
I understand that change introduced a problem, too. And it makes sense now that I think about it. Seems "Keep" might still try to make itself available while reading in that mode, but not work right since. Actually, it should successfully mark messages as Kept, but still return an error message. I'll check on that tomorrow, too.
I just got home about half an hour ago (did well at the tables -- definitely the best Vegas Vacation we've done yet) and though utilization looks low, it does seem a tad on the high side for this time of evening.