Normally, I set up the Weekly Blog Carnival submission deadline to Thursday mornings. That way I can set it up early to pre-post for Friday mornings and readers will have access at 6am my time (Eastern US).

The cutoff is normally 11am my time Thrusday just to allow me enough time to make sure things are just right and the format looks nice as well as give myself leeway to weed out the Spammy type of submissions.

I usually continue to get articles up until the last minute, so I allow for that and anything that may come up where I may have to make a last minute decision on what will or will not be accepted for posting.

For 98 weeks, it has gone off flawlessly. It has been consistant and people could just drop by and look by Category (Advice, Business, Work, Home, etc) to find something of interest or may even be helpful.

Well, this week, when I went to set up for tomorrow’s Carnival, this is what I got…

Blog Carnival Temporarily Unavailable

Our database is temporarily unavailable. Take this moment to write an article and post it to your blog. Once we are up and running, you can submit it to your favorite Blog Carnival!

Never saw that before.

I’m coming up on The 100th Edition of the Carnival and now this?

Since 10 am this morning (it’s 8:14pm as I’m writing this) I have not been able to access the Blog Carnival site. Not Good!

So, tomorrow I will have the Working at Home Blog Carnival, it just will not look as pretty and you may have to decide on what category the article belongs in, and it will take a lot more work to have it set up for all of you for tomorrow, but it should still be Ok. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to try to get this together now so you can read some really great articles tomorrow.