Journal (2009.05.07 Thur.)
The DM for the campaign running that night didn't tell me, so I found out when I arrived that we were playing a new version of MapTool. Consequently, the only way I found out was to open MapTool (which takes several minutes), then close it and install and run the new one (which takes several minutes). I do find it irritating that you always have to have all participants running the exact same version (of which they have many dozens). The Web launcher will give you the current version, but when I tried it, it was just as much trouble as downloading and installing a new version.
On the other hand, all three campaigns are going on variable hiatus, due to the fact that one of the players/GMs has moved back home, where he has slow Internet. (Overgrowth's GM already plugs so much code into his campaign that two of us have our clients freeze all the time, to say nothing of the fact that it makes us unable to use our characters easily because they're so complicated.) This makes up for the fact that no one replied when I asked them about quitting or taking a break.