Seems to be brightening up here, rain / showers forecast though. The site speed seems to be about the same to me, Ed, It never seemed that slow on Chrome anyway.
How about leaving a note for your techie to fix the badge system? For example, Methyl has 116 'best answers' but isn't yet in the '100 Club' and SandyRoe has 1088 'best answers' but isn't in the '1000 Club' (and neither am I!)