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I'm just not moving to dreamwidth.
I may mirror stuff, but I'm not moving.
I may mirror stuff, but I'm not moving.
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Well. The furnace was clean, after 12 years. It turns out that the reason we never had it cleaned before is that it's a self-contained, high-tech, new modern kind that we had installed for that very purpose . . . I just forgot. Anyway, it was due for an inspection. Furnace man says it's in the middle of its life but I do not see myself replacing it in ten years unless there's something wrong with it. Got a new washable filter and a new thermostat. And the filter for the cold air return is the only filter, so by washing that every month (theoretically: in practice, more like four times a year), I'm already doing the regular maintenance that the thing needs.
I have set the thermostat rather cool: I will keep checking in to see that it's not still too cold for the young man.
Of course the dog loved the furnace man to bits and kept racing around and barking.
on another front: tags. Am I the only one who uses them as a vey detailed index? I see other people hardly tagging their posts at all, and when they do tag them it's kind of general every time.
I have set the thermostat rather cool: I will keep checking in to see that it's not still too cold for the young man.
Of course the dog loved the furnace man to bits and kept racing around and barking.
on another front: tags. Am I the only one who uses them as a vey detailed index? I see other people hardly tagging their posts at all, and when they do tag them it's kind of general every time.
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They are sort of unassuming raven pictures, but they are also profound and sweet raven pictures, and if you had recently forgotten what cute birds they are, this will remind you.
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So on further investigation only one of the Russians looks like they might really be a bot. So I'll probably report that one when I'm not late to work.
But, hey: why do you guys on my flist who insist on posting your incomprehensible tweets onto your journals also all seem to label the posts in Russian all of a sudden?
Speaking of languages -- yesterday the Israeli baby came back and one of the Mexican babies immediately set about learning Hebrew. Mama was sticking around to help her baby re-acclimate, and talking to her baby, and this was going on for less than two hours before the other baby started imitating her words, really quite accurately.
So now we all know how to say "great!" in Hebrew.
But, hey: why do you guys on my flist who insist on posting your incomprehensible tweets onto your journals also all seem to label the posts in Russian all of a sudden?
Speaking of languages -- yesterday the Israeli baby came back and one of the Mexican babies immediately set about learning Hebrew. Mama was sticking around to help her baby re-acclimate, and talking to her baby, and this was going on for less than two hours before the other baby started imitating her words, really quite accurately.
So now we all know how to say "great!" in Hebrew.
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If you are one of the two or three or four Russians who have lately friended my journal though we appear to have no interests or friends in common, would you mind commenting here or sending me a private message explaining why?
Clearly, the internet is a free country, and there's no harm in friending someone randomly, but it piques my interest and I would loive to know what's up.
Clearly, the internet is a free country, and there's no harm in friending someone randomly, but it piques my interest and I would loive to know what's up.
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Every so often somebody decides that the best way for us to express our support for a political position is to repost a statement in its entirety along with a button urging everyone else to do the same.
I do not believe this is the case.
So do not think that because I have not reposted the entire statement of some other person, therefore I am insufficiently appalled by the Mississippi personhood amendment.
I have more to say about both those things, but I have used up my morning on solitaire and my outline. I am so, so screwed, with the outline: I haven't even started writing this book and it has gotten away from me. It was supposed to be 25 chapters and end with the reunion and my guy's refusal to return to the duchy, but I have gotten to 37 chapters -- several days past that point -- and the story refuses to end. I am sure I am doing something wrong.
I do not believe this is the case.
So do not think that because I have not reposted the entire statement of some other person, therefore I am insufficiently appalled by the Mississippi personhood amendment.
I have more to say about both those things, but I have used up my morning on solitaire and my outline. I am so, so screwed, with the outline: I haven't even started writing this book and it has gotten away from me. It was supposed to be 25 chapters and end with the reunion and my guy's refusal to return to the duchy, but I have gotten to 37 chapters -- several days past that point -- and the story refuses to end. I am sure I am doing something wrong.
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I keep getting logged out. Why?
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Just now, that post about the drought?
LJ offered me as first choice the chance to post to personheadalighiera, whose journal I had been looking at through following friends' links for no reason. I didn't try to see if it would go through, because what if it did? It would cause problems for that person (who I don't know) and me. And then, would I be able to delete it?
I never noticed before that you could post to the communities where you have posting access from the "post an entry" page. In fact, I've never known how to originate a post in a community whatsoever, and so I never have, though I do actively participate in some once in a while by making comments.
But why did LJ momentarily think I had posting access in the account of an individual user whose journal I had only visited once?
LJ offered me as first choice the chance to post to personhead
I never noticed before that you could post to the communities where you have posting access from the "post an entry" page. In fact, I've never known how to originate a post in a community whatsoever, and so I never have, though I do actively participate in some once in a while by making comments.
But why did LJ momentarily think I had posting access in the account of an individual user whose journal I had only visited once?
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For some reason, all day, the second page back of my friends list is dated Nov.17. The third page reverts to the current day. The posts that have the Nov. 17 listing vary, but the top of the second page is always the Making Light syndication with a link to the article about Village Voice contemplating dumping "Tom Tomorrow."
On another front, there's two-thirds of a good movie packed into five-ninths of "Deck the Halls." (yeah, well, I didn't have to see "Happy Feet," at least) The other four-ninths is repetition beyond the effective point, scatology that doesn't help the story, people stating the obvious, and excesses that don't contribute to the "over the top" feeling.
On yet another front, I'm wearing my emergency backup glasses again which means I can't see a damned thing at near and mid distance. I can take off my glasses for the very near, but the middle distance, I have no way of coping with. The middle distance means the computer screen. Far stuff is fine. I always put my glasses in the same place on the bedstead as I climb into the bed. Sometimes I don't qujite reach the bedstead shelf and my glasses end up in the pillows. I tore my bed apart but didn't find my glasses. I hope I do. The only other time this happened I found my glasses the next day, tangled in my favorite "crunchy blanket" which I usually crunch up into a pillow shaped thing and sleep with just like a child sleeps with their security blanket.
Anyway, this time I've already shaken up my blanket and it's not there.
I never lost my glasses. My keys, my phone, my shoes, my bills, my checkbook, money, jump drive . . . but not my glasses!!!
on yet another front, all of a sudden I have lots of ideas for Marek and Jackson stories. I kind of think they might get boring if I wrote them all, though, because almost all of them end the same way. I do know of at least one that doesn't end with Jackson walking off, congratulating himself for not getting involved with Marek, and Marek moping: it's sort of more perverted than I usually write, though, so we'll see if it really gets written the way I think it goes.
Americans are really weird. We didn't stop the Israelis from blowing the country to bits repeatedly -- but we fucking airlifted 300 stray dogs and cats to be adopted here.
On another front, there's two-thirds of a good movie packed into five-ninths of "Deck the Halls." (yeah, well, I didn't have to see "Happy Feet," at least) The other four-ninths is repetition beyond the effective point, scatology that doesn't help the story, people stating the obvious, and excesses that don't contribute to the "over the top" feeling.
On yet another front, I'm wearing my emergency backup glasses again which means I can't see a damned thing at near and mid distance. I can take off my glasses for the very near, but the middle distance, I have no way of coping with. The middle distance means the computer screen. Far stuff is fine. I always put my glasses in the same place on the bedstead as I climb into the bed. Sometimes I don't qujite reach the bedstead shelf and my glasses end up in the pillows. I tore my bed apart but didn't find my glasses. I hope I do. The only other time this happened I found my glasses the next day, tangled in my favorite "crunchy blanket" which I usually crunch up into a pillow shaped thing and sleep with just like a child sleeps with their security blanket.
Anyway, this time I've already shaken up my blanket and it's not there.
I never lost my glasses. My keys, my phone, my shoes, my bills, my checkbook, money, jump drive . . . but not my glasses!!!
on yet another front, all of a sudden I have lots of ideas for Marek and Jackson stories. I kind of think they might get boring if I wrote them all, though, because almost all of them end the same way. I do know of at least one that doesn't end with Jackson walking off, congratulating himself for not getting involved with Marek, and Marek moping: it's sort of more perverted than I usually write, though, so we'll see if it really gets written the way I think it goes.
Americans are really weird. We didn't stop the Israelis from blowing the country to bits repeatedly -- but we fucking airlifted 300 stray dogs and cats to be adopted here.
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When you google "Kemnitzer" this livejpournal is the third and my little story site the fourth hits. This is wrong on so many levels. (The first is my uncle Brian and the "lemon law" which addresses dishonest used car sales. He does other good things too. The second is a moderately distant cousin, Mike, who makes mandolins. I've never met him, but I'm proud to have a mandolin maker in the family copse)
1: there are a bunch of Kemnitzers who are much more likely to be the ones being searched for, some of whom I'm not sure I'm related to in any measurable way, not that that has anything to do with it.
2: although this is by and large a public journal and I lock any entries that I think might be problematic for any reason, it's still a personal journal, making it much less important in the scheme of things than the professional materials put online by those other Kemnitzers.
I know livejournal has a way to suppress your journal's appearance on Google. I had briefly considered it before but if I really wanted to hide I wouldn't be having an online journal, would I? Now I'm considering it again, because it's just not right to have it be so (relatively) prominent. It's sort of dampening.
Oh, and those tags: they're for me. Any way I can make the list of tags private? I'm not sure I want to, but I'd like to think about it.
1: there are a bunch of Kemnitzers who are much more likely to be the ones being searched for, some of whom I'm not sure I'm related to in any measurable way, not that that has anything to do with it.
2: although this is by and large a public journal and I lock any entries that I think might be problematic for any reason, it's still a personal journal, making it much less important in the scheme of things than the professional materials put online by those other Kemnitzers.
I know livejournal has a way to suppress your journal's appearance on Google. I had briefly considered it before but if I really wanted to hide I wouldn't be having an online journal, would I? Now I'm considering it again, because it's just not right to have it be so (relatively) prominent. It's sort of dampening.
Oh, and those tags: they're for me. Any way I can make the list of tags private? I'm not sure I want to, but I'd like to think about it.
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