Careful what you wish for

Dec. 8th, 2018 11:41 am
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Hi! For those who are somewhere in the process of fleeing from Tumblr and joining/rejoining DW, my condolences for the implosion of the former. Tumblr is a dangerous timesuck for me, because of its hypnotic, never-ending scroll of pics and gifs and interesting media, but did I mention the never-ending? I'm not going to claim to have OCD, but my sub-category of FOMO is a serious brain weasel and one of the main reasons FB is a nemesis. FB has no bottom and every other post is "Hey, have an update on that thing that's been going on for six months" and I'm like "There's a thing?" and feeling bad for not knowing about the thing and being compelled to go back and read about the thing. Babies and divorces and deaths, oh my.

So yeah, this week has been something of a scramble to stay on top of my DW reading list. I love hearing everyone's news and seeing them post here! But it's, ah, a bit overwhelming? As I put it elsewhere, "Yay, all the content to read! YIKES, ALL THE CONTENT TO READ!"

In short, still here, still reading, still commenting way more than posting, glad to see you all! Somehow I will get through the 80+ tabs I have open. :)
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Friday round-up

May. 1st, 2009 03:59 pm
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Just in time for the weekend, I am all caught with LJ. Then I'll probably be away from it for the next two days, come back to skip=300, and repeat the catch-up cycle. *sigh* And now that Dreamwidth is up and running in open beta, I want to keep up with that, too. Oh, and Twitter. Basically, I'm insane. I need one huge conglomerating tool that will fold it all up, locked posts and all, and lay it out for me.

Speaking of Dreamwidth - I've got five invite codes. Lemme know if you would like one. My user name is the same - chime in with yours if you got an account already.

I found out some potentially happy news -- evidently David R. Palmer, author of one of my favorite books, Emergence, wrote a sequel named "Tracking" that was serialized in three parts in the Analog magazine issues from July to October of 2008. Now to track those down somewhere...

One of my least admirable qualities is that I am quick to bitch'n'moan about things going wrong, but rarely do I give praise where it is due. I don't know if it's due to a newfound love of Lego PS2 games, the potential loss of which keeps him in line, but the Emperor has been AMAZING at school. Every day, we get raves from the teachers about how well he's doing, and what a funny, exuberant guy he is. I have to admit, playing video games with him is a blast (when he's not yelling at me for having sniped his coins). And the things his brain comes up with, like the other day when he said, "I am R2-D2, please insert robot." (Think Futurama's Bender for the original quote, and the Lego Star Wars games, where R2 can disable any robot.) I just about died.

I am off to pick up my new glasses. Let's hope that the pain and expense were worth it. Now if only the Emperor's would come in, so we can get his horrendously scratched-up ones replaced.

Happy Friday, everybody!
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Look on the bright side of life (*whistles*)

Apr. 14th, 2009 03:51 pm
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On the other hand, David Hewlett Twittered today about his new role on The Closer. I can only hope that this leads to bigger and better things for him, AKA his regular appearance on my TV.

Oh, yeah - anyone want a Dreamwidth invite code? I've got one to share.
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