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Guys... I don't believe it, but I decided to try one more time to import, and my LiveJournal imported.  All the way back to my very first LJ post in 2003 "I am Broccoli of Borg". Holy COW!  I didn't think it was going to work.  Even my comments imported.  When it said it was successful SO QUICKLY I was sure it was some kind of mistake, but it continued to process the comments and the almost as quickly that was ALSO imported.  HOLY WOW COW! I'm so happy that it worked.  I was sure it was going to be blocked forever. The few days where I was posting to both places, it actually just slotted the LJ entries in the right place on DW like they'd always been there.

I wonder if there's a way to use my custom mood themes here.  I'm really delighted and if I can just figure out the CSS to make my Journal layout right, it'll be perfect.  It looks and feels just like LJ without the weird stuff they added over the last few years, and without the Russian Oligarchy owning it.

YAY!

Freaking YAY!!!

(I'll crosspost to LJ and add some stuff here)

So if you HAPPENED to be on my page in the last hour or so, you may have noticed that it looked pretty chaotic, if you HAPPENED to refresh it multiple times you might have noticed that it was gradually reconstructing itself. Well now it's all finished. I was working on reclaiming another of my favorite layouts. Spring Argyle and now it's perfect again.

These have been a little bit of a struggle for me because LJ apparently eliminated the Bloggish theme on which I based tons of my layouts. Also PhotoFuckit said it was done existing for it's intended purpose, so I transferred all my images to Imgur and had to go through the CSS and fix every single graphic link, some of which I had not properly labeled in my code so I had to guess and try different ones until I had the right thing. I have a bunch of images that were IN my folder for this layout but which were NOT in the actual layout. So I guess I'll remove them to save myself confusion another 20 years in the future. lol

Also, I've already grown a small 3rd boob under my arm from my jab. Took a couple of days to grow it last time. Just thought you'd like to know. lol

Oh and WOAH!  Photobucket... what the hell has happened to you... All my cute little handmade mood icons have turned into this giant "BUY MY SUPER EXPENSIVE $$$$400 A YEAR PACKAGE IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HOTLINK YOUR PHOTOS TO LIVEJOURNAL OR ANYTHING!!!$$$"

Seriously? WTF... Anyone using custom mood icons?  Where are you hosting them now? I've been gone too long... This ugliness needs to go away quickly.

You know, I thought I was way behind again on keeping up with my LiveJournal friends. list.  I'm kind of picky in that when I go to read I want to go back in time to the last thing I read  and work my way to the present.  It's a little sketchy if I get too far behind, because LJ doesn't let me go back as many pages as it used to, so I've made an effort not to get more than a few days behind at a time.  I do read all posts, but since the LJ app sucks ass, and ElJay isn't much better, I don't always comment.  So if you didn't see a comment from me, it wasn't because I wasn't interested. 

I'm very annoyed with LiveJournal for shooting down the "+1" idea less than a day after they proposed it just because their vocal "Don't ever change anything EVAR" crowd opposed it. Despite the fact that the initial feedback about it was positive. Despite the fact that they clearly stated an intention to make the feature OPT IN, and giving individual journal owners the option to NOT include it on their Journals, the "Don't ever change anything EVAR" crowd won in less than 24 hours, and they dropped it completely out of the consideration.  I'm so sick of those people because they totally hold LJ back from coming into the present day as far as that.  I don't feel that having the option to acknowledge something someone has said quickly when one doesn't have time to say anything specific, or when they maybe don't really have anything useful to add other than something that says "I hear you", or "I see what you're saying."

cornerofmadness, I think I said that I was happy to hear that you're surgery went well, and that they were able to repair your tendon.  I'm sorry that you're having difficulty with your meds, but hopefully you won't need them too much longer and you'll be healing well.  I can't take any opiods at all. I get told all the time "Well vomiting isn't really an allergic reaction." ok.. maybe not, however, it is my body saying "OH NO YOU DIDN'T @*#$#(&!!!" and there is no point in taking a pain med that I can't keep down. Anyway. Glad things are going well. You are in my thoughts.

evil_little_dog, Congrats on another 8 weeks at your current posting.  I know it's not the best job in the world, but work is good.  Maybe if she knew you were putting in another application, she was like "oh no...." and called the agency to keep you on a little longer. lol.  I am not digging my current job because my schedule is constantly in chaos, and I have no time for anything AGAIN. However, in my good news on that front, A couple of weeks ago when my schedule got shredded for the umpteenth time for whatever 'reason', I applied back at the place I used to work (different location) because they a) pay better b) I will have consistent hours c) Day shift! VERY important to me given the amount of evening commitments I have now.  Wednesday I contacted the shift manager to check on that app and she asked when I could come in for an interview. I told her, but then a couple of days later, she told me that I didn't need to interview. The manager wanted to hire me just on her sayso because we'd worked together before and we'd be working togther again here doing the same thing, just a different company.  Anyway, so they are pretty sure that they're loosing their day shift driver, and just have to wait the official 3 days for her to be without a vehicle, before they can her, and then I can give my notice where I am.  You are also often in my thoughts.  It was nice to chat with you on YM recently. I miss chatting and playing Rps with you, even if they are just one on one in chat.

ookamikagakusha, I have been enjoying the writing you've been doing and also recent artwork.  You've really improved in both categories.  I've missed talking to you on Y!M the last couple of days, but I know you have a lot going on at the moment. I hope you mommy is doing ok. 

Recently I was asked by someone I play music with casually (i.e. fellow attendees of an open jam session that I started late last fall.) has asked me if I'd be interested in playing with a band that he's playing with that will have pretty regular gigs and before long, some paid work.  So it's more important than ever for me to have my schedule at work solidify. I can't have this chaos any more. I let work cost me my music once, I will never allow it again.

I've been working on Chapter 15 of CTT... I really think it's almost finished.  I just wanted to try to move things forward a bit, but since that meant basically a filler chapter, I'm having trouble ending it.. it just rambles on and on even though it's not that long. I think I might have figured out how to make it end so I can go on to Wednesday though.  So keep your fingers crossed that I can figure this out.  I've also been working on Gaia's Song again. I did some very minor editing of the first three chapters, and tonight most likely will try to do some serious work on Chapter 4 and then I need to really work out the rest of the outline so I can move forward. I feel like I don't have a clear picture of where the story goes after about halfway through. I'm one of those that really needs to know the beginning the middle and the end of a story, and am notorious for NOT knowing how the end comes.  Anyway. My long break is over, so it's time to go back to work.

Oh yes.. and I've lost about 16 pounds. Only 20 more to go. So YAY!

Since I made my post saying that I was switching to Captcha to get rid of bots posting random comments on my LiveJournal, and made that switch, I have had so far 7 spams... 6 for cheap Chinese designer knockoffs (2 for Louis Vitton) and one elaborate one for cell phones, all of which apparently defeated the Captcha with ease, and all of which were on my most recent post, 3 of which posted today after I complained to LiveJournal about the high level of spam I'm suddenly getting.

Thankfully, LiveJournal did respond to my complaint and has let me know that if I eliminate responses from anyone not registered that it will still allow posts from people on OpenID, Facebook and so on who use those as their registries.  So Those of you who do RX my posts and aren't LiveJournal users yourself, 1) come to LiveJournal. We have cookies and stuff here. 2) just log in using your OpenID, or Facebook or whatever. According to OpenID, most people with the following provisions already have the ability to log in using OpenID (this includes LiveJournal users actually. I use my ishte.LiveJournal.com openID login all the time.):

( Here is their text but i took out all the logo graphics: )

Surprise! You may already have an OpenID.

If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID. Below are instructions on how to sign in with each of the following providers on an OpenID enabled website. (When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service.)

Look for the “Sign in with a Google Account” button or use your Google Profile URL.

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button.

Look for the “Yahoo! JAPAN IDでログイン” button.

Enter “username.livejournal.com”

Click the “Sign in with Hyves” button.

Enter your blog URL: “blogname.blogspot.com”

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button or use your photostream URL

Click the “Sign in with Orange” button or enter “orange.fr”

mixi is a web service that allows users to communicate with their friends and acquaintances.

Look for the “Login with MySpaceID” button or enter “www.myspace.com/username”

Enter your WordPress.com URL, for example: “username.wordpress.com”

Look for a “Sign in with AOL” button or enter “openid.aol.com/screenname”

Other Well Known & Simple Providers

In addition, there are several dedicated OpenID providers that are generally recommended by various members of the community. While not a comprehensive list, each of these providers offers a free and secure OpenID to use across the web.

Chi.mp allows you to create your own social hub on an OpenID domain you own and control.

ClaimID is an easy way to manage your online identity with OpenID.

myID.net is an OpenID provider with support for groups and the Korean language.

myOpenID is the first standalone provider for both individuals and businesses, with secure multi-factor authentication.

VeriSign’s Personal Identity Provider is an OpenID provider with support for multi-factor authentication.

Your Internet ID lets you build a social identity to use on the web.

So what that works out to, is I will as of this post no longer allow anonymous comments. Sorry. you have to log in. you have two dozen different ways to do it. If you are too lazy to do it, You can't comment on my LiveJournal. I might even miss you. So just buck up and log in so you can comment.

PS... I totally failed at code and hit the post button before it looked like I was TRYING to tell it to, but having had a few at the pub tonight, I should not even be attempting to write code, though I can obviously still do math somehow...

PPS... apparently I'm only allowed to tell it to have ONE property for the blockquote. It pukes if I try to give it two. I cleaned it up. Sorry if you saw the vomit. *rolls eyes* 

I should really build another Summer theme, but to be honest I really really like this one so much, that I haven't come up with a better idea so this will be the third year in a row I've used this theme for summer.  I did come up with a few new icons though. ^_^

I like this one in particular. It addresses one of those questions you know? Like if you could convince yourself and everyone around you that you were floating three feet off the ground, would you not be floating 3 feet off the ground?  In this case the question is, If you were strong enough to lift two scales, each one carrying exactly half your own weight, would not not then be able to step on those scales and lift yourself off the ground?  Is it possible that the reason we can't lift ourselves even when we can lift our own weight is because we believe it is impossible? The bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. Aerodynamically it shouldn't be possible, but she does. They say it's because nobody has told her that she can't.

Mostly because it has little flashes of LJ userpics, some of which I RECOGNISE as those of many of my friends who also write FMA Fanfiction. I really laughed though, when I realised that one of them was MINE that I had specifically modified from a similar one I'd seen.

As such, I have updated my layout.  I don't know if I'll keep this or not.  We'll see. This was made out of a template I found online and seemed like fun, but it does have quite a few elements that I don't really use. So we'll see how that goes.