silveraspen

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/41072.html

Among the 'features' added:

Title of post in Last Post, Friends Pages, Calendar view (every page where displayed multiple entries) now links to entry.

One problem, though. The code broke the Smooth Sailing layout. The whole thing.

You're supposed to test these things first, boys and girls.

ETA: Looks like it was fixed. But how long until something else breaks?

I posted about this earlier under flock (mostly because I am still wary of posting publicly about work in any kind of detail), and I am kind of already worn out with thinking and talking about it, but I got laid off today. My last day at work is 12/15. (thanks again to everyone who's already been so supportive. I really, truly appreciate it, more than I can say.)

I guess I will have lots of time to write and bake holiday cookies.

fleurdeleo took me out for a tasty early dinner and I stuffed myself with nutella and banana crepes, and the food coma made me fairly sanguine. I am sure the real freak out is coming, but right now I am still in the "WTF just happened?" stage.

So my question (the first of many, I'm sure) is, those of you who have given up on having a landline and are only using cell phones, does that work for you? Especially while job hunting? I am trying to think of easy expenses to cut, and that is one of them, as the only reason I have a landline these days is for emergency internet purposes when the cable goes out, and I can give that up to save $40 a month (plus $24 on long distance I never use, and $19 on the back up dialup service I never use).

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To cheer me up, romanticalgirl wrote me an adorable Frankentim ficlet: Five Finger Discount, which totally nails their season 4 car conversation dynamic. ♥

I did post a story yesterday, because what I really needed to write was a coda to 4.10 featuring girl!Sam. *facepalm* Ah, well, when the going gets tough, I write girl!Sam fic:

Quidquid deliquisti
Supernatural; girl!Sam/Dean; au; spoilers through 4.10; adult; 1,620 words
Sam can't throw stones.

It was much pornier in my head, but it ended up being more about the conversation than the sex. Funny how that happens. I also finally gave in and made a beggars would ride tag, so all the stories that go with that/use that as a background are tagged now. *facepalm* I am still stubbornly refusing to call it a 'verse, or a series. You can read any of the stories as standalones, I think, though possibly they make more sense if you've read the first story, because then you've got all the background I'm working from. I still want to write random casefiles with girl!Sam, too. I don't even know, guys, but I've given up trying to figure it out. It makes me happy.

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I love the song "Keep Yourself Warm" by Frightened Rabbit (it was playing when I started writing this entry). I feel there is a story to be written in thse lyrics: I'm drunk, I'm drunk / And you're probably on pills / If we've both got the same diseases / It's irrelevant, girl. Possibly a Kara story I will never write. or maybe angsty Max/Alec?

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The Office ( spoilers )

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Meanwhile, I went to my manage icons page and saw this: Currently uploaded: 145 out of 195. 195! Woo! I misread the earlier post and thought they were capping it all - permanent account + loyalty icons and everything - at 150, so that was a nice shock. I know what I will be doing at work tomorrow. *snerk*

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Twenty degrees and snow falling... Denver is lovely.

Thank heavens for warm scarves and gloves and coats and My New Hat!

To this list I'd add: start calling your former co-workers/employers/classmates and head off to lunch/dinner. In short, jump start your existing network with social outreach before you start asking people for favors/jobs/references.

inspired by tv_elf, an article written for Firefox News

"Fandom's about not being alone anymore. Maybe you started as a fan-inna-box, two hundred miles from the nearest con and farther still to the nearest fan, but you came here to find friends, and to share your squee, and to create things together, and to say, "I was here, and I loved this thing, and these are the people who will remember me." Maybe they'll remember you for that fanfic where you had all the characters doing a kickline, and maybe they'll remember that filk you did to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and maybe they'll recall with a smile the weird in-depth meta you did on the time-travel episode, and maybe they'll remember the vid you did of the dancing penguins, but mostly, the good friends will remember the other things you did and talked about, your pets and your family and that trip you dreamed of and that crazy prank you pulled on your boss and that time you dyed your hair blue. Even if you never met in the real world, the way the mundanes would say you define a friend, they'll remember....

read 'Dances With Penguins' here.

I have no memory. I forget people, places and names. On some occasions entire galaxies are lost in the void that is my mind.

Imagine to my surprise when I read this on the Fanlore Wiki: "In February of '96, Morgan Dawn brought the Pros Online Library to Escapade for people to copy for themselves. There were roughly 200 stories, and they fit on 11 formatted IBM diskettes. " 

It is most likely true - I am a digital packrat. Last year, I backed up the Vidder mailing list to date (I had to stop with 2007 because my license for the backup software expired). I have kept most of my e-mail dating back to 1996. And large sections of the Virgule mailing list reside on my hard drive.

Now what I need to do is create a digital trail of the people in my life. Because I swear some of you went missing. RFID anyone?

Especially when I don't want to stop writing for even. One. Minute.

Things are going fairly well at casa del Jack and Te, though the economy is chewing up our city and spitting it out in moist little shreds.

Okay, so that was pretty disgusting. Sorry. The biggest news here is that I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. Yay! No, seriously. It's a *diagnosis*. Of something *which can be treated*. With things that are *covered by my pathetic insurance*. Honestly, I'm thrilled. I've been told that I'll be expected to jump through hoops before I'll get my breathing machine, but I'm all set for that, man. Those sleep study appointments represent the first two good nights of sleep that I've had since Clinton was in office. The difference was *amazing*, both in terms of how rested I felt the next day and how much (little!) pain I was in. So do a little chair-dance for me, eh?

Now for the good stuff. I'm 90,000+ words into a story that I will not actually be posting, because it's just that dirty. Yes, *that* dirty. Instead, I'll make it available to people who solemnly swear they won't flame my ass or get triggered into cutting fleshy snowflakes out of their thighs or whatever. You'll be seeing a post along those lines when I'm done with the thing -- I'm gunning for pre-Christmas. 'tis the season! No, don't tell me you want it now. I'm still working to make the disclaimer/description as detailed as possible (without spoiling the fun), so that people can make informed decisions.

For the rest of you, I have a couple of much, much shorter stories that I hope to have edited *also* pre-Christmas. One's another missing scene from "A way so familiar," and the other is a porny one-shot involving Dick, Tim, and some spoilers.

Hope everything is well with y'all, and now, if you'll excuse me, I'll get back to digging myself to Hell, one orgasm at a time.

*smooch*

The United States of America, your quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.

The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the parties responsible for it were replaced Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008. Early tests of the newly installed equipment indicate that it is functioning correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional by mid-January 2009.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage, and we look forward to resuming full service -- and hopefully even to improving it in years to come. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The USA

Pushing Daisies

( spoilers )

Oh, show, I will miss you so much!

I watched Life, then, and I really do enjoy Crews and Reese's partnership, and I kind of love Ted a lot, but they need to get rid of Donal Logue. Also, I need to catch up on all the eps I missed.

And now it's L&O with Katee, and I am fading fast. I was at work late and I didn't sleep well last night, and man, I am totally going to bed when this is over.

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US troops quartered on US soil -- where they may be called to respond on active duty against Americans, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Is that something we want?

Whither goest the stock market? A comparison over the past years back to 1826.

The Texas indictments against Cheney and Gonzales have been dismissed.

A former Guantanamo prosecutor, who has resigned as an act of conscience, is telling the truth about what he saw there, and it is making a difference.

I have no idea what the Somali pirates would do with 130,000 inflatable breasts that were apparently 'lost at sea'. I'm sure someone can come up with an idea or two.

Roger Ebert is a lot smarter than Ben Stein, and proves it.

Note to the Vatican: Jesus would like to speak to you concerning "love your neighbor as yourself".

Bush wants to destroy full and free access to health care, even as we have it now, under the guise of religious liberty.

A little ignorance goes a long way in policy and politics.








Interesting pictures of endangered species -- including a salamander I don't want to meet in a dark alley and a transparent frog.

"YouTube has introduced new policies on "sexually suggestive" video clips today, and announced it will take steps to restrict access to clips even when the people involved are (barely) wearing clothes....The new guidelines change the definition of "sexually suggestive" content on the site. "Videos with sexually suggestive (but not prohibited) content will be age-restricted," YouTube noted in its announcement, "which means they'll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older."

wanna bet that medical films talking about breast cancer with breast self-exam diagrams will soon fall into the 'suggestive"  category.

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now if they'd only count the fan fiction, I'd be so rich....

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1. Make a will.
2. Pay off your credit cards.
3. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support.
4. Fund your 401k to the maximum.
5. Fund your IRA to the maximum.
6. Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it.
7. Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account.
8. Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement.
9. If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio.

Prop 8 - the musical

This was so not what I meant to write last night. *facepalm*

Quidquid deliquisti
Supernatural; girl!Sam/Dean; au; spoilers through 4.10; adult; 1,620 words
Sam can't throw stones.

Thanks to mousapelli for listening to my titling woes.

( let he who is without sin cast the first stone )

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Feedback is always welcome.

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I had this awful dream last night where someone on my flist sent me links to go look at a community that was rehabbing and woobiefying the Comedian because he's being played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I threw up a little in my mouth. And then I woke up and was a little queasy at how plausible the dream was.

Night before last, I dreamt I went on a bunch of job interviews. *shudder* On the upside, I was apparently Pam Beesly in the dream, so I got to make out with Jim Halpert.

Speaking of whom, John Krasinski and Zachary Levi need to star in something together. Think of the adorable!

I don't even know. I was hoping to have fic to post, but as always lately, I have distracted myself from writing again.

*goes back to it*

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