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A long-time fandom presence,

schadenkatze died in a house fire this weekend. Her sister and elderly mother survived. A fund to help with, well, everything, has been set-up here. If you can give, please do.

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As per Rap, I gave this weekend to http://www.dwarfchildren.org/ - a site that will help pay for needed surgery for three children from Iraq who have Morquio Syndrome, a crippling form of dwarfism. They've been recently brought to the States by some very compassionate soldiers but paying for the surgery is still out of reach for them.

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Wrapping and some baking finished. Yuletide done. Have one present to buy, am sort of procrastinating for some reason, maybe a subconscious wish I didn't have to buy this particular person something. Hmmmm. My brain, she is tricky.

Wednesday is my next party, Thursday is family dinner for three, Friday is visiting.

GAH GAH GAH GAH.

[Dec. 21st, 2009|09:29 am]

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Yuletide fic is finished and uploaded. Time to sort gifts into piles for wrapping.

*sigh*

I'm tired just thinking about it. :(

Huh ...

[Dec. 19th, 2009|10:55 am]

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This day is going all right. Very weird.

* My doctor was in and approved my new round of antibiotics over the phone, which he never does. I guess he has shopping to do too.

* My pharmacy hacks weren't lazy, useless !()*#!(*s they usually are and actually called and filled the 'script, along with another, older one. *is slightly amazed*

* The Bob Dylan Christmas album isn't as incredibly awful as might be imagined. It's almost ... enjoyable. *is wondering what planet I'm on*

* My girl is doing the grocery shopping, getting my meds and finishing the laundry. *is not as amazed, but it's very nice of her to carry the extra load. Not easy being with MS. I'MALWAYSSICK*

* Yuletide fic is done and if I actually get a response from any kind of beta, I'll be able to upload later today or tomorrow morning. *gasp*

So, what's 2 feet of snow compared to all that? NUTHIN, I SAY! NUTHIN!

ETA: Okay, I'm now listening to Dylan's version of "Silver Bells" - it's as awful as might be imagined. Good. I'm back on Earth.

[Dec. 18th, 2009|08:38 pm]

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Yes, I'm old, my memory is shot, etc. I've searched all through

yuletide and can't find the answer. (I've been shopping since 9:00 am - I'm toast.)

What is that last possible day/hour we can upload our Yuletide stories? I'm mostly done but this weekend is going to be hell, as is most of next week. I'm going to carve out the time for this with a knife, if I have to.

PLEASE, FLIST, HELP ME!

A Spot of The Winter Vomiting

[Dec. 17th, 2009|08:48 am]

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I've gotten a nice case of Norovirus after caring for a friend's baby who had some severely acky diapers. What a hellish 48 hours I've just had.

Did you know that in England they call it 'the winter vomiting'? Isn't that quaint?

(british accent) Why, yes, I had a spot of the winter vomiting last week. Quite dreadful. Tea, anyone?

Is it any wonder that we're all Anglo-philes over here.

The older I get, the more I laugh.

[Dec. 15th, 2009|04:51 pm]

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Are you still following the Victoria Bitter/Thanfiction/Andrew Blake HP drama?

If you are, there is a second F_W post here

and ...

... there is A POST OF UTTER AWESOME WANK HERE.

*covers mouth with hand*

Srsly. It rarely gets better than this. MsScribe is feeling the slight heat of competition methinks.

[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:34 am]

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The removal of the 'unspecified' field in the gender area of LJ's sign-up code was an error and will not go live, according to LJ's management.

From Anjelika Petrochenko, US general manager

"We were going to add a gender field to the sign up user flow, which is fine, but by mistake it became a mandatory "female/male" field for everyone. This is why this is not going live. And this is what beta releases are for, to see problems and solve them before any user faces a problem."

Nice deep breath, everyone. There.

Now, where do I go to find out the requirements for Yuletide uploading?

it's insanely-early o'clock

[Dec. 15th, 2009|04:22 am]

spacelogic

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We oughtta have an initiative constitutional amendment to ban 7:00 finals. 8:00 classes are hell enough. *got up at 4:00*

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Have Yourself a Wank Little Christmas

[Dec. 14th, 2009|01:05 pm]

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Victoria Bitter is back and this time's he's a Harry Potter BNF with a mysterious past and months left to live.

OF COURSE YOU ARE, SWEETIE.

I am both jealous and disturbed at how easy it is for some folks to churn out a quarter million words of fic and gather minions by the score in less than a year's time. *pouts* I am simply not trying hard enough, damn it!

Man, if I weren't so lazy I'd so rule the world.

BTW, I'm dying of laughter so send me lip gloss.

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This is an interesting discussion on Dreamwidth about Dreamwidth and how it's lacking the social development some people thought we'd see by now.

Don't get me wrong, I like DW, but for various technical aspects. The conversations aren't happening here and that's fine as I personally get enough out of the service to make sharing content here worthwhile. I think part of the problem is that a few folks assumed that everyone on LJ was just dying for a better platform and that DW was the answer to their prayers, even if they didn't yet know it.

Unfortunately, most people like (can tolerate?) LJ and hate change. This is a deadly combination for anything that isn't so revolutionary, so very, very different and better, it can't be resisted. DW is nice and had good stuff, but it's not different enough.

And LJ isn't evil enough. Or something like that.

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[Dec. 12th, 2009|12:40 pm]

spacelogic

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My brothers are chasing each other around the house, fighting over who gets to practice running in high heels next.

It would be much more impressive if the only pair of heels we have weren't so short.

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Drug and Browser of DOOM

[Dec. 11th, 2009|01:00 pm]

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I'm done with the Biaxin. Last pill taken this morning.

*throws empty bottle down and jumps on it*

Srsly, it's a very effective, but very awful antibiotic. If you have stomach, energy or emotional issues, you're well-advised to take something else like Levaquin or Augmenten. This stuff made me vomit, oversleep and have scary dreams. I actually dreaded swallowing it. I'm sooooooooo tired. :(

Oh, and it leaves the most awful taste in your mouth that you can imagine.

But I'm not coughing anymore.

Yay?

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I'm not sure this was ever cross-posted, but I've noticed some people have been frustrated with their Firefox browsers. Here's a possible fix:

*** I think I might have found (FINALLY) a solution for my never-ending Firefox memory-eating issue. No, it's not fooling around in about:config - which puts the 'T' in 'tedious' - it's an extension that runs very well, even with 3.5.5

AFOM 2.0 for Firefox. AFOM recovers Memory Leakage within a running instance of the Firefox browser application.

Note: ( Windows Only )

AFOM, focuses on two ( 2 ) types of memory usage and with flushing for memory recovery.
When resource requirements ( Stack and Heap ) have been reached, approximately twenty-seven ( 27 ) seconds afterward, the memory will be flushed and recovered from Fragmented Orphaned Ram memories.

I'm down to 36,000K (5%) from 185,000K (98%). Yeah, hello, that's the way it's supposed to be. ***

I'm still debating uninstalling it and sticking with Chrome and K-Meleon. I have a need for speed over extensions. A stupid slow, crashing browser can have all the bells and whistles it wants and I won't be happy with it.