mizarchivist

LJ is dead, long live Dreamwidth.

I don't go back to LJ, I don't cross post. So, I cleaned up my subscription/circle page and cleared out all the old LJ handles. It was easy and yet a bit bittersweet. Maybe I'm old- I don't remember who every single person was. Data has been overwritten with new information. Or something.

So, good morning, friends. Welcome to Monday. This is me, imperfectly participating more, hoping my journaling muscle tone comes back.

posting from dreamwidth seeing if it posts in LJ

EDIT! It works!!
OK, folks- ya'll need to get on adding me in your permission levels, because I have access to about 3 of you at the moment.

I may regret this later, but I ended up killing off several under-used user pics.
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That is all.

Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Verizon escalated our ticket, we have internet again, praise be.
I'll see about that 4 day backlog of social media... well, OK, not really. Expurgated, yes. So, if you think I should know something, let me know.   

[meta note]: OK- going off the opt-in filter for a moment. Cuts will be used to hide nattering about shopping n' stuff.

Today was the first day someone identified my state without being told. It was someone I know, at least. I think I may have hit the tipping point. Also, I realize I'd not posted any pictures to date and I don't see some of you very often.


This also gives my mum a chance to see the new clothes she sent this week. She keeps doing this shopping thing for me, for which I heartily approve.

Matters of shopping- ( necessary evil )

Matters of health- ( all's well )

Matters of house- We had a nasty dry spell with no new listings for almost 2 weeks, then things picked up over the weekend. I also got a lead from one of my commuter friends who knows someone (with a small kid, even) who is leaving their rental on Lake St in Arlington (my ideal neighborhood). I would really like to sign paper work by the end of the month, thanks. Fingers crossed.
ETA: BTW- our neighbors (the ones with the dog, not the ones with the million cats) are moving! Augh! I have this fun fantasy, a total pipe dream of them saying that they'd love to be landlords, that we should move in, that they'd confirm the water levels in the basement are wholly controlled by their excellent sump pump. Not only will they arrange for a 2 car garage with attic storage to be built to q_e's specs, but they'll leave their fantastic appliances in the kitchen. Also, they'll support us finishing the attic to be more useful.
Great dream. Not going to happen. I did get to check out the house top to bottom at the open house yesterday.

Matters of work- We're still putting the word out for my junior associate. I have acquired a replacement for the student position, though. One of our best volunteers of all time is joining the program this fall. She is an absolute darling of a young lady who is universally adored by the staff here. She will pick up where my current-soon-to-be-graduating assistant left off. Having that decided is a huge relief

quiet_elegance  is starting his second week of work in Needham. It's dusty and dealing with drywall and insulation, but it's good work and that's one less thing to be worried about. He even gets paid this Thursday, a real paycheck, zomg!

Matters of LJ meta- They finally figured out how to make rich text come back for updates. It's the little things sometimes. Happy.

OK- regarding previous query re: rich vs. not rich entry options. Seems to be an issue with Firefox. Using Chrome now and I have the Rich Text tab back. Feh. 
While I was fiddling with wtf was going on, I lost access to my old view option, Dystopia. I really liked Distopia, and once I clicked off it to see if that was the problem, it was removed from my options. I object.

Anyway- At least Chrome works for my more fine-tune posts. (Yes I could do HTML, but .....ech. That's work that takes the fun out of posting)

I managed to do reasonably well at the conference. I now have the self-mandated task of revising our disaster plan. We have one that's ... ish/ok, but I think we can do better. Particularly since COSTEP exists now, which it didn't last time I revised. It fits in with the rewrite for the policy & procedure manual anyway. I also helped review resumes for those who needed it (mostly students). As usual, some are good, some are hopeless. I'm extra interested since we'll be hiring mini-me sometime next month. 

One of the books for this next club read/discuss is the first Maisie Dobbs. Apparently the first time (and last) I read it, I was in Cancun. That was a bit of bittersweet realizing that. I'd really love to be on a beach, but that sort of place is a bit more interesting when you can drink the froofy drinks. Also, I still don't have a servicable suit. Something to fix soon. Just not today. If I don't find a reasonable one at TJ Maxx, I will look for a set of men's trunks... OK, maybe I will go today. (hrmph)

It's been a great and busy day at work. I got to have lunch with lifecollage , a significant bonus, and I'm about to head off to Logan to have dinner and wait to board a plane.

Note re: food/fetus:
( cut for those who are otherwise interested )

Reminder re: baby posts. I am sticking 99% of all info in the opt-in Sprog filter. If you didn't notice that there was one of those things, you were procrastinating and/or you changed your mind, the poll to request in is here. Or if I spaced and didn't add you when you thought I would. Paternal parental figures who read sans-user log in can see those locked posts via Maternal parental figure's user log in, for she was added automatically to the filter. Or when I get back I'll walk said person through the hoops that is LJ user name creation.

I expect I will have some access to internet when I'm there, just not like usual- of course. Bye!

I have to buy my Ani ticket today.  Thank you, remember the milk.

OK. I've been using PBWorks for our work wiki. They incorporated folders to organize the various stuff, except that you can't nest the folders. It's just one level. Well, I need to be able to go a bit deeper than that. At least this is what I've told our treasurer we can do. It doesn't appear that Wikispaces have any foldering option.

Anyone out there have a pointer to a wiki that can?

So, my big present (thus far) for Christmas this year is a new laptop, which means (since I'm still in PC land) that I'm adapting to Win7. I've only been at it for a while, but my grand successes thus far include: turning off the Windows Explorer clicky noises, which I loathe and getting the taskbar icons to  have text. Not having text makes me feel, "what, am I illiterate?!" So, that's good. Now to the Firefox adaptation- add ons back to where they should be and all that. Next, Pidgin installation, and all the while, get the music over here. And pictures. And Audible permissions.

I'm not a gracious beginner at most things. I think it has a lot to do with feeling incompetant and why does it have to be so effing different?! But the little successes help a great deal.