Just in case

Mar 11, 2022 11:49

Just in case LJ goes down as seems increasingly likely this is to say that I am on DW with the same username. I think most people who need to know that already do but I thought I'd better post about it anyway. I shall be very sad if LJ goes as over 18 years of my life are here and it has brought me new friends and lots of enjoyment at times when I particularly needed it. For that I shall always be grateful but in view of what is happening in Ukraine I will not be giving LJ any more of my money whether it survives or not.

The news from Ukraine is so grim that we can hardly bear to watch the evening news but both feel that we have a duty to do so. How the journalists reporting on the war can stand it I don't know. At least Clive Myrie is no longer anchoring the 10 o'clock news from Kyiv, which had us fearing for his safety every night. There's a piece by him on the BBC News website here about what he saw in Kyiv.

Back with the old news of the last two years I'm afraid Covid is still out there. My elder niece, partner and baby are all just recovering from it and a friend went to a choir practice last week and went down with it along with 16 other members of the choir. What was particularly worrying about that was that they had all tested themselves first. My mask is still firmly in place.

In more mundane news I finally bit the bullet and deleted the hard drives of my two old computers. It was a bit like saying goodbye to two old friends but had to be done. We've taken one to be recycled and have booked my brother to take the other as it is so old and heavy we can't carry it. It all seems the end of an era.

In case this really is goodbye to LJ I've used the first icon I ever made.

computers, lj

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