Anniversaries...

My parents were married 74 years ago today.
Tom Cruise turns 60 today.
It's been six years since I danced in Sokiu Svente 2016 -- the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival. (Today was the next Sokiu Svente, delayed two years because of the pandemic ( Read more... )

My latest over on Dreamwidth is here: https://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/278752.html. It's public ( Read more... )

Stupid LJ, effectively owned by the Russian government, has decided for whatever reason to ban crossposting from DW. Not DW's fault, apparently. I'm sure you can read about it elsewhere on DW ( Read more... )

Some days are more productive than others. Yesterday I made progress on my next feature article, watched a session of the Toastmasters International virtual convention (the one that was supposed to be in Paris), and attended my friend's Zoom-based Zumba class (yay for exercise in a pandemic). Today I went to the store to pick up a few things, but ( Read more... )

I think I've finally (or LJ has finally) fixed the crossposting thing. The tag line on the LJ post isn't formatted as nicely as it used to be; it just runs into my last paragraph of text. Maybe I just need to add a few line breaks at the end of each entry.

Anyhow, if you are reading this on LJ and want to see what I've been up to the last few months ( Read more... )

To see if I can crosspost to LJ. I haven't been trying lately. This entry was originally posted at https://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/259629.html. Please feel free to comment either here or there.

Jeez, I should visit here a little more often ( Read more... )

My annual message from LJ, I guess ( Read more... )

I *finally* accepted the evil new LJ TOS today. Just because I wanted to check in on those friends who (a) haven't left LJ and (b) friends-lock their posts. (If you look at LJ in a browser in which you are not logged in to LJ, you can see the public friends' posts on your feed ( Read more... )

Somebody wrote this celebration of LiveJournal that sums up a lot of my feelings about LJ and DW. I don't mind FB, but sometimes there are just things that need to be said without being attached to a legal name that can be Googled by prospective employers ( Read more... )