First off, hello and a flappy hand-wave to everyone here from belenen's friending frenzy! I have to say, that post has achieved the miraculous: it got me to spend more time in LJ in two days than I've spent in any given two months since 2014 or so. I've got that lobe of my brain back that scours experiences for stuff to write about, something I've rather ( Read more... )

I emphatically approve.


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We went to Iceland. We came back from Iceland. And ye gods, do I want to tell you all about Iceland, because dude, IcelandI seem to lack the capacity, which is seriously cheesing me off ( Read more... )

Bear with me here. The respiratory blarghh that's making the rounds landed somewhere behind my sternum last week, and the cold medicine isn't helping with the putting of words together. (You would not believe how much editing I'm doing on this post right now.) I really wish I knew why my equilibrium gets so easily banjaxed by medication. For drugs ( Read more... )

I just chucked some money at LiveJournal to reinstate my paid account, partly in appreciation of the recent upgrades and redesign, partly in recognition that the joint is jumping around here more emphatically than it has been in a while, but mostly to resuscitate my poor, misbegotten userpics collection. Believe me, trying to communicate with the ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting. Not here, not anywhere.

That's not completely true-the Indiegogo campaign for Murder Ballads sent me into huckster mode for two solid months back there-but it's true enough: I haven't been reaching out. I won't go into the usual list of reasons, because they're many and complicated, but I mention it because it has left me ( Read more... )

I just realized that yesterday was my 12-year LJ-iversary. (!!!) Ye gods, I can't think of anything else I've done for 12 years with relative consistency, give or take an apathy year or so. I've blather-wanked here on many occasions about how LJ has Changed My Life, so I'll spare you all this go-around, but I'm trying to recall who my first LJ ( Read more... )

Keeeranky, it's been a while since I've been so bored that I've reduced myself to serial-refreshing my LiveJournal friends list. I have mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, it's nice that there's enough LJ activity to merit a few rounds of F5 Whack-a-Mole; on the other, I feel it necessary to defend myself, explaining that if I don't, I'll ( Read more... )

Since I've been making headway on returning to LJ as a regular Thing, I've been doing a lot of the fiddly sorts of tweaking that I let slide during my extended state of once-in-a-while-ness: changing my layout to something snappier, reinstating my paid account, pruning dead journals from my friends' list, beefing up my default view. I still need to ( Read more... )

* I've finally reinstated my paid LJ account. I'd had a paid account since day 1 back in 2003, when you had to bankroll your way in unless you knew someone, which I didn't. I mainly exploit the polls feature, but it's nice to have the icons back ( Read more... )