I don't recall exactly what it was before, but SUP are now saying they reserve the right to delete blogs or accounts that haven't been used in six months. WTF, mate?

We should expect to see a whole lot of content and LJ accounts disappear without warning.

*sigh*

kasinik and I have been married for four years. Yay us ( Read more... )

Words cannot express how much I miss you.

What a year it has been. (And yes, I know it's only October, but I don't expect to have much chance to post in the next two months during The Trip ( Read more... )

Man, I hate bureaucracy. I know it's essential, but still. I assume it's because the change in social mores means we have the freedom to change our minds and break our promises, so nobody's word is worth anything anymore. So we document everything because we, as a society want accountability in our governments and businesses and our dealings with ( Read more... )

I think it's the only way I'm going to keep up with LJ. When I sit at my aging desktop, I think of email that needs reading, files that need attention and a dozen other things to do ( Read more... )

I posted on fb recently and I said "[I] had decided to rejoin the human race." That is precisely what I meant. Bloody hell, I did not mean I was returning to facebook. As if fb was important! *grumble*

I meant something else entirely and this conveys my meaning better than I ever could in words:

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dormantdragon made a thought-provoking post recently to her LJ about spirituality, religion, the afterlife and so on here.

Here is the rambling verbiage I produced in response:

I consider it to be a sad reflection of our times that despite our increasing freedoms and liberties, we feel uncomfortable talking about religion and spirituality. Apart from the ( Read more... )

*/me is embarassed at not posting this 3 months ago when I actually wrote it!*

Almost two weeks ago now, kasinik and I flew to Perth to attend the wedding of japester and dormantdragon and spent 48 hours in a whirlwind activity.

Friday evening was spent at the house of sageccd for a gathering of a small portion of the familial relations. The Pea and the Elf retreated further into ( Read more... )

On Friday the announcement that we're leaving was made at the team building day at work. It's not how I would have chosen to reveal it, but what's done is done. I guess it was perhaps a good thing, as people couldn't bombard us with questions immediately afterwards as we launched straight into the pre-planned series of talks ( Read more... )