A lifetime in a decade

[aome]

Inspired by a post I saw on my flist, I'm linking to a post I made approximately ten years ago. (The actual ten-years-ago post was much more boring.) But still - wow, my life has changed. We were waiting anxiously for Two, MiniPlu wasn't potty-trained yet, and I didn't have a free minute to myself because she was still so little. Our house was

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[jelazakazone]

:D In that post, I left a comment that the longest I'd left dh or my first child was 10 hours! Things have sure changed A LOT. Also, I was pregnant with DD2 10 years ago.

I expect in another 10 years we'll have two kids in college, or maybe one out already. Hard to say from this vantage point.

[aome]

Let's see ... since then, you've left them for, what, ten DAYS, when you went to Italy? :-D

Ten years ago feels like a million years ago, in some ways, back to the days when our kids couldn't be left unattended, weren't potty trained, or anything. But in other ways, it feels like hardly any time at all. Have we really been on LJ that long? lol

[chinawolf]

I don't think I'd travel anymore without my ereader and ipod stacked with comfort fic and comfort podfic - which does to have a semi-embarrassing amount of kidfic (i.e. fic in which the OTP has or gets to have kids), hence my answer on the poll. Two links:

DILF - a Teen Wolf AU in which Stiles is Derek's kid's kindergarten teacher (can seriously be read without canon knowledge) (podfic version)
A Beautiful Lifetime Event - an SGA fic in which Rodney and John accidentally have a child together (these things tended to happen on that series). (podfic version)

and a whole host of other comfort fic. ;) I don't think I have comfort books anymore.

[aome]

You're not the only person to have said that what they'd bring is favorite fanfic. I admit that I haven't tried downloading fic to an e-reader I'm traveling with. I'm not even sure I would know how! *sheepish*

[chinawolf]

On the kindle, it's pretty easy, I think. You can either email it to your kindle, or directly browse onto the AO3 on your kindle's browser and download the .mobi file ( link).

... I guess that presupposes you read all your fic on the AO3. I don't even know if you do, in my fandoms it's just the be all, end all site for fanfic, so I don't even think about other sites anymore. I'm sure if you get fic from other sites, you can also make .mobi (=kindle) files yourself, maybe with the opensource program Calibre, which handles all ereader management.

If you are an Amazon-denier and have a Kobo or similar (like I have), you can either download stories from the AO3 in .epub format and use Calibre to get them onto your device, or browse onto the AO3 if the device has a browser and download it (that's how I usually do it).

[aome]

I don't have a Kindle Fire - I have a Paperwhite. The only browsing I can do is to the Amazon store. No email there, either. I'm thinking maybe I could download a fic to my computer as a .pdf and get it onto the Kindle via syncing. I know my BIL reads fic on his non-Fire Kindle all the time; I'll have to ask him at some point.

[mark356]

I'm traveling right now! I'm in a hotel in Matsumoto, and I just got tired of "The Tale of Seven Nights" by Kawakami Hiromi, because I just can't read Japanese for that many hours at a stretch. So I'm using LJ via my iPhone as my backup. Recently I've also used go problems as my backup. But normally I don't have a backup per se; I just bring 2 or 3 books along.

[aome]

Oooh, lucky you! Not that I know where Matsumoto IS (aside from "In Japan" :-P) - but I hope you're having a great time. And I hope the typhoons are staying far away!

Yes, I'll bring more than one book, but I almost always make one of them an old favorite, not just all new reads. Although if I have my Kindle with me, then old and new are automatically both available. :D

[thistlerose]

It was about ten years ago that I realized I wasn't likely to make it in Seattle, so I was planning to return to Minnesota. Looking back, I don't know if that was the right decision. I had a job I hated and I needed a new place to live, but I got so stuck in Minnesota. I probably shouldn't have gone out to Seattle in the first place, at least not without a real plan. But then I'd never have adopted my Sophie.

I try to travel light, so I usually bring a couple of magazines with me in case the book I'm reading loses its appeal. I usually have an unread New Yorker or Smithsonian on hand.

[aome]

I don't think I knew you when you were in Seattle. What drew you to the area?

I've been known to save a magazine for a trip, but always at least one book. (Traveling light with reading material got easier once I had a Kindle!) For a number of years, I'd make sure to have a copy of GAMES magazine - it's full of zillions of puzzles and brain teasers and such, excellent way of keeping yourself occupied for long trips.

[thistlerose]

I wanted to be in a city with access to natural beauty and Seattle seemed like a good fit - having never been there before in my life! There was nothing wrong at all with Seattle, but it was a dumb idea to go out there without a plan during a major economic downturn. I did find a job, but I hated it, and I was about to lose my apartment (because my housemate, who owned the duplex, was moving away and had to sell, not because I'd done anything wrong). I'd like to go back, not to stay but just to visit. I LIKED Seattle. :\

[cynthia_black]

The 10 year thing is interesting - strange to think I've been around on LJ longer than that! (Though I'm recently so hacked off with the LJ changes and intrusive commercialism that I may try Dreamwidth again)

I may take a look back at my own entries a decade ago...

[aome]

I know! I've been here since March 2002, right after we'd sent in our completed adoption dossier for MiniPlu. Your kids would still have been in primary school when you started, I'm thinking. And now they're uni women, wow.

I've been gifted with the permanent account a friend no longer needed or wanted, so I'm staying. I don't like FB - although I've grudgingly joined, recently, as a lurker-only, because I'm missing too many updates from other people. And other social media formats just lack ... something, for me. But, anyway, not enough people shifted to DW, so even though I maintain an account there and cross-post almost every post, I admit I don't spend much time on DW itself. I miss the hopping place LJ used to be, though.