So I'm lazy too... I'll be posting this same thing here and in DA. ( Ramble on )

Why does the stupid lj insist on developing new features? Especially this "do you want to know who visits and reads you journal"? Well, I don't - but I don't like having to take a stand here either. I restrict those posts I feel need a specified audience - my friendlist is very limited - I'm not aiming at social success or do viral marketing like ( Read more... )

We live in a nice nice area of the city, detached houses in their gardens. This would be a real Truman nightmare, were it not for the old worker's hall/ present dancing hall premises across the road. Thus weekends we have dances, birthdays, weddings - and people coming and going. Especially in the summer. And what truly gladdens me is every time ( Read more... )

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So dear DA-friends in Azkatraz and elsewhere - just yesterday evening my choice for not attending was qualified: my daughter Amanda had her firstborn, a boy. I have not pestered them with more details, though I'm dying to know - if it has black hair like Amanda did and the same wise eyes - or is it blond like the father, Roope - how was the labor ( Read more... )

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Oh well. I'd just like you to know I do not like being allergic ( Read more... )

Finished, sent, over and done with! WHAT a relief! An article I wanted to do but never found the time to do and had promised to do and should have done 6 months ago... Am thankful for kind (or desperate) people for waiting and extending their deadlines far into the other side. But am way more thankful I've got it done ( Read more... )

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Zapping I just chanced on a documentary on Janis. As in Joplin. And remembered that I love Aretha Franklin - and James Brown - but Janis is beyond words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxdCWdaUv18 - Read more... )