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I realized I should probably put one of these up, like some of my friends have, because people who come here and see almost nothing recent might be a little confused ( Read more... ) -
[public] after 20 years...
since LiveJournal still will not cooperate with Dreamwidth to re-enable crossposting after a few months of it being broken, I expect this is the last post I will ever make here.
my Dreamwidth is over here -- go there for future updates. comment here if you can't see my locked posts and, if I know you, I will grant access. (thanks to OpenID, I ( Read more... ) -
[public] really, LJ?
it wasn't until I actually went to my LiveJournal portal and saw the new message that was indeed waiting for me from the LiveJournal staff that I realized that their most recent email, despite such obvious errors and awkwardness as "You have received new message" and "We are in social networks", was actually legitimate and not phishing.
is this ( Read more... ) -
[public] too hot (hot damn), like a Dragon Ball in __________
I generally find that a lot of what Ramit Sethi says makes sense and/or is just good advice, but this one line from his recent emails is something I can't let pass without comment:
Too many of my readers end up in a situation where they saved and saved and saved . . . but never learned the skill of spending. Do you want to end up 70 years old with ( Read more... ) -
[public] and for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering on _________ and _________...
at 155 pounds (+/- 2) consistently for about the past week, I am now easily the biggest I've ever been in my life.
if I wasn't so paranoid about putting up undisguised photos of myself on the Internet, I'd post some progress shots, and compare to summer 2020 when I was around 140# due to the pandemic lockdown.
well, perhaps I still will, but with my ( Read more... ) -
[public] at least _ _______ ___ _____ or more to see (wait, isn't that awfully redundant?)
I have come to the conclusion that I should aim to stay at or above 150 lbs. going forward.
I didn't realize it before, but looking at photos of myself from (say) 2017 or summer of 2020, when I was consistently around 140# and my collarbones were clearly visible, I seem a bit gaunt compared to now (when I'm consistently over 150# and my collarbones ( Read more... ) -
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75½ days straight without wasting any time on video games.
so why do I not feel better?
I've been keeping up with my exercise goals (and buying myself the resulting bottles of reward wine) for at least two months now, and practicing horn with similar regularity; but I've still felt severely lacking in personal energy lately, and I don't have any ( Read more... ) -
[public] yes, really. I have no idea what they talked about when alone.
in the spirit of gratitude (because gratitude promotes emotional health), I must acknowledge how nice it is that
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[public] communi-CA-tion breakdown! it's always the SAME!
one of the books I'm being assigned readings from for my DMAC module (the last substantial requirement before I earn my FSA) is Messages: The Communication Skills Book (3rd ed.), by McKay, Davis, and Fanning, from New Harbinger Publications.
I'm finding myself asking "where was this book in my life 20 years ago?!"
... and the answer, of course, is ( Read more... ) -
[public] a political preference quiz because it's been a while.
Pew Research Center says I fit in best with the Outsider Left!
... and also don't see fit to include an HTML sharing option without Iframes and ECMAScript so that Dreamwidth will actually allow it!
the quiz is only 20 questions long (as opposed to 27 for the original study, at least in its 2021 incarnation (they've clearly done this same exercise in ( Read more... )