Looks like Livejournal is being sold. I’ll be interested to watch how this develops, because the solitary reason I use LJ is because despite its flaws (and there are many), is that it’s one-stop-shopping for comments. I used to use Moveable Type on my own website (and *God* how I miss the ability to, you know, design my own look & feel), but I was collecting 1. a lot of comment spam, and 2. comments in 3 different locations, not all of which were emailed to me. At the risk…
Author: mizkit
spade & fark
I got back to the place I was before I stopped to go back and fix things. I’ve only lost five pages this time (which is a huge improvement: most of the other times I’ve done this on this book–and this, for those of you counting, is draft #6–I’ve lost between forty and a hundred pages). I am trusting (mostly Ted) that I’m on the right path (because the alternative is unthinkable). When I said this to Ted, he said, “Are you stuck?” No; I haven’t gotten as far as…
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I was going to start this blog posting with, “You know what I really want?”, but by the time I’d typed that, I couldn’t remember anymore. That’s either very profound or, y’know, not. :) The intarnetz are boring me. Please give me some daily read links that you like so I can investigate them!
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It has somehow gotten to be the first of December, and you know what *that* means, don’t you? Yes, that’s right, it means it’s ‘s birthday! Happy birthday, E!
proofs!
The doorbell rang at 8:15 this morning. Ted and I both thought, “Fzkng kids,” and didn’t move. A few seconds later a heavy knock came, at which point I realized it wasn’t fzking kids, it was my QUEEN’S BASTARD page proofs arriving, so I got up and couldn’t find my pants. Ted, who didn’t know the proofs were arriving, also got up, swearing, found his pants, and stomped downstairs. A broad Irish accent said, “Morphy?”, indicating I was right, and Ted signed for the proofs and I have opened them…