triadruid

Whoops. I alluded earlier this morning to a blow for energy independence encounter with a gas pump this morning, but forgot to put up the story for another 45 minutes or so. Cue distressed phone call from partner...

Anyway. What happened was this; finally got all my junk together for work this morning, fed the dogs, scraped the car, and headed north. Snow/sleet had already started by then, but that's actually not relevant to this story, believe it or not. What was relevant was the proximity of the needle on my gas gauge to the "E" side of the equation. So I pulled into the BP up the road, filled up the tank, and scraped more crap off my windshield. Got back in the car to make sure I had cash for parking downtown, listened for the 'click' of the gas pump. Put my wallet away, put my gloves back on, started the car, and drove out of the parking lot. ( You may have noticed an element missing in this story... )

So that's the story of Me vs. Big Oil.

::edit:: And my training tonight is cancelled - WIKTORY!

To: Windows
Cc: PhoneTreePlus

Subject: Your security model still sucks.

That is all.

No Love,
The Penguinista

I feel like I'm No Fun lately. I'm not sure it's true, and I'm not fishing for compliments; just kinda... worn threadbare.

Yesterday was Action!Packed!
( Handfastings! )

( Flirting! AIDS! Lightning Storms! )

( Dinner! Failure! Dinner? Failure! Dinner and a Show, finally )

( All's well that ends well? )

Not my best day. On the other hand, I've had a lot worse.

Courtesy of matchgirl42, here's a head's up on another change to the way LJ works:

According to her, http://www.livejournal.com/manage/comments/ no longer allows Basic Accounts to receive email notifications of comments. That would well and truly suck, if true. I'm still paid for another half-year, can somebody else confirm?

::edit:: According to comments below, this may be just a case of transient error, not nefarious purposes. *shrug* Hard to say...

So my previous dentist continues to cause me pain and suffering... today was to be my first appointment with Davis Family Dental, a kind and friendly place. ( Read more... )

So anyway, the short version is, stay the HELL away from Barry Schwartz, DDS.

This morning was sort of epic in its failure. I'm not entirely sure how you get "sort of epic", ( but it looks a lot like this in my world... )
I thought yesterday was supposed to be Monday? Yesterday was pretty good, actually, after about 10:05AM...

Anyway. archway has given me a pick-me-up meme of sorts to do, which I'll probably wrangle after lunchtime.

102.2° fever - back to bed for me, again.

With all the drama over non-childsafe posts, you'd think they'd have figured out that this post:( Cut for length AND adult language ) probably should NOT have made it into their Latest Posts feed, linked to from their home page for non-logged-in visitors to the site. I cached the post just in case it's filtered later, not to spur on drama (I have no idea who this person is).

As diermuid said yesterday, this is likely a knee-jerk reaction to Protect the Children crusaders, more than a business decision by SixApart's upper management or a "coding initiative" by their trained codemonkeys. But that doesn't mean I have to support or endorse it, or refrain from telling them what a bad idea it was.

However, since my paid account JUST renewed for another year, I'll probably avoid any knee-jerk departures myself, but see what the social networking site landscape looks like in six months or so. I like the functionality of LiveJournal, but the last year and a half or so have shown increasingly irritating/stupid business and corporate decisions. It's too bad their user stats are private now, I wonder what the actual exodus has been...