Thanks again to everyone for the thoughts and prayers; I really appreciate it. We got back Saturday night; I went to bed rather earlier than is normal for me because it was a draining trip, and Wyberd woke me at 5:30 am to make sure I was there. Goofy cat. Better believe I went back to sleep;) Had miscellaneous unpacking and householdy-type stuff to do Sunday, and that kept me busy. Work today, back to usual.
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to everyone for the prayers and thoughts and well wishes. My grandma passed away this morning, and we’ll be headed out of town in the morning. I’ll be away from internet until sometime this weekend, probably late Sunday.
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Family members on FB – if you haven’t heard yet, someone’s trying to reach you.
My grandmother is in ICU and has refused a respirator. Don’t know how much longer she has. (also not entirely sure if she’s truly born again) Grandpa’s not in great shape, either, but at least he’s not admitted to the hospital at the moment. (same uncertainties go for him) One of my uncles is with him to help out, but it doesn’t sound good.
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As usual when I get overtired and overstressed, I came down with a sinus infection after the convention. I’m dreadfully behind in getting in touch with the people I met (and want to get to know a little better) and in updating web stuff. I am feeling a lot better than I was (lots of sleeping helps) - just some sniffles and coughing left to shake. More when I get things together.
Oh, and DeltaForceAttack: the email you sent when you were in town last never came through. I don’t know where it went, but it never got to me, and it wasn’t in the Gmail spam filter either. Try again?
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Just a quick note that I’m back safe, if not entirely sound. I’m exhausted, bruised, and have more sore muscles than I’ve had in a very long time, but it was a productive trip. I’ll post more later, after I’ve recovered a bit more;)
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It’s been a busy, draining, frustrating week. Unfortunately I can’t go into what’s bugging me, because I’ve made a policy of not giving specifics of my job on the web. Suffice it to say, some customers are driving me batty! Worked eight hours a day Mon-Thurs, almost twelve hours Fri, eight hours Sat, two on Sun, and today - well, I started work at nine am, and just got home at midnight. Taking a quick moment to leave an update, because there’s a very real chance I’ll have to do the same thing tomorrow.
Maybe I’ll get some sleep for my birthday;)
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My great-aunt died this weekend. It wasn’t a big surprise, because she’s been ill, but we’re off for the funeral and I won’t have net access for several days. Be back online Fridayish.
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I won’t be responding to any email or IMs (or comments in moderation - the threshold is pretty high, so if you comment and it doesn’t show up, it’s probably waiting for me to get back) for the next several days, as I’ll be out of town and without computer access. Joy, I didn’t get a chance to take care of that site issue I emailed you about; I haven’t noticed any problems, so we’re probably okay anyway, but if you want to deal with it while I’m away, that’s okay too.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Pearl is broken.
I’m depressed.
I don’t want to talk about it.
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ICQ is being a pain about my account; I may have to abandon it. It will allow me to login to ICQ2Go, but not to ICQ.com or through Trillian, and ICQ2Go won’t let me send. Yahoo and AIM may soon be the only IM methods I continue to use.
MSN is being difficult, too, only in the sense that some of my personal security programs have identified Microsoft’s servers as a threat, and I’d rather give up MSN than my security programs.
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Sorry for dropping off the face of the net; having computer problems, am going to have to reinstall opsys. Again. 
Hopefully it won’t take too many days to get everything restored and reinstalled.
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I have updated TiltedWindmill. There’s not a lot there yet, but at least it’s not a “nobody home, go ‘way” page anymore.
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I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and having been asked by a friend the other night, I’ve decided to go ahead and do it: I’m going to start emailing people so you know what my days off are for the next week, and then you can make plans on when you can call or IM me.
If you want to be on the list, email me and let me know.
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Comment spam on LiveJournal (especially now that I’ve announced my move to my own host) has to be the lamest thing ever. No, I don’t want links to “lesbian action” on my LJ; please go away. Until the idiot takes the hint, I’ve disabled anonymous commenting on my LJ.
I’ve noticed that there’s not much commenting over here, and I’m wondering - is it because I’m not interesting enough, or is my current anti-spam system blocking legitimate commenters? I could swear there was an entry on Twenty Sided about having trouble with the spamblockers, but I can’t find the specific entry right now. Figures. Anyway, if you’ve wanted to comment here but couldn’t, send me an email and let me know, okay? I need to know if I should change my spam-blocking the way Shamus did.
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LJ Problem resolved! Apparently had nothing to do with the database shift. Many thanks to isabeau, who figured out what was making the LJ syndication hang, so I could fix it.
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Yesterday, when I tried to post the personality test I found on my computer, I discovered a significant difference between WordPress and LiveJournal. My time settings were off by an hour (I blame Daylight Savings time) so I changed the timestamp to the actual time.
The post didn’t show up. I ended up playing with a lot of settings before I figured out that WP lets me schedule posts for later release that way. I’m too used to LJ’s way of letting you timestamp it anything you want, but it all shows up at once. I like WP better (big surprise) so I’m hoping this will enable me to be more regular in my posting.
And yes, I’ve changed my time setting to fix the problem, but I’ve left the other timestamp as it was. It isn’t like it matters that much which hour I posted;)
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