I kind of had a thought (a fuller thought) for a blog post

non-existent people: ljblog revival! *arms in the air* \o/ \o/ \o/
me: er, maybe not, but an ljpost

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Tags: baseball, checking in, events, happenings, life, news, personal / me, random, thoughts & opinions, write-up
Current Mood: okay
Current Music: various background noises &/like construction

...or is Livejournal Agonizingly Slow?
Actually it might just be me / my connection -- it (Livejournal pages) takes forever to load, most of the images Won't load, and I'm having problems with the navigational buttons in that I can't get my browser to go to the "Next" pages or anything... the page/s I do manage to load seem to finish with "Done, but with errors on page."

Semagic seems to post entries fine to it though but I don't think it'll pull comments and allow me to see them within Semagic let alone reply to them,
but I Am using an older version of Semagic than the current/latest I think... does the more recent version have this ability does anyone know?

EDIT: I think it's my connection, it's been bumping me out of msn off and on and even if it wasn't my connection it seems fine (or at least better) now at least.

What is (making) that squeaking noise?

It sounds a little like a creaky door hinge but unless a little kid is playing with such a door somewhere (and I'm at Starbucks) I don't see how that can be the case.

It happens more frequently in succession with a longer creak and not much pause in between anyway to likely be that.


Edit/Update (11:41AM): Starbucks starting to / has filled up a little bit now. Cute blond kids (boys), a guy wearing a pink (sort of dark muted) shirt and glasses... shirt almost similar in color to the shirt of a girl sitting at the middle of the place table (not a bad color and unisex even, I might wear it even), a group of older gents (not old and gray... but not young, maybe graying) sitting together from when I got here catching up I think or simply hanging out (actually, I think it's more the latter now) and talking. :) All of these in different groups, none of them sitting alone.
There are a few sitting solitary though, a few and a lonely bear on the counter... still, maybe the bear isn't so lonely, the place isn't empty and it's kind of like he's the official silent "greeter" at the counter while you make your order. (update, 11:45AM: the blond boys are gone but now there's a brown haired / dark blonde, hair cut above the shoulders, little girl in white polka dot on red halter top eating lime mentos.)

My connection to the starbucks network keeps dropping from time to time but I suppose that gives me opportunity to look around. Considering getting up and just walking around a little, not around Starbucks but a little/Slight further than that. ^^;

Current Location: Starbucks @ Gardens

Is that...? lol! Well I do believe that that's a first. I wonder what the Postal workers and Frank thought of the sweet potato sent to Postsecret. And whatever could the potato mean? XD. I just found it quite amusing and a little curious.

A little further down the post is a square piece of cardboard and an e-mailed message in response, providing a glimpse at two wars -- one abroad in Iraq and one in the U.S. at home. (Quoting a bit from the email:"We have two wars to fight big brother. Love you. Miss you. Need you back.")
...makes me think of the show Army Wives, though I've only watched perhaps one and a half episodes by chance heh -- the ending of one episode and perhaps managed to watch more / all of the episode after that.

And about halfway down the page: "'I hope that Every Person who touches this postcard pops a bubble so I can feel connected to someone... ANYONE...' [When this postcard arrived, all the bubbles had been popped.]"
The postcard was simple handwritten text, capital letters (and the last ellipsis) in purple font outlined in the same marker black the rest of the words were written in, under a sheet of bubblewrap. Ah... bubblewrap. Hehe.
And maybe I'm reading too much into it / just playing around with the words and image/typography, but I wonder if the magenta highlighted text was supposed to suggest something along the lines of "hope (this) touches someone".


Read this week's secrets at: Postsecret.com

Tags: links

Somewhere... in the vast expanse of the livejournal community, there is a comment... in the middle of a thread.

Quote:

"No offense or anything, but if you make it public on the Internet, it's public domain. Unless you had it in a private entry or folder, you can't really pitch a fit over the use of your picture."

...
......
I don't even know what to say to that. I couldn't frame my thoughts or find the words.


( And about the LJ Writer's Block... more dots? )

Tags: misc., response, writer's block

I do not know what it is I'm trying to capture.

Just fiddling with the webcam, taking pictures of people walking by.

We went to Mid Valley to pick up a laptop (4GB of RAM... *envy*) and we just stopped into Starbucks for a sandwich, a drink, and Broadband connection.

And... I'm running out of battery power, heh.
Hope you all are well.


Hrm, that's a saved draft that livejournal kept for me and that I might have forgotten about.
A ghost of a journal entry that was not posted? *tongue in cheek wry*

( Re: Livejournal's Writer's Block )



Note: ~he-who-says-zonk is =the-disposessed so should you leave him a comment in his old gallery (~he-who-says-zonk), drop him a note on his current account (=the-disposessed) else he might never know about it.

Tags: ghost story, writer's block

Eh?
...That's...strange...

I just found out that there was a ">" button next to the Tags field in Semagic, and that clicking on it yeilds a menu with all my tags listed. Prior to this I've been posting entries in Semagic and going to LJ to edit my tags (since it has an autocomplete for it). So... a slight d'oh moment for me, heh. But... then I downloaded Semagic 1.7.3.0U and now the same feature only lists Five of my tags.
...oh nevermind
I just noticed an "Update" link right next to that, and clicking it sorted things.

Interestingly enough, there's a similar button for the Location field, but clicking on that only gives me an "Edit list" option and there is no update link to the right of the button.
...ok maybe that's not so interesting, I think I know how it works heh.

Tags: blogging

What is a Nightmare Snatcher? It's a dream journal, for your darker dreams and nightmares. It is also for whatever else that might scare or frighten or worry you.
The book has a furry coat and a face on the front, on the first of the tea-stained pages is written a spell (copyright Thomas Evans), the following pages are for you to record your woes, and there is long tail on the back furry cover that works as a bookmark.
The design of Mugwump and the rest of his family and friends (the other Nightmare Snatchers) are all copyright to Sarah Evans, and they can be purchased online here and here.

( Click to read the official description text )

It's not really something I would buy for myself perhaps... maybe they're just not my style, but evenso I think they're kind of cute. I also think that maybe they should come with a lock, to perhaps keep all the demons in.

Tags: links, misc.

There is nothing to see here, please move along.

( Hmm... according to this my element is... )

Tags: personality quiz
Current Music: Belle and Sebastian - We Are The Sleepyheads