Wherever you are, whatever you do

LJ direct messaging is so confusing. So privacy options can be set so that one person can send another a message, but the recipient can't reply unless they add the sender as a friend. This is too bloody confusing.

Fortunately I only get LJ messages once or twice a year. But yeah if anyone wants to contact me for whatever here, please just send it as a comment on one of my entries instead, it's much easier for me to reply!

Because:

1 - I could not finish breakfast this morning. When I can't finish my food, it's a sure sign of something big going down. Although, it could also be due to reason no. 2...

2 - I haven't slept enough. Was playing Sims 2 and exploring all the new features of the expansion packs. I installed a lot of them in one go and haven't actually play any apart from University. Too busy building sets etc. But now I'm exploring farming! My sim has the silver gardening badge. This means, however, that I got carried away and didn't sleep until 2am. That was not a good thing to do on a Sunday night.

(This sim - Larry Butz - was going to buy the Tres Bien restaurant I built. He probably still will. But I got carried away when using cheat to get money for his house, and now he has too much money. I wanted to just give him a nice house but no extra cash, and make him work his way up... bah. Wonder if there's a cheat to make money disappear. Maybe take him to a shop and make him repeatedly buy lots of groceries?)

3 - This is more FYI: LJ server move on Tuesday. Because every time it goes down, planned or unplanned, somebody will run around and scream and say they didn't know this was going to happen and the world is ending and they should be compensated for the trauma! stress! paid time! etc.

(Weird, I haven't customised my LJ Mobile view but the LJ NEWS comm doesn't appear here. Need to correct that, except I can't do it when I'm at work and once I get home I'll forget.)

Tonight I'll try to break away from gaming and catch up with anime.

NTS: check out 逆転裁判ミステリー劇場, although it'll definitely be a lol-wtf piece of crap.

On Saturday I didn't go anywhere further than the supermarket. On Sunday my foot hurt. Useless.

I haven't been online all day yesterday. Went to Coventry for a motorway training course. It consisted of:

AM: [meeting room] This is what you need to know and do if you are going to work on a motorway and not want to be killed.
PM: [on the M6] This is a motorway. Now, do things without being killed.

Also learned "how to turn a police car into a Smart car, the quick way".

LJ's new profile page design itself doesn't bother me much. It's not pretty, but neither was the old one. And I find it an efficient way of displaying information. Also, it's quite cool that if I "close" one of the sections on a profile, then when I go look at another profile the same section would also be "closed". So in effect I can turn off the display of information I don't need to see in all the profiles, with just one click. But it's interesting to read the response. There's no denying what the owners of LJ wants to do - take on social networking sites - but I can always still do what I want as long as they keep the "write in journal", "friends list" and "commmunities" functions. That's what I'm here for. The rest are just graphics etc and although I'd be sad if I can't customise my profile page or the look of my journal, it's not really The End.

Urgh, I have writing to do. But I don't think I'll be able to write anything until I've finished playing PW. On the 4th case of the 3rd game now. I'm hoping Apollo Justice has no connections with PW, because then I wouldn't want to play it and I would finally be able to STOP. (And make Liz play the games so that she can fangirl Edgeworth/Wright with me.)

Um, so overall, hi, still here. Haven't been reading the friends list much lately, sorry.

[edit] Reconsidering the profile layout, I'd have liked the "basic info" to be where the "no. of comments" etc is, and then those statistics moved to the bottom. You know, the more important things at the top. Would also be good to have the journal title slightly larger. But hey, I didn't give them feedback during the beta testing, so I can't complain, whether they listened to the beta testers or not. It'd be like complaining about voting results when I didn't even bother to vote myself. But overall, I still like this profile layout. And my "bio" didn't break despite the amount of table codes used.

Interview with a Director of SUP who is looking after the blogging operations. Oh, Mr. Nosik, you're so manly and forceful you remind me of Kite. ♥

(Reinforcing the stereotypical view of the Russians. Anton Nosik iz doin it right.)

Though, to be serious, when I first heard of the strike I kinda just LOL-ed. Now... I might join. And I (finally) have a back-up account on IJ and am wondering how the hell anyone is going to take this forward.

[edit] An alternative translation that is also worth reading.

pls pls pls pls pls pls nobody outbid me nobody else bid nobody nobody LET ME WIN.

I came home to a huge Amazon UK box! Will wait till Monday, or at least weekend, before opening it.

Anyone who hasn't read today's LJ news post might want to do so. There's a new "Explore LJ" feature. All journals are included by default (won't bring up locked entries), if you want to be excluded you have to go and specifically opt out.

And for anyone interested, LJ was the first service to come back up.

So, where are all the "In Soviet Russia..." goat macro pictures? I've seen the SUP puns already (although apparently it should be read SOUP, but hey, who cares?)

(Russia controlling blogging, 6A bit more than it could chew, Brad selling LJ to someone he said he trusted and then that place selling it on who sold it on and who sold it on and Brad ultimately becoming the puppet emperor, this being a purely business-motivated move, Russia being a country getting better at tackling online fraud and child abuse rings, blah blah, blah blah. These are all being discussed in various journals and web news sites. You won't find them here. It's not that I don't care, you just don't need more of the same thing. I continue to back up my LJ every now and then.)

I forgot to prepare something for work. Hope it won't be asked for today. Argh.

The boilers are dead. No central heating at work.

After the post last night, I wrote about 700 words which I'm rather happy with. Hope the flow continues.

Take That tonight! q(^_^q) (p^_^)p My manager is making bad "take that" puns! Send help Bane! XD