Bits and Bobs

[akirlu]

Well, this is a fine turn of events. Facebook has gone wonky/unstable for me right in the midst of an IM chat, and even re-booting my computer didn't fix the problem. Poof.I feel weirdly cut off, helpless, and bereft, since unlike a disrupted telephone conversation, it isn't as though I can call back, since it's effectively as if my phone disappeared. I have an uneasy suspicion that I may have gotten a little too hooked on Facebook. Blergh. Addiction is ugly.

In fact, I've already hit the bargaining phase: if I promise to stop making backbiting comments about The Little Queen of Everything for a while, can I have my instant connection to all my online, imaginary playmates back, please?

In other exciting news, there's no cereal left, and yogurt and an apple does not sound like a Saturday breakfast to me, so apparently I must either cook, or go shopping. Oh, the dilemmas of my life. Pancakes, or scones, or a trip to Trader Joe's?

Today is bidding fair to being cool and gray. I might wear socks. Socks, people! I can't remember the last time I wore socks.

Comments

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

Pancakes, with sultanas, so that they're healthy?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Sultanas? You must make pancakes a very different way from how I do. AND it would require going shopping. On the other hand, I do have a bunch of blueberries, which if they're still viable, could become compote, and that would not be a crazy thing to roll up into Swedish-style pancakes. Hmm.

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of thick pancakes (3-4mm). Sultanas in those are good, but obviously impractical in crepes.

[bedii.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathies: the new Facebook app under iOS 8 is busy redefining the meaning of unstable. And they want me to use ANOTHER of their apps for messages? Yeah, Facebook, go sit and spin.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, as we already knew, FB is just evil, and when combined iOS anything, Totally Ultra Mega Evil. Or so I think. The problem is, it's the evil that all our friends are on...

[bedii.livejournal.com]

Time to quote PNH again: 'The distinction I wound up making in a conversation the other day was this: Google sometimes fails to live up to its famous admonition "Don't Be Evil." Facebook has a large sign up over the employee entrance reading "Have You Met Your Evil Quota Today?"'

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Very true. BTW, it turns out Potlatch does not have a current e-mail address for you. If you'd like to get progress reports from them, I can pass one on if you update me.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I was enjoying that post about The Little Queen of Everything. Oh well. I need to go do pet visits and bring a handkerchief delicately to my lips when I cough as I go about feeding the masses and cleaning their cat boxes.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, I seem to have isolated the problem to a specifically Firefox and FB playing badly with each other. The Little Queen of Everything may not be safe yet.

[kaffy-r.livejournal.com]

I hope the socks were comfy and the shopping trip was productive. We're grey and rather warmer than I expected it to be here in Chicago. And the rain has just started to come down.

I only dip intermittently into Facebook, but I hang around here and Dreamwidth much more often. Mind you, when either of those become hard to access, I start to get jittery, so I understand your feeling. Heh.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

In the end, I took a nap. It's been a stressful week and I suspect I needed it. (Signs of stress: left my phone on the train on Monday. Spent the day discombobulated. Left my purse on the train on Wedenesday. Spent the morning discombobulated. Yes, I got both back intact, thank goodness, and especially all praise to the station personnel in Auburn who figured out how to work my phone and called 'home' with it and held it for me, and the foreman at the train yard who had the wit to check my business card case and call me directly when the purse came to him.)

[kaffy-r.livejournal.com]

left my phone on the train on Monday. Spent the day discombobulated. Left my purse on the train on Wedenesday. Spent the morning discombobulated

AAAAAAuuugggh! Glad you got them back, but yeah, hell, what a week. Naps are good, very good, for stress.