rants and ramblings of utter randomness

LJ flist-cut is done. I'll probably be doing more a little later, when I see how this one goes. I've whetted it down to less than 200, which is a lot better than it was. I still have some people on who have not posted in literally years, but I don't have the heart to delist them, mostly because I knew them in RL or had a close online relationship at one point (lady_morsmordre, if you're out there, I'm especially talking about you).

Again, if anyone wants me to add you back, post here and I will. My next thing is a drastic cut of comms, which, while not as heart-wrenching as the flist cut, still will be difficult. I've already done a few, but I need to do more. The glut of comms I have is worse than the unwieldy size of my flist.

Again, I am not cutting on DW.


Ahem. Now for more fun stuff. Here, have some Bob Marley cuteness:

I've been out of the loop big time fandomwise recently, partly for RL intrusion, but also because my LJ has become too huge and ungainly to process in any kind of efficient manner (and I'm not Ms. Efficient on a good day). What I need to do is to cull my flist hugely, so in the next few days I'll be doing that. What I'm going to try to do is unfriend users who I have little in common with anymore, or who haven't posted in a while.

I don't know exactly when I'll be doing this, but it'll likely be sometime this week. Unfriending you does not mean I don't like you or want to hear from you, it's just that my flist has gotten so very big I'm afraid to look at it anymore, so I don't read posts or make comments or even talk to anyone. Shaving my list will put me back in control, hopefully.

I'll also be unsubbing from comms I never read or that are repetitive. I will be making an announcement post after I've finished doing all this stuff. Because people on LJ change their screennames like I change my underwear, I may end up unfriending people who have been on for ages, but who have changed their usernames so I don't recognize them. If I unfriend you and you would like to be added back, please let me know in comments there, and I will add you back.

I really hate doing this, but if I don't I feel like I'll never read LJ again and I love my LJ (and my DW, which I double-post at, although I'm not doing any cutting at DW).

Well. Big Brother has finally caught up with LJ at work and is only allowing me access in 6 ten-minute "quota" installments. Of course, I can go computer to computer if I want, and we've got, hmm. *counts* Seven desktops and two notebooks, along with being able to use a generic log-in page that may or may not add things up collectively among them. But I figure that I can read dreamwidth instead at work and save LJ for stuff at home.

It's getting worse for computer stuff at work (which I only use while on break and during slow times when there is literally nothing else to do). First my streaming radio was gone (I did use that during work, but it's not like it was distracting--in fact, it helped me focus). Then the podcasts went away, then Facebook. I didn't really care about Facebook because I figured hey, I had LJ and they couldn't possibly find such a relatively obscure blog. Only now they've found it and stuck this new quota thing on it. I figure it's only a matter of time before they find DW. But, until that happens, I'll read/post here, as much of it is crossposted anyway. Grr. Big Brother.

In other news, I've made my reservations for Ottawa! So far I'll be there from 29 June to 6 July. Dudes. Canada day IN CANADA. And the Queen will be there! *throws red-and-white confetti*

Request (aka BEGGING, HERE) for you guys. Please stick any spoilers for Passchendaele, should you post any, under a well-labeled cut. I haven't seen any yet, but I figure they'll be out there, lurking, soon enough. I can censor my own web surfage, but I can't censor what comes across on my flist nearly as well. Pleasepleaseplease. Please?

Also, obviously I am not dead. I've just been feeling mneh and blah recently, and the fact that I'm in Tewksbury and not Toronto (which is where I expected to be) this weekend isn't helping any.

I have pictures to post and all sorts of other stuff to do LJ-wise, and it will happen soon. Right now it's muggy and I'm sticky and itchy from bug bites and my shoulder hurgs, and I really don't feel like doing much more than taking a shower and vegging out with a nice gin and tonic. Maybe some YouTube or something. Or I could knit. Hell, I dunno.

Being a grownup sucks sometimes, so it does.

P.S. In case anyone else needs cheering up, here's a video:

Look at what npirie made me! I'll be tweaking the text on the comments and such in the next few days.

Isn't it gorgeous? It makes me happy. :)

Thank you, thank you, dear, so much. *twirls you*