shaking off the dust

[rivendellrose]

I've made a bunch of random new icons (what else is my overstuffed images folder for?) and, gasp, updated my profile. That was... a bit of an experience, given that I clearly had not updated it since L was born. Life is super different now!

Anyway. Getting comfy. Didn't look at Twitter at all today. Go me.

Maybe someday I'll even figure out why most of my custom mood theme doesn't work. That was always one of my favorite parts of my old LJ.

Edited to add: Well, I know why the mood theme now completely doesn't work (it used to just mostly not work) — I forgot that I'd changed my domain and my website service provider in the intervening few years since setting it up, and so all the images links are broken. Easy to fix, right? Not so much, because my new provider, Squarespace, doesn't allow me to just upload images to the root directory like any normal, functioning provider would have back in the old days, and it also obfuscates its image links so much that you have to inspect source to find them. So... I guess I could go through that whole process 125 times (because of course Squarespace borked when I tried to upload all the mood theme gifs at the same time), or I could just give up and admit that my adorable custom mood theme is a thing of the past. And I definitely do not have the time to put up with all that nonsense just to get a custom mood theme. Alas.

...Wait, wtf, some of them ARE actually still working. Where do I have these things uploaded? How can I view the existing code? WTF is going on here? ARGH. Okay, this is NOT a problem to figure out tonight, nor indeed tomorrow (because I have Actual Paid Work that needs to be done tomorrow while L is at soccer camp). But... I will come back to this. Someday.

Edited to add yet again: Found the images, they're uploaded in my DW account, and I swear to god I will go no further than this tonight. Or tomorrow. Or probably for the next week. But... yeah. Weird.

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[annofowlshire]

It's quieter here than the old LJ days, but I like it. (And actually, I feel like my current feed is probably just as busy since I never had, like, hundreds of hundreds of folks I followed on LJ anyway. But the comment threads are less crazy.)

I think the main thing that changed for me is that LJ used to be like 80% people I knew in real life, whereas I think it's probably the opposite ratio now.

[rivendellrose]

I miss my fandom friends, but... to be honest, I also just kind of miss having a fandom. Anymore, I'm lucky if I like anything on TV enough to finish it, let alone actually get engaged with it. And I've never (recently, at least) been much of a book fandom person, so... sigh.

Of course, I miss my in-person friends being in-person, too! Stupid adult life, making us all live in different places and have too much Real Life to spend all our time hanging out like we used to.

[annofowlshire]

I was never into fandoms (as you know) but I get the missing an online community. I have a couple of chill ones (witchy and fitness) and I can't even keep up with those!


Sometimes I think about fleetingly about moving back to the Seattle area because I miss having good friends around, but all our friends are now--at best--up a 50 mile stretch of the I-5. It's just not the same.

[umadoshi]

*waves!*

Good luck getting your mood theme sorted. (Mine was borked a few weeks ago and then straightened itself out, and I never did figure out why.)

[rivendellrose]

Hi!!!

And thanks! Mine has sadly never worked properly on Dreamwidth. Some of the images show, but others don't, despite all being uploaded to the same place and included in the same code. I had a thread going with support, like... probably four or so years ago, but I accidentally dropped it because life happened.