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Thanks to

sraun, who went above and beyond for me.

But now I can keep track of my friends in both places again!!!

Current Mood: ecstatic

The embed doesn't work, but here's the link, at any rate.

http://www.bing.com/videos/browse?mkt=en-us&vid=86545090-96ac-415b-9114-ca6459c1cc9f&from=sharepermalink&src=v5:share:sharepermalink:&from=dest_en-us

I love this stuff...

Current Mood: geeky

On my blog: http://mmjustus.wordpress.com

We're halfway up the Alaska Highway!

Would anyone be willing to help me by complaining to LJ that LJ's been blacklisted by Spamhaus?

It turns out that's why I'm all but blocked from using LJ (I can comment anonymously on other people's journals if they allow it, but I can't do anything else even when I'm logged into my own account).

I figure the bigger the fuss the more likely they are to do something about it. They've never responded to anything I've ever posted directly to them, so just me complaining isn't going to do any good.

Pretty please? Is that possible?

In the interest of me being able to use LJ again, can someone recommend a non-google product where I might be able to get a web-based email address which will allow me to forward my messages to my PC-based email client?

Gmail (or any Google product) is not an option after the Blogger fiasco less than a year ago. I don't want the address pulled out from under me with little warning because I haven't upgraded my browser yet from the latest XP version of IE the way Blogger was. I'm working on the OS upgrade as fast as

kk1raven can get Thunderbird to do what I need it to do, but in the meantime...

Help?

Current Mood: curious

Apparently there's a problem between LJ and my ISP, and my email notifications from LJ aren't getting through to my email inbox, so LJ has decided that I can't post on LJ anymore.

Neither my ISP nor LJ is willing/able to do anything about it, so apparently the only choices I have are changing my ISP of over ten years, or giving up LJ. Or I suppose I could go through the rigmarole of setting up a web-based email account and remembering to check it, but I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THAT.

Anyway, I can't even post on LJ to say why I've dropped off the face of the earth.

So if anybody asks, please tell them.

And if anyone has an idea of how to force LJ and iinet to play nice together, I'd appreciate it.

I'm leaving this as cross-posting on LJ just to see what happens. What I suspect will happen is a failed cross-posting, but hey...

ETA: Yes, I got a failed cross-posting.

Current Mood: angry

I guess James got tired of knocking about in my head for ten years (give or take). But here goes. Already.

Oh, and I'm still blogging age-14 trip to Alaska over on http://mmjustus.wordpress.com. Almost to Canada now.

Current Mood: amused

So what can I say?

Teddy, who now weighs slightly over four pounds, on the left, and Ivan, who weighs slightly under four pounds, on the right. Ivan's eyes aren't quite as green as they used to be. He's old for them to still be changing, but they're migrating over closer to gold than green.

Current Mood: content

When I was fourteen, my parents and I drove from Los Angeles to Alaska and back on vacation.

In honor of the release of True Gold I am blogging about it, with the help of the diary I kept on that trip.

http://mmjustus.wordpress.com

Oh, and True Gold, is now officially available through Amazon and Smashwords. iBooks, Barnes and Noble, etc., coming soon.

Current Mood: nostalgic

Why do some people insist that other people's gut feelings are wrong? Not different, but wrong?

Esp. after having it explained that while the brain understands why the intention of the subject in question may not have been what it feels like, the gut just -- doesn't?

It's like telling someone their opinion is wrong. Facts are one thing, and can be right or wrong. But opinions are just different from each other, even if they're radically unacceptable to the other side.

Oh, Bujold list, sometimes I'd like to squeeze your little throat until something pops loose.

Current Mood: annoyed

Spent pretty much the entire the day between Smashwords's meatgrinder and Amazon's publishing thingy that doesn't have a name so far as I know.

So far, we're waiting the obligatory 12-24 hours for Amazon before it shows up in their catalog.

And True Gold is available on Smashwords, but because they appear to have temporarily run out of ISBNs, I don't know how long it will take before I can get it populated out to B&N, Kobo, iTunes, etc.

I will do a much bigger drumroll for Amazon, and another one when True Gold gets populated out to all the other sites.

But I had to say something. It's not as much work to get the thing up onto the selling sites as it is to write it, but it certainly takes time and concentrated effort [wry g].

Current Mood: accomplished

So. You've all heard of the Kindle Daily Deal, right? (thank you,

desert_vixen) Does anyone know how authors get listed on it? I have googled inside out, upside down, and backwards, including advanced search, and even my former librarian's google-fu is failing me.

Surely Amazon has a page out there somewhere explaining how to get one's book listed on the Kindle Daily Deal (and no, it's not the fake one that keeps coming up as the first listing on every search [wry g]).

Current Mood: curious

After living here for nineteen years.

And it's lovely.

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Oh, and I finished the revisions! Now just waiting for my proofreader to finish up [g].

Current Mood: creative

Gregor's Steggie plays Hobbes:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/499950/chapters/877006

Current Mood: silly

For the new baby of one of the granddaughters of my best local friend. I've known the mother since she was in the same place the baby (due in October) is in.

I didn't want to cut up the polar bear fabric into smaller pieces, for fear of ending up with a lot of decapitated polar bears. So this was what I came up with.

One baby quilt down, two to go -- the other two aren't due until January, and they're all pieced (using the same big center pattern, but with different blocks around the edges, and different fabrics). They just need to be quilted and the binding put on, so I'm ahead of the game now.

Current Mood: accomplished

debgeisler said so succinctly:

BEST RESPONSE to Rush Limbaugh EVER.

Current Mood: giggly

I know most of my FL couldn't care less, but I have to squee somewhere.

Russell Wilson is the Seattle Seahawks' new starting quarterback. Considering what he's been doing in the pre-season, he deserves it. I suspect it's going to be great fun to watch him this year.

And Tarvaris Jackson (the quarterback from last year, who really wasn't very good) is on his way to Buffalo.

Oh, and Terrell Owens has been cut, although I couldn't care less about that.

Yay, Wilson!

Current Mood: giddy

To see wildflowers at Sunrise, at Mt. Rainier. I was a bit late in the season for it this year, but you'd never have known it.

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or on Facebook at M.M. Justus (not quite sure how to link to that yet).

Current Mood: contemplative

Does anyone know if it's possible to cross-post from a Wordpress.com blog to a Facebook page?

It would make my book marketing life so much easier if I could set that up to happen automatically...

Current Mood: curious

I took my friend L to Mt. St. Helens last week, with photos:

http://mmjustus.wordpress.com.

Current Mood: accomplished

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