alextiefling

Shutting up the LJ

alextiefling May 08, 2017 20:22

This post will be the last one to be mirrored to my LiveJournal account. A week from the date of this post, I'm going to delete that account (alextiefling.livejournal.com) and resume blogging on this one more regularly ( Read more... )

Happy New Year

alextiefling Dec 31, 2015 23:11

Happy New Year, everyone. Here's hoping 2016 is a good one.

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Happy Christmas

alextiefling Dec 25, 2015 23:44

Happy Christmas, everyone, and best wishes for the coming New Year.

Tolkien and Catholicism

alextiefling Jun 26, 2015 11:50

Inspired by this excellent post by

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tolkien, books, religion

Election predictions

alextiefling May 07, 2015 21:29

Based on my observations of the polls, my own informal corrections for house bias, and a scan of bookies' odds, here are my seat predictions for the election ( Read more... )

Admin

alextiefling Apr 17, 2015 21:55

I have made some updates to the filter settings on this journal. Some of you may now be able to see posts from earlier this week that you should have seen at the time, if I'd set things up correctly.

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I aten't ded

alextiefling Nov 27, 2014 18:37

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post. I want you all to know that I do still read LJ, and I don't want to lose touch with any of you. My mental health has been pretty awful this year, and looking after two small children while mentally ill is hard. Twitter's relatively lower level of attention suits me better than LJ in some respects, but I miss longer- ( Read more... )

A request for help

alextiefling Oct 26, 2014 17:19

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baby, home

Books and games to be given away

alextiefling Jan 30, 2013 00:08

As part of my continuing quest to declutter the house, I've got a number of books and games here which I'm keen to offer free to any friend who wants them. I'm happy to post smaller items if that's most convenient. Here's the list:

Novels:
Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, book 3), paperback
Alan Garner, Elidor, hardback ( Read more... )

books, decluttering, free stuff

#upgoerfive

alextiefling Jan 21, 2013 19:10

So I'm a little confused about the value of xkcd's #upgoerfive as a meme. I don't know if it's worthwhile to try and talk about things using only the thousand commonest words in the English language a bunch of recent American novels. But I like to think I'm a good copy-writer, so I had a go at describing my current job and aspects of both my ( Read more... )