There's a deadline staring me in the face, but I had to write and tell you all about this. The Lunar New Year holiday celebrations officially opened at 18:00. I can NOT BELIEVE the NOISE!!! The bombardment has been going on for 45 minutes without letup. I saw them selling firecrackers in the streets earlier when I went out to buy fruit and pick up ( Read more... )

mr_kurt Thank you, dearling, but *sigh* if it says 'livejournal' in the string it gets blocked, and using the proxy *giggles* gets me to a page that is totally in Cyrillic (evidently Russian, when I transliterate it) and I am just not going to take the time to try to understand it. If you or exuyangi would like to undertake to do this (change the name of my blog ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how I change the name 'The Old Lady Travels' to something else? Dubhain? I am no longer an 'Old Lady'!!!

Here in China I'm frantically trying to deal with recalcitant tenants breaking their lease, finish all the draft texts for the job in Bangkok before leaving on Sunday... pick up my orange silk dress with the black lace trim from ( Read more... )

Greetings from the Middle Kingdom.
First, Scar, my dear love, I have not found you in my Skype list. Could you please try again to add me, and could you IM me inworld with your Skypename so that I may search for you? I cannot tell you how much more secure it makes me feel to know that I have people I can leave a message with in case of an emergency ( Read more... )

Still unable to 'comment' on others' blog entries, or to reply to 'comments' in mine.

rowanf Glad to see you are safely arrived in NZ. Look forward to seeing you inworld, once I make it back... we should be more 'time congruent' at least!!

exuyangi I have 'friended' you, but either you filter your friends to allow them access to your posts (please add me to ( Read more... )

Well, THAT didn't work either. I've done everything I can think of, non-geek that I am. I think the problem is that I asked in Preferences to 'clear cache' and was told this would be done before logging on the next time: what happens is that now I am told 'loading hardware' and then 'clearing cache' and then everything freezes. Sardi thought if I ( Read more... )

Thank you all for reminding me you will all still be there ... does me no good if I can NOT be there, but it is nice of you to communicate via LJ - and to find out that some of you whom I did not know were on LJ ARE in fact *here* as well as *there*. This situation has also been a heads-up in many ways for me: I had not realised how VERY important ( Read more... )

*much weeping in frustration and G-nash-ing of teeth*

DEAR friends... I can't get inworld. Please tell Nacre. I will keep trying, but it doesn't look good. I do NOT know what is wrong. I think it has something to do with my cache. I set preferences to clear the cache before logging on the next time, and the program tries to load and stalls at ' ( Read more... )

Going through course evaluations. A lot of the students were a bit adrift because of my teaching methods, since many of their Chinese teachers still require memorisation of a textbook, and most of their expat English teachers use a good deal of av equipment (videos) and play games with them. However, I did get the following comments, below, which I ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, ALL!

LJ was TOTALLY blocked over the holidays...don't know why. Anyroad, BACK now. Will try to update at least WEEKLY. In the meantime, I have moved into Second Life, quite literally, I have a residence there, and rent land where I have planted a forest. Eagles have nested in the forest, on the cliff by the sea, and there are wolves ( Read more... )