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Anyone Else Getting "Transaction Failed" from LJ?
LJ wants me to spend the princely sum of $17 per year ("Pro Package") to post more photos. I'm okay with that, except every time I try to give them my Visa card, I get a "transaction failed" message. Is this happening to anyone else? Damn Russians! No wonder they can't win their war. -
Tidy-Up
I went through and cleared up my friends list, taking people who no longer keep a journal or whom I couldn't remember. Better to know who is in the room! If I removed you and you'd like to be friended, please comment here. -
The Michael Shur Effect
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Good Place. Here at the Far Pavilion, we have admired all of these TV shows, but I didn't notice the common ingredient until B99; they are all Michael Shur. What they all have in common: everyone, everyone in the community gets to belong eventually, whether it's a workplace or the afterlife ( Read more... ) -
Self-Quarantine, Day 29
I didn't have work till noon, and for once I'd had a good night's sleep, so I did Bikram for half an hour. I like this yoga method, broken up by drinking coffee, checking on the internet and taking care of things I can see in the the kitchen ( Read more... ) -
My Fair Lady as a Retrograde Example of Erasing Women's Emotional Work
Toby and I went to see My Fair Lady at the Kennedy Center tonight; he got the tickets as a birthday present from his sister Ann and BiL Jeff.
So, you know the story of My Fair Lady, right? It's the musical version of Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which is roughly based on the Greek myth, in which a sculptor, Pygmalion, makes a model of a woman ( Read more... ) -
The Pearl of Great Price
It's 6:20 a.m., one of my favorite times of day to be alone, especially if, as today, I was also up at 4:00 and went down to the porch to sleep. The sky was glowing, overcast behind the silhouettes of the trees, and even at 4 there was some traffic, but mostly the sound of crickets, thousands of crickets making themselves known as their lives draw ( Read more... ) -
Pandemic Legacy
Pandemic is a contemporary board game in which the players work cooperatively to wipe out four global diseases before they overwhelm humanity. Honora and Tristan came back from their 2016 road trip raving about this game that they had played in Seattle, so I bought it to bring on a Virginia beach trip last summer. The kids and I really liked it; ( Read more... )
