An entry, because it seems people want one
To summarize: Yesterday sucked. Today was going to suck less but so far hasn't succeeded.
Naming my computer "Aeryn" seems to have been prophetic: it made it not quite two years before... well, if you've seen the Farscape episode "Season of Death," that's the approximate situation. Without the freezing water or the cryostasis or the crazy!Crichton. (The boot CD should arrive in the mail tomorrow. At least I knew exactly where in my room back home it was stored.)
Also. I said this to somebody privately but want to do it publicly as well: Just because I used to work for LJ Support (also: note, "used to") doesn't make me a slave to every problem you have with your journal or with the site. When I worked (again, note the past tense) for LJ Support, it was as a volunteer. Voluntarily choosing then to go to a page that aggregated people's LJ problems and choosing what questions to answer is a vastly different world from having total strangers come to me with their LJ problems (especially when there's an FAQ with the EXACT SAME TITLE AS THEIR QUESTION, at that). I helped this particular total stranger but plan on ignoring and ban_setting any others who may come by, as well as whomever told them to come to me instead of reading the FAQ and/or filing a Support request. Even when I was a support volunteer, I hated answering questions asked directly to me. If you have a friend who's a plumber and you have a drippy faucet, do you call them at midnight when they're off duty and tell them to fix it for free? No? It boggles me why people ask the exact same thing from tech support as a whole.
(Also. This one is more of a PSA than anything: Yes, I have a Facebook account. No, I never use it. I don't think I even remember the password. And since I never use it anyway, it's not really a problem. So I'm sorry if I don't reciprocate the adds I've been getting...)
Naming my computer "Aeryn" seems to have been prophetic: it made it not quite two years before... well, if you've seen the Farscape episode "Season of Death," that's the approximate situation. Without the freezing water or the cryostasis or the crazy!Crichton. (The boot CD should arrive in the mail tomorrow. At least I knew exactly where in my room back home it was stored.)
Also. I said this to somebody privately but want to do it publicly as well: Just because I used to work for LJ Support (also: note, "used to") doesn't make me a slave to every problem you have with your journal or with the site. When I worked (again, note the past tense) for LJ Support, it was as a volunteer. Voluntarily choosing then to go to a page that aggregated people's LJ problems and choosing what questions to answer is a vastly different world from having total strangers come to me with their LJ problems (especially when there's an FAQ with the EXACT SAME TITLE AS THEIR QUESTION, at that). I helped this particular total stranger but plan on ignoring and ban_setting any others who may come by, as well as whomever told them to come to me instead of reading the FAQ and/or filing a Support request. Even when I was a support volunteer, I hated answering questions asked directly to me. If you have a friend who's a plumber and you have a drippy faucet, do you call them at midnight when they're off duty and tell them to fix it for free? No? It boggles me why people ask the exact same thing from tech support as a whole.
(Also. This one is more of a PSA than anything: Yes, I have a Facebook account. No, I never use it. I don't think I even remember the password. And since I never use it anyway, it's not really a problem. So I'm sorry if I don't reciprocate the adds I've been getting...)
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