it's the new poo review coming right at you

also...typepad is weird in that when you click on another user's photo or name it only takes you to their profile and not their main page, so if someone has it password protected, you see nothing and can't get to their page to log in unless you know their URL or have it bookmarked. which is why I am not paying any more attention to this stupid place, I am not learning another blogging platform.

Oh and don't i have to eat my words...as soon as I posted this it took me to recent activity and voila there it all was.

not sure what it means but

I really hope someone doesn't have a link to my blog on their facebook page.  That would not be cool.

I am in love with Darren Hanlon's new album

so much so that I haven't even given the new Grnderman disc the attention I'd promised it.

02 Modern History

I only discovered him a week ago..........

  I think he looks like he should be Russell Crowe's little brother.

I wish he'd  come to Philly, what does he have against Philly?

HAPPY 4th VOXIVERSARY TO MEEEEEE!

9/9/10

4 years ago I broke down and started a blog here at Vox.  My first post didn't come for a few days after that.

And in a few days I won't be able to post anything at all here, and a couple weeks after that, Six Apart is dismantling the whole shebang.

So, who has cake?

Who has rotten eggs and phlegmglobbers for 6A, for the shabby treatment over the last 2 years and the 28-day, pack your trash and get out eviction notice?

09 9-9

R.E.M.

counting down

2817 2818 and counting. 

I've deleted or made hidden about 500 posts. 

going through '09 at work and '08 here. 

what I don't get through to delete by the weekend, fukkit.

'tis a pain in my patookus.

I will pack my crap and get out sometime over the weekend. 

Then I have to go through my moblogs and save anything worth saving that isn't already saved.

ugh

I did nothing this weekend.  NOTHING.  I partly blame this stupid Vox shutdown because I got caught up on Thursday Friday and Saturday in all the ensuing hubbub with everyone setting up their new spaces and all that crap.  By Sunday not as many people were around and things had calmed down but by that time I felt like doing nothing.  Mostly what I did this weekend was read (that's good, I made some headway into Gorky Park, which is quite good), watch a movie (the original Insomnia, which was appropriate for last week) and watch baseball.  and delete old posts here on Vox.  So far I think I've deleted about 350. Not sure but it's in the 300+ range.  Then I am changing settings on stuff I don't want public, making them hidden.  I finished 2006 and 2007 and now I am closing in on halfway through 2008.  That can't be accurate, I dunno.  Anyway, I have somewhere around 2000 posts to go through.  I'll chip away at it this week and hopefully I will come in to the office next weekend and make the transfer to WP.  There may be a few things I save to my computer.  Honestly, I want to save this ol' piece o'crap but if it gets lost, I can't really be bothered to stress out about it.  All my photos are on my computer, same with music.  Videos I don't really care about either, most of them are on YT and all of them are in my computer.  I'll do my best to make the transfer but I'm trying to remain zen about it.  I have enough clutter in my life, this is just one more thing. I'm not gonna stress (maybe if I say it enough....)

So, I didn't make it into the office to clean up at all.  Like I said I did not feel like doing anything.  I ran errands for about 3 hours on Saturday and then I was done.

Once Vox is gone, I don't know how active I will be.  I'm going to try to figure out Google reader so I can keep up with my special peeps, but I'm not sure how much I will be participating, on my own blog or anyone else's for a while at least.  I was not counting on wasting so much time on this shit this weekend or in the upcoming days and I have a lot more important shit to take care of, and all the chaos has soured me on everything.

I do want to say a big THANK YOU to all the people on Vox who have made these 4 years great.  I've learned a lot from you all, have gotten a lot of good advice and tips, and of course your friendship and support that I do appreciate.

Thanks also to Meg for bringing many of us together initially via CuteOverload, and then sending us here to expand our circle of online friends.  I've met some really great people and for that I am truly thankful.

Vox has been a lot of fun, it was a great place to have our stuff.  For as much as I may have bitched about problems on here, I really like it and appreciate its existence.  I'm not in the least surprised that it's shutting down, and I get why.  I don't appreciate how they went about it, instead of trying to figure out how to make it work for them and for us, they just let it go by the wayside, then the decision was made to do away with Vox and they gave us 28 days notice which was really discourteous and lame.  And telling us right before a holiday weekend stunk.  But, it was fun while it lasted.  I really liked this platform, I liked that we could upload as much music as we wanted, photos, videos, etc.  Customize our banners, all that fun stuff.  Most of all I liked the neighborhood aspect of it.  It encouraged a community atmosphere, with the neighborhood and the [this is good] stuff.

So we'll see how things go.  Nothing is meant to stay the same forever, maybe this will be the kick I need to focus on getting my real shit in order before I go back to wasting so much time on the internet.  I have a lot of stuff to do in my house (when was the last time I told you about any kind of home improvement project?) and I have nothing to say here anyway.  So....I don't know what I'm saying.  I'll be around but don't expect much from me.

Well...

I didn't make it to the office today.  I think I am going to watch a movie or two.  I've had a couple glasses of wine and I think I may try to export all my 2900 posts now (so I've deleted about 300 posts).  Actually...I don't know.  It is super tedious deleting shit, but I do think I am better off doing it beforehand than after I get to WP.  There is stuff I can delete and stuff I will make hidden, which is supposed to make things private on WP.  I set it so search engines are blocked on WP so  I am leaving most stuff public.  I don't know who would be crazy enough to go back and read a couple thousand posts of mine.  Especially MY boring posts.  Seriously, looking back, I don't know why anyone talks to me at all, much less still reads my shit.  Every other post is, I woke up with a headache, or boy I am irritable today.  It's worse than now.  I didn't realize I was so consistently miserable all these years.  That's just sad.
anyway.  yeah, I was thinking I'd just do it, but then I thought, well I have until Sept. 30th, thanks to the good people at 6A (that's sarcasm, in case you didn't know) so maybe I'll just keep on plugging away at deleting posts and then export later.  I could be ready by next weekend maybe.  I guess I'll just wait, even though I think the reason I keep wanting to do it *now* is so I can be done with Vox.  They are such turdcicles, they don't tell us much of anything.  They don't say why, or anything, they don't tell us if everything will be wiped clean or what.  If you read the post on Team Vox (team?  what a fucking joke) someone named Michale Sippey tried to sell us some BS about "We didn't make the announcement until we were confident that our export tools were working properly" or some such shit.  28 days notice is BULLSHIT.  They should have told us MONTHS ago and then updated us as to how/where we could export our stuff.  But no, that would have meant answering too many questions, giving actual customer service.  They never asked us if we'd be on board for a paid subscription service, they just pulled the plug in the tub before we'd rinsed off the soap scum.

I don't feel at all "thanks for everything Vox, it's been great" like some people, I feel more like FUCK YOU SixApart for being really lame to people who have been loyal for 4 years.  For being totally discourteous and disrespectful and unprofessional. They've been unprofessional, really for the last 2 years they've been ignoring us really.

Okay well my dog is barking wildly out back and I need another sip of wine to I shall quit this rant that started out as something else.

bulldog tortoise cheerios

bulldog tortoise cheerios

Spitting on the Ordinary, or: I am the knob!

A month or so ago, Redscylla showed off her copper Ganesh plaque she bought from The Copper Camel on Etsy.

I took a look at the seller's site after a comment from Mariser about door necklaces, after I made a dopey assumption that a door necklace was a necklace for a door, not a necklace for a person with a door depicted on it.  (In my defense, Redscylla bought an item of home decor, not a piece of jewelry...) 

So, I went back a few times to look at the necklaces, and had difficulty deciding what door I wanted.  Late last week, I made my decision, made my purchase, noting that Redscylla sent me, and a little later received a note from The Copper Camel asking:

Are you the one who said "OMG I'm the knob!" on her blog? That has been cracking me up ever since, and made its way into my startled exclamations :o)

It didn't ring a bell because I'd forgotten about the door necklace misconception so I had to go back and look and sure enough, I AM the knob!

So, here is a blurry picture (it didn't look blurry on my 2" camera screen) of the necklace and the note (cute notepaper!)

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And here is a much better shot of the beautiful "lucky doors" necklace I chose.

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This was $32, and she didn't charge for shipping.  All around a very reasonable deal for something handcrafted and obviously made with love. :)  Actually I think this was a bit of what inspired me to even be interested in signing up for that beginner jewelry making class.

I almost scarfed up the firefly moon necklace after it appeared recently, but as much as I love it, I thought it was a little fancy for me and someone else would surely give it a good home around their neck.  I am better off with simpler items.  But really, all her items are so pretty, I had a very hard time deciding.

Okay I am missing the second period of the Flyers game.  Gotta go, had to share!

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