found this on digitalmeowmix2's journal, since Livejournal saw fit to never add a word of it to faq. If you mod or maintain a community, it gets to be highly obnoxious since you never get a notice about the comments being marked suspicious.

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Originally posted by heeroluva at "Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam is a big FAIL!

Yes, I do still remember this is hear. Like many it seems I've been neglecting LJ. Have gotten to points of neglecting the internet at times. Spending time shuffling through other things- reading, gaming, sims, genealogy, cross stitch, vegging to massive marathons of SVU and Stargate Atlantis and pixeling.

Last couple weeks I've been monitoring in Orange County, which means driving in to start at 7, with small periods of actual digging, in between long stretches of waiting. And the best thing to do is read, especially since there wasn't any good unsecured wireless connections ;) So I got myself a Nook Color (also so can take if I go and use my free flight vouchers). I think I love the thing. So much nicer than the ipad my dad claims is for my mom (and he loads with all his crap). Now hopefully some of the magazines I like will be available soon on the Nook (which is why I wanted color)

Found this list mentioned on shelfari, so had to have a look. May have seen it before, I because I remember looking at one that is extremely biased in favor of the last century, and hardly touches the earlier years. And holy repetitive authors Batman! ....but I was bored. Bold I've read, Italics I own/want to read/want to reread
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1. Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman. Finished 1/14/11. 736 pages.
2. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer. Finished 1/27/11. 342 pages.
3. The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson. Finished 1/31/11. 255 pages. E-book
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Finished 2/16/11. 617 pages
5. The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston. Finished 3/9/11. 320 pages
6. We Two: Victoria and Albert Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill. Finished 3/10/11. 522 pages Ebook
7. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff. Finished 3/14/11. 292 pages
8. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Finished 3/20/11. 592 pages
9. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran. Finished 3/26/11. 464 pages.
10. The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen. Finished 3/28/11. 392 pages. E-book
11. Gone: A Photographic Plea For Preservation by Shelby Foote and Nell Dickerson. Finished 3/29/11. 120 pages. E-book. ARC
12. Virals by Kathy Reichs. Finished 3/31/11. 320 pages. e-book
13. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott. Started 3/31/11. Finished 4/6/11. 304 pages e-book
14. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. started 4/6/11. finished 4/7/11. 286 pages e-book
15. Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Started 4/10/11. Finished 4/11/11/ 199 pages e-book.
16. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. Started 4/11/11. Finished 4/14/11. 167 pages e-book
17. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Started 4/14/11. Finished 4/19/11. 411 pages e-book.
18 The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. started 4/19/11. finished 4/23/11. 280 pages e-book
19 Water for Elephants. started 4/23/11. finished 4/26/11. 293 pages e-book
20. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Started 4/26/11. Finished 4/30/11. 273 pages e-book
21. The Blighted Troth: A Novel of New France by Mirella Sichirollo Palzer. Started 4/30/11. finished 5/4/11. 452 pages e-book.
22. Matched by Ally Condie. Started 5/4/11. Finished 5/6/11. 366 pages
23. The Philosopher's Kiss by Peter Prange. Started 4/28/11. Finished 5/9/11. 419 pages. ARC
24. I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. Started 5/9/11. Finished 5/10/11. 277 pages ebook

Almost gone and done it. Been a while. Took a vacation to see grandparents. Found out that my grandfather had gone into the hospital. Basically he wasn't doing exactly what his doctor told him to do (last year his bladder was removed due to cancer), so things were backing up on him, literally. So didn't do all that much while I was there since grandad was having trouble. We did go out to Wingfoot Lake State PArk, which used to be Goodyear employee park. There is still a blimp hangar there, and the blimp was out taking spins, and it landed while we were there. Then visited grandma in NC, and got a bit sidelined by a migraine (bad place to get one), and things took so long to get moving, we rarely left the house before noon. Don't know if this works for y'all, but Album of pictures or first picture. If not, I'll post some later when at my desktop.


As expected, not going to make 100 books this year. Currently at 35 (two were rereads), which is past last years amount, but I'm sure page count is equivalent to some peoples 100 books read list. Been joining some of the shelfari's groups monthly reads and am trying to reconnect with the library.

Currently I'm watching my youngest nephew, and the other, when he's done with school. Bro's daycare person has jury duty today and next monday, so I shall be here. Currently am being tortured by Spongebob Squarepants, which rates near Barney, high on the obnoxious meter.

Have to be at Fort Irwin at 8. Google estimates a 2.5 hour drive to get to the middle of nowhere, Mojave Desert. So if I want to give myself 1 hr to get ready and throw stuff in car, and little bubble, means I need to get up by 4am

D=

Have to go leave my Jeep at the dealer tomorrow. Apparently the mysterious noise was the sound of the rear end bearings dying, so they are supposed to replace them tommorrow. I think I'm going to blame the site bringer of bad news. First time I visited the site, I go to leave in the morning and my TPS is going off, and I find a screw in the offending tire. So I borrowed the folk's Jeep (which I will beat in mileage within the year > <), so my visits, then take the tire to be fixed later. Four months, later, now the bearings. Which is the first time someone else has been near/in the Jeep when its done it (usually only when Jeep is cold). Got to fix it now, and not risk it failing next week, when I have to go out to Fort Irwin, which is in the middle of nowhere, mojave desert. Need to be there about 8am, since we have to take a 9am class before we can go on the range to the site. Which means I should leave the house about 5am to get there on time, on a Monday...... FUN = |

Not much doing. Watching the dog, so usually spend dinner time watching tv with her, because woe is her if she doesn't get her routine. So I spend time bumming around internet or entering info from the family books into the family file. Tres exciting, no?

If anyone sees any Haven or Pillars of the Earth icons about, please point me in their direction. Having trouble finding good ones for those shows.

I don't get the current trend of multiple repeated small images in one icon, so it is, for lack of a better term, a clusterfuck of itty bitty little character clones. Makes less sense than the red blob of doom.

Have to be in Compton at 8am, so have to be off with nothing much of substance.

Oh look, I did a Mer. Its been how long since I last posted. In summary:

- Birthday. Got the Percy Jackson books and devoured those. So glad he's revisiting them this fall.

- Went up to San Francisco for work. Was totally not conditioned for walking around San Fran's hills, so did no site seeing at all. Unless you count seeing Golden Gate Bridge from a hill and parking structure.

- Since office was last minute buying ticket, I got bumped from my flight back, so now have some vouchers for where ever I want to go that airline flies.

- Work has varied from insane to calm. Insane usually involving San Francisco projects. Y'all have an idea how old San Fran is? Then having to find how many historic buildings are within a half mile of a certain point. some areas near 1,000 buildings having been evaluated for National and California Register significance.

-Folks been having renovations done, including a new garage for my dad's radio and trailer crap. They went away while I was dog sitting for a neighbor, so had to watch our big dog too. But the work in the back wore down parts of the dirt trailer side parking, so the dog would escape while I was away, howl her woes to the neighbors, and played peeping tom looking in the neighbor's son's window. But she would squish back under before I came back, and only found out when the neighbor said something the last night.

-Yay for summer tv! Watched or listened to as much World Cup as I could (next on will rock since in Brazil). And summer dramas are so much better than fall tv. Really enjoying Covert Affairs and Haven. Pillars of the Earth seems like a pretty good translation so far.

- Will be taking first real vacation in a while. Going back east to see my grandparents. Haven't seen them since I was in Savannah, so should be good.

- I started rebuilding my family tree from scratch. All I can say is I am, genealogically speaking, old German mutt. Have lots of german, spanish, scottish, dutch, native american, english, french, formerly Checkoslovakia area (documents say Slovakland?), and supposedly some Welsh too. So many more documents and transcriptions online now, for free.

- Pooh broke another tooth, below the gum line, so she gets to go to the vet again. Might take her to the closer, all animal one, instead of just cat one. Mom always has complained about their prices (at cat hospital), and I'm not sure how good a job they did cleaning her teeth last year when she broke a tooth, which may have made a difference

- I am still alive. Just a bit of an lazy book reading app zombie.

- Had a hankering to sim, so created a new Sims 2 founder (doubt I remember much about the older ones). Played through first baby, which was about when found got secret lot membership....and she can't access the Hobby lot at all. One reference to similar problem is game corruption, which sucks since it was the clean copy of Veronaville after reinstalling after rebuild. Which means uninstalling and reinstalling. Since new family is new, was going to just start over on her. But what to do on the old legacies? Snows are done, and Riverblossom Hills probably could use the clean family. But Bonnets, Morzans and whoever the hell the one legacy challenge one was are all incomplete. Probably could do without the one legacy challenge one, but the others I'm not sure on. Haven't played either in about a year. And most are already packaged so could restart anywhere new if wanted. Thoughts?

- Looked at Sims 3 store to see recent additions, and now want to make a run on things. Though may want a fresh start there too.

- Starting a slow process of weeding down my boxes of books in loft. Putting it to my advantage by reading ones unread before getting rid of them, as far as the 100 aim goes.

- Nothing much of significance. Loving to PS3, if most of the time its used as a bluray player (tend to not notice when 2hrs pass when playing Assassin's Creed). Now completely spoiled on hd & bluray, so want to upgrade normal dvd player to an upconverting one (current is almost 9yr old model). Because would hate to kill PS3 by movies, like Bro and SIL did with his XBox.