As a little girl, I remember learning at a young age about centrifugal force by twirling skirts. I used to spin as fast as I could and see how high I could make the skirt flow.

Something a bit different, taken at St Ninian’s Isle.

Dark Tide From David Grifford's Photography Journal

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

-- Bob Dylan

I had a realization that my friends page is like I used to like books as a child-full of pictures.

So... have a happy thought!

I'm going to start doing these again.


A page with mushroom fairies... :)

Signal boost from newsbean from rm:

britgeekgrrl's husband has been battling cancer for a couple of years now. Sadly, that battle is almost over and sooner than was expected. If you've ever lost a loved-one you know that death-related expenses can be massive, even when choosing the most affordable and simple options, as is the case here. Cremation and associated costs are expected to run about $1,400 and it's just not in a budget that thought the timeline on this was going to run for several more months. As [info]kshandra notes in her own post on the subject, we're "also hoping to cover Johanna's day-to-day expenses for a while as she sadly does not qualify for Family Medical Leave Act coverage and only has about 45 hours of PTO available to her at work."

From my heart:

britgeekgrrl is not someone I know well, or even at all. But this is a moment when we all have the ability to put a little more compassion and ease in someone's life. The expenses for cremation aren't that high. If 200 people will pitch in $7, they'll be covered. If you designate the money as a "gift" when you send through paypal, you can even pay the 59 cent processing fee. At the end of the day this woman should get to spend her energy and time grieving for a loved one instead of worrying about money. Let's make that happen. I've seen LJ and fandom do amazing wonderful things. Let's do this thing for one of ours. This is something we can do that will make this season a little easier for someone who truly needs it.

If you can make this happen in your life, please PayPal a little bit to johanna_mead@yahoo.com Please select Gift (under Personal) under transaction to reduce the Paypal fee situation. Boosting the signal is also welcome.

So, the beeping doesn't occur if you have no speaker but the beeper. I don't even have to unset x, which is nice.

In other news, the 2.6.30 kernel moved a whole bunch of crap around. I want to thunk them.

But it is a *lot* more stable and a hell of a lot faster in loading modules. I'm starting to wonder if some of the old instability wasn't my fault. I guess I will know, when I get further.

"Forgotten Leaf"

Really lovely.

Ubuntu 9.10, cool as it is, has one MAJOR flaw, to me.

When it would normally "beep" if I had not sets the beep to off it does this very high-pitched clicking, like the speaker is being turned on and off quickly.

It hurts my ears.

I finally upgraded to 9.10 on Ubuntu. The "latest" version of the version before had started crashing, both at home and at work, with a variety of applications. I put up with it until a simulation I absolutely need started crashing, and now I've had enough.

The simulation works smoothly now. I'll update on other things as they happen.

by Vancouverite Nicole Dextras, at Walking Turcot Yards.

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Because I needed a happy thought.

Anyone want some free convict cichlids? I have a breeding pair and about 20 babies that are now about a little over a half inch long.

You know what would be delicious right now? DONUTS.

Tulips are aliens. They wander all over the vases according to where the light is. It is pretty hilarious to wander in a room and have the tulips sticking in different directions from the last time you were in that room.

Someone I knew and loved very much at one time in my life, an old high school friend, killed herself May 21st of this year. I just found out today as R1 and I cleaned the tanks (really he cleaned, I helped where I could). Apparently, her parents disowned her for daring to live with her boyfriend and, as things do with boyfriends, things went south and she had no one to help her. The fact that she was valedictorian, or that she got her Masters, I guess meant nothing to them. She did so much, even though she struggled with bipolar disorder throughout her life. I want to slap her parents.

I will not cry, because it has been so long since I spent days with sunshine and laughter near her. I am sad because I will never get one of those moments back. I do know that it is an awful waste of such a promising, brilliant, gentle soul.

The world lost someone beautiful.

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I wonder how regular planets are, as my world is so full of people so alive and filled with creativity and curiosity, but they also have the curse of depression and suicide. I like to think my world is filled with more people who are alive, but I think we all feel things more intensely.

So we've been married 5 months as of today. It is a happy thought. I'm still glad we are married.

My head is full of goo still, although the flu is gone. It appears it made me a present-a sinus infection or an ear infection. The world is dizzy and spinning, but more in the "my head is full of goo" way than the "I'm sick and feverish" way.

I called the doctor. Hopefully he bypasses the visit and just sends me happy antibiotics. For the record, I hate antibiotics. They tear my intestines into gooey little pieces and make me unable to digest food, so I've got to be pretty unhappy to call a doctor.

And yes, I'm at work anyway. Yes, I drove. It is only a little over a mile to get here-I could concentrate for that long. I can work while dizzy-just not spin, dance, jump, climb, or operate heavy machinery. =P

I joined the community unsentletters last week, and unjoined them today.

It seemed romantic, and a quarter of the letters are romantic hopes and dreams.

The rest though are rants, and I don't need those in my daily readings.

(taken by Justin Dodd)

Got a flu (no idea which-if I'm still ill in three days, hello doctor). Stay away from me, yo.

Who the hell ever knew toenails could hurt?

J is wonderful-he took my temperature this morning (orally) and cuddled me.

Tonight went far better than the past ones. I am very pleased.