Azulkan2's Junk

Still kicking

2026-02-06T23:37:56Z

I haven’t been here in quite a while. When I looked it said my journal had been deleted. I can’t remember if I did that or if LJ did because it’s been so long.
I did read that someone thought LJ was going away. I hope not as I haven’t figured out how to save all the stories from hp/ss fic works. Guess I should do that just in case.
If any of my friends are still around…Hi.

Feeling my age

2022-08-14T13:34:03Z

I got an email today from LJ saying congratulations on being with them for 18 years. God does that make me feel old!
I haven’t ever really written much here but have read tons. So thank you to all you creative people for the great stories and art I’ve viewed over the years. May you all have wonderful days in the years ahead.

Time fly’s

2021-04-19T02:58:51Z

It’s amazing that it’s already the middle of April. Since my last post I am now able to actually read LJ with no problem.
The past winter sucked. Our temps were all over the place and for about a month it was in the deep freeze. Daytime highs in negative numbers. Got an email from the gas company that natural gas prices will be taking a big jump because the whole state of Nebraska suffered with the cold. Did have, thankfully only one day for about an hour, where the power was shut off cause power company was being overwhelmed. Glad spring is trying to get here. Was 65 tod but the next week is cold again.
Decided to get the Covid shots. Got second one last week. No problems other than a bit of a sore arm last week.

My allergies are really bad this year so far. Had to switch to a different med as my old reliable wasn’t working anymore. So far new med is working great.
Not much else going on. Waiting for it to warm up enough to put my house plants back outside.

iPad update

2020-09-17T17:02:23Z

Sigh, wonder if I will still be able to access LJ once the iPad OS has updated. Will just have to wait and see.

Not much else happening around here other than fall creeping up on us. Need to think about getting the house plants in. Need to get some insecticide...hate spiders and they are all full of webs. Oh well, give the cats some extra protein...ugh.

Later,

Wonders will never cease

2020-09-06T15:30:42Z

Can’t believe it...evidently the lates update to something has let me load LJ on my iPad. At least I can get caught up on things.
Going to have to see if I can write offline and update now.
Hope everyone has stayed safe.

Later

Time

2020-08-07T17:38:44Z

Holy crap, it's been over 2 years since I posted anything here. Haven't spent much time on LJ as it won't load on my iPad and I don't very often get on the desktop any more.

This past July has sucked. Had to put both of my pups to sleep. One had cancer and the other one diabetes and congestive heart failure. Now all I have are the 2 cats and they are 10-11 years old themselves. The dog with cancer was mama to them so they are kind of lost. They either smother me or hide. Been thinking about another dog but haven't decided anything yet. Will just have to see how it goes.

Did see a post about LJ mobile being updated. Will need to check it out.

Take care all

downloading LJ fic's

2018-01-29T17:54:48Z

Can anyone tell me if there is an easier way other than copy and pasting stories from LJ? I'd like to download a lot of the challenges, exchanges and what not. Or if it is even allowed. Thanks.

azulkan2 @ 2017-08-03T22:39:00

2017-08-04T03:40:07Z

Posted my last post using the new version of the post editor. Sorry didn't really like it.

azulkan2 @ 2017-08-03T22:36:00

2017-08-04T03:37:38Z

Someone from Potterplace yahoo group posted that Robert Hardy passed away. He played Cornelius Fudge in the HP movies. I remember him more fondly as Sigfried Farnen from All Creatures Great and Small. Great actor regardless. He will be missed.

azulkan2 @ 2016-12-28T10:22:00

2016-12-28T16:23:37Z

Well I'll be really glad when 2016 is over. Been a sucky year all the way around. I've been having a hard time the last couple of months...I think last year at this time I was so out of it that mom's passing wasn't something I could deal with so I evidently didn't. This year since about the end of September I've been dreaming about her. Now lately I keep thinking I need to call her and tell her whats going on...and then I realize I can't.
Hopefully this coming year will be better. I'm going to New Mexico in March to see my older brother and then to Europe in July. Really looking forward to that. It's one of the reasons I've gone back to a basic account as I need to save up for this trip.
Here's hoping everyone had a great holiday and will have a super new year.

blonde senior moment

2016-10-27T04:47:27Z

I evidently had a blonde senior moment and signed up for Dreamwidth again. My name there is benjj1950. So if you have an account over there friend me. I probably won't write much but you never know.

Time

2016-09-19T21:55:45Z

Can't believe it is almost the end of September already. I'll soon be another year older, no wiser though. It will soon be a year that mom passed away. Some days it doesn't seem to bother me and others just suck. Couple of weeks ago I was taking a quick nap before I went to work. I woke up with a start thinking damn I haven't been to see mom, I need to go. Then I remembered.
I think I need to change my antidepressants. I don't think these are working.

azulkan2 @ 2016-03-10T17:23:00

2016-03-10T23:24:22Z

Not sure why but this is how I feel today. Guess I need to go take an extra xanax, sigh.

mom

2016-02-18T00:02:06Z

Thinking about my mom today. Last night my nephew and his wife had a baby. Mom would have been overjoyed to meet Isabella. I don't know when I will get down to their place to meet her. Will just have to see how it goes.
Going to California, leaving on the 26th and coming back on the 29th. My uncle passed away in January but there was no funeral, so didn't go out then. A week after he passed my aunt fell and broke her hip. So decided I'd better get out there to see her before she decides it's time to go. My last aunt. She was mom's younger sister.
I just hope she knows who I am when I get there. I don't think she has Alzheimer's but definitely dementia.
Not much else. Looking forward to spring. Warming up but very sloppy. My back yard is a swamp. Had to find some boards to lay down over the puddles.
Hope everyone has a good week.

vpn

2016-01-31T19:45:57Z

I just downloaded a VPN called SurfEasy. Does anyone have any experience with it? Or even whether or not a VPN is even necessary. Any comments, advise etc would be appreciated. Thanks I've also downloaded it to my phone and my kindle. Will do the laptop later.

More passing

2016-01-31T04:58:10Z

A lady that came into the convienience store I work at passed away yesterday. She was only in her late 40's. They are doing an autopsy as they aren't sure why she died.
Then I get an email from my cousin. Her dad passed away on the 21st. Now my aunt fell on Thursday and broke her hip. She is having surgery tomorrow. I want to get out to visit but will wait now until she is home and doing better.
Haven't looked at the latest forecast. Not really looking forward to more snow. Or rather it's not the snow but the wind that will cause problems. Oh well it is January/almost February. Anything can happen here.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.

passing

2016-01-24T17:10:49Z

My uncle passed away this past Thursday. There isn't going to be a funeral. I need to go to California though and see my aunt. Waiting a bit till things settle down before going. He passed away on my older brother's birthday. He, my brother that is, is doing better. Hopefully the experimental trial drugs he is taking are working. Need to go and see him as well.
Thinking of everyone on the east coast. Really glad I don't live out there any more. It's bad enough normally let a lone when buried in mounds of snow.
Work Christmas party tonight. Should be fun.
Have a great week.

quote

2016-01-19T03:25:26Z

This is the quote that the one I just posted was taken from:
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a Ride!"
Hunter S Thompson

passings

2016-01-19T03:20:31Z

Another celeb passing. Glen Frey. Bad start to the year. Makes me kind of nervous as I'm not much younger than them. Sigh, my motto in high school and college was live fast, love hard and die young. Now I'm hoping I haven't killed myself with my self destructive lifestyle in my youth. But then that's life...no one gets out alive. One of my favorite quotes: "Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!" (Unknown) Cause I sure as hell was living that way up until about 20 years ago.

Freezing cold yesterday and today. Now calling for more snow. I'm ready for spring.

worried

2016-01-16T20:49:57Z

Got an email from my cousin. Her dad is in the hospital and not doing good. Pneumonia and blood clots in both lungs and on a ventilator. I know he is younger than mom so he must be 85 or 86. He has a sister still living here in Nebraska. Was checking airline prices if I have to fly to California and now that I am officially old the cost won't be to bad. Hoping and praying that he makes it though. I'd rather drive out there this summer than have to go now and not be able to stay very long. Well just have to wait and see.
Then when I texted my older brother he isn't doing to good either. He has cancer and is in an experimental trial and now appears to have internal bleeding. Said he has to get scoped on his birthday next week. Praying for him as well. Have a feeling next couple of months probably won't be so good. Will just have to wait and see.

LOL

2016-01-10T20:48:14Z

Not a week ago I changed to the new version of LJ and said I hated it. Found a way to go back to the old but have decided I like the new so switched again. I changed the look as well. Like the hot springs pictures. Reminds me when I took mom to Yellowstone and on the way we stopped in Thermopolis, Wyoming. The state ran a hot spring That was free. We spent a couple of days there enjoying the hot springs a lot. Need to go back.

realize

2016-01-10T20:38:18Z

After I realized I've been on LJ for so long I took the plunge and got a paid account. Doesn't appear as if I'm going any where soon so why not. Off to look at paid site designs.

time

2016-01-10T20:23:05Z

I just realized I've had this journal since January of 2004. Where in the heck has the time gone. Boggles the mind. I've been using computers since the early 90's. My first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy that didn't even have a hard drive only the big ole 5+ inch floppies. My first hard drive was 50 megabites and the salesman said it would last forever...in 6 months I was upgrading to a new bigger one. I was told the Tandy couldn't be upgraded but I found a place in a computer mag that I bought all kinds of upgrades for it and did it all myself. Even got into BB's. Can't remember the name of the one that was most popular but I did learn DOS. When I first started using Windows I hated it. I said it was like running a race with a 20 lb weight tied to my waist. For some reason I just stuck with IBM type computers, could never get into Apple. Don't do much myself any more. Like working on cars, just to complicated. One regret I do have is never learning programing. Guess I could still pick a class on it. What is even the most popular language any more?
Sheesh this is making me feel my age. Don't even want to think about that. Oh well if you aren't getting older, you are dead so I guess I'll keep getting older.
Have to go to work at 5. Hate the thought of going out, temp in the teens but at least the sun is shining. Have a great finish to your weekend.

Woo hoo

2016-01-09T01:32:14Z

Found where I could go back to the old style LJ. Guess I'm to old to adapt to the new look.
Well gotta go. Dog wants out.
Later,

cold, cold cold

2016-01-09T00:13:27Z

I don't even want to think about the weather. It snowed about 3 inches last night but the big problem is going to be the temps. It's supposed to get down to -13 tomorrow night and I don't think that includes the wind chill. Can't really complain cause so far the winter hasn't been that bad. I know the pups aren't going to like going out. Well they will just have to do their duty quick.
I have to work tomorrow as well but in the afternoon so should be home around dark and before it gets to bad.
Have a busy week coming up. Work the weekend, Monday taking one dog to the vet and then working again in the afternoon. Tuesday we finally have closing on my mother's house. Glad that will alll be done. After that i have to work again. Then off Wed but I think I have to work Thursday, woohoo just checked and have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off again. Hope the weather straightens out as I want to go gambling Thursday. will see.
Have a great day.