So, I want to get a spread of opinions from people still reading their friends pages (hi!) about some things, because I can get into a bubble on topics like this and not really understand what people might actually feel about topics, but am really curious about reactions. So, without further ado:

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I also welcome free form comments! Thanks! Feel free to spread this poll around, the more data the better.

(Context for the curious)

So, DON'T open any email from me you have received between 12-1AM. One of my email accounts was disabled immediately afterwards--literally seconds within me getting reports from people about spam emails, thank goodness, which means I don't think they have the ability to start trying to reset passwords, but it *also* means I cannot receive email currently at that account. You can use the GMail that has my name in it, or send to foxfirefey@dreamwidth.org.

I do recommend you GMail users take this opportunity to prepare yourself. Learn from my misfortune. It also makes me wish I was using a browser with NoScript for that account--oh, Firefox, that plugin helps me so much.

Woe, woe, woe is me. Hopefully I'll be able to get it back.

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At my work, in an open seating area (next to lots of floor to ceiling windows with a gorgeous view), there are currently a bunch of excess tables stashed.

Some of these tables are arranged so that there is a circle in the middle containing a chair. I find it difficult to explain just how much I want to crawl under the tables so I can sit in that chair.

I'd actually go and do my work there except:

* The only way I can get decent network access is being plugged in via Ethernet cord; wireless is available but has some inexplicable and utterly frustrating latency where it takes seconds for commands to show up via SSH. For somebody who spends most of the workday working over SSH and with Google Docs spreadsheets, it's just unworkable to have network access that slow.
* I don't think there's a power plug near this circle of wonder, and my laptop's battery is almost two years old and gives me about half an hour before whining about imminent death.

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ETA: Did you know I am a ditz? It is true! I had you setting the wrong value for the opt-out, it should be 1 and not 0!

As many of you well know, I am a filthy seditious Dreamwidth supporter (who totally supports your preference not to be). However, due to outdated ingrained habits and connections, information about LiveJournal things sometimes just ends up appearing in my brain.

Anyway, I come to you bearing a possibly helpful tidbit in the way of an opt-out you can use in the admin console:

set opt_exclude_stats 1

I tell you this because LiveJournal has implemented (another) affiliate link adding script; that is, for all the links on LiveJournal (yes, even for paid users and on their journals), the script tries to determine if the link goes to an website that has an affiliate sales program, and if so and there isn't an existing affiliate ID, the script adds one to the outgoing link through clever hijinks. The opt out (most likely unintentionally) keeps the script from being included. (You could also add http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.js and outboundlink.* to your adblocker.)

Now, there isn't any particularly pressing reason for you to opt out; if everything with the script goes right, you probably won't notice it. However, it's an unnecessary script to your LiveJournal experience and sometimes the script might not run as smoothly, or maybe your not-so-powerful computer doesn't need to compute all that extra work, or maybe the external sources it tells all the links you're hovering over and what page you are on will be laggy or you have a slow internet connection, and this could adversely affect your browsing. Or maybe you just don't want every link you hover over or click to be reported to a third party. You can't take it off of your journal for other people looking at it, but you could make it so that you don't have to load it yourself, and hopefully the opt-out will keep working.

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And I really, really need to get on the ball about arranging a get together dinner for San Francisco people with headcount and whatnot. jd knows the place but for the life of me I cannot find where it is at the moment--it's a Thai place a bit out of town.

Anyway, I'm thinking...Saturday night? Since this is such a late post about it? But if people leap and demand for Friday, I am amiable to changes!

PS: And if budget is a concern for some of you, you let me know, and I can cover you.

PPS: I've just realized it is apparently April Fool's Day? But this post isn't a part of that. I am really bad at April Fool's Day.

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Spring is in the air, a time when a girl loses her wallet (for the umpteenth time in her life) because too much spring was in her step on the way to work! I now get to experience the joys of replacing all my cards and living in an ATM-less cash or check only economy until the replacements arrive--although I have only just now realized I may be able to pay for food with check, at least at WinCo. At least I have an ORCA card for the bus in my dresser drawer. Up until now I've been eyeing my available food in house and trying to estimate how long I could live on it--not because I have no resources to get more by getting cash out of banks by going there and interacting with people in person (shudder), but just as sort of a challenge. I have soup with saltines, spaghetti with tomato sauce, freezer burned chicken and beef, some granola bars, tacquitos of dubious goodness, vanilla ice cream, bags of frozen vegetables, one frozen personal lasagna, two sweet potatos and two onions, a stale loaf of french bread, and staples like rice, olive oil, flour, lemon juice, sugar, salt, yeast, margarine, basalmic vinegar, etc.

On the other hand? I found my health insurance card behind my bookshelf this weekend. This means I'm going to try and see an eye doctor before my trip to San Francisco, and get a hold of some new contacts, and maybe get some new glasses around May. I'm also going to see a doctor at some point about my persistently hinky right wrist. I don't *think* it's carpal tunnel, as I have no symptoms of burning/tingling/itchy numbness and typing is still quite pleasant. But my wrist is stiffer than it used to be, balks and hurts slightly at normal ways of bending, and hates bearing loads.

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So, let us say my boyfriend and I were visiting San Francisco. Any suggestions on what to do and see, or the best area of town to stay to accomplish that?

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Yesterday, while making sweet potato fries, I noticed that sweet potatoes secrete white fluid when you cut them. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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