Water Day

Not a good night's sleep. Though it actually began with a straight four-hours sleep, which is the only reason why I'm alive to tell the tale. I wanted to take fuller advantage of our watering hours today, recalling that they end at eight o'clock. So, when I first broke my sleep and saw that it was four, I got up and started the sprinkler in the front yard. And I may have dozed off now and again, but I never really did sleep since then.

What's worse, even with this extra effort, this extra watering is not going to do hardly a thing for the lawn. These centigrade, bone-dry days are too much. The lawn probably needs a couple of good waterings a week to be healthy and green. As it is, we are barely keeping the front lawn alive. The back is largely a dead no-man's zone, though I am doing what I can to keep the trees up.

Water Day

Not a good night's sleep. Though it actually began with a straight four-hours sleep, which is the only reason why I'm alive to tell the tale. I wanted to take fuller advantage of our watering hours today, recalling that they end at eight o'clock. So, when I first broke my sleep and saw that it was four, I got up and started the sprinkler in the front yard. And I may have dozed off now and again, but I never really did sleep since then.

What's worse, even with this extra effort, this extra watering is not going to do hardly a thing for the lawn. These centigrade, bone-dry days are too much. The lawn probably needs a couple of good waterings a week to be healthy and green. As it is, we are barely keeping the front lawn alive. The back is largely a dead no-man's zone, though I am doing what I can to keep the trees up.

LiveJournal Election

LiveJournal has been here for ten years and some of its users nearly that long. What LJ does well has never been duplicated -- it's community driven, it's content driven. It's users are content producers. LJ is unique in social networking sites in that it has become a valuable repository for people's memories -- it truly has taken the place of a paper journal and many people have forsaken their handwritten diaries for an LJ which has many additional benefits but one serious drawback -- the threat of impermanence. While many people probably wouldn't consider trying to archive their Facebook status updates, many of us look to our LiveJournal's as an official personal history -- a document that needs to be preserved for future reference and grows in value each day.

-- Kyle Cassidy

This is taken from Mr. Cassidy's nomination proposal in his bid to win election to LJ's Advisory Board. I finally read through the proposals and was rather won over by this sentiment. I was also reading through the candidates' personal journals, and I gather some people feel that Cassidy is practically a lock for the election, since he is a collaborator and pal of Neil Gaiman, and Gaiman has thrown his weight behind him. Maybe. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether Cassidy may be too pure of heart and may throw his weight behind efforts to push out the more pornish aspects of LJ, especially the dark and fetishistic stuff, as if the puritanism weren't bad enough. Ah, my lovely Blossom!

LiveJournal Election

LiveJournal has been here for ten years and some of its users nearly that long. What LJ does well has never been duplicated -- it's community driven, it's content driven. It's users are content producers. LJ is unique in social networking sites in that it has become a valuable repository for people's memories -- it truly has taken the place of a paper journal and many people have forsaken their handwritten diaries for an LJ which has many additional benefits but one serious drawback -- the threat of impermanence. While many people probably wouldn't consider trying to archive their Facebook status updates, many of us look to our LiveJournal's as an official personal history -- a document that needs to be preserved for future reference and grows in value each day.

-- Kyle Cassidy

This is taken from Mr. Cassidy's nomination proposal in his bid to win election to LJ's Advisory Board. I finally read through the proposals and was rather won over by this sentiment. I was also reading through the candidates' personal journals, and I gather some people feel that Cassidy is practically a lock for the election, since he is a collaborator and pal of Neil Gaiman, and Gaiman has thrown his weight behind him. Maybe. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether Cassidy may be too pure of heart and may throw his weight behind efforts to push out the more pornish aspects of LJ, especially the dark and fetishistic stuff, as if the puritanism weren't bad enough. Ah, my lovely Blossom!