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Party pooper LJ!
Well, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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That sounds really useful! Yay for cupboard space! We don't have anything
like that here, though we do have a car so it's easier to take stuff to
the tip ourselves.
My cheery topic -- the new (reconditioned) laptop successfully records
audio files without glitches! I might be able to do some podficcing
without hanging my head in shame. At least when my cold alleviates.
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And yay, this was the hundredth reply! I claim a slice of cake :)
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Good for you! I once did a few podfics, back in the Stone Age when I
recorded some of my Hungarian Trekfic with the help of an old and
battered tape recorder. It wasn't a big success. *g*
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I think it's easy to forget how much the technology has improved over the
time I've been in fandom.
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I see it at school every day, too. What happened to blackboard and chalk?
Okay, we still use those, too, but with virtual blackboards and
whiteboards and everything on CD and stuff... I feel hopelessly outdated
sometimes.
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I'm pretty technophobic. I often think I'd like to stick with the
technology available when I was a student (e-mail without spam,
mainframes, command line interface), but I suspect the lack of home
computers and so on would drive me wild. I'm a very slow adopter though.
I hate mobiles and only carry mine when I really have to, and don't
possess any kind of e-reader.
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For a very long time I thought that mobiles were spawned by Sauron. Then
Mum had to go to the hospital, and I ran to buy one, because that was her
link to the rest of the world for 5 weeks, and I was so grateful for the
frigging thing it isn't even funny.
Now, three years later, we both still have a basic Nokia, all that which
can do are actual phone calls - okay, they can send text messages and
take photographs, too, but we hardly ever use them for that - and we only
switch them on when we're out of the house, just in case.
People tend to whine about my mobile being off when I'm at home, and I
then answer innocently: Well, you can always try the landlnie... *g*
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My hearing is so odd & my voice so quiet, I'm still with the Spawn of
Sauron camp. But indeed, they are good for emergencies, when internet &
landlines are out of reach. Actually I have a 'new' mobile (one of my
brother's) but I've not used it yet.
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Yay for the computer working! Good luck with the podfic! :)
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Thank you! Now I just need to get rid of this frog in my throat. Cake is
efficacious against colds, I hear :)
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Hot Ribena! We keep a bottle for emergencies up on a high shelf.