Oh, joy!

[wiseheart]

Apparently, the Safari on my iPad mini no longer can connect with the server of AO3. Meaning: I can't even reach the site. Ironically enough, I can reach insecure AO3, some sort of parallel site or whatnot - only that it won't let me log in with my AO3 username and password. So, I can read on the parallel site, but that's all about I can do.

At first I really panicked that now AO3 no longer will be available to me. Fortunately, even my geriatric laptop (twice the age of my iPad mini) can reach it, as it runs both Firefox and an ancient version of IE. So I can log in and update and everything. Still, the whole thing is mysterious. AO3 status states that older devices (like old iPhones) can't reach the site after some new, very secure... thingy they did, and granted, my iPad is about five years old, but still...

Ah, well, as long as I can reach AO3 from my PC I'm saved. It is a tad annoying, though. I know there are bigger tragedies, especially now, but it is hard to give up some of your creature comforts.

In other news, I baked the coconut lambs today (pictures coming up tomorrow), did, some translations for the (hopefully) paid job and spoke to three different people on the phone.

Oh, and we changed the beds on schedule, which brought back some normalcy into our lives in these maddening times.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Huh, that is very weird, and it sounds extremely annoying. I can't make sense of what happened there, either, 5 years really isn't that old you should think.

What a relief that it still works on your desktop, annoying as it is.

[meathiel]

Saw the recipes for the bunnies and lambs on IG. We never do any Easter cookies, though.

Phew ... good thing you can still reach AO3 via the laptop.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Easter cookies are fun! I always bake at least six different kinds - and then give away most of them as gifts, save for a sample of each for our Easter table. This time, however, I didn't see the reason to eat stale cookies for all six weeks of Easter time up to Pentecost, so I only made these two.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that I do most of my reading and all of my updating on the desktop, it's magnitudes better than the other way round. *g*

[artemis10002000]

That's true! Other way around would be awful.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

This is the very time we need sites like AO3 - I am not surprised you were panicky - hurrah for the laptop and Firefox!

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Can you recommend an Easter cookie recipe that keeps well and can be baked by a moron? Asking for a friend...

I have desiccated coconut, I mean... my friend has it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sure, let them try my coconut lambs.

Ingredients:
200 g butter or margarine
200 g icing sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 egg
300 g flour
150 g coconut flakes

For the decoration:
50 g white chocolate
50 g coconut flakes

How to do it:
- cream together butter and sugar
- stir in the egg
- add dry ingredients and knead the dough until smooth
- let it rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes

- roll out the dough 3 mm thick
- cut out the shapes
- bake them in a pre-heated oven (200°C) for 5-10 minutes
- let them cool completely

- melt the white chocolate
- paint your cookies with it
- press the cookies into the coconut flakes
- let them dry until the chocolate is solid again

And that is basically it. If your friend doesn't have a lamb-shaped cookie cutter, they could make the lambs completely round and out on two almond halves as ears and chocolate chips as eyes.

Like these, just in white, and without applying the heads separately:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/d9/41/c3d941cd2f5e095ad6452f4dac5c3351.jpg)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm truly relieved; it was a real shock.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Weird. Glad you can still find a way to get there.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So am I. Therefore I hurriedly put up two chapters of the bug story I worked on for picowrimo, just to be on the safe side.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That's why we are trying to adhere to our usual schedule of shopping on Saturday morning and doing household chores. Week five here... and no end in sight yet... I'm ready for this to be over with.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. Unfortunately, it's said that the really bad part (=mass infections) is still coming. I hope they're wrong, but I am afraid they aren't

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Especially as we need the internet more now than ever.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I suspect so. They say our two worst weeks are ahead for us here.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

That is so true, as long as we can live somewhat normally it is good. Take care of yourselves, as happy as I am to see you on the web it would be nice to meet irl. When that will happen is another story.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is frustrating. Glad you can still access from your PC. I am having problems atm with LJ, the site is loading at a crawl. Am surprised I am able to make these reply posts.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And a good thing it is that you can! I was beginning to worry about you.

[zimtkeks.livejournal.com]

Can you try another browser on the iPad? It's annoying when things no longer work.