In winter I get up at night

[sovay]

It is barely even thinking about dawn outside: the sky is a kind of drowned jewel-blue through the trees. Tomorrow will be the solstice.

I do not understand what the hell misguided upgrades Livejournal has decided to inflict on my comments pages—although it renders individual posts of mine essentially unreadable, which will not switch me to Dreamwidth, it will take me out of online interaction entirely if someone doesn't fix it—but I'll have to deal with it when I get back. I'll be out of internet ambit for most of the day: I am meeting rushthatspeaks in New York City in the early afternoon, after which we hope to interface with handful_ofdust in time for tonight's reading at KGB Bar. There's no point in bringing my computer on a day trip, so I'll be carrying a computer bag full of books. What else is technology for?

(My current music is no longer visible on my main journal! Seriously, what does that serve?)

Finish tea, catch a bus. Happy Hanukkah!

Comments

[zdenka]

Happy Hanukkah!

(Disliking the comment changes so very much.)

[sovay]

(Disliking the comment changes so very much.)

Apparently fixing them is going to require me to upgrade my journal to the new style, which I have successfully avoided since 2005 because I like this look. Sigh.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

What the shite is this shite?

Hate. Haaaaate.

Much like that you are going to NY, though. I will put out a bowl of mangoes for the gods so that the Fung Wah Bus lets you and yours arrive home intact.

[sovay]

I will put out a bowl of mangoes for the gods so that the Fung Wah Bus lets you and yours arrive home intact.

The gods like your mangos. We are home safe and sound and only two hours later than planned because of weather. And it was fun.

(Not so much LJ.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Good thing you put out those mangoes. Those buses play fast and loose with the fates.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what LJ thinks they're doing. In addition to everything else, the search function on the icon screen doesn't seem to work correctly.

Have a wonderful time at the reading! If you have energy to burn afterwards I know there there's a channukah party where you'd be welcome and probably know at least some of the guests.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Wow. After carefully picking the icon I wanted, LJ rejected it and substituted my default. Totally borked.

[sovay]

Have a wonderful time at the reading! If you have energy to burn afterwards I know there there's a channukah party where you'd be welcome and probably know at least some of the guests.

We had to leave instantly in order to catch our bus back to Boston (and we still got in, thanks to the weather, dementedly late), but next year in New York!

Thank you!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm looking forward to seeing you at Arisia.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

...OK, yeah, this comment page is weird. *I* may switch to DW.

Anyway: Wow, only recorded occasion when you got up before I! Happy Hanukkah and Solstice, and good luck.

[sovay]

Anyway: Wow, only recorded occasion when you got up before I! Happy Hanukkah and Solstice, and good luck.

All the nights when I never get to sleep don't count, huh?

Thank you! It was good.

[rosefox]

The comment page is completely fucked. I recommend using Firefox, installing LiveJournal Addons, and selecting "view all pages in my style". Then (if you haven't already) pick a journal style that still has the old-fashioned comments.

Or switch to Dreamwidth.

Also meant to say: I will not be at KGB tonight, alas, because of Chanukifying with friends in Brooklyn. Sorry to miss seeing you!

[sovay]

I recommend using Firefox, installing LiveJournal Addons, and selecting "view all pages in my style". Then (if you haven't already) pick a journal style that still has the old-fashioned comments.

Is this a functional workaround in Safari? I use Firefox, but I use it for other accounts.

Or switch to Dreamwidth.

I would truly prefer not to; I think I have maxed out the limit of my investment in social media. But I have been offered invite codes.

Also meant to say: I will not be at KGB tonight, alas, because of Chanukifying with friends in Brooklyn. Sorry to miss seeing you!

We had to run at the halfway point as it was. (Gemma was good, though.) Happy Hanukkah!

[rosefox]

I have no idea whether that add-on would work in Safari. Another option is to go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=display and select "View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style". If you use a journal style that has old-fashioned useful comment styling, now everyone else's page will look like that too! Just remember that other people may not see the information you put e.g. in the subject line.

[sovay]

"View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style". If you use a journal style that has old-fashioned useful comment styling, now everyone else's page will look like that too!

Except that my journal style is part of the problem: it's not that my friendlist looks weird to me, it's my own pages that are now unreadable. I could try experimenting with styles in the morning and seeing what I can do, but I really liked this one . . .

Thank you, though!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Happy Solstice and Hanukkah!

Give my love to Rush.

Nine

[sovay]

Happy Solstice and Hanukkah!

Likewise!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Happy Hanukkah! Safe travels, and I hope you have a lovely, lovely time in NYC. That reading sounds brilliant--if I lived in the city, I'd definitely be going.

I don't like this new comment page thing, either. I hope it doesn't drive you from online interaction, cos I'd miss your posts rather a lot. I've got an account on DW, but amn't much good at keeping up with both, and most of my friends are still here on LJ so I've stayed here.

Finish tea...

At first I thought you'd written "Finnish tea", and I was going to ask what was in Finnish tea and if it was easily found in your part of the world.

[sovay]

At first I thought you'd written "Finnish tea", and I was going to ask what was in Finnish tea and if it was easily found in your part of the world.

I have no idea what's in Finnish tea. Lingonberries? Somebody on my friendlist must know.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's in Finnish tea. Lingonberries?

I googled "Finnish tea", and turned up on the one hand, a recipe (such as it was) for tea with sugar and Koskenkorva vodka and, on the other hand, a blog post about Nordqvist Uskollinen Ystävä (Faithful Friend), which is, alas*, black tea with peach, orange, and pineapple.

A pity, really--I was rather hoping to discover a fascinating blend with smoked pine needles and juniper twigs, or something like that.

I've seen tea with lingonberries in Newfoundland, where they call them partridgeberries.** And, to get a little closer to Finland, in Stockholm they make a wonderful tea called Söderblandning, which has marigolds and other things. I find myself wishing it were non-caffeinated, because I'd be curious to hear what you would think of it.

*For the sake of your drinking it, I mean. The caffeine wouldn't be a problem for me, although it sounds a bit over-sweet for my tastes.
**A lot of Scandinavian berries seem too grow there--cloudberries are called bakeapples.

[gwynnega]

Happy Hanukkah!

(And gah, what the heck is LJ doing???)

[sovay]

(And gah, what the heck is LJ doing???)

I have been answering these comments from last night. The new interface is slower. I do not see the benefit.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this seems to be screwed. Usually when I check out LJ on this phone, it's quite readable. Now everything's in letters an inch high - gah!

Happy Hanukah to you too.

I would miss this journal.

- Ash

[sovay]

I would miss this journal.

Thank you. I'm honestly not sure what to do: there seem to be workarounds, but only if I alter the journal's basic style. I don't know what the management is hoping to drive its user base toward: it only seems to be driving them away.

[sovay]

I can't even figure out how to fix it, because when I look at the new style for longer than about five minutes, I start getting a headache, which will lead to a migraine. I don't believe this.

I'm not sure there is a fix. There may be adaptations which make it less awful. I do not see the point.

[eredien]

Have a fantastic time in New York at the reading!

[sovay]

Have a fantastic time in New York at the reading!

Thank you! It was great.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Hope the reading went well.

- Ash

[sovay]

Hope the reading went well.

You can ask handful_ofdust, but I thought she was very good.

[sovay]

Yeah, I actually was able to switch from Basic to Plus (grrr) and therefore have custom comment pages on my own LJ, and when I'm viewing my flist I can comment on peoples' pages in my own style, but if I go to another LJ if that blog has the default comment design, I'm fucked again.

Well, I upgraded to S2 because otherwise it was going to be illegible: and now the comments pages look in the same style as my journal and it's still weird. Any pointers?

(At least I have a drop-down roster of icons again.)

[sovay]

Tick both of those, and it may be a little disorienting to see suddenly everyone on LJ has your style, but at least it cuts off that awful new comment page design.

Thank you. It's a bit disorienting—I truly preferred the old bland-blue simplicity—but I really do want to read what people can say.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Glad the journal seems to be back to normal. It's nice that I know some of these icons (now) without pestering you (Quizzical Morell? Wow).

Also, thanks for the wee bit of advice re: Street of Oracles. It's shaping up to be somewhat bleaker than I thought, to the extent that I've promised a friend that I will produce a story with a happy ending soon.

Hope you had a good Hannukah?

Ash

[sovay]

It's nice that I know some of these icons (now) without pestering you (Quizzical Morell? Wow).

Oh, hell, it labels them? What on earth? I need to fix this style.

(I will fill you in about Morell.)

Hope you had a good Hannukah?

My grandfather just died. It's kind of put the kibosh on the holiday.