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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
I'm trying to self-file my taxes and I've hit a segment I don't think they had last year that's stopped me dead. I can't get it to make sense as to what information from where they want me to enter. I think I don't have to do the lump sum payment section because I didn't get one but I'm not sure, so I'll be traveling to a RL site to try to get some free help since the person who answered my call for help through taxslayer.com wasn't very helpful for me. I don't know if it's their fault, my fault, or both our faults, but....
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I uploaded these photos to include on a comment to someone, but since I put them up I figured I'd share them with you guys.
I was born in 1973, and looking at old photos of my childhood shows that I was dressed in... some things. In the ones below, my parents seem to have been aiming for a "literal embodiment of the 1970s" vibe. ( photos )
(I do get such a big smile at the last photo though.)
Continuing the "very 70s" thing, I remember my childhood clothes in that decade being either very girly or rather butch, which went along with how my toys were dolls, plushes, trucks, cars, and action figures. Also in my childhood wardrobe were some clothes my mother made for me off Simplicity patterns: I remember in particular a dark blue jumpsuit that had several patches sewn to the knees since even then I fell a lot and a Holly Hobbie sundress and a Raggedy Ann one.
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I uploaded these photos to include on a comment to someone, but since I put them up I figured I'd share them with you guys.
I was born in 1973, and looking at old photos of my childhood shows that I was dressed in... some things. In the ones below, my parents seem to have been aiming for a "literal embodiment of the 1970s" vibe. ( photos )
(I do get such a big smile at the last photo though.)
Continuing the "very 70s" thing, I remember my childhood clothes in that decade being either very girly or rather butch, which went along with how my toys were dolls, plushes, trucks, cars, and action figures. Also in my childhood wardrobe were some clothes my mother made for me off Simplicity patterns: I remember in particular a dark blue jumpsuit that had several patches sewn to the knees since even then I fell a lot and a Holly Hobbie sundress and a Raggedy Ann one.
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Liu Chang character week!
Daily prompts for fanworks running from 9th- 15th April!
"It's THAT time of the year again. Liu Chang Mufasa's birthday is coming up and we in the DMBJ community would like to celebrate his birthday by thanking him with original works dedicated to the 5 amazing characters he's been portraying so far:
1) Wang Can - Tomb of the Sea
2) Liu Sang - Reunion: The Sound of Providence
3) Yan Sanxing - pre-M9 movie
4) Liu Qianmo - Reunion Extra focused on Liu Sang's and Wang Meng's ancestors
5) Jiang Wu - Reunion Extra: Echoes of Moonfall
Prompts (provided by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
justawanderingbabbit this year <3)
Day 1: Merchant, Accurate, Provoke
Day 2: Traffic, Anxiety, Complex
Day 3: Money, Danger, Star
Day 4: Killer, Disorder, Decrease
Day 5: Relax, Orbit, Scale
Day 6: Island, Rescue, Agony
Day 7: Free day
But the collection is open NOW and will stay open, so you can submit whenever you are done:
Collection:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/LCweek_DMBJ2026
Media type:
Any. Fic, pic, music video, Podfic, any sort of craftmanship like photos of a plushy, figure etc you made is game. (No sales posts)"
on Tumblr
DMBJ Small-Medium Ships Exchange
Currently in the tag nominating stage, this is an exchange for all ships that are NOT Heihua nor Pingxie, and also not rare. Examples are Wang Pangzi/Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie/Xie Yuchen, or Huo Xiu Xiu/Hei Xiazi/Xie Yuchen. The full list can be found on AO3.
Schedule (preliminary)
May 3: Signups close
May 10: Assignments out
June 28: Assignments due
July 5: Works and Creator reveals & Treats deadline
Daily prompts for fanworks running from 9th- 15th April!
"It's THAT time of the year again. Liu Chang Mufasa's birthday is coming up and we in the DMBJ community would like to celebrate his birthday by thanking him with original works dedicated to the 5 amazing characters he's been portraying so far:
1) Wang Can - Tomb of the Sea
2) Liu Sang - Reunion: The Sound of Providence
3) Yan Sanxing - pre-M9 movie
4) Liu Qianmo - Reunion Extra focused on Liu Sang's and Wang Meng's ancestors
5) Jiang Wu - Reunion Extra: Echoes of Moonfall
Prompts (provided by
Day 1: Merchant, Accurate, Provoke
Day 2: Traffic, Anxiety, Complex
Day 3: Money, Danger, Star
Day 4: Killer, Disorder, Decrease
Day 5: Relax, Orbit, Scale
Day 6: Island, Rescue, Agony
Day 7: Free day
But the collection is open NOW and will stay open, so you can submit whenever you are done:
Collection:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/LCweek_DMBJ2026
Media type:
Any. Fic, pic, music video, Podfic, any sort of craftmanship like photos of a plushy, figure etc you made is game. (No sales posts)"
on Tumblr
DMBJ Small-Medium Ships Exchange
Currently in the tag nominating stage, this is an exchange for all ships that are NOT Heihua nor Pingxie, and also not rare. Examples are Wang Pangzi/Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie/Xie Yuchen, or Huo Xiu Xiu/Hei Xiazi/Xie Yuchen. The full list can be found on AO3.
Schedule (preliminary)
May 3: Signups close
May 10: Assignments out
June 28: Assignments due
July 5: Works and Creator reveals & Treats deadline
Today is my Birthday! It is probably going be a quiet one this year, because we just moved and I don't feel like doing much. In fact I can't quite believe it's already April, but I'm grateful to experience another round around the sun.
(Also, side note, I know a couple of you have my old address to send physical mail, if you'd like my new address please DM me, thanks.)
(Also, side note, I know a couple of you have my old address to send physical mail, if you'd like my new address please DM me, thanks.)
This image of mine was put into Flickr Explore, explaining why it has so many more hits, faves, and comments on it than my usual. I still have no idea how Flickr decides that. The funny thing is that I have a very practical reason for shooting this monument this way: her nose has taken some damage over the years, and this angle disguises it.
I have some more recent St. John Cemetery photos up at my Flickr.
But here's a mystery: ( photos )
What happened here? What could have been rubbing at this door like this?
We've been without TV since the move (we finally got the TVs hooked up to satellite late today), but I did get our DVD players hooked up, so last night we watched Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, my brother had it on DVD, and surprisingly I enjoyed it. I had avoided it years ago because I had heard it was really bad, and I will admit that it is not as good as the original trilogy, but it wasn't terrible either. I would say its an entertaining mid-level action flick, it just comes after a really well regarded and well loved trilogy so it just can't compare. Anyways, I enjoyed the introduction of Blackbeard, who is a real bastard in this one. The characters of Jack and Barbossa always play well off each other with their frenemies dynamic. I thought how they did the "fountain of youth" concept was neat. I also didn't mind the Missionary/Mermaid subplot. One of the drawbacks of the the film was the forced romance between Jack and Penélope Cruz's character. Jack admits to having corrupted her, but I think it would have been more interesting if she had been a former friend or maybe someone he tricked into becoming part of his crew instead of a former lover. There is also stuff Jack does that he should never have survived or are never fully explained, but you just go with it because it's Jack. Anyways, I'm not sure this is a glowing endorsement or anything, but I just wanted to share because sometimes the stuff you hear is so awful maybe isn't as unwatchable as they make out.
My intrusive impulse moments continue to be worse than usual. I hoped they'd end when my current period did, since that's a possibility, but no. (I'm ten times more likely to spend a long time parking my car--it's not straight enough! it's not close enough to the curb! it's still not straight enough!--while on my period.) I'm still getting "The spaces in that sewer grate are large enough to drop your phone through. Do that!" or "Jump off that!" I don't do it but having to keep getting and refusing this crap sucks.
