purplerabbits

I'm going to try to stay off LJ today (ha!) because:

1. I don't want to hear bad news from the US.
   
2. I want to get my work done because things are insane at work and it's causing me stress-on-a-stick.
   
3. When I get home I want to do more packing, organise getting this damn bed picked up, which is looking difficult and complicated, and attempt to relax.
   
4. I also want to spend less time in front of the computer, because my back hurts all the time now.
   
5. I will not be watching the news: I do not want to know.
   

I do get my comments in email, though, so nice reassuring remarks that are not about the US will be very welcome...

Just so that you know, Since I am not going to BiCon for the first time in 14 years I've unsubscribed from all the BiCon communities and won't be reading BiCon related cut-tags. I think it will be very good for me to have a year off and I don't resent you all going on about it, but if there's something you want me to see, don't hide it with BiCon stuff or I may not read it.

I feel depressed by the clique meme, and by the number of people on my flist that I don't know even a bit, so I'm having a bit of a tidy up, and I can't kid myself that I can just use a default view, because I have zero willpower. So my criteria go something like: do I know you? Am I likely to see you in the foreseeable future? Have you made sensible comments on my friends only entries or shown an interest in the stuff I put there? Do I like you? Please note that liking is only one of many reasons for keeping someone, you're welcome to let me know if you'd like to be added back, no gibbons were harmed in the making of this post, yadda yadda.

Maybe I'll get more work done at work now...

Yes, and now I'm posting by mail from my Treo while sitting in front of my computer at home. Does something strike you as wrong about this picture? (And yes, it is sunny outside)

Posted on the Treo with GPRS. Very silly...

Yet another icon. Yes, I am so sad that I cracked and made a dolly. I'm only 36, too...

Cool! Thank you pavlos! Now I can have even more pictures of me...

Today I shall mostly be in meetings :-(

I just noticed that it's possible to mark some of your friends groups public, so now if you go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/purplerabbits/friends/individuals you can see all of my friends except communities and Jake the Rake even if you're not logged in as me. I don't know how much I'll use it, but it could be handy for people with a lot of communities in their friends list...

I'm now a bit happier with my journal colours, so all I have to do is wait till I get home and see what they look like under Windows. It now looks a bit like my bedroom, which is fine by me, but not to everyone's taste. And I even managed to do some useful work-type work...

Has anyone else noticed that the Web client now says, "Spell-check entry before posting (checker only supports US English)". Rar for some awareness that other languages exist! Sadly LJ has failed to provide a lot of entertainment today - are people all off doing actual work, or what?

I worked out that it costs me £9 a month to watch crap TV, and that's in a shared house. I don't know that it's worth it, but then, we're stuck with Telewest for a bit, and then Buffy comes back...

Bugger. My LJ now looks totally shite. That's what you get for dicking around with colours when you should be working and don't have enough neurons free to devote to the problem.

If anyone has any nice darkish or purplish colour schemes they'd like to share with me I'd be delighted - otherwise this may take some time. And hey, if you want to share your favourite overides while you're at it, do. I still don't understand any of this.