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mercury going retro the 28th of january. that’s now, ya’ll.

i give “merc retro alerts” when we hit the roughly 3-week patches a few times a year when mercury, the messenger, goes retro. standard advice includes avoiding new projects, reviewing old ones, allowing for technology glitches and delays and the like…many times, my web server goes down during mercury retros. this time, i just have a couple domains that will be down, so i hope that has me covered for the tech gliches. ha!

 elsa-my favorite online astrologer - has a 1-minute astrology video about this merc rx here.  (note: even if you’re not into the astrology in the least, i still highly recommend elsa’s 1-minute astrology video series. you can totally ignore all the astrological references, and you’ll still get some damned good food for thought out of it.)

in short: communication slooooooowwwsss down and must be controlled and responsible. elsa’s advice: don’t let anybody push you to rush. good luck, friends!

Testing the software I installed at LCE to do social networking stuff for blog and forum posts.

This is my blog post here..

 Trying with the VBSEO url now..

This is a linkback to an LCE Test Post! I’d like to be able to show the folks what a linkback looks like!

I’d been to the grocery store. She’d slept. A lot.

“I got you some Dr. Pepper in bottles instead of the cans. I figured your room could use a change in decor.”

She laughed. She couldn’t very well deny that the most prominent feature of her current “decorating” scene is about seventeen kabillion empty popcans. My daughter takes procrasitination beyond the level of ordinary humans.

“And I got you a can of Oust. Outdoor scent. A whole can. Just for you. So you can get some idea of what the rest of the world smells like.”

“Are you joking?” She’s incredulous.

 ”No, I’m totally serious. I picked it up and it made me laugh. Thought it would do you good to smell simulated outdoors. So I bought you your own can of Outdoor Scent Oust.”

I also suggested she might want to engage in some productive activity.  :mrgreen: 

Damn. Has it been that long since I’ve posted here? Holy shit.

 Well, yeah, I’ve been busy as Hell. Everybody and their brother wants to do web projects at the first of the year, man. They drive me nuts.

I’ve also been real busy on LCE. After the move to the new site, I had a bughunt; any big move is bound to bring out little weird shit afterwards. This is a complicated site running complicated software configurations, and there is stuff to work out. I still have lots of the content to bring over. (I’m also taking a hit on earnings because of this–less pages = fewer search engine hits = fewer ads = less revenue. Ow!) So lots to do still! I thought I’d have a break after the move, but it’s not been much yet. And I want to stay active on the site, too. I think it makes a difference to the members there, and that’s important to me.

Plus day-to-day life. It’s a lot! I’m not stressed. Well, ok, there is stress, but it’s not heavy, unbearable stress. It’s stretched-schedule stress. I’ve been here before and I know how it works.

 Anywho, that’s the scoop.