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I'm back from the family reunion, which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. ^^ I reconnected with a distant daughter-of-mom's-cousin that I enjoyed spending time with aaaaages ago, when the first number of my age started with a 1. :B Also I've ended up the contact for my branch of the family, since my sister refused and we were the only grandchildren from my maternal grandmother's branch to go. There were 5 generations at the reunion, though none the 5th gen were in my branch.
I spent yesterday relaxing and recovering from the trip. I caught up with True Blood season 5, at least through ep 3. ^^ Lots of shirtless!Eric time, which I'm not going to complain about! :9 The focus this season is less on romance and more on plot. We'll see how it goes!
At the reunion when the aforementioned cousin wanted to friend me on Facebook, she searched for my name and I was shocked to see there's apparently a second "Sabrina Heep" in the world. *blinks* I was the first of us to join FB, BTW. This is important because at some point in the past few months, FB added periods between everyone's first and last names in their URLs. Before the change, I was www.facebook.com/sabrinaheep. Now, I am www.facebook.com/sabrina.heep.39. You see that .39 at the end? That was NOT my idea. Nope, FB did that. I'm guessing when they updated the URLs, they updated the OTHER Sabrina Heep first, and so SHE got my URL, and I have sloppy seconds with that damn number at the end.
Yes, I am irritated by this. I've been the only Sabrina Heep for 34 years, and then this happens. If you click on my old FB link, it sends you to the OTHER Sabrina's FB. Those of you with common names are probably snickering at me now, but fine.
I'm still irritated by this. And on the off chance the other Sabrina sees it, I know it's not your fault. It's FB who I'm irritated at. You just signed up with your own name and were minding your own business. If you noticed there was someone else with your name, I'm sure you were as surprised as I was.
I'm also pissed at FB for the email change they did. They switched everyone's default email to a generic "your name@facebook.com", and you have to go in an manually change it back to what you want. GRRR!
And FB's final thing to piss me of last night: after the email addy fix, I poked around and found my messages folder...which contained 3 messages from last year I hadn't read. You know why I hadn't read them? B/c FB never bothered to send me email notices for them. And one of those messages...was a job offer.
From a different publisher.
SENT A YEAR AGO.
Thank you, FB, for costing me a wonderful opportunity. While I was too busy to have accepted any work when that message arrived, I could certainly have made a new contact for later job chances. Now it is far too late. *snarls* And you can bet your ASS I updated my profile so the first thing you see is how to properly contact me: email or PM on LJ. GRRR!
I came SO VERY CLOSE to deleting my FB. The only reason I did not is b/c that's the only way to stay in touch with various non-LJ or phone number friends and family.
I'm kind of a grump tonight. Please forgive me! I did my twice-yearly link check on my beloved ficrecs page, and I had to remove recs for two fics and two webcomics. T.T Both fics have vanished without mirrors or the promised pdf for one of them. One of the webcomics is no longer updating and the archive has been deleted. The other webcomic I chose to remove, as I am extremely disappointed with the artist. She had a fine webcomic of several years going, but she decided to chunk it all and redraw it from scratch. Last fall she removed her entire archive and started redrawing it from the beginning in a new--and IMO, far inferior--style. She also hasn't updated in half a year. I haven't enjoyed the webcomic since the change began, and my patience has officially run out. If I no longer like it, I'm not reccing it to others. *scowl* Oh look, my icon is VERY appropriate! the ~irony~!
But I did discover one of the fics I really enjoyed is no longer abandoned, and has been both updated and completed! I look forward to rereading the now-complete epic. ^^ It's a Twilight Jacob/Bella fic. Yes yes, laugh it up. ^^ That fic is amazing. Here's hoping the new stuff is just as good!!
The links-verified version of my recs page will go up with my next update in early July. ^^
On a prettier note (particularly when compared to the "new" artwork mentioned above. Humph!), I have to share this completely gorgeous flash-delivered webcomic: Knite by Wenqing Yan. SFW. It's worth a read for the art alone. I am completely humbled by this artist's digital painting skills. The story is good, too. Feast your eyes upon it!! Note each chapter won't load the first time for me, it stalls and I have to hit F5. That always works, though. ^^
I haven't been reading much webcomics these days, aside from the ones I actively read each week. I've been involved with my continuing manga catchup for the various titles available through Shonen Jump Alpha, as previously mentioned. Working on Toriko now. I'm liking it much better this 2nd round. Yay!
Oh yeah, and the new series in both SJ Alpha and Japanese Jump, Barrage by Horikoshi Kouhei, is quite enjoyable. The most promising start I've seen in Jump since Tegami Bachi debuted. Woot! XD
I saw Pixar's Brave this past weekend, with my family. It was enjoyable, but Finding Nemo still reigns unchallenged as my Pixar fave. The horse in Brave was very well done though, and my favorite part. But then, I'm biased. :3
There, that's a much more cheery note to end this post on. :D
I spent yesterday relaxing and recovering from the trip. I caught up with True Blood season 5, at least through ep 3. ^^ Lots of shirtless!Eric time, which I'm not going to complain about! :9 The focus this season is less on romance and more on plot. We'll see how it goes!
At the reunion when the aforementioned cousin wanted to friend me on Facebook, she searched for my name and I was shocked to see there's apparently a second "Sabrina Heep" in the world. *blinks* I was the first of us to join FB, BTW. This is important because at some point in the past few months, FB added periods between everyone's first and last names in their URLs. Before the change, I was www.facebook.com/sabrinaheep. Now, I am www.facebook.com/sabrina.heep.39. You see that .39 at the end? That was NOT my idea. Nope, FB did that. I'm guessing when they updated the URLs, they updated the OTHER Sabrina Heep first, and so SHE got my URL, and I have sloppy seconds with that damn number at the end.
Yes, I am irritated by this. I've been the only Sabrina Heep for 34 years, and then this happens. If you click on my old FB link, it sends you to the OTHER Sabrina's FB. Those of you with common names are probably snickering at me now, but fine.
I'm still irritated by this. And on the off chance the other Sabrina sees it, I know it's not your fault. It's FB who I'm irritated at. You just signed up with your own name and were minding your own business. If you noticed there was someone else with your name, I'm sure you were as surprised as I was.
I'm also pissed at FB for the email change they did. They switched everyone's default email to a generic "your name@facebook.com", and you have to go in an manually change it back to what you want. GRRR!
And FB's final thing to piss me of last night: after the email addy fix, I poked around and found my messages folder...which contained 3 messages from last year I hadn't read. You know why I hadn't read them? B/c FB never bothered to send me email notices for them. And one of those messages...was a job offer.
From a different publisher.
SENT A YEAR AGO.
Thank you, FB, for costing me a wonderful opportunity. While I was too busy to have accepted any work when that message arrived, I could certainly have made a new contact for later job chances. Now it is far too late. *snarls* And you can bet your ASS I updated my profile so the first thing you see is how to properly contact me: email or PM on LJ. GRRR!
I came SO VERY CLOSE to deleting my FB. The only reason I did not is b/c that's the only way to stay in touch with various non-LJ or phone number friends and family.
I'm kind of a grump tonight. Please forgive me! I did my twice-yearly link check on my beloved ficrecs page, and I had to remove recs for two fics and two webcomics. T.T Both fics have vanished without mirrors or the promised pdf for one of them. One of the webcomics is no longer updating and the archive has been deleted. The other webcomic I chose to remove, as I am extremely disappointed with the artist. She had a fine webcomic of several years going, but she decided to chunk it all and redraw it from scratch. Last fall she removed her entire archive and started redrawing it from the beginning in a new--and IMO, far inferior--style. She also hasn't updated in half a year. I haven't enjoyed the webcomic since the change began, and my patience has officially run out. If I no longer like it, I'm not reccing it to others. *scowl* Oh look, my icon is VERY appropriate! the ~irony~!
But I did discover one of the fics I really enjoyed is no longer abandoned, and has been both updated and completed! I look forward to rereading the now-complete epic. ^^ It's a Twilight Jacob/Bella fic. Yes yes, laugh it up. ^^ That fic is amazing. Here's hoping the new stuff is just as good!!
The links-verified version of my recs page will go up with my next update in early July. ^^
On a prettier note (particularly when compared to the "new" artwork mentioned above. Humph!), I have to share this completely gorgeous flash-delivered webcomic: Knite by Wenqing Yan. SFW. It's worth a read for the art alone. I am completely humbled by this artist's digital painting skills. The story is good, too. Feast your eyes upon it!! Note each chapter won't load the first time for me, it stalls and I have to hit F5. That always works, though. ^^
I haven't been reading much webcomics these days, aside from the ones I actively read each week. I've been involved with my continuing manga catchup for the various titles available through Shonen Jump Alpha, as previously mentioned. Working on Toriko now. I'm liking it much better this 2nd round. Yay!
Oh yeah, and the new series in both SJ Alpha and Japanese Jump, Barrage by Horikoshi Kouhei, is quite enjoyable. The most promising start I've seen in Jump since Tegami Bachi debuted. Woot! XD
I saw Pixar's Brave this past weekend, with my family. It was enjoyable, but Finding Nemo still reigns unchallenged as my Pixar fave. The horse in Brave was very well done though, and my favorite part. But then, I'm biased. :3
There, that's a much more cheery note to end this post on. :D