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[gurdonark]

This is my third try to write a post since the new year. The other two failed to post due to problems with LiveJournal's service. I am sympathetic that it experiences a lot of DDoS attacks, but at some point
it just gets annoying to lose posts to its unreliability.

I was going to post about this:

1. New Year's Day in Sherman with my young friend, including seeing a red-shouldered hawk on a very chilly day near Hagerman NWR and drinking blackberry tea at Hastings Records;
2. taking 19 boxes of used books to Recycled Books and Records in Denton, which bought some at a very fair price and we took the rest to Goodwill.
3. Finishing refurbishing a used eBay computer for my young friend. Total cost, including case:
$ 55.09.
4. Going on a bird walk Saturday at Connemara Conservancy not far from my house, and seeing dozens of species.
5. Working hard.
6. Looking forward to setting up the raspberry pi computer I got for Christmas
7. January 8: the 7th Beaversary, when we adopted our dog.
8. My successful efforts to trace my wife's great-great grandmother's history in Sweden. I am as far back as 1839 now.

So now I'll post about it in summary form.

Comments

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Truly, it's highly frustrating.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I am starting to wonder if they're degraded their server quality, as the whole thing is starting to feel less like a DDoS and more like when twitter did not have enough servers.

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

That might be it. The access problem and the ridiculously large amount of spam that manages to get attached to posts from ten years ago to this morning, are both very off-putting.

[gracegiver]

I'm starting to realize, that when I stop seeing posts from regular posters, it may be because of LJ glitches and NOT because they've disappeared.

What is a raspberry pi computer?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

A cool 35 dollar computer built in Wales:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

I got one for Christmas, and am looking forward to getting it into use.

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[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

I often copy my online work for this very reason - duplication resulting from distrust.

I am very, very interested in Sweden. More on this sometime.

I find your desire/ability to improve yourself to both creative/productive ends remarkable/enviable. I think about it often.

I have no dogs of my own. This year I learned that I like some dogs and, further, that I tend to like dogs whose owners have a certain personal philosophy. I have a feeling I would like your dogs.

Re: briefly

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I've never made one of those pdf books of my posts because I always wanted to go clean up typos before I did. Now, though, I think I will make one and print it into hard copy to insure against LJ calamity.

My wife is 1/2 Swedish, with her great-grandparents coming from Sweden and all the ancestors since marrying Swedish-Americans until her father's generation. I've been to Sweden once, for a very short visit. I find Sweden very interesting, too,and perhaps this research will be the seeds of a new trip there.

That's kind of you re: improvement. Of course, you're in the midst of taking in mountains of knowledge these days.
A brave and worthwhile undertaking.

I'm glad you learned to like some dogs. You'd like my Beatrice, and she'd like you.

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[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

I don't have a print copy of LJ posts, just do a copy-paste before hitting send/post in any online situation. I panicked a little when you mentioned losing LJ posts though... maybe I should back those up via print (or at least hard drive...hmmm...)

Has your wife written about Sweden? If so, where could I read that sort of thing?

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[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I will figure out how to pdf my LJ, now that I think about it, and then store it up in Google Drive so that it will not vaporize when my computer does.

My wife never lived in Sweden, because it was her great grandparents' generation that immigrated. She hasn't written about Sweden, though
she did take one of my favorite photos of little Swedish girls in Summer dresses when we were in Stockholm. I ought to scan that in.

We visited Sweden very briefly during a cruise, on which she was travelling as a free lance journalist and I as a well-treated spouse. She did write an article about that trip,but it was about the Blockade Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was a very moving day to tour St. Petersburg with a guide who had been a child during the siege and to understand the twin horrors of the invading Nazis and the Stalinist regime. I should find that article, because it was a fascinating day we spent in St. Petersburg doing research.

In Stockholm we went to a tourist place called Feather Island. When a French couple pretended not to speak any English, a woman who was demonstrating Swedish blacksmithing teased them. Going into Stockholm by ship was amazing--dozens of miles by canal-like waterway with aromatic trees all around and pastel-colored wood houses we could see at 3 in the morning because it was Summer.

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

How did he like his computer?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

He's seen it, and followed its progress. Saturday he receives the final product, complete with a little bag I found on eBay for 3 dollars and 24 cents.

[platofish.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend this compilation.....87 tracks and only $10 (which goes to charity).

http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I've not really followed her podcast, though she's been quite popular as ambient podcasts go. I took your advice and just bought her compilation, which is within 30 MB of being fully downloaded as I type.