livejournal issues abbreviate posts
Jan. 9th, 2013 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkThis 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.
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.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Re: briefly
Date: 2013-01-12 07:35 am (UTC)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.