Miscellaneous Musings and a Public Service Announcement

[queerbychoice]

Goodness, this book gets better with every page. I shall definitely have to hunt down more books by John Irving now.

Five actual human beings showed up to chat with me this afternoon, for quite a long while actually—and one of my several vanished friends has sort of reappeared, though I'm not exactly sure what's going on with him and I get the impression he's feeling rather the worse for wear. At least he doesn't seem to be planning to disappear entirely, though. So I feel less lonely now.

Also, I finally managed to open a jar of strawberry jam which I first attempted to open when Jeremy was here, and I couldn't get it open, and I had a strange aversion to asking him to perform the traditional male function of opening jars. I've always managed to get my own jars open before, so that ability should not just suddenly vanish when a male is present. So I stubbornly put the jar back in the refrigerator and have been wrestling with it ever since. Today I finally got it open! So I have been consuming large numbers of strawberry jam sandwiches in delighted celebration.

And now, we interrupt this journal entry for a public service announcement.

It has come to my attention that a great many poor deprived people on my friends list are using ancient out-of-date LJ clients that don't do any of the fancy friends-list-organizing, automatic-HTML-code-inserting, and spell-checking stuff that mine does. The Windows users among you should definitely all download the latest version of the Semagic LiveJournal Client which was just released six days ago. Follow the link. You'll be thrilled with what you find!

Comments

[semisonic.livejournal.com]

yay for the strawberriness!

usually, i tap my jar lids with a knife, just along the sides. if that doesn't work, i become a little more violent and jam the end of the knife up along side the lid, forcing in some air and space into it.

then again, there are some jars that still refuse to open. i usually look towards my huge muslim father to do something about that.

oh, and thank you so much for the link. i've been using the client for quite sometime (i'm so viciously addicted to it) but i haven't ever used semagic. and it's utterly fantastic. what great features!

[curare.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link!
this is nifty!
if only it were smaller...
but i guess the options outweigh that. :D

[herpuppet.livejournal.com]

I used to be a huge fan, then somehow lost interest in the later writings of John Irving; however, my favorite is A Prayer for Owen Meaney, followed closely by Cider House Rules. I think you'd like them both.

[ex-any814.livejournal.com]

now that's one powerfool lj-tool! thanks a lot for suggesting an update. ;)

[monkeyinboots.livejournal.com]

That is a great book! I did the whole passive reading thing with it over a couple of months & only got about an eighth of the way through. But when I read it properly I really enjoyed it. Gonna buy more of his books too, The Cider House Rules looks good. Will go buy, if someone gives me money. Yeah...