Welcome to the new year, same as the old year...

[airshipjones]

Well I finally got off my butt and got my account set-up (Thanks Mikz!) I was soo hoping that this year would at least start better than last year. But I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Between migraines that last for 8 days and bronchitis for the last week and a half, my last month has been pretty miserable. The best part of Yule/Xmas vacation (mandatory and required use of vacations hours too) was being with Rowan, which I didn't get to enjoy because I was mostly sick. And I could start talking about the political and business climate we are all living in, but that is just too much for my first journal entry.

I'm usually a laid-back, bottle-it-up kinda guy, but sometimes when things aren't going well, it helps to lay it out so I can let it go for a while. I'll try to find other things talk about, or at least hide the rants in the future. Please forgive this rant, and feel free to one up me with other stories of how good I've got it...

-Troy-

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Hi Troy! Welcome to livejournal!

Sorry to hear that you've been feeling sick -- you've all been a bit under the weather and my family was hoping to visit yours. Hopefully within the next couple weeks we can arrange to come up for a visit on a Saturday when we're all feeling fine. =)

I'm happy to hear about your rants, FWIW, in addition to how good you've got it. I don't lock the vast majority of my posts, but I do lock some when I feel vulnerable and only want to share my innermost thoughts and feelings with a select few friends. Maybe that's something you may want to do for your rants in the future, and if you decide to -- I'm willing to volunteer to help you with that.

BTW, I noticed that you have hope4u on your friends list. Do you know her? I wanted her username because it's like my original email address -- but I had to take hopeforyou instead.

I will add you too...

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I do know hope4u, but something about the journal entries I have read and the style gives me this niggling felleing that I do, or did, or should. I'll let you know what I find out.

-Troy-

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

I hear ya! We were all sick between xmas/new years, too.

I'm really sorry about the migraines, I so know how that goes. I wish we were closer, we coud bring you some of the toxic migraine-busters that we have.

See if you can get a prescription for an imitrex inhaler, you spray it up your nose, and when I had my 5 day migraine in 30-45 minutes, it was completely gone.

I miss working with you, and getting to hang out every day.

Good to hear from you, man!

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

I have missed hanging out too. And I feel way out of the loop, too. I will try to read up on you journal entries, but send me an email and let me know what is going on for you - job, family, life, etc.

[rosefox]

Hey! Glad to see you here.

Don't worry about bottling up the rants. If that's what you use the journal for, that's completely okay and you're definitely not the only one. It is nice to hear about the good things too, but not required. *) If you're really concerned about it, you can put an LJ-CUT tag at the beginning that says "Rant under here" or some such.

LJ user skills and etiquette

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

Boy, I am just starting to think about all the things I should figure out in how to use LJ. I will have to get myself educated on how this system works, and think a bit about how I want to use it. I suppose my use will evolve a bit, and I figure my friends will forgive until I get my act together.

So why is it that you and I have such a difficult time meshing schedules?

-Troy-

Re: LJ user skills and etiquette

[rosefox]

Friends will indeed forgive; that's what friends do. *) Kudos to you for educating yourself at all, given how many people here don't even think to do so!

I think of cut tags as "informed consent", and use them in situations where what I'm posting might not be appropriate to read in a certain place (lots of people read LJ at work) or mindset or mood. I enable comments if I want discussion and disable if I don't. If people really want to talk about something I've posted without comments, they're welcome to do so in their own journals, but I'm under no obligation to permit them to do so in mine. I use filters and friends groups mostly for reading, but occasionally for posting as well, and I always label which group I'm posting for if I lock the entry. My friend list policy is to add anyone who adds me, so friends-only posts are very close to public for me; the only reason I would post to all of my friends but not make something public is if I don't want it archived or world-accessible (say, if I'm talking about my stepfather in a way that I don't want his sister to tell him about, or his lawyer to look up).

As for schedules, mine is here. What's yours like? *)

Schedule....

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

Work, work, work, work, work.....

Not quite that bad, but it sure feels like it. I work from 7am to 5pm (which means getting up at about 5:30am - Blech) and usually spend about an hour to 2 hours at the gym after work about 3-4 days a week. Wednesday eves are usually our family meeting night, and I have every other Friday off, though I am still on-call. Weekends are as free as our chore/project schedule/social life/health allows. For the next week or so, instead of going to the gym, which my lungs are not up to yet, I will be going to storage after work to get stuff for Dawn's Uber Yard Sale.

Thats it in a nutshell, or a nuthouse perhaps... do you like mounds or almond joy?

-Troy-

Glad to see you here!

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

It's always good to be able to keep in touch better! I knew you guys all needed these things... it's a good distributed community. More personal than the old ucscb forums, and just as interesting. Don't worry about the rants, even the political ones. They often spark good discussions.

And yes, you really do have it good in many ways - it's always good to appreciate that.

Plus, now you can read my GMing stories and help give me ideas. I occasionally post about my D&D v3 game, with a restricted friends list so my players can't read them. If you want to, go through my "memories" links to read 'em. I think you'll like the game world I came up with. Maybe the next time you guys are up you can put in a guest apperance. :-)

Re: Glad to see you here!

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

UCSCB, wow! The memories... I should list Nocturnal Cuisine as one of my LJ interests. I really miss those days. Are any of the other old B geeks on here?

I will look through your LJ memories. I haven't had much time for gaming, and I would love to see what you have been up to. A guest appearance would be fun, when we can clear things up here and make a visit.

-Troy-

Re: Glad to see you here!

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

Very few ucscb folks have accounts. If you remember account thlayhi, he's on as boymaenad. But I think he's about the only one I've found (though from later geek days there's ravenboi).

But since yam and forum are still around, and everyone on them is pretty much stuck in their ways, they haven't migrated into more modern communication methods.

And a guest apperance would be very fun, though I have no idea what you would do for characters. Probably pick up NPCs from me (my world doesn't really lend itself to trans-dimentional apperances much, though something from Korray's world might be able to work.

No worries!

[mikz.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you made use of the code I went you! Welcome! I only wish you had happier things to post about! But that's only because I wish more happy things were happening for you—I look forward to your writings to matter what they're about. I also rant in my joural from time to time; people never seem to mind and it helps me feel better.