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Yesterday was April Fool's Day, but so many people on Facebook were warning that any attempt at pulling online pranks would result in immediate blocking and unfriending, I hesitated to post anything funny. Several friends were celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries, though. So that was OK.

My favorite joke about the current crisis came in a meme that was reproduced in Portuguese (I think). But it was really easy to translate it into English.

Doctor: I'm sorry, you have tested positive for coronavirus.
Patient: That's impossible! I have 700 rolls of toilet paper!

Yeah, if any joke sums up the past couple of weeks....

I still don't feel personally scared, but I keep almost obsessively checking the news and Facebook for anything new. I have assignments to do (got offered another one today!) but the money hasn't come in yet for some of the work I have already done, and my brain feels like mush. *sigh*

Crossposts: https://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1288691.html

Wow, barely one post here per week? C'mon, Patty, you CAN do better than that.

Facebook is such a time suck, especially since I want to Read All The Things. Especially the political things. Helps me articulate how much I hate the flaming sack of shit that is the Republican presidential nominee.

I see how some people have figured out how to crosspost from Tumblr to the LJ/DW platform, but I have no plans to do so. These days I look at Tumblr even less often than LJ/DW. Mainly I have a Tumblr account so that I can <3 and repost other people's things that I find interesting.

My Android tablet has been stuck in an "infinite boot loop" for some months now. One of the guys in the Lithuanian dance group saw my mention of the issue on Facebook and pointed me to a website that has some software that can supposedly solve the issue. Technically the software is for the Google Nexus, but my tablet is an Asus-branded clone of a Nexus, so maybe it will work. We shall see.

Forty-seven years ago tonight I was watching the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Well, OK, I dozed off around this time. I was young and wasn't used to staying up so late....

Crossposts: http://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1237557.html

I'm out of Facebook jail! Yay!

Last night I went downtown (i.e., Our Nation's Capital) for my local professional group's annual holiday gala. It was in the rotunda of the headquarters building of a grand old research institution (NOT the Very Prestigious Institution for which I used to work). Gorgeous building, but the heavily marbled columns and floor made the acoustics "lively" (read: crappy). Plus, there was no buffet -- the only food was in bite-sized pieces occasionally handed out by tuxedoed wait staff. So over the course of three hours, I managed to score one small piece of skewered chicken, one of the tiniest mini-burgers I've ever seen, three itty-bitty pieces of fried macaroni and cheese (each the size of an olive), and four cookies (hey, I had to eat something to absorb the wine I got with my free-drink tickets). Plus, there was no place to sit, and I'm used to wearing sneakers these days, so the leather boots were killing my feet by the time I got back home. I ended up finishing a leftover half-sandwich out of the fridge.

I still had an enjoyable time seeing people and networking, but I really hope they choose another venue for next year's gala!

Crossposts: http://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1230138.html

Less than 48 hours till my "Facebook jail" expires! Yay!

I've spent a good part of the last two days corralling photos and diagrams for the feature article I finished writing a month ago. For the opening spread I was trying to find a specific kind of image showing the brilliant lights of Manhattan at night during the Roaring Twenties (this is a historical article). I finally found one of Times Square through the Library of Congress website, but I'm not sure if it's high-resolution enough for reproduction in a glossy magazine. We shall see.

When it comes to the vortex of smelly vomitus that issues forth from the mouth of Donald Trump, conventional words fail me. I will be so incredibly glad when he falls out of public view.

Crossposts: http://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1229993.html

I hope all the fathers and father-figures on my list-of-friends had a wonderful Father's Day!

I can't help thinking about Mike M., the college friend who died last December just before Christmas. By all accounts, he was a great Dad to his two sons, who are now teenagers. They lost him way too soon.

And, of course, I always wish I could have one more day with my own Dad. For the past 24 hours or so I have had a photo of him as my profile photo on Facebook. Just because.

Crossposts: http://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1215171.html

In which your humble correspondent comes up for air after quite the whirlwind!

The past week was intense, to say the least. It would have been a lot worse if my new editor (editor of the magazine I freelance for, I mean) hadn't given me a little more time to work on the current articles. Whew. So that gave me the freedom to go to the scientific conference for a couple of days, write about it, and then throw myself into finishing up the Ottoman outfit I'd started to make for Kingdom Twelfth Night. I don't think I've done so much sewing, trying on, and re-sewing since ... well, for a long time.

Plus, there was LOTS of Facebook drah-ma over the event. That was all crap, as it turned out, and does NOT need to be repeated.

The event was lovely, several of my friends got unexpected awards, and I got a TON of compliments on my outfit. Even if the bottom of the hem *was* held up by safety pins. :-) That was the first lined garment I have ever made, so I was actually pushing my personal envelope there.

It almost feels weird to be going back to a "normal" week of working on freelance articles that have nothing to do with astronomy. But, hey, gotta pay the bills.

Crossposts: http://luscious-purple.livejournal.com/1178528.html

Ooo nooo! Facebook is down for the second time in as many days.

Already there are fabulous tweets going around:

Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.

Facebook is down. We can't tell who's hungry or tired.

Facebook users are roaming the streets in tears, shoving photos of themselves in people's faces and screaming 'DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU??'

Since Facebook is down, I decided to write what I'm doing on an ACTUAL WALL

Facebook shut down so they had to use Twitter to notify everyone.

#Facebook down; over 230 million acres of Farmville crops and special animals die from inattention.

(Note: I didn't make any of these up. I'm just cutting and pasting.)

And my personal favorite:

Lord_Voldemort7 I shut down facebook. That'll teach The Social Network for trying to steal attention from the Deathly Hallows Trailer. Take that, Zuckerberg

And then there are comments on the Faster Forward blog:

I can see The Onion headline:
FACEBOOK DOWN, MILLIONS FRIENDLESS

The GOP forgot to include Facebook in its Pledge to America. Priorities, people, priorities!! Fix Facebook first, then we'll deal with health care.

Facebook went down because alien beings from a far away world intercepted a frequency asking the aliens if they would like to "accept Earth's friend request" One by one, the aliens added Earth as their friend and the sheer number of new ,alien, users trying to play farmville and win a ninja/pirate war caused the Facebook system to crash. Sooo, It was all Earth's fault, go figure.
...and, yes, that is how bored I am without Facebook haha

I can't wait to see the "Facebook-down baby boom" 9 months from now...

Anyhow, since

cz_unit doesn't use FB, I just wanted to let him know, in case he was wondering why everyone else was getting so much work done today. :-)

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