In which I am busy with RL

[jeshyr]

Due to many reasons, including "I feel like it", I read all my livejournal/dreamwidth friends' journals in my RSS reader (with my DW/LJ passwords so I can read flocked entries) instead of using my reading list/friends list page like most people do. My RSS reader is NetNewsWire, a Mac program, and it generally works just fine and does what I want. Mostly I trust it not to be stupid.

So some time around my birthday in early February I decided to turn on NNW's ability to sync itself with Google Reader so that if I felt like reading your posts on my iPad I could do that and the iPad would magically know which bits I'd read and which I hadn't and so forth. So I turned on the "sync please!" tickybox in the preferences and left it at that.

Apparently Google Reader doesn't let you read feeds which need passwords, but I didn't know that at the time as I'd never used it before. NetNewsWire, which should have known better, silently dropped my subscriptions to all my DW/LJ journals - the only journals I read that need passwords. In retrospect, I dimly remember this happening and me making a mental note to re-add them. It takes a bunch of time to add you alllllllll to my RSS reader so I must have put it off ...

... and then I somehow forgot about it.

I haven't been keeping much up to date with journal reading of late - I have been busy with RL and other fun and new-to-me things I can do with my newfound health! Fun RL things yay! So somehow I didn't really notice that in the big mess of mostly-unread RSS posts there were decidedly fewer unread posts than I would expect... I do remember in the past week or two dimly thinking "Hmm they're all fairly quiet lately" but that happens every so often so it's not all that weird.

Anyway, I FINALLY figured this all out yesterday and re-added the DW people to my RSS reader, carefully ticking the "DON'T SYNC THIS!" box. If I ask it to sync one of the passworded feeds it agrees, then silently unsubscribes me from the feed.

[Dear NetNewsWire, THAT BEHAVIOUR SUCKS. You should know better. Please improve ASAP!]

So yes. I am here. Please tell me what you have been up to for the last two months because evidently I missed it.

Hugs,
Ricky

Comments

[acelightning]

i see that you've already caught up with what i've been doing since early January :-(

*lotsandlotsofhugs*

[jeshyr]

I'm coming to your hundredth birthday party, y'know ... just don't forget!

Love you heaps.. but honestly, next time I go away from journals for a while please be less drama-ful, OK? *squishy hugs*

[acelightning]

i still don't know whether the party will be in Luna City, or in an orbital resort habitat ;-)

i didn't mean to go and have all that drama, honest! and the first episode of severe blood loss - the one that induced me to see a doctor, despite having no medical coverage at all - happened at the same time as one of my old friends from alt.tasteless committed suicide without any warning. that was definitely more drama than i wanted to deal with! but i'm almost all better now ;-)

*more hugs*

[sheramil]

not much.

[jeshyr]

Not much happy :(

[niqaeli]

I got a job! That isn't soul-killing! It's also 2/3 the hourly rate and part-time but honestly, it's income in a field that's not irrelevant to my hopes and dreams and I'm not losing my mind. :D

[ysobel]

Hi! /snuggles/ Missed you.

What I have been up to = saga of broken chair and incompetent repair people; new blog @ http://adaptiveknitting.blogspot.com/ ; and NEW KITTY of utter cuteness.

[pauamma]

Still in love, still making atrocious puns.

(Yay good health!)

[cesy]

Ridiculously busy with work, so I have been mostly absent from my journal.

[afuna]

Not much, just mostly been doing work!

[kitsune]

Sounds somewhat similar to life here, except that I've not been writing, as opposed to reading...

(Well, and y'know, not so much newfound health here. But I'm doing reasonably well with what I get. *smile* Glad you're off having adventures in RL too, though!)