LJ management thinks we really want the navigation strip

I don't like the "navigation strip" they've introduced, but they've set it up so that it's hard to avoid. First, it defaults to "on," both as what the user sees and what her journal or community displays.

More annoying, the only way to avoid the navigation strip is to uncheck "always see the navigation strip" under "viewing options" and never to look at any community or journal that has "always display the navigation strip" turned on. There's no option for "never see the navigation strip." So if you haven't bothered to fiddle with those options, or if you happen to like the navigation strip and left them both turned on, and I go to comment on your journal, the navigation strip appears at the top of the comments page.

There may well be value to the navigation strip. I don't see the value in overriding a user's "I don't want to see the navigation strip" choice.

LJ management thinks we really want the navigation strip

I don't like the "navigation strip" they've introduced, but they've set it up so that it's hard to avoid. First, it defaults to "on," both as what the user sees and what her journal or community displays.

More annoying, the only way to avoid the navigation strip is to uncheck "always see the navigation strip" under "viewing options" and never to look at any community or journal that has "always display the navigation strip" turned on. There's no option for "never see the navigation strip." So if you haven't bothered to fiddle with those options, or if you happen to like the navigation strip and left them both turned on, and I go to comment on your journal, the navigation strip appears at the top of the comments page.

There may well be value to the navigation strip. I don't see the value in overriding a user's "I don't want to see the navigation strip" choice.

Rereading journals

I've kept a paper journal, in various ways, since I was in high school. Generally, I finish a book, put it on the shelf, and go on to the next, rarely looking at the old material: whatever needs it's filling seem to be satisfied by the writing.

This morning I was looking for some of my very old journals, and couldn't find them. I found the very first, which was a bit too early and ended with the note "Continued in next book." The notebook next to it was from several years later, and then the ones following on were of the same physical style, and apparently in chronological order.

I am now considering opening some boxes that have been sitting in the foyer since we moved in here, to see if they contain what I'm looking for. Alternatively, I can rummage through those memories without the paper that might add to, confirm, or contradict what I remember. In some ways that feels safer.

[Comments on this entry screened, because the topic is somewhat fraught and I may not be up to dealing with certain topics in comment threads.]

Rereading journals

I've kept a paper journal, in various ways, since I was in high school. Generally, I finish a book, put it on the shelf, and go on to the next, rarely looking at the old material: whatever needs it's filling seem to be satisfied by the writing.

This morning I was looking for some of my very old journals, and couldn't find them. I found the very first, which was a bit too early and ended with the note "Continued in next book." The notebook next to it was from several years later, and then the ones following on were of the same physical style, and apparently in chronological order.

I am now considering opening some boxes that have been sitting in the foyer since we moved in here, to see if they contain what I'm looking for. Alternatively, I can rummage through those memories without the paper that might add to, confirm, or contradict what I remember. In some ways that feels safer.

[Comments on this entry screened, because the topic is somewhat fraught and I may not be up to dealing with certain topics in comment threads.]

old notebooks

My beloved adrian_turtle just called, because she thought I could use a friendly voice and some reassurance. She was right. Among other things, she pointed out that even if I find the notebooks in question, they may not contain the information I'm looking for.

She also reminded me that if I decide to go look for them, I don't have to do it right now: it's reasonable to find the idea scary, and there's nothing that's about to happen, or needs to be done, that means it can't wait.

old notebooks

My beloved adrian_turtle just called, because she thought I could use a friendly voice and some reassurance. She was right. Among other things, she pointed out that even if I find the notebooks in question, they may not contain the information I'm looking for.

She also reminded me that if I decide to go look for them, I don't have to do it right now: it's reasonable to find the idea scary, and there's nothing that's about to happen, or needs to be done, that means it can't wait.

Earrings

I have made myself a pair of earrings, which I'm now wearing despite not being entirely happy with the results. I think the beads I chose are a little tricky (they're rounded-off squares of malachite, with the holes running at a slant, so it's probably unavoidable that some of the headpin will show); perhaps because of that, the loops at the top aren't smooth.

I think I'm going to go back to stainless steel for the next few earrings. This pair are on sterling silver; in addition to the malachite, they have small beads, a shiny dark gray from elisem's "colors of night" Bead of the Month selection.

At the moment, my hair is at a length such that it doesn't much matter what earrings I wear, except to me (because I remember what I put on): it's not long enough to put back easily, and when worn loose it hides my ears, including earlobes and earrings of any size I'm likely to find comfortable.

Addendum: A second pair are in shades of gray, and I suspect may be for someone else, since I used the stainless steel kidney wires that Elise gave me, and I usually prefer the question-mark-shaped wires. Snowflake obsidian beads as the centerpiece, with gray beads that Elise labeled "we don't know" in the pearl BotM, and a tiny dark gray bead also from colors of night. Yes, I have beads I didn't get from Elise, but the only really small ones of those that I can find are Swarovski crystals, which didn't work for this. (I seem to recall buying some seed beads; I don't know where they got to.)

[N.B. I originally posted this to a restricted friends group, having set those permissions in Semagic for a post I wound up not making; I'm editing the time and hoping it'll now be at the top of the page.]

Earrings

I have made myself a pair of earrings, which I'm now wearing despite not being entirely happy with the results. I think the beads I chose are a little tricky (they're rounded-off squares of malachite, with the holes running at a slant, so it's probably unavoidable that some of the headpin will show); perhaps because of that, the loops at the top aren't smooth.

I think I'm going to go back to stainless steel for the next few earrings. This pair are on sterling silver; in addition to the malachite, they have small beads, a shiny dark gray from elisem's "colors of night" Bead of the Month selection.

At the moment, my hair is at a length such that it doesn't much matter what earrings I wear, except to me (because I remember what I put on): it's not long enough to put back easily, and when worn loose it hides my ears, including earlobes and earrings of any size I'm likely to find comfortable.

Addendum: A second pair are in shades of gray, and I suspect may be for someone else, since I used the stainless steel kidney wires that Elise gave me, and I usually prefer the question-mark-shaped wires. Snowflake obsidian beads as the centerpiece, with gray beads that Elise labeled "we don't know" in the pearl BotM, and a tiny dark gray bead also from colors of night. Yes, I have beads I didn't get from Elise, but the only really small ones of those that I can find are Swarovski crystals, which didn't work for this. (I seem to recall buying some seed beads; I don't know where they got to.)

[N.B. I originally posted this to a restricted friends group, having set those permissions in Semagic for a post I wound up not making; I'm editing the time and hoping it'll now be at the top of the page.]