Ducking flames.

You know a feature I'd like to see for my DW? I want to be able to set certain people to be screened. Not that the whole post is screened, though obviously if I was doing this, I'd have to screen anonymous comments too. *pause* [OK anonymous comments are screened. I realize that with the IP logging, CAPTCHA, and screening; I've pretty much completely discouraged anonymous commenters.]

That way the people who have the intent to be vicious for whatever reason (engaging in personal attacks when the discussion was about an abstract concept) and have demonstrated it elsewhere would not appear to anyone else. Then when I banned them it would be reasonable which it is not if the discussion takes place elsewhere.

I hate the idea that I'm giving someone who intends to flame me a forum, even temporarily. Because vitriolic attacks against me in my own space are only going to convince other people that I'm some sort of masochist and that I like it when people try to hurt me.

What's weird about this is that none of these people who have done this have actually come to my space. I'm probably worrying over nothing because anyone who attacks me elsewhere and shows up here with anything other than an apology is a troll and trolling takes a lot of time that's better spent doing something else.

random stuff I'm done doing

Let's see. I finished another Kathleen Nance book, Spellbound. I liked the plot better than most romances because it wasn't just lack of communication causing problems that aren't there. But admittedly I've had more than enough New Orleans from these books. They're pre-Katrina, so they're not docbrite-level offensively New Orleans, but djinn who can transport themselves anywhere in the world choosing to live in a hellhole? Non-sensical.

New Orleans is one of my least favorite places in the country because of how third world it seems. I get really tired of books that talk it up without mentioning the extreme poverty, corruption, disastrous weather, crowds, intolerance and inequality, crime, drinking and drug use. I don't buy post-Katrina books set in NO, but I think I might have to revise that to include all NO books.

I've been forgetting which day it is all week. It's caused some unexpected issues because I count out all the vitamins and stuff in advance and just take the ones in today's jar. But when I look at the jar and it's empty I don't take anything. So Tuesday when I thought it was Wednesday meant that Wednesday when I thought it was Wednesday... And Thursday when I thought it was Wednesday... I'm starting to feel less myself. My doctor thinks this vitamin stuff is a placebo. But I'm happy taking a multivitamin and some extra calcium as a placebo if it makes me feel better. There's about a three day lag, which made the cause of improvement difficult to identify and I'm surely starting to feel pathetic.

I really like the new shoes I got 2 weeks ago. They were under $50 and are perfectly suited to what I wanted. (They're really stiff in the ankles.)

I went to the gym and just biked for 2.5 miles. Then I came home. 11 minutes. I should have done more but I wasn't feeling right. When I sat down, I sucked down both glasses of water in under 5 minutes. That's 1.5 quarts of water. Obviously dehydrated from salty Chinese food for dinner last night.

thank you

I would like to include an appeal that any and all gods bless the people who invented CallerID. Thank you.

Not that those calls don't still affect me. But not answering it, having a large glass of wine, and watching some TV while knitting have mostly assuaged the total panic.

I like it here.

I cleared out the residual content from my LJ today. Not that I've been posting to it in 2 years, but it was a hassle to delete everything.

I like it here where I don't have to worry about someone reporting me for using curse words in public while they let picture comms with photos of the "full Britney" slide by.

I like the separation between the people I read and the people I want in my life. (Though I'm detesting the social pressure to add everyone to the access list. If I did that, it would be meaningless because locked posts would be locked to a subset. Right now there just aren't any locked posts because I'm pretty much the only one who can see them so they might as well be private anyway.)