Home From Camping

Mirrored entry from http://lori-dustypages.blogspot.com/:

I logged into my email this afternoon and saw that I had 247 waiting for me!  Aaack!

We had a wonderful weekend camping.  I had a few minutes on my computer Saturday, and that was it.  We got home late Sunday night, and all I did yesterday was sleep!   So slowly but surely I'm going to get caught up some today, see where everyone is and what's going on with the "migration", and I'll be back later to make a proper post with some pictures hopefully.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

 

By the way, I was able on Friday to burn my AOL Journal that I'd saved to an eBook onto a CD.

Officially Blogging

Mirror from Blogspot:

I am really wasting a lot of time today, how about everyone else? I’m going to give myself an hour to read and comment in other people’s blogs today, and I’m going to allow myself to play around with my own some more. My kids are on their own this afternoon. Lol<?xml:namespace prefix = o />

I did spend some quality time with Thomas this morning before he left for work, so he can’t complain. But the house and all other responsibilities are going to be neglected today I’m afraid.

EXCEPT that it is a gorgeous day here in Southern Indiana, and I just may have to go outside and do some yard work. We actually got some rain on Monday night/Tuesday morning – our first real rain in weeks. Today it is cool, barely 60°, but sunny with a bit of a breeze. My favorite kind of weather. I guess this is a pretty good way to start out the month of October, all in all.

I'm glad that the weather is so "normal" for October.  I hope it stays this way.  We have our camping trip this weekend.  I won't be there the whole time, though, because someone has to be here to take care of the animals.  I don't want to arrange care for all of them just for the weekend, since we did that not too long ago.  Thomas will be working some of the time too, so I'll be driving back and forth.  Andrew won't be going this year either because he already had something else planned.  But Eler Beth will be there the whole time.  She has lots of friends there, so she won't have to miss out on anything.

I hope everyone is feeling better now about the journal/blog thing.  I am.  I think it's great that Guido has volunteered to be the keeper of the dormant blogs if need be, and he and others have been very helpful, jumping right in and taking charge in helping anyone who needs help.

It is interesting, to say the least.

Moving Along

This is a copy of the post I did at my Blogspot:

I actually got emails that I had comments left here. So at least I figured that part out.

Apparently when our old journals migrate, it has to be in a new blog. I could keep this one as a practice blog, under a different name, and then when the migration takes place, open Lori-DustyPages, migrate AOL Dusty Pages over, and then seriously begin, OR I will just continue with this one and start a new blog called Archive DustyPages for the AOL journal to go into. I can have a link on this journal to the Archive one if anyone should ever need to go there. Hmm, decisions, decisions.  (Any suggestions?)

In the meantime, I'm going to continue as I mean to go on, and go ahead and keep up with everyone who has sent a link to their Blogspot (can I abbreviate it to B/S without anyone taking offense?) location, and hopefully not get behind.

My book journals and "I Stand Corrected" I will wait to move over. There is a way to do shared blogs here at B/S, so Guido, Beth, and whoever else is interested, we can continue to do I Stand Corrected in a shared format.

I can't wait to get this page looking a little neater!!

Okay, well, I'm off to continue copying and pasting into Word. I'm not taking any chances.

I can already see that one thing I don't like about B/S is the fewer fonts to choose from.  Guess I'll have to draft on a word pad or something, then transfer over.

Tags: J-land move, Blogger

Making My Move

I am going ahead and making a place for Dusty Pages on Blogspot.  Just click on that link to check it out.  I'll probably make some changes and some additions, but there it is for now. 

Tags: Dusty Pages on blogspot

Well, Someone Moved My Darn Cheese Again!!

Actually the mood I wanted to choose was "disgruntled".

So, apparently AOL is shutting down journals on November 1st.  They have a migration plan to migrate (copy) us over to (probably) Blogger.  But we should take precautions and start copying our journals to our own hard drive (or other blog spot) ourselves, just in case.

If this is news to you (as it was to me until I opened my email and saw the furiously fast incoming entry and comment alerts from Magic Smoke), then click on the Magic Smoke link at the top of your journals or check out AOL's People Connection. 

I just don't really know what to say.  My daughter is very distraught.  She just started journaling and is having a lot of fun with it. 

I really DON'T like change, but I will deal with it.  Vish and Guido have taken the lead in making sure we know how to save our pics and in getting correct information out to us.  I keep all my pictures and graphics at Photobucket right now anyway, so I don't have to worry about moving them.  I don't know where Eler Beth and I will go right now.  If AOL does migrate everyone over to Blogger, then that's probably where we'll stay for a while, at least.  But I may just start playing around with Blogspot or some other place right now to decide.   I keep all my pictures at Photobucket, so I don't have to worry about moving them.  I can tell you this for sure:  I will keep in touch with everyone I am usually in touch with in J-Land, and they will know where to find me, and I will know where to find them.   We won't have the same type of community we had here, so we're just going to have to re-construct a community as closely resembling J-Land as we can somewhere else. 

As we do this, we need to ask for help from others when we have trouble saving or moving something, and if we find that we actually know what we are doing, then we need to share our knowledge and talents with others in J-Land.  Magic Smoke is the logical place for all of this, so if you aren't a regular reader of it, I'd suggest you become one. 

Please, please, please, if any of you decide to leave AOL completely, then please let your readers (me!) know what your new screenname/email address is.

I'll post a link to my new home as soon as I know what it is. (!!)

Sorry for this bit of jumbled-up thoughts.  Can't seem to smooth them down yet.

Tags: J-Land closing its doors.

Quiet Afternoon

Eler Beth went to The Louisville Zoo with her friend Sarah, and Sarah's parents.  She came home with some great pictures, a fox figurine, and the thrill of the Lorikeet Landing experience.  Then she went to Sarah's house to play, and is still there as I type.

Andrew is off doing his thing, and Thomas worked for a while, so I had a really nice afternoon at home alone.  I didn't really do anything, but I finished my book without interruption.  And then in the mail I got two more crime novels that I'd ordered from PaperBackSwap (an organization I dearly love).  These are Double Jeopardy by William Bernhardt and The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly.  I'm pretty sure I've read the Michael Connelly one before, but I'm up for it again.  I'm not sure why I've been in the mood for crime fiction, but I have.

I did a few piddly things around the house and made some more homemade meat balls as per Thomas' request.  I freecycled a garbage bag full of pears.  Seriously!  A friend had given us a BUNCH of pears.  We ate some and I made a few pints of preserves (most to be given away), and I really didn't want to fool with any more of them.  So I put them on freecycle, and half a dozen people emailed me for them within minutes of the offer posting.  Let's see.  What else did I do today?  I took Thomas lunch, and I served as his own personal spell check.  When he calls me from work and I see that he's calling from his desk phone and not his cell, 9 times out of 10 I know he's checking with me to see if he's spelling something right.  So today every time he called from his desk phone I'd answer, "Hello, spell check here."  (Ha Ha, I'm just so funny.)

When Thomas got home we watched The Long Hot Summer, in honor of Paul Newman.  I was very saddened to hear he lost his battle with cancer at the age of 83. 

Now Thomas is on the phone with his younger brother, and I'm getting ready to go pick up my daughter.  I hope that everyone is having a nice weekend.  I will try to get by everyone's journal tomorrow.  I've been out of the mood for journaling for some reason, but I do want to see how everyone is doing.  Oh yes, I heard from Anne after she got home.  She left a very nice complimentary comment in the entry I posted about our meeting, so I certainly need to stop by her journal to see if she's made an entry yet.  Well, bye for now!

 

Ten more tunes from my iPod:

1)  Into The Great White Open  -- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

2)  Running Scared -- Roy Orbison

3)  Must You Throw Dirt In My Face -- The Louvin Brothers

4)  Paperback Writer -- The Beatles

5)  Rock Around The Clock -- Bill Haley and The Comets

6)  Cover Of The Rolling Stone -- Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show

7)  I'm Yours -- Jason Mraz (contemporary) {I really, really like this song!}

8)  It's Still Rock And Roll To Me -- Billy Joel

9)  Only In America -- Jay and The Americans

10) Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) -- Leo Sayer

 

Today's salute goes out to

              Ostfold, Norway, population 265,458

                    4,335 miles from Jeffersonville ~~

                                        Sa-LUTE!!

 

Tags: Ostfold Norway, Louisville Zoo, PaperBackSwap

We've All Been There

A little email meme has been going the rounds of my family.  It's one I've seen in J-Land before, the "3s About Me" meme.  On the list is "Three Places I Have Been." 

Most people put foreign countries they've visited, big cities, or other states, or perhaps an interesting and well-known place like a national park or museum. 

My sister P.J., on the other hand, went in a totally different direction with her answer  ~~

Three places I have been:

- up the 'creek'

- between a cliff and another cliff

 

- in deep 'cow manure'

 

Yes, those are VERY much "P.J.-answers".

Tags: meme, 3s about me, funny