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 Death of military personnel: my comics specialty. Anyway, I like Montcalm. He wasn't, I don't think, as talented as his young rival James Wolfe, but he was among the best they had and a well experienced, hard working man who did his job as best he could. Montcalm had a hot temper and didn't like Quebec, but he tried to save it, even though he was almost always at heads with Vaudreuil the Canadian born Governor- to whom he was supposed to defer. Vaudreuil was experienced in North America and cared passionately for Quebec, but had never really encountered modern European warfare, and didn't understand it. Montcalm hated the corruption in New France, thought the war was useless, and tried to leave but wasn't allowed. In his final letter to his wife he writes, "I think I should have given up all my honors to be back with you, but the king must be obeyed; the moment when I shall see you again will be the finest of my life. Good-bye my heart, I believe I love you more than ever." I like Montcalm. Wolfe, of course got the most famous painting in this country's history done up for him some years after the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm got one eventually. It's ok.
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I just would like to take this time to thank Amberly SOOOOO MUCH for your generous, sweet, thoughtful, precious gifts that I received in the mail two days ago. For the past three days, I have had a varying fever of 100°F to 102.8°F with a sore throat, a splitting headache, and every single muscle in my body throbbing in pain. My husband has been good to me... massaging my aching muscles, making me concoctions of lemon drinks and herbal tea for my throat, fetching things on my every whim like more blankets, water, tissues, and strawberries (I have a craving for them when I am sick.) I can't even remember being this sick, nor can I recall a time when my throat felt worse. All I've done since I was sick is play on http://www.looklet.com, watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, and nap the rest of the time. Amberly, you made my day, in fact, it was the best part about being sick so far. :-) So thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!!
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Tweaks and enhancements- As a number of you reported, a service interruption impaired sending and receiving notifications for a couple of days. This was due to an avalanche of snowflake cookies. We've removed the free snowflake cookie and unclogged the pipeline. Timely notifications should resume shortly. Please note that there's a backlog in our queues, so you'll be getting earlier notifications first. For more details, check out this post at
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To craft a fine limerick. Might you?
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Winner posted on news to delight you!
In honor of all the brilliant writers on LiveJournal, we've created a brand new community: ljlimericks! Each week, we'll enter a handful of limericks into a poll (which we'll tuck snugly under an LJ-Cut). The winning poem will be published in the following newsletter. In addition, the author will receive a virtual blue ribbon! If you have the time, come drop us a rhyme. Please keep the "Nantucket" stuff on the downlow, since this is a youth-friendly community. Our first prompt is: Insomnia in winter.
Photos of the weekWe're back with more incredible images from our global photography community. Congratulations to sempre_marseeya, who has been awarded a virtual blue ribbon as the winner of our second lj_photophile poll.
We hate to squelch your creativity, but, as a courtesy to other users, please post only one photo at a time and keep the main photo no larger than 350x350 (so images display properly via mobile and on friends pages). You can link to a larger image and/or post photos under a cut. Just so you know, we select photos for the poll blindly, based on user comments and staff feedback. Please continue to vote, comment, and, of course, enjoy. You can check out the week in pictures and view more awesome user content after the jump! ( Read more... )
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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay warm and safe out there! Tags: handmade_gifts, holiday vgifts, lj_photophile, lj_spotlights, ljlimerick, notification fix, snowflake cookie avalanche, writer's block
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A Q&A with jfboyd, featuring jfboyd on the question dais. Q: So, OK, Jim--I gotta ask you, I gotta ask you--what's up with you and Pearlswine? You've been gone for a while--what gives? A: Well, I'll tell you, it's been a mixture of continuing problems with my laptop connectivity, and then switching ISPs, plus a little personal stuff thrown into the mix, yadda yadda yadda. Totally sucks, you know what I'm saying? We just had a blizzard, and I was offline through the whole damn thing. Felt like I was living in a cave. Q: OK, OK, enough excuses--you have Internet at work, why didn't you post there? A: That was my original plan, for sure. But, damn, you know what? When I'm at work, I'm at work--makes it kind of hard to break out to do anything personal. Plus, of course, to my bosses--I *never* use the Internet for personal time. :P Q: That's weak sauce, Jim. You should always do personal stuff before work. A: I know it, I know it, but there it is. I wasn't expecting to be offline for so long. I'm still waiting for my new ISP to hook me up. They're local, so there's that, though. Q: All right, so what you gonna do for the legions of pearlswine fans out there. They're mad as hell, and they're not gonna take it anymore. A: Hey, yes, I hear that, definitely. I'll tell you what--major apologies to all my pearlswine readers. As Big Bill says, "I feel your pain." Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to take another five days for hiatus--get myself hooked back up, get everything going again. In the meantime, I'm looking for anybody who would like to be a co-Mod with me. That way, if I run into technical difficulties like this again, or take a vacation, whatever, I can have someone to get in touch with to keep the flow uninterrupted. Q: So what should people do if they're interested in being a co-Mod? A: Easy, easy. Just shoot me an e-mail at vendaz@hotmail.com, give me some details about your availability so that I know I can contact you in a pinch, and I will set you up. With my personal thanks for the help! Just please be sure that you can be available when I need you! I'll probably pick at least two people for co-Mods to help me out when I need it. Q: Cool, cool. Anything else you want to say to the legions of pearlswine readers out there? A: Yeah, definitely--thanks for all your support and understanding. I'm sorry I've been away so long, and pledge to do better, with a little extra help. Keep it real, peeps, and don't do drugs! Tags: pearlswine notes
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Tomorrow I'm going to be 24. I think I thought I would feel old by the time I was in my mid-twenties, but I don't. Kinda hard when I've got an open novelization of a comic book (Generation X, "Crossroads") next to me and I'm in the middle of re-watching season 1 of "Avatar." Ian's got this theory that Californians don't grow up or mature. You pull someone out of San Francisco or Fresno or San Diego and they've still got the same neuroticisms and care about the same things as teenagers - status, cool places to hang out, having the most amount of friends and being liked, being whacky, defining themselves by subcultures or hobbies. I don't think I made it as far as a teenager. I'm probably stuck in 5th grade. Last Sunday I went to a little girl's birthday party. I've mentioned the situation - Ian's mom's boyfriend divorced his ex a while ago and they have a daughter together. The girl's mom doesn't want the father around so there are supervised visits. I supervise. I haven't seen anything that would make me question his devotion to the girl or his ability to parent. He's a great father and somehow balances between being her friend, a role model, and getting her to follow the rules. To be fair, she's an easy kid. It's got me thinking of what I'll be like as a parent, and I hope I have a kid like her. The other day when we picked her up she was telling us how she finished NaNoWriMo and her story was over 7,000 words (she's 8. It's a novel to her). She's 9 today (our birthdays are a day apart). I think I'm supervising a visit this afternoon after school. And actually, these Avatar DVDs are hers that I'm borrowing. I'm re-thinking the age range I want to teach. Maybe elementary school. Maybe Autism. I thought I could connect with teenagers more, but I'm good at playing with kids, coming up with activities for them, talking to them, and, once I'm trained, probably teaching them. My flu is almost totally gone. Yesterday I amanaged to clean my rats' cage. They're getting big - twice the size of my cell phone. They've been cuddling up together because of the cold, so less exercise. Callie's starting to put on some pudge. She's not unhealthy yet, though. Tags: birthday, supervising
Current Location: O Street, Sacramento, CA
Current Mood: getting better
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