Hello Dreamwidth!

At the moment I'm not really in a position to set this account up just as I'd like. I shall do that later tonight at home, or over the weekend.

I intend this to replace my LiveJournal account, since repeated DDoS attacks over there are rendering LJ unusable. I will be setting up the cross post facility though, once LJ is alive enough for me to log on again. Once that is accomplished, I intend to update here most of the time, but allow you to read and participate from there!

At least that's the plan...

A bit wobbly

So last evening, a little before I was aiming to leave the office, romney phoned to announce that he had potentially secured supplies of the fabled Mushroom Ketchup. In fact there they were on the shelf in front of him and should he buy them?

Well, yes, he should. Of course he should.

This all lead to me scuttling into the West End at short notice and and meeting up at The Angel for a pint and to take delivery of the ketchup. I may have still been there at closing time, and I may have got home just after midnight.

I am clearly not as used to BOOZE as once I was since there is mild squiffiness this morning...

A bit wobbly

So last evening, a little before I was aiming to leave the office, romney phoned to announce that he had potentially secured supplies of the fabled Mushroom Ketchup. In fact there they were on the shelf in front of him and should he buy them?

Well, yes, he should. Of course he should.

This all lead to me scuttling into the West End at short notice and and meeting up at The Angel for a pint and to take delivery of the ketchup. I may have still been there at closing time, and I may have got home just after midnight.

I am clearly not as used to BOOZE as once I was since there is mild squiffiness this morning...

(Not ideally, the automatic cross post from Dreamwidth failed, so good old fashioned cut and paste was employed. That it took three attempts to get past an error message before I typed this and who knows how many after, I think the problem remains with LJ...)

Progress

Building Dreamwidth in my preferred image continues apace. I have selected a layout that I like, imported all my posts from Live Journal - sadly sans comments and set it up so that when I post from what I am hoping will be a more stable platform, it will cross-post to Live Journal, too.

What I haven't done and I don't know if I can yet, is to set it up to import the entries made by my friends and by communities outside of Dreamwidth. That's a shame, but it's not as if as I've said before, that I am abandoning Live Journal, I simply want somewhere where I can carry on doing my thing without Russian dissidents spoiling my fun and interrupting my griping.

Feel free to add me if I know you and you are on or about to join Dreamwidth. If I don't already know you and you think it would be fun to join me anyway, leave a comment and I'll most probably oblige. My two criteria are that you should be a person, rather than a bot, and having satisfied that you have met that condition, that you are reasonably polite. You don't have to agree with me and I am happy for you to tell me so.

Just don't be rude about it.

So there we are. Let the games commence.