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Dawn
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Jul 12, 2014 08:02AM
I've noticed FB is getting very insistent about adding personal details, so far it hasn't added any without me but you never know, someday I will log in and they will all be filled out from info gleaned..... :)
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Every time I HAVE looked, it seems they make it more complicated to use. I don't have the patience with them to figure out some new nonsense.
Yep, constant changes. I can live with most of them but it annoys me that the privacy settings change all the time too, with the default to public.I'd get rid of the account but it's the only way for me to stay in contact with about a half dozen friends....
I call, email and visit if they're near :)
Simona wrote: "Got it! It's in My Account > Apps.No more Twilight for me! Yay!
(Yes, I didn't add this link on purpose, either) :)"
Ahh yes, that old 'opt out not opt in' raises its ugly head again.
Having to 'opt out' p#sses me off. Much more polite and considerate to notify us of things so we can 'opt in' if we please.
Anyone read the farmers almanac? I was wondering what kind of winter we were going to have. I think it will be an early winter because it is already cooling off here in KY. I just hope it isn't as bad as last winter.
Has anyone read TWENTYEIGHT AND A HALF WISHES or THE FAULT IN OUR STARS? My grandson recommended the Fault book, but he is only 12. It may be a child's book.
I believe that The Fault in Our Stars is about teens, but deals with terminal illness. So I think it's a young adult book. I think Bobby has read it. A film was recently released. I've not heard of Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
The Fault in Our Stars is a ya marketed book. Personally, I don't know if I would let any of my girls read it at age 12 but I'm also not allowed to do a lot of questioning about my children's reading habits based on my own when I was that age. I have a few friends who read the novel as a buddy read with their teenage daughters and then enjoyed the movie.
I've read The Fault in our Stars. It is marketed as YA simply because the characters are in their teens. The subject matter (Terminal Cancer, Parental Relationships, Romance when you don't have a future) is mature and well written. These kids don't talk like kids. I actually had a hard time believing that John Green hadn't had a family member or even himself diagnosed with terminal cancer when I read this. Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Vanessa Eden wrote: "Anyone read the farmers almanac? I was wondering what kind of winter we were going to have. I think it will be an early winter because it is already cooling off here in KY. I just hope it isn't as ..."Afraid not. Don;t know what it is though. Thinking it is something that is US in origin.
I would expect peculiar weather in the coming seasons though. Things are getting real strange over on my continent. Planet is changing fast.
Speaking of farmers...Saw this great video from some brothers on a US farm. :)
Love it. They sure do know how to rap. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYHeU...
p.s sorry I have been mia for two days. :) I have been doing some things on the farm and when I do get some down time for getting on the internet I have been doing Week 3 of the Richard III online course that some of us are doing.
This week in this course is really interesting. I am amazed at the amount of work it must have taken to prepare and then write anything in the middle ages! It certainly gives one a new appreciation of the ease with which we can communicate the written word today altho I do miss the fact that people do not 'write' as much as much as they type their thoughts. A handwritten note is so much more personal and reflective of the self.
Carol wrote: "This week in this course is really interesting. I am amazed at the amount of work it must have taken to prepare and then write anything in the middle ages! It certainly gives one a new appreciati..."Open to debate. :) I write a lot. I keep both a commonplace book, and a journal.
One thing I have noticed...with all the notes I am taking, it is the most I have handwritten for, gosh, I don't know how many years. I am learning to write nicely again.because I have been out of practise, I didn't realise my 'hand' had suffered. I always had a nice 'running writing' hand. It was a hot mess when note taking in Week 1. now here in week 3, I am back in form and my writing is looking nice again.
I should hand write stuff more. I don't want to go sloppy again. Having signed up to a few different courses this year, that should keep me in practise. :)
If you handwrite it that is great, but I was referring more to letters one to another.
If it wasn't so expensive to send them I would write more. I would also need people to send them to.... :)
Yes that is true, people are so out of the habit of sending and receiving snail mail it is lost art but still I miss the intimacy of a lovely handwritten letter, or a quickly scripted note from a friend or even a funny letter from camp from my kid.
My five year old has been writing letters all summer! I had to come up with a creative way to encourage her to work on her letters. She found a stationary set at a thrift store one day and immediately demanded to start writing letters to grandma. I'm glad she is willing now. I have a feeling once they put an iPad in her hand in first grade, I'm going to need more than princess stationary.
Terri, you must be a mind reader, my first week of notes were horrid, but now they are getting much neater, and more organized in the script I once prided myself on. If nothing else, I have Richard III to thank for that. I too seem to have less occasion to write cursively, so I had gotten sloppy in my script. Now I am getting my groove back.;)
Carol wrote: "If you handwrite it that is great, but I was referring more to letters one to another."Still do letters too. I got the penpal bug when I was 9. Whilst my penpals all dropped by the wayside, my friends are scattered all over the world. Letters tend to be written to go in the parcels of random stuff we send each other.
Carol wrote: "Terri, you must be a mind reader, my first week of notes were horrid, but now they are getting much neater, and more organized in the script I once prided myself on. If nothing else, I have Richar..."haha. Thanks to ye Richard III. :)
Dawn wrote: "If it wasn't so expensive to send them I would write more. I would also need people to send them to.... :)"I would write you one, but we talk to each other in GR nearly every day and we would have nothing to say except "look, I am writing you a handwritten letter. You better write back."
In saying that, I forgot to tell everyone!!!This week I received a surprise parcel in the mail. Who could this be from, I asked myself. When I saw Chiliwack in the sender address I knew instantly!
Dawn had sent me a surprise gift.
Yes, Dawn, our Dawn here in A&M.
Along with a beautiful big card with a handwritten message, I got a book on Vikings that she had bought at the recent Viking Exhibition she had gone to, as well as a gorgeous necklace from the exhibition. the pendant is a rectangle of metal with an medieval image of Vikings in boats pressed by a clear plastic face.
The gift was a complete surprise. I had been so disappointed at having missed the Viking Exhibition when it was in Australia. Dawn took pity on me and when she went to it in Canada, she picked me up these lovely mementoes.
:)
lolThat is a problem, nothing to say because it's all been said!
Aww! How awesome! I hope Dawn had much fun and am glad you got a piece of it too, Terri.
We are visiting Charleston, S.C. and we got to meet up with Andra Watkins, author of To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. I had read her book a short time ago and mentioned how the odd title had picqued my interest, so I purchased it rather than try to win a GR Giveaway. As fate would have it, she lives in Charleston....we were heading there for a short vacation.... and voile! My wife, two of my daughter's and myself then spent a delightful hour or so chatting with Andra. We find out later that she will be in Scottsdale at the end of the month so we'll get to meet her husband then as well. Pretty cool how the world works sometimes.
I did have much fun! And it's not like I could go to a Viking exhibit and not think of Terri....
Alicja wrote: "Aww! How awesome! I hope Dawn had much fun and am glad you got a piece of it too, Terri."Me too. :D
I didn't get to go in person, but at least I have something from it.
This is the book. An edition of it was on GR from when the Viking Exhibition was in Scotland in 2012. That was a different cover. I have added this 2014 edition.
Bobby wrote: "We are visiting Charleston, S.C. and we got to meet up with Andra Watkins, author of To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. I had read her book a short time ago ..."It really is a small place our planet. You never know who you'll bump into or where.
That's lovely Dawn. What a nice surprise Terri! I agree Carol, about the letters. When I was younger I use to write letters all the time. I had pen pals in the US, I'd write to my brother who was away in the army nearly every week, my sister when she moved interstate. But now!! Never. But I do consider my Goodreads friends my new pen pals, :).
Lisa wrote: "That's lovely Dawn. What a nice surprise Terri! I agree Carol, about the letters. When I was younger I use to write letters all the time. I had pen pals in the US, I'd write to my brother who was..."
Pen pals have been replaced with their 21st Century equivalents - Mouse Mates. :D
Mouse mates! That is a great name for it. I too consider all you GR friends my new age Pen pals. now I have a name for thee! Mouse mates. :D
Hello mouse mate! :D
Mouse mates are much easier. Then I can be sociable only if I want to!
Terri wrote: "Bobby wrote: "We are visiting Charleston, S.C. and we got to meet up with Andra Watkins, author of To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. I had read her book a s..."I went to a play last week and was only a few feet away from Mitch Albom. I hated his books but I love his sports column (he writes for the Detroit Free Press). He was such a d*ck! We were in a big mosh pit all trying to get into the theater in time and he was standing a little off to the side. No one was around him or took any notice of him. My friend said "hey, there's Mitch Albom" and I said "oh, I love his columns", and he gave us the death stare to end all death stares and darted into a neighboring doorway off the street. All he had to do was wave or nod in our direction because he definitely heard us. I've been telling anyone who will listen and I always get the same reaction "we met him, he's such an a-hole". I guess he works out at my friends brother's gym and he's very unfriendly towards everyone on a consistent basis. What a bummer. You live in Detroit, dude. Its not like you're Brad Pitt!! I pay your salary by buying the Freep! Ok, that's my rant :/
I never have expectations from writers/musicians/actors/celebs/semi-celebs outwith paid-for events. To me, it's their time and they can behave how they want, they shouldn't have to be 'on' all the time. That's just me though, my brother is totally different. He'll walk right up to them then next thing - they sound like they've known each other forever.
Margaret wrote: "Pen pals have been replaced with their 21st Century equivalents - Mouse Mates. :D "LOL good one
Terri wrote: "One thing I have noticed...with all the notes I am taking, it is the most I have handwritten for, gosh, I don't know how many years. I am learning to write nicely again.because I have been out of ..."
My notes usually look like a mix of hieroglyphics, old english and shorthand complete with directional arrows and doodles in the margins....I never had good handwriting to begin with so the chances of it getting better are slim. In fact I might of had it easier than most interpreting the manuscripts in the Richard III course this week because it looks a lot like my handwriting :D :D
Allie wrote: "Terri wrote: "Bobby wrote: "We are visiting Charleston, S.C. and we got to meet up with Andra Watkins, author of To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. I had rea..."It's a really bad idea for a celeb to behave like that in public. A smile and a wave costs nothing. I once met the late, great Dick Emery. He was just so sweet, chatted with me for about half an hour, and left me with just the most wonderful memory of him.
Olympic running champion, John Walker, however, was a complete prat. I watched him refuse to sign a small boy's autograph book and just walk away leaving the kid in tears. Though I noted he flinched and hung his head when I threw a few choice insults his way.
Allie wrote: "Terri wrote: "Bobby wrote: "We are visiting Charleston, S.C. and we got to meet up with Andra Watkins, author of To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. I had rea..."And a VERY deserved rant!
Thata a girl Margaret. I agree they don't have to be on all the time, but isn't it just polite. There's no need to be just rude. If you don't want to be recognised, write anonymously! Aussie cricket captain annoyed the team had to wait in "cattle class" while waiting for a plane! Get over yourself dude, your a bloody athlete not someone important.
Lisa wrote: "Thata a girl Margaret. I agree they don't have to be on all the time, but isn't it just polite. There's no need to be just rude. If you don't want to be recognised, write anonymously! Aussie cric..."
Rude to an adult, I would have ignored. But not to a child. He damn near broke that little boy's heart. Children need their heroes. They don't need their illusions shattered by an insensitive, rude prat.
Though come to think of it, I was only 16 at the time, little more than a child myself. :p
Though another competitor, a Commonwealth champion, Dick Quax, was present. He gave the boy a hug and gave him his sweatband as a souvenir. I think the little boy found a new, and much better hero that day. :)
Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/1...ok, quizz time again. I go..."
I got 20/20!
*dances around the room all giddy-like*
My Swedish mate will be so happy her tutoring hasn't gone to waste.
Darcy wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/1...ok, quizz tim..."
show off. lols well done there were some awkward ones.
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