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Crystal wrote: "I was a bit annoyed today when I couldn't view the group until I gave GR my birth date. More marketing info. Yay."Sucks doesn't it. Not happy. At least you can put in a fake one. I made myself a year younger. :-)
I set up a thread yesterday to explain why we are all having to add a birth date. Don't blame the mods! It is Goodreads that have sprung this one on us. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Terri wrote: "I set up a thread yesterday to explain why we are all having to add a birth date. Don't blame the mods! It is Goodreads that have sprung this one on us.I wasn't even allowed to view any discussion threads for this group so didn't know what was going on. My thanks to Dawn for helping me out after I messaged her!!! ;-)
Wow. You couldn't even view? I could view when I came to the group yesterday, but I could not post.
Update on the birth date fiasco:Everyone, please don't worry anymore. I emailed Goodreads and they changed the groups status to Minor Appropriate (we were Adults only). So now nobody needs put in a birth date.
Phew. I feel that birth date thing could have really had a negative effect on the group.
I knew it wasn't the mods. :) It would only let me see the main group page 'til I gave it my b-day. But I also set to to no one can see it. Plus, my Nook seems to have decided it wants the mobile version and keeps going there all by itself. I prefer the regular full site and have had no trouble in the past with it. I think it was the latest update from Barnes & Noble... grrr...
At least I haven't have cyclones. Glad you're all making it ok.
Thanks Crystal. Yep. ex-Cyclone has moved offshore and we are all trying to dry out. :)
Terri wrote: "Wow. You couldn't even view? I could view when I came to the group yesterday, but I could not post."I couldn't view either...NO entry until I lied about my age!!
Worked a World Cup friendly tonight...Mexico vs. Denmark!! I love soccer.
Who won. The Vikings I hope. :)
1-1 Both goals on penalty shots. 43,000 fans for a friendly!!
What a frustrating game though. Those are the worst. A full game with no score, then injury time with no score and then a penalty shoot out to draw.
Typical Florida weather today. Here in North Central Florida it was 81 yesterday, dropping to 51 this AM and to 33 expected tonight.
Morning all. Feeling sorry for myself with an inflamed and infected throat. Doctor blames it on inhaling carbonized wildlife! :p
Anne wrote: "Typical Florida weather today. Here in North Central Florida it was 81 yesterday, dropping to 51 this AM and to 33 expected tonight."Much variance there. :-)
Margaret wrote: "Morning all. Feeling sorry for myself with an inflamed and infected throat. Doctor blames it on inhaling carbonized wildlife! :p"What the........??
Terri wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Morning all. Feeling sorry for myself with an inflamed and infected throat. Doctor blames it on inhaling carbonized wildlife! :p"What the........??"
LMAO. Smoke from the bushfires....
Ohh right. Hahaha!! Funny doctor!
Terri wrote: "Ohh right. Hahaha!! Funny doctor!"My doctor has a decided personality. :D One of the reasons I go to him.
Anne wrote: "Typical Florida weather today. Here in North Central Florida it was 81 yesterday, dropping to 51 this AM and to 33 expected tonight."Southern Ontario: Yesterday afternoon was 14 deg Celsius (57 F), light rain, calm winds; this afternoon: -7 C (19 F), 70km/h (44 mph) winds and snow squalls.
Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes.
That sure is an extreme change, Kat.
Kat wrote: "Anne wrote: "Typical Florida weather today. Here in North Central Florida it was 81 yesterday, dropping to 51 this AM and to 33 expected tonight."Southern Ontario: Yesterday afternoon was 14 deg ..."
They say the same thing here-"If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes and it will change. This is only in the winter though.
Our States tourism motto is "Queensland: Beautiful one day, perfect the next" Hasn't really been true in the last 4 months. More like "Queensland: Sweltering one day, bushfires the next and flooding the day after that'
I just scored Mr Shardlake #5 [is that bloody add-book down again? It was down last night. Add: Heartstone] in a two-for-$5 deal at a market stall. On the back it says of Sovereign, which I have in the post, "Deeper, stronger and subtler than The Name of the Rose." --Independent on Sunday. Cool, because I always felt Name of the Rose was a little overrated. At least, it didn't thrill me that much.
Wow. Nice score! You just need to get #4 now. Revelation. (which I am reading now and loving)
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(GR is working fine for me now, but yeah, last night it was a disaster. Many things not working)
I am one happy little history geek today. The remains discovered under the carpark in Leicester have been proved to be those of Richard III. *does happy history geek dance*
yep Pretty exciting! Check out the War of the Roses thread.I also just built a blog today which will be linked heavily to A&M.
I made Richard's story my first blog post. :D
http://ancientandmedievalmayhem.blogs...
You've been added to my dashboard and my bookmarks.....I request some history bits on the Ottoman Empire and anything about Eastern Europe/Russia. ;)
Terri wrote: "yep Pretty exciting! Check out the War of the Roses thread.I also just built a blog today which will be linked heavily to A&M.
I made Richard's story my first blog post. :D
http://ancientandmedi..."
You'll forgive me if I'm wondering HOW can you manage to take care of a farm, yourself, the GR group AND a blog???
How many hours a day have you got in Australia?????
Don't forget, she needs to fit in a little reading too. :)I'm thinking 48 hour days in Aussie land, that's how's she's doing it.
I think she's discovered how to read while sleeping. She should register the method :)
haha. Well..hubby may be landing a job where he is away from home a few nights a week. Thought maybe doing the blog would give me something to do at nights here on my own. :D
I think hubby would approve - considering all the alternatives. Lol.
Now Terri's gonna consider the alternatives!
I'm all for alternatives. Told hubby I may take a lover. :D(we laughed..don't worry..it was a joke)
I could be the next Perez Hilton of Medieval and Ancient gossip.
I think Catherine Zeta Jones should play me in the movie based on my blog. We look so alike. :)
Terri wrote: "I'm all for alternatives. Told hubby I may take a lover. :D(we laughed..don't worry..it was a joke)
I could be the next Perez Hilton of Medieval and Ancient gossip.
I think Catherine Zeta Jones ..."
PMSL at the Perez Hilton tag. :D
Cool blogging Terri! Ill be bookmarking when I get to a computer!! (i.e. to work)
Leslie wrote: "Cool blogging Terri! Ill be bookmarking when I get to a computer!! (i.e. to work)"Thanks Leslie. I responded to your comment on my blog this morning!
Thanks to Dawn and Leslie for the comments on my blog....and Dawn for being my first 'follower' and Leslie for wanting to bookmark me.:)
Makes me feel less alone in the big blog world. I feel like a fish out of water since Goodreads has always been my realm of social networking.
I tried to set up a Facebook page for the blog, so I could try and find people who will want to check it out. I set the account up just fine, but for some reason no images would upload to my profile picture or my banner there??? Odd. So I deactivated the account. :/
I used to be on Facebook as myself until I deactivated my account in 2011 and I never had any problems before with uploading images.
Likewise, of course. I'd follow if I ever followed a blog but I haven't got into that habit. I bookmark to find them again. But I am newish in blogosphere.
Yeah, I'm the first follower!! Strange about Facebook, I just changed mine yesterday and it all worked fine.
I've finally figured out the basics of all this blog stuff so I'll be able to follow you without a Facebook page anyway. :)
Thanks guys. :)I just found an interesting blog online and tried to work out HOW to follow in my Blogpsot username. I couldn't find out how to do it, so I bookmarked. lol. Bookmarking is easy. :)
It appears that to 'follow' it automatically downloads new posts from a persons blog to my computer?? I would be okay with that if I knew the person running the blog, but I wouldn't for these strangers blogs I am looking at.
This blog and feed world is so new to me. It is like learning the net all over again. :]
Dawn wrote: "Yeah, I'm the first follower!! Strange about Facebook, I just changed mine yesterday and it all worked fine.
I've finally figured out the basics of all this blog stuff so I'll be able to follow ..."
How did you sign up to follow. How does that whole thing work out, Dawn?
Yeah, that's why I daren't 'subscribe' or what have you. Fear of floods of emails. As for a feed, that to me means dinner and not much else...
How do you post on it?
I must be blind because I can't find where/how to follow :(
Mark wrote: "How do you post on it?"How do you post on your own blog? Or how do you post a comment?
To post on your own blog. - On Blogspot you click either 'new post' at the top, or you go to the 'blog dashboard' and post from there.
I also have the app on my tablet so if I wanted I could post straight from my app to.
To comment. I can comment on people's blogs if I am signed into my blog. If I am not signed in and I am just Terri (not my pseudonym Medieval Mayhem) I have no idea how to comment. lol
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