Yay and Huzzah! :D

[hkellick]

1) After I can't imagine how much work, mark finally figured out what went wrong with my journal import and fixed it. I have my livejournal in it's entirety here again. :) Now to go back to porting over my CC stuff..

2) Suggested a place and time for the DC Metro Area Open Beta Party. Hopefully it works for everyone. :)

3) Heard from friends about possibly getting to see the Hoover Dam while I'm in Vegas next month. Would I be interested? Well, let's see... large large river, huge hydraulic structure.. mmm.. yep! :D

4) DW Seed Accounts Going on Sale - K and I will probably both get seed accounts. :)

5) One of my cases of Doom in the City of Atlanta FINALLY went out after what felt like an interminable amount of back and forth between the requester (who didn't know what he was doing), me and the FEMA reviewer. It's done! Huzzah!

6) I went back to the gym yesterday. I put on one of my Disney podcasts and started walking, so that when we finally do get to WDW in October, I'll actually be able to handle all the walking hither and thither.

Comments

[kareila]

Re #3: Yeah, I realized as I was writing it that it was a rhetorical question unless you'd made other plans already. :)

We should have plenty of time to see it all - it looks like it's only maybe 15 miles from Henderson. The web site said the first tour of the day starts at 9:30.

Re #1: zorkian's entry made me laugh. We always knew you were special... but I never realized until now that your LJ was special too!

[hkellick]

Twas a bit of a silly question, yes, but we'll forgive you ;)

We'll give you a call later to firm up the plans. let me get through the open beta party first. :)

And, yeah.. my LJ just would NOT port over and none of us had any idea why, but... apparently, Mark figured it out.
<3 Marky

[dmsj]

I caused problems for poor mark with my import too. But apparently I'm at least slightly less special than you are! :)

[hkellick]

Well, we're ALL Special.
I'm just a Blue Light Special sort of Special, whereas you are a Made for TV Movie Special sort of Special.

Don't ask me what that means. I just made it up ;)

[dmsj]

Doesn't matter what it means - it was amusing. :)

[hkellick]

That was rather the point :D

[zaph]

4) DW Seed Accounts Going on Sale - K and I will probably both get seed accounts. :)

how hard do you think it'll be to get a seed account? I'm going to be at the Nationals game Thursday night, so I'll have to try at 9am on Friday, but do you think there'll be so much demand for them that I could get shut out?

[hkellick]

The feeling I get is that the Seed Accounts are going to be very popular, so if you don't get there as close to 9 AM as possible Friday, you COULD be shut out.

Though, if you ARE shut out, tis not the end of the world. You can still get a Premium Paid Account which gives you exactly the same stuff Seed account gives, the same number of pictures and other options, but you just have to keep your account paid up.

[zaph]

but you just have to keep your account paid up.

which is exactly why I want a seed account. pay once and then never have to think about it again. I have to say, I prefer the way LJ offered permanent accounts - limited by time, rather than number.

[hkellick]

You know I liked that too.

But I buy denise/mark's reason why they aren't offering that.

The problem with the permanent accounts was this: We stopped mattering to the people making the decisions. We'd already bought our accounts and were thus no longer an income stream for them. Then when it was time to make decisions about the way the site would be run, they stopped caring about us, and since we were paid for life, we could no longer "vote with our wallet."

It *IS* more inconvenient to have to keep paying for a service, but.. for them, and for you, it's a yearly/six month VOTE, basically.. is this site good enough to continue to support, or would I rather just spend my money elsewhere?

So I can see it your way, because it is more convenient to do it once and never worry otherwise, but I see why they want to do it this way as well...