Here We Are Again

[poliphilo]

I think the basic account is a good thing. Mainly because I hate ads. I'd like to see it reinstated.

And so I registered my mild protest by not accessing LJ yesterday. 

I'm not calling it a strike. A strike is when there's something important at issue. A strike is when you and your brilliant mates are all huddled round a brazier at the factory gates and passing motorists honk in sympathy. A strike is when you starve. To call not blogging a "strike" is absurdly inflated.

It wasn't hard to do. Hooray, I guess that means I'm not an addict. I can walk away at any time. Still there were times when I got a bit twitchy.

So what happened while I was away? On Thursday I was rooting about in a high cupboard and an ornament I just hadn't noticed (how can that have been?) toppled out and clocked me on the head- driving the bridge of my glasses into the bridge of my nose. And that's why I look like I've been scrapping on the picket line.

And yesterday Ailz and I cleaned out the rabbit room. It was a bit like farming and involved the use of a hay rake. We removed three bags of hay and straw- which I spead out on the garden. 

It was a windy night. When I was younger I used to enjoy lying in bed, all cosy, listening to the wind prowling the streets and roaring in the chimney, but Ailz has infected me with her fears- and now I lie awake, waiting for the slates to come clattering off the roof.

It's still windy this morning, with flashes of bright, silvery light, and- according to the forecast- an outside chance of snow.

Comments

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I think I am addicted. It was pretty hard for me. Not hard enough, though, for me to not do it.

I have been on a real strike more than once in my life. This was more of a boycott, I think. I have had success on both fronts.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"Boycott" is a better word for what it was.

I've never been on strike, but since my only long-term, paid employment was as a member of the clergy I never really got the chance.

[mokie]

I'll miss the idea of Basic accounts. There was something of the old LJ in it, LJ The Community. This is a sad step further on the road away from that and toward LJ The Business. But then, we started down that road when brad sold the thing.

Some have suggested that there might be the option to 'upgrade' to a Basic-equivalent account at some point. It's all theoretical, though.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It seems like everything is fated it turn into a business sooner or later. It makes me sad.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear: what happened to the basic LJ account?

Worried Reader

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're no longer available to new LJers. Those that already exist are safe (for the time being).