Vanishing Act

[rejectomorph]

The post I made last night is not showing up on my friends page, even though I'm on my own friends list. What up with that? I'm also opening comment pages from links that give a large number of replies, and finding only a few replies are showing up. Sometimes more appear if I refresh. I wonder if this is happening to anyone else? I wonder if I ought to bitch to support about it? I wonder if this post will show up on my (or your) friends page? I wonder what else is missing from my friends page? I wonder if I should just give up and go to sleep?

I do believe a wind is coming up. No more storms are expected for the next few days, but, this year having been so relentlessly weird, one never knows. Anyway. Happy Veterans Day/Armistice Day/Eleventh Day of November (or, for those very few who know, Mount Lowe Day.) No nostalgia post this time. No time this time. Maybe not even any post appearing on your page this time. Maybe I've vanished into the LJ void and don't realize it yet. Maybe Frank the goat is eating my posts. What the hell. At least they'll have been good for something.

Comments

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

I had no idea one could be on one's own friends' list -- how do you make that happen?

[rejectomorph]

You can add yourself in the same way you would add any other user -- by clicking on the "add this user" icon at the top of your user info page. I think most LJ users have themselves on their friends list. Then, you can use your own posts as place markers, and see new replies to your posts every time your friends page refreshes.

All this is assuming that LJ is actually working, of course. I have no idea why my previous post vanished from my friends page for several hours. Perversely, it returned at the time I posted this entry, grousing about its absence. Computers, huh?

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Oh, DUH! Silly me, should have figured that out :o I like the idea of having something like that as kind of a 'page marker' also -- good idea, thanks!

[marseille.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed specifics such as friends not on friends pages, but I am getting that website not available message constantly, having to click reload all the time. Just lj being weird, or possibly my internet supplier being just as weird. Everything just takes many extra steps, even accessing my own journal!

[diapholom.livejournal.com]

Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,

for I know you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know

there is no answer
but loving one another
even our enemies, and this is hard.

But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine

though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.

You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you have the courage for love,
you may walk in light. It will be

the light of those who have suffered
for peace. It will be
your light.

-- Wendell Berry
from: A Timbered Choir, The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997