With so many people from Fandom securing backup journals all over the place maybe it would be a good idea for me to mention where else I can be found.

I am Tephra at JournalFen, GreatestJournal, and InsaneJournal. Feel free to friend me at any or all of them if you think my sporadic ramblings are worth it. :)

Just what sort of stuff do I put in these journals? Well that's a bit of a question right now but here's how it breaks down at the moment:

LJ - My original, and still main, journal. This gets everything, though I'm more likely to link fannish stuff off to JF these days. Lately it's been shoes, knitting, and recipes but it does get life updates, memes/quizzes, and when my creative side isn't flaking out, artwork. Look for daily NaNoWriMo status reports in November.

IJ and GJ - I really don't know what is going to end up on these, my current thinking is that they'll be mirrors of my JF account, which I decided would get my fannish thoughts and creative works. Ultimately it will depend on the sorts of communities that develop on those sites. If one of them turns out to have an active knitting community, for example, then the odds are that my journal there will have knitting stuff.

And since I think my friends might want to take note of the change, have a look at my username.

Yep, I finally broke down and bought a rename token. If it weren't for the fact that I had the money in my paypal account and said account is really hard to get cash out of, I wouldn't have spent the $15 for the rename token. But, since I did and since it is (and since I had this username claimed since last May) I did it.

All the stuff that was linked to "tephra_adularia" will still come here, just the journal is tephralynn now (conveniently the same as my DeviantART username).

Please to be using the new username when you link me in the future. :)

Now to convert Semagic over to the new username since I have a gazillion taglist files....

I called to activate the new card for my Borders visa and I got a real live person with an English accent!

What? No irritating computer menu? No unintelligible Indian accent? Whatever is the world coming to?

What a couple of guys can do with 101 two liter bottles of Diet Coke and 523 Mentos

And for anyone that has ever fought with Photoshop (or Paint Shop Pro, or Gimp....)

This being northern Michigan the new ceiling is getting a vapor barrier, foam board insulation, firring strips for fastening the new ceiling in place, and more foam insulation board between the firring strips. In order to seal the seams, and also to make it easier to work with, the ceiling is also getting a liberal amount of duct tape. To keep the duct tape handy hafoc is wearing it around his neck on a long leather thong.

Northwoods Bling.

I was chatting with toshirodragon, the usual small talk type stuff (interspersed with squeeing over the cool art she gave me) and I made this comment regarding the need to restock the food supply:

"I made soup from the fandom bits that I had around last night, those ingredients where you don't have quite enough to make a meal from"

Given that I was reading fanficrants and various other fandom related communities at the time it almost makes sense. The philosophy of crossovers perhaps, or of cosplay art. Or convention planning.

I've been unable to connect to AIM or ICQ with Trillian for at least the last 12 hours (possibly longer). Has anyone else had that problem?

And three more days until I've been on deviantART for a year and I'm only 12 pageviews short of 1000. Stop by my gallery and have a look please?

Patriotic Seafood? (Flash, has sound)

Do NOT eat or drink anything while reading this.

I'm glad I only have three indoor cats to deal with.

I am worth $1,882,270.00 on HumanForSale.com

Requires an email address, I used my "address to use with likely spammers" address of course.