sick, but must go to work

Four days without posting. I have been keeping up with some of you on LJ, but eor just had to fill me in on the current kerfluffle about possibly having to specify gender. He says this is about targeted marketing, and I say advertisers are stupid. Facebook targets me all the 'female' ads and I don't click on them because they don't interest me. Get thinner, look younger, have whiter teeth. Of course I don't click on advertising anyway, and I pay not to see it on LJ.

However, a friend of a friend, viridian5, wrote to the LJ staff and they say that they were never intending to go live with that code change. So, that's the end of that, thank goodness.

Dreamwidth is still not someplace I want to go. I realize that my reasons are purely silly - I've been with LJ for ten billion years, I don't want to change, I don't want the hassle of figuring out how to slurp over all my entries, and I'm terrified I might lose things, like maybe some comments (this point is especially scary to me at the moment given that with that computer crash not so long ago I lost a lot of old email, which for someone with no memory of their own is like having large chunks of your life cut out). I often use DW as a posting platform if I'm going to post only to my own journal, but I never read anyone's journal through Dreamwidth (partly because I haven't spent the time to learn how to sort my reading page so I can avoid seeing groups I don't want to read every day). The billion groups I belong to on LJ aren't on DW, and copperbadge doesn't update his photojournies there in the same level of detail (his phone posts won't work the same, I think), and DW hijacks user names when I try to post about people on LJ (turns them into DW names which don't work because those people or groups aren't on DW), so then I have to go back and make hard links and fix my post in both places and it's a complete fucking hassle.

anyhow.

This morning I woke up with a sore throat and no voice, but I took yesterday off to do preparations for the midwinter holiday and can't very well call in sick after taking a three day weekend. So I guess it's cold meds for me, and pray that it's quiet at work. It's only a three day week because I took Friday off for that memory testing thing I've been anticipating for ever and ever. Hope I'm done being sick by then. With luck maybe it's just an allergic reaction to the almond meal in the muffins. I should never have put that in there, I'm quite aware that I'm mildly allergic to almonds.

Btw, amaranth muffins that have been sitting around for too long begin to smell something like the aftermath of an electrical fire. It's disconcerting.

Desk is a mess (drifts of reciepts), dishes need doing (much more likely to happen than that the desk gets cleaned up) but at least some of the presents and cards have gone out, and a few more might do so this morning before work.

I love to buy people little things, usually, but at this time of year I hate it because I think they might think I'm doing it out of duty and trying to buy their love. Maybe that is the real reason I miss all birthdays and holidays.