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The messes from yesterday seem to be getting sorted out, and are my big feet cause or effect?
Okay, I think I have sorted out the mess with having installed another Semagic when there was already one installed. Duh. I remembered clearly Eor having told me he'd downloaded dictionaries for American and UK English, and the odd fact that there is no Finnish dictionary because the spelling rules are too confusing. But still, I couldn't find it on my Start menu. I still can't, but I'm fairly sure I can fix that. (Or maybe it will fix itself because I'm using it? Because I think sometimes icons get added to the Start menu without my asking them to be there.) (ETA: Easily fixed. Right-clicking on the icon offers the option 'pin to start menu.')
And I'm glad to see that LiveJournal seems to be sorting out their mess. I have made changes in my interests list, although I'm reasonably sure none of it could be misinterpreted, and I'll make changes to the way my fics are stored - I plan to move them all to my own website, turning all the cuts into link-throughs. That'll make it more difficult for people who want to comment; they'll have to go back to my journal to do so, an extra click that might discourage some. However, if my story is not stored on LJ's server they can't in any way be construed as being responsible for it. And, hey, it's my story - I want to be responsible for it.
I wonder if this whole thing will cause people to start adding new disclaimers to their stories? I know I feel like doing so. "There may be sex, violence and bad manners in the following work of fiction. I wish to make it clear that I in no way condone or endorse these actions, and no animals were harmed in the writing of this story."
Seriously, though, I DO approve of people putting ratings on their stories, and I should probably choose a rating for my story at some point. I might just choose R and then re-rate it lower after I'm done writing it if it doesn't live up to that billing. When I was a kid the books I randomely picked up didn't seem to be rated in any way that I noticed and I did occasionally stumble into reading things that were a bit more harsh than I expected, but when I snuck into R rated movies I understood that I was taking on adult responsibility - and when I complained about the movie later I just said I didn't like it because it was 'boring.' ;)
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I have very wide toes and it's quite hard to find shoes that really give me enough room, so for a while now I've been kind of putting up. And I think this has been a bad idea. My little toes, especially the right one, have become folded in and developed a ridge of callus on the underside where they get pinched. When we were in Minneapolis my right little toe was in great pain after walking around all day. And day before yesterday I decided to wear my Limmer boots to walk to work, reasoning that I still haven't got them properly broke in and we intend to hike this summer. Made a nice blister on my right little toe, right under the callus. Of course the boots I wear for work also pinch just a little in the same place, and I was limping all day. (It helps a lot to wrap a band-aid around it and get it to straighten out a little, not fold under quite so badly, but yesterday I couldn't put my feet into sneakers without pain and walking all the way to work was out of the question. I took the bus and wore my flip-flops, walked only like a mile and a half. I was just very glad I didn't have to stand at work while jammed into my work boots.)
But day before yesterday when I came home I said to Eor that I wished I could get those little toes amputated, because then my feet might fit into normal shoes.
"No, you wouldn't want to do that," he said to me, "Think how much more you'd fall down! Your feet are broad for a reason. God gave you big feet to make up for how uncoordinated you are."
"What!" said I. "No, I developed these feet because I'm uncoordinated! No, wait. Here's me talking like a Lamarkist and you talking like a Creationist. 'God gave me these feet' - right. Here's the Darwinist answer: Because I had these feet I never actually needed to learn to walk."
And I'm glad to see that LiveJournal seems to be sorting out their mess. I have made changes in my interests list, although I'm reasonably sure none of it could be misinterpreted, and I'll make changes to the way my fics are stored - I plan to move them all to my own website, turning all the cuts into link-throughs. That'll make it more difficult for people who want to comment; they'll have to go back to my journal to do so, an extra click that might discourage some. However, if my story is not stored on LJ's server they can't in any way be construed as being responsible for it. And, hey, it's my story - I want to be responsible for it.
I wonder if this whole thing will cause people to start adding new disclaimers to their stories? I know I feel like doing so. "There may be sex, violence and bad manners in the following work of fiction. I wish to make it clear that I in no way condone or endorse these actions, and no animals were harmed in the writing of this story."
Seriously, though, I DO approve of people putting ratings on their stories, and I should probably choose a rating for my story at some point. I might just choose R and then re-rate it lower after I'm done writing it if it doesn't live up to that billing. When I was a kid the books I randomely picked up didn't seem to be rated in any way that I noticed and I did occasionally stumble into reading things that were a bit more harsh than I expected, but when I snuck into R rated movies I understood that I was taking on adult responsibility - and when I complained about the movie later I just said I didn't like it because it was 'boring.' ;)
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I have very wide toes and it's quite hard to find shoes that really give me enough room, so for a while now I've been kind of putting up. And I think this has been a bad idea. My little toes, especially the right one, have become folded in and developed a ridge of callus on the underside where they get pinched. When we were in Minneapolis my right little toe was in great pain after walking around all day. And day before yesterday I decided to wear my Limmer boots to walk to work, reasoning that I still haven't got them properly broke in and we intend to hike this summer. Made a nice blister on my right little toe, right under the callus. Of course the boots I wear for work also pinch just a little in the same place, and I was limping all day. (It helps a lot to wrap a band-aid around it and get it to straighten out a little, not fold under quite so badly, but yesterday I couldn't put my feet into sneakers without pain and walking all the way to work was out of the question. I took the bus and wore my flip-flops, walked only like a mile and a half. I was just very glad I didn't have to stand at work while jammed into my work boots.)
But day before yesterday when I came home I said to Eor that I wished I could get those little toes amputated, because then my feet might fit into normal shoes.
"No, you wouldn't want to do that," he said to me, "Think how much more you'd fall down! Your feet are broad for a reason. God gave you big feet to make up for how uncoordinated you are."
"What!" said I. "No, I developed these feet because I'm uncoordinated! No, wait. Here's me talking like a Lamarkist and you talking like a Creationist. 'God gave me these feet' - right. Here's the Darwinist answer: Because I had these feet I never actually needed to learn to walk."