Spring Has Sprung
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uhsirHey there friends! Long time no hear.
Well, in the past six months I was traveling for about half the time. Fun stuff only, no work. Pshaw! Work is soooo over! And after we got home from each of the (two) trips, we sort of just vegetated for the next week or so. It's kind of weird cuz it takes us only a few days to get used to living in a 40 ft by 8 ft space but it takes weeks to get back into "home" mode.
My most important task that I'm working on right now is to get my videos uploaded to my YouTube account. Those of you who have known me for a while are rereading that I'm sure. Yes, it's true. I'm giving that lousy, rotten, no good site another chance. They seem to have gotten over their paranoia and are, at least so far, letting me keep my videos up as long as I enter a dispute on the ones that get flagged, which has been most of them. Even with the dispute though, they usually still end up being blocked in Germany. I'm sorry to all my friends in Germany. That's totally unfair.
The reason why I'm focusing on getting them on YouTube though is really driven by a problem that I'm having with DivShare. After YouTube started threatening me with DMCA violations way back when, I found DivShare and put up lo-res versions of each video there, which I then used for streaming here on LiveJournal. But for some reason that isn't working anymore. I think it might be because DivShare is now part of or maybe acquired by Kadoo. And whatever Kadoo is doing ain't workin'. I'm not the only one with the problem so maybe they'll work it out eventually. Until then though I'm working my way backwards through my video posts and putting them onto YouTube and updating the streaming links.
And back in real life...
Now that spring is here it means we have to get out and fix the yard. Last year we had all the fill brought in and grass planted. Well, a lot of it just plain did not take. All around the house we have mostly dead grass. And out in the front we had to dethatch cuz it was really nasty. I think that battle with the clover is most of the gunk. After the dethatching we had to put down new seed. So now I'm completely sore all over but mostly my knees are killing me from constant working of the lawn tractor pedals. It really all boils down to one simple thing: Completely. Out of. Shape!
One last thing...
I went to the dentist yesterday. I hate dentists because I've always been horrible about caring for my teeth and now I'm suffering the consequences of that. Anyway, all the dentists ever do is make my mouth hurt more. Until yesterday. Since we moved out here to the middle of nowhere we called around and found a local dentist rather than travel 75 miles to our previous one. Well, I've been having severe sensitivity for about 25 years in one tooth and not one single dentist over all these years was able to fix it. Until this one. He drilled out the filling and found decay and kept drilling to get it all out. It left me with about 20% of a tooth. So he packed in a medicated temporary filling and wants me back in two weeks to get a cap put on but only if there isn't anymore pain. I was to call his office this morning to let him know. Guess what? There's no more pain! It's the weirdest feeling right now when I drink or eat something cold cuz I'm all set for the sharp ZING to shoot from my tooth up into my head but it doesn't happen. I LOVE THIS GUY!
Okie doke, that's enough from me for now. Huggles to everyone!
Well, in the past six months I was traveling for about half the time. Fun stuff only, no work. Pshaw! Work is soooo over! And after we got home from each of the (two) trips, we sort of just vegetated for the next week or so. It's kind of weird cuz it takes us only a few days to get used to living in a 40 ft by 8 ft space but it takes weeks to get back into "home" mode.
My most important task that I'm working on right now is to get my videos uploaded to my YouTube account. Those of you who have known me for a while are rereading that I'm sure. Yes, it's true. I'm giving that lousy, rotten, no good site another chance. They seem to have gotten over their paranoia and are, at least so far, letting me keep my videos up as long as I enter a dispute on the ones that get flagged, which has been most of them. Even with the dispute though, they usually still end up being blocked in Germany. I'm sorry to all my friends in Germany. That's totally unfair.
The reason why I'm focusing on getting them on YouTube though is really driven by a problem that I'm having with DivShare. After YouTube started threatening me with DMCA violations way back when, I found DivShare and put up lo-res versions of each video there, which I then used for streaming here on LiveJournal. But for some reason that isn't working anymore. I think it might be because DivShare is now part of or maybe acquired by Kadoo. And whatever Kadoo is doing ain't workin'. I'm not the only one with the problem so maybe they'll work it out eventually. Until then though I'm working my way backwards through my video posts and putting them onto YouTube and updating the streaming links.
And back in real life...
Now that spring is here it means we have to get out and fix the yard. Last year we had all the fill brought in and grass planted. Well, a lot of it just plain did not take. All around the house we have mostly dead grass. And out in the front we had to dethatch cuz it was really nasty. I think that battle with the clover is most of the gunk. After the dethatching we had to put down new seed. So now I'm completely sore all over but mostly my knees are killing me from constant working of the lawn tractor pedals. It really all boils down to one simple thing: Completely. Out of. Shape!
One last thing...
I went to the dentist yesterday. I hate dentists because I've always been horrible about caring for my teeth and now I'm suffering the consequences of that. Anyway, all the dentists ever do is make my mouth hurt more. Until yesterday. Since we moved out here to the middle of nowhere we called around and found a local dentist rather than travel 75 miles to our previous one. Well, I've been having severe sensitivity for about 25 years in one tooth and not one single dentist over all these years was able to fix it. Until this one. He drilled out the filling and found decay and kept drilling to get it all out. It left me with about 20% of a tooth. So he packed in a medicated temporary filling and wants me back in two weeks to get a cap put on but only if there isn't anymore pain. I was to call his office this morning to let him know. Guess what? There's no more pain! It's the weirdest feeling right now when I drink or eat something cold cuz I'm all set for the sharp ZING to shoot from my tooth up into my head but it doesn't happen. I LOVE THIS GUY!
Okie doke, that's enough from me for now. Huggles to everyone!
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Date: April 16th, 2011 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: April 16th, 2011 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: April 16th, 2011 04:43 am (UTC)Yeah, I don't really have much love for Youtube (or any other vid site). How do you dispute again? I have a few vids that are blocked worldwide and I would love if I could unblock them.
*hugs for bothering knees*
I do not touch the yard, it is not pretty but the guys we hire keep it alive :P
Yay for no pain and finding a good dentist :)
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Date: April 16th, 2011 06:28 am (UTC)http://fairusetube.org/guide-to-youtube-removals
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Date: April 16th, 2011 04:47 pm (UTC)