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There's a post on Diana Wynne Jones over at my website blog. One of my goals in 2015 is to a) resurrect that blog, and b) start actively using it. Well, it's part of a larger plan to do more serious author stuff in 2015, including working on some sort of Organized Social Media Presence (TM).

.... Not that myself and "organized" belong in the same sentence. Ha. Along those lines, I'm not sure if I've mentioned here that I have a Twitter which has languished in obscurity forever but I AM NOW ACTUALLY UPDATING.

And, further developing the topic of not being organized ... hello, LJ and DW! You can see I fell completely off the regular posting bandwagon. I still have a number of December questions to answer (I know I said I might not answer them, which may sadly become true, but I really want to; there were some excellent questions!) and I will try to start up the I-Man rewatch posts again at some point.

I did manage to write 4 ficlets so far for

fandom_stocking, which I feel good about. I would like to write some more, but the unveiling is tomorrow or thereabouts, which makes it unlikely I'll manage more since most of tomorrow will be taken up with RL stuff. ETA: Fandom Stocking is also looking for volunteers to help fill stockings if you have a bit of free time!

I've also just discovered that a bill I know I paid went to a collection agency, and I have no idea what to do about it. It is a very small bill too! Should I just pay it again? Disputing sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Augh. Adulting is hard. /o\

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? I tried to write a comment on your DWJ post... and the internet ate it and said 'invalid security'. *sigh* and I was logged into my wordpress!

Whaaaaa? I'm so sorry it did that! Let me do some testing and see if I can figure out what's wrong. :(

yea, no idea if it's my end or what.

No, it did it to me too. I'm currently going through my settings (I'm pretty sure it's a problem with my plugins, because I have a couple of plugins allowing people to comment from different sites, and I'm fairly sure that's what's screwing up). I'll report back after some more testing ...

BLEH. COMPUTERS.

Well, I found out what's doing it - it's my spam blocker. :/ It's not just blocking spam - it's blocking EVERYTHING!

I've disabled it for now, so you should be able to go ahead and comment! :) I'm going to do some more testing to see if there's a way to reconfigure it to allow comments through (I found some support threads, and it looks like it's probably conflicting with another plugin I use, but the other plugin does about a million useful things and it'd be easier to just find a new spam blocker ... I think ...).

Anyway, thank you for letting me know about it; I never even thought there might be a problem! I'm sorry it ate your comment! Everything should be working now though. *crosses fingers*

lol - but now I gotta remember what I was rambling about!!!! :P

You don't have to feel obligated, though I'd love to hear your thoughts! It really doesn't give you any options either, does it? It just kinda slams a wall down and woops, no more comment. :P

I've enabled a different spam blocker and posted a test comment with my wordpress account (which worked) so hopefully both the comment problem and the spam problem are now solved.

Yayyyy, your comment posted! :)

... however, my website is about to go down completely for a bit. XD I've been having occasional connection issues, and I finally got an email back on my support ticket, which says I need to change the DNS servers. This is going to make laylalawlor.com impossible to connect to for a day or two. I'm about to log in and do it now!

So I'll reply to your comment once it's back! :D

lol - no rush. just being chatty

My husband claims that simply changing the DNS server -- which I've now done -- should not cause downtime (at least no more than I was having before) so I'll go ahead and attempt to reply. :D