byslantedlight | Lj glitchy tonight

I hate to say this, but my lj is glitching alot tonight. I hope that's all it is, just glitches (or else my internet rather than my lj), but like alot of people I'm worried about the effect that sanctions etc. is going to have on our access to lj, and only hope we're small enough fry to fly under the radar... you know, and other mixed metaphors...

Thanks to

curiouswombat (very thank you!), I've managed to save my 17 years of lj entries as Word documents to my own hard drive - phew! I've been wanting something like this programme for ages, and this actually worked - BlogBooker. I paid for the "Standard" package, and it seems to have done the trick, though I don't think I have much of it left - my lj runs to nearly 2000 pages for some years, and two years were actually too big to be opened as Word docs due to all the images I posted, so I'm going to have to fiddle around with them (there's a work-around in Word for docs bigger than 512mb...)

I've also backed up/re-imported my lj to Dreamwidth (same user name if anyone wants to find me *g*), despite my many reservations, and also

discoveredinalj,

ci5hq, and

prosficindex (which is less useful because dw doesn't seem to have sticky posts so we can keep the index at the top...) I'm working on

ci5hq_dnoticed and

prosrecordsroom (Palelyloitering), but they're currently importing everything except journal entries and comments... *headdesk*

I'm very much hoping that

kiwisue is re-backing up

the_safehouse (she's the current owner) and that the owners of other lj comms are doing something similar somewhere - I hate that we might lose so much of our history... that a man waging war can do so much damage to something that (mostly) women have created as their space for so long...

What I really wanted to post was my pond pictures, and my three squirrels, and my two lads. Let's have some lads, anyway.