Westy is Wild Again

Yep, in my comments manager I have 166 spam comments to delete! Oh what fun! I received no mails about them, the system does seem to do a good job of filtering, but I think it’s ridiculous!

Go to your “manage comments” and see if a red number appears above the comment link… click on the number and see all the “lovely” spam.

I’ve pretty well decided to blog at blogspot. I did try importing the last entries here… when I did it the first time it worked, the second time it didn’t. OH, well….

No, I won’t be deleting. I still check here every day to see what’s going on.

So, off I go to delete all those spam…. see ya!

Once upon a time there was a well loved land called Jayesse. It was a happy place where people enjoyed sharing each other’s tales.

But then, as often happens, problems and woes arose. The Furies were called upon to save Jayesse, but to no avail… Jayesse as it was no longer exists. They lost to the Peanuts, then they lost to a major desaster….. and the Furies separated to various other lands.

Read about the Tale of the Furies and the Legend of Jayesse….

Once upon a time……

Well, since today is Friday, I guess it is the weekend. Only problem is, I teach a duty class on Sunday! About 25 people have signed up for it. It means getting some overtime, of course, which is nice.

I’m carefully watching the weather. We have STRONG winds at the moment, especially in the higher elevations (which in my area reach only about 3000 ft. MSL) and ice-rain. The predicted ice-rain for yesterday never came… we had clear blue skies! … goes to show how lousy the weather guessers work. The claim there will be sunshine on Sunday… we shall see.

Tomorrow morning I’m planning to finally visit my son and his family. I’ve been home a whole week already and haven’t seen them! And tomorrow afternoon my daughter may stop by with her gang.

I haven’t been having the urge to write much lately, and I haven’t even felt like reading journals too much. I just somehow can’t get used to not writing on our beloved journalspace. This place without pm and homepage, the new journalspace lots of spam members, comments, and what have you and just not user friendly.

OK, enough whining… outside it’s pouring rain and together with the stormy winds I’m sure glad I can stay home. TV program is boring so maybe I’ll put in a DVD…. or maybe read a book?

Dorrie

AS always on Thursdays, I’m going to have a busy day. First of all I have telephone duty, which means I have to stay at the office until 4:30 pm. Since I begin at 07:00, that makes a 9 hour day, with a half-hour lunch break.

After that it’s off to my other dance class. I have to drive about 45 minutes to get there, and afterwards 45 minutes home again, and that in possible forcasted ice-rain! Hopefully not! Last night’s dance class went great… 18 people, with 2 new ones.

Anyway, I won’t be online much until late tonight.

Oooops, time to get going… streets are possibly already slick (it’s -1°C outside).

Don’t forget to go vote in my forum (in the JS chat section).

Dorrie

Over at my Fun Forum I have written an entry about the “new” journalspace.com. I would like to read your opinions on it. More members have deleted today so I think it’s time to see what the general concensus is.

I have also set up a poll about it.

If you’re not a member yet, it’s easy to become one. It may take a while before I can do the manual activation so don’t worry, I’ll get around to it eventually.

I know, I know… I shouldn’t bother with it and I should give them more time, but I see too many of you getting frustrated (like I am).

I’m off to my dance classes now… no time to catch up to all of you, but perhaps later.

Dorrie

Back to normal…..my journal here.
The comments now work and I know the trick for fixing it in case it happens again to me or anyone else (thanks Alaskanwarrior!). As you can see, I’ve played around with the layout a bit. Not much…. yet. But you guys know me, soon I’ll be busy being creative.

Back to normal… my work week.
So far it has been without any big problems, but Jerk T. was a jerk once again. If he keeps it up, he’s going to be in for some big trouble. Luckily the big jerk, Jerk D., is retireing in less then 2 months!! yay!

Back to normal… my dance classes.
They start up tomorrow again. I really don’t feel like doing them, but I know they will be fun (great people in them) and they are good excercise for me.

Back to normal… my cat.
She wasn’t mad at me for leaving her for two weeks.

Back to normal… the weather.
It’s been less cold the past days, and today the sun actually was shining, like in Washington, D.C., which I’m watching on German TV while I type.

Back to normal… my blogging.
Hopefully I’ll start up-dating more regularly again. I’ll try to do my best. I’m still jumping around between this one and the one in the “new” JS.

Back to normal… my time schedule.
I’m hungry. I had absolutely NO problem with jet lag! So I better go fix something. It’s almost 06:00 pm my time… inauguration time USA. Poor time to be writing… you are ALL glued to the TV’s, right?

Back to normal…. yep, everything’s back to normal!

Dorrie

*sigh* In an hour I drive off for my first day back at work since my vacation.

Obviously, I am NOT looking forward to it. I have no idea what will be awaiting me. Those that were on my fav list in the old JS may have read about the problems I have had there with a certain jerk. On Wednesday and Thursday I also have my dance classes.

It seems I woke up this morning with some sniffles! There was not a hint of it yesterday… oh, dear.

At least the temps outside are above freezing (3°C / 37°F).

So, this was just a short entry to say “hi” with. I may report more later on how my work day went… or maybe not.

I don’t even have an interesting picture to share with y’all! LOL

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First day went well… the “Jerk” wasn’t there most of the time and there was nothing serious going on or to do. The boss was out sick as well as two other collegues.

The weather is mild, about 8°C/ 46°F, but VERY windy!

I hope all of you are having a good start to your week. I’ve noticed a big drop in new entries, no matter whether here or at the new JS, not to forget my forum which is now collecting dust. boohoo I started putting an excel spread sheet of old names of everyone and matching that to your new blogging homes, but I need some help with it. Anyone able? Send me a pm via my forum.

Btw., since blogspot doesn’t have a pm system, you can still use the one in the forum….

OK, have things to do. See y’all around!

Dorrie

EDIT!

I just realised the comments don’t work…. this is an imported layout and it has that bug that many others have been having. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

EDIT AGAIN! I went back to one of the original blogger layouts, it still won’t work! As if I wasn’t frustrated enough…. *sigh*

I just found this Coast Guard Video of the crash! At about 2 minutes you see the airplane hit the water. It’s very small, but then they zoom in and you see how quick people already started exiting onto the wings.

Since linking doesn’t seem to work here yet, I’ll just put the url here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1232166872

Yes, I know I could go to the html tab and perhaps add it, but I really don’t have the time to mess with all that. But I did want to share it with all of you.

Westy aka Dorrie

found this picture this morning… though I’m sure most of you are following your own press sites…

good morning everyone!! Thank you for the comments in my last entry. I actually slept through the night, though the 3rd night is usually the worst for jetlag. I was surprised when I woke up it was 07:30 am.

I have lots to do here, like go out shopping… but it’s all ICE outside! Wheelie just warned me NOT to go out… there’s ice-rain. Luckily there’s a small grocery store walking distance from my apartment where I can pick up some necessities.

Regina brought my cat, Shila, back to me last night. I think Shila missed me pretty much, lol.

I have loads of wash to get started and also finish unpacking my suitcase.

I posted the last entry also in my new journalspace journal and added a picture. I still don’t care for the Wordpress format and it’s difficult to find MY favorite people without trying to find them in the memberlist.

This photo was taken after take-off in San Diego and shows Mission Bay, where I was able to meet up with Fitzgerald .

Somewhere in this mass of buildings, about in the middle of the picture below, my parents live. I tried to add an arrow but it was too small to see so I left it out… besides, I was too tired to mess around with it last night, heehee. Also, Kashew’s home is also there somewhere. I also flew past John’s town but the plane was already too high to pick it out.

I did try waving at a few of you on my way East…. did y’all see me? LOL

Well, this is NOT getting anything accomplished. Most of you are sleeping while I write this and will hopefully stop by when you wake up. Gosh I miss the old JS format!!

Dorrie

Yes, I arrived safe and sound. Both flights were uneventful, unlike the one that hit the Hudson. I heard about that crash just as we were boarding in San Diego. In spite of 10 minute delay for “mechanical reasons” (the pilot needed to run the engine because of something he noticed during his outside check), no one decided NOT to fly and we arrived in Washington, on time! That was good, because I had a very short transfer time. No up-grading to business class this trip *snif*

Now I’m back in Germany, one hour EARLIER than planned because of strong tail winds…. according to the pilot, stronger than he’s ever experienced in his career.

Now I’m back to the snow and around 0°C (32°F) My suitcase is half unpacked, the rest will be done tomorrow. My daughter, Regina, has already brought the cat back. And on Monday it’s back to work again!

Now I’ll see how much catching up I can do…. probably not much.

Dorrie