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I ranted on this a little when I first started using LJ, and I’ve mentioned things here and there that bothered me, and some of the things that bothered me got fixed. So, I figured that I’d put my current comprehensive list in one place:

• While the Friends List aggregates people’s posts, it doesn’t do a good job of showing me what entries and comments are not yet read… I have to wade through the list to find what might interest me, and if there are any unread comments.
• The spell checker doesn’t understand contractions.
• The spell checker doesn’t understand HTML.
• The spell checker doesn’t understand UTF-8 (which is the default). That is, if you type anything that’s not in the ASCII 128-character set, it confuses the spell-checker.
• Journal entries display local time (Eastern); comments display server time (Pacific).
• The update journal form sets the time by default to the time that you start updating. I’d prefer it to simply puts in the server time of the time that you post it if you don’t specify a time to override it with. Sometimes I’ll spend hours between starting a post and finishing it because I’m doing other things, and then I sometimes write about those things I’m doing, but each time I finish writing a post I have to go set the time on it to the current time.
• There’s no way for a visitor to ask a question and/or start a conversation topic on “my” page… Visitors can only comment on what I’ve started. While I’d certainly want this to be an optional feature, there’s something here that seems missing. There’s no easy search feature to grep through your journal (not that I saw, anyway, while trying to construct this post)

Maybe the way I want LJ to work just isn’t how the rest of the world does. Although, for some parts that I want to be different, I don’t have a good description of what it is exactly that I want to change. Perhaps I should look at some of the other logging sites out there to see if I like one of them better. (Google recently launched one.)

We now have both hot and cold running water. This is a Good Thing™.

I spent my evening eating supper, playing an hour of FF3, and watching Planet of the Apes with my lovely wife. I’ve never actually seen the Apes series before, so it’s nice to finally the first installment of it. We bought the DVD from Wal★Mart shortly after we got married (along with a bunch of other just-moving-in stuff), and finally opened and watched it today.

So, last weekend and I housesat at ‘s place while he went to his sister’s wedding. It was nice to relax, and nice to have pets for a few days. Their dog was scared of us at first, but had warmed up to us by the end of the weekend. We also got to take advantage of their video collection, and watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Left Behind, and Contact. Other memorable events include a game of Scrabble, where I beat my wife by just a few points. I was quite proud of myself for beating an English major.

After work Friday, I returned to ‘s place to discover that I had left my keyboard at work and that there wasn’t anything especially interesting around there to have for supper. So, & I went back to West Boylston to retreive my keyboard and go out to supper at PJ’s. We then went to Prof. Yang’s house (she’s one of ‘s professors) to watch a French movie (with English subtitles) titled Amélie. It was good in parts, but seemed to add random gratuitous sex scenes.

Wednesday saw little of interest. Yesterday (Thursday) night and I left for ‘s place to housesit for them as he and his family heads for Texas for his sister’s wedding. So, we get to live in a house for a few days.

And now I’m off to get ready for work.

So, I saw my friend and his girlfriend together, and they, , and I went to The Pizza Stop for supper. Was nice to see him again.

Also, I stopped by Boynton Hall to pay for my summer class in Adaptive Web Technologies. The course looks like it covers the specifics of a lot of web technologies, so hopefully I’ll learn something.

Now, I’m wasting time doing nothing in particular on the Internet. Like writing this entry. Now I think I’ll go play more FF3.

Yesterday (Sunday) we went to church, went to my parents’ place and played Pitch, went to my Grandma’s place and ate a big lunch, and then went back to our place with my brother and played other random games. Had much fun.

One particularly interesting game of Halo: The settings were Team Slayer (Ben & vs. me), 15 kills, all players invisible, 50% health, rocket launchers, on Chiron. Here were the final stats:

This morning we went with the Costa Rica team to the PIP Shelter to help out. We sorted through items, cleaned up and threw out a lot of trash, cut up cakes, and helped serve lunch. It was quite productive and a good team-building activity.

We napped in the afternoon, and then had over for supper (tacos). We chatted for a bit, played pool in the Campus Center, and then the three of us headed over to ‘s place to hang out with him, , and .

Well, the results of my first MMD draft were pretty good. I won 2 out of my 3 matches, placing me in 4th out of 10. I also won a cool shiny promotional card.

But now, time for bed.

Well, I finished my first exciting week of full-time permanent work.

Tonight Jessi & I are going to TJ Collectibles to try a draft game in Friday Night Magic.