Livejournal Issues and more

I'm having some weird issues with livejournal today and lately. This morning it wouldn't load on my computer, it would act like it was loading and stall forever, on both firefox and safari. I expected today to be another great blackout day with lots of angry posts by paid members, but I haven't seen a thing.

I have noticed some people complaining about being friended by mysterious accounts, and I've noticed it on my account as well. The accounts seem like real lj members, but have no friends or communities in common with the friended party. I don't really care--it's not like friending me allows access to my friends only posts or anything--but some people are pretty freaked out.

Today I found three friending notifications in my email, from three alphabetically adjacent accounts: abustellae, acegaal, and accosovay. They list 280, 265, and 280 friends each, they all have one another as friends, and they have four friends in common with me--all cartoonists. I haven't looked at their journals yet, and it could be innocent, or a coincidence, but it seems pretty weird. If you guys are real, say hello and tell me why you friended me please!

In other news, it's over 60 degrees in Boston and I want to hang out outside all day! I've got a little outside work to do later on today, but I spent the morning in a too-hot surgery room. I have a bunch of lies I want to tell about New Hampshire, but it will have to wait until this afternoon.

Noticing the Year: 01/08/08

On npr today, the weather in New Hampshire was described as "unseasonably bearable."

In Boston we hit a new record: 66 degrees! (that's 19 c) Everyone likes that. It's probably one of two dozen days a year in Boston that's within 5 degrees of 70. (It drives me crazy when people say they like it when it's 70: It's never 70. I want to tell these people "then never go outside.") Last year at this time (when it only got up to about 63 or so) I wore shorts to work and got myself a vulture bite. The vultures I work with now are chickens compared to old Orville.

Noticing the Year: 01/07/08

My commute takes place at both dusk and dawn (a nine hour shift, nicely coinciding with our nine hours of daylight in winter) and so I see the sunrise and sunset from my car. I thought it was about time for me to pull over and appreciate the sun setting over Franklin Park.