So yeah, I've been offline a few days.

No technical reason.  Just ... felt like hiding in the corner or something.  It's becoming so hard to find any joy in anything any more.  The closest I come is escapes, and many of those are palling; I can hardly work up any interest in reading anything, for example.  I unsubscribed from puns, sages_of_chaos and engineers because I couldn't remember the last time I'd bothered to read a post in any of the them.  Almost left barrayar, too, considering how dead it is ... it was pretty much stillborn.  Well, it's not like any attempt on my part to create any kind of social gathering has ever been successful.  I do social about as well as a flatworm does nuclear physics.

So tonight I start up Logjam, and Logjam says I haven't logged in for 18 days, log in now?  Sure, OK.  Knock yourself out.  So Logjam logs in and I get a popup window saying LiveJournal thinks my password is too easy to guess and I should change it.  Well, yeah, I suppose technically it might be found by a dictionary attack, if the hypothetical attacker tried every language on the planet, but it probably wouldn't be that much quicker than bruteforcing it, and EVERY PASSWORD can eventually be bruteforced, given fast enough access to make sufficient attempts.  Did they just say "Whatever" and spam every user with this stupid warning?  I've never, ever had a machine or account compromised through a password attack.  (Matter of fact, I've never had a machine under my full control compromised, period, though cymrullewes' machine was rooted by a worm exploiting a BIND8 hole once.)  It's not like my password is, say, password1 or something, or 11111 as was used by the operations director of a former employer.  (When finally persuaded how weak this was, he changed it ... to qqqqq.)

I have no theme and no message here.  I'm just rambling.  I'm tired of my foot hurting, and my knees hurting, and my back hurting, and right now I feel vaguely nauseous as well.