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[unixronin]

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[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Data point: They didn't log me out.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Me neither. It did happen a few days ago, though.

Is this logging out other than the sixty day expiry they seem to have?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It's always seemed pretty random to me. Certainly doesn't seem to have followed a 60-day pattern.

[anda.livejournal.com]

Nor me.

Man, why does your life contain a never-ending string of unhappy things and events?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Maybe I pissed in the Buddha's wheaties in a past life.







(Seriously, there is good shit too ....)

[anda.livejournal.com]

Have you ever considered that it might make you a happier person (if only in that 'faking it till making it' way initially) if you took a more positive approach in your life (which doesn't have to equate to "head in the sand")?

To put a rather pointed point on it, I find reading your journal (and much of your commentary on bitmines) these days to be frustrating and offputting because it seems to be driven largely by impotent rage, frustration, and unhappiness.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I don't do "perky" well.




I know, that's not what you meant. But I don't have a better answer for you right now.

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[anda.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I still don't do "perky", nor am likely to in the future.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Wasn't suggesting you did. :) It's just ... well, I really don't have a good answer. "Fake it until you make it" (in whatever context) has never worked for me, and it's a concept I just don't understand, and often don't seem to be able to get across to people why I don't understand it. If I could do it, I would be, and if I can't do it, how the heck am I supposed to fake it? It's sort of like being asked to fake having three legs or being six inches shorter.

Maybe that's just that I never saw any point in learning to fake anything. If it's worth doing, just do it; and if you can't learn to do it, there's no point in faking it, because if you pretend you can do something that you really can't, you end up screwing both yourself and the people you misled into depending on you to do it.

As for the rest ... well, yeah, there's a lot I see that makes me angry. If it didn't make me angry, I wouldn't be the same person. I'm not sure I'd like the person I'd have to be for it not to make me angry. There's a lot that frustrates me. I'm trying to work on what I can out of that set and improve it. And there's a fair bit that makes me unhappy, and I'm trying to work on what I can, but a lot of it is beyond my control. (Chronic pain, for instance.) Sometimes it seems like the bad outweighs the good. I'm hoping that'll improve. But I can't just snap my fingers and make it improve.

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[anda.livejournal.com]

I agree that neither you nor any of us can snap our fingers and magically improve anything immediately. Hell, that's exactly the kind of magical thinking that I fight in myself all the time. ("If I can just do X, suddenly everything will be better!")

There are lots of contexts in which you can't really fake it - I wouldn't recommend faking being a doctor or lawyer or programmer or paramedic.

In an emotional context, it can work, because we're all emotional feedback machines, and we can fool ourselves, reframe our worlds, through the power of thinking. It's like the whole thing about smiling while you greet someone on the phone - when you smile, you sound happier. It's making myself concentrate on things that are good or accomplishments I have had (instead of the ones I don't).

It ain't a rose garden, it ain't all bunnies and rainbows, but it also ain't quite so many anger headaches and lost nights of sleep.

There's an awful lot out there that would make me angry, if I wasn't busy with living the rest of my life and hadn't realized that a) I can't really do much about them and b) in order to do even a little bit about them, I would have to quit doing the other things that I am doing. It's not just the angry things - I could go get myself an MBA to further my career, but I'd have to quit doing the SCA and I consider the SCA more important right now.

Anyway - feel free to email me if you'd rather not continue this by LJ comment in a completely unrelated post, since I suspect you're a "can't let a response go unresponded to" person, like me.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

For all the times you've posted this, it's never lost my cookies.
Perhaps your browser is complicit in this matter?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It seems it's not consistent in how it behaves. Some people seem to get their login cookies reset every week. Some can go a month or two at a time. Some just seem to go on forever. Mine seem to get reset about once or twice a year, usually just after something at LiveJournal has changed in a significant way, which leads me to assume — perhaps incorrectly — that LiveJournal is doing something to reset them.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

When my wife still used IE, she complained of cookie resets at least once a week. Since switching to Firefox, only twice (both seemingly correlated with upgrades on her system).

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've never used Intarweb Exploiter when I could avoid it. And in fact, since (a) discovering windizupdate.com and (b) ditching Comcast (the only service vendor I used who had an ONLY-works-in-IE website), I no longer ever have to use it at all. I've been using Firefox since it first came out.




Of course, cumulative OS bitrot is always a possibility. It's long past time I did a complete OS reinstall-and-refresh on this machine. I just wish I had a spare machine (of comparable performance) I could bring up in parallel and just migrate the user accounts to ... it's so much less painful doing it that way.