Today is Friday

Not sure how this day is going to turn out.

Yesterday, before I left work, I discovered that there's a good chance I was entirely wrong again, regarding the fish. Poor Erestor was dead, sunk to the bottom. Checking with other aquarium keepers, it seems it was quite possible the little fellow was gorging himself on baby snails and that they continued to live and grow after he ate them. Not a pretty thought.

Erestor did have some battle wounds.. he and Elladan never got along well at all (neither did Elladan and Elrohir), but those had healed over and weren't infected. Still, could have been anything.

And now, Arwen's just swimming around, all alone. Well, with all the other fish, but she's the only angelfish left in the group.

Despite this sadness (Erestor was such a pretty fish, I hope I have some pictures of him), I was cheered up this morning by one of my co-workers. I think I mentioned at some point in general that on Fridays I will sometimes stay late and sometimes listen to Indian music while staying late. Anyhow, he came in this morning and sang a bit of a Hindi song to me. He had mentioned at some point before that when he taught econ, he would have the students sing at the beginning of class or else would teach them some poetry. When someone asked what it had to do with econ, he said, 'nothing, but this will help you more in life than economics will'. It was a very nice way to start my way too early friday morning, I must say. ^_^

Still trying to research it a little more...

sylc brought up the fact that some of us are getting letters from a place called fanlib.com that has some questionable language in their terms of service.

I'm still waiting for a reply back to the message I sent to them. The letter looks like a form letter type thing, and I don't appreciate people pretending to love my work when really they just think they could make a buck off the fact I've done a lot of stuff. So, there it is. We shall see what happens.

Anyone else get an invite from Fanlib? I have a feeling that they hit lotrfanfiction.com and looked at the top ten lists (most prolific, highest rated, etc) and sent out an overall invite to all of those people.

You know what's friggin' annoying?

When someone goes and deletes something like a yahoo group or an lj community or something like that without warning. And you just go look, and it's gone. Especially when others have contributed to it. It's like, that's a lot, jackass. Some of us might have wanted to go back there at some point.

I totally understand when it's someone's personal LJ. I also understand when it's a website or something that someone is paying for. That's different.. it's owned by that person, in some way or another. But for stuff that is community based that isn't costing anything, just stick up a note saying 'closed, archive only' and then walk away. It's basically what happened at the old Haldir Lovers group. I know that they mentioned they were going to delete it, but they haven't and I really hope it stays that way. It's harming nothing to leave it up.

Or transfer the bloody thing to someone else. Let someone else take it over. Between deleting and finding another person to lead the group members, I go with option number two.

I have to say, much as I love Little Balrog for being my own little creation, there's something special about having adopted lotrallslash and Erestor Lovers. Kinda like rescuing that puppy that might have been put down or that kitty that was just going to be let out into the wild. That sort of thing. For that, I totally have high respect for those previous owners of those groups, for not just ditching the group and for passing it along to someone else.

So if any of the rest of you are planning to dump a group or something, please let me know. I'll find a good home for it, one way or another. I'd hate for anyone else to have to go through the frustration I have many a time when group addresses come up. Some people just don't realize all of the information that is being lost with the use of that delete function...