I mostly dislike all this cross company integration

You can still log on the old way. Why is it a bad thing if you don't lose anything? I'm annoyed that Gawker is shifting to FB/Twitter/Google because they're taking something away, but I don't mind if a site removes the requirement to set up another online ID, as long as they don't remove the option.

However, given how crap Gawker is about their own security, perhaps there are numerous bottom line reasons to outsource it. It just doesn't mesh with my way of working online.

All of the sudden, Amazon is different.

Aaaaaaaaaaa! No! Why would they do that?!? (I just looked at it. Now I have to cry.)

Wait, I was just over there but didn't notice anything substantially different from the last time (which was last week). What changed?

Amazon changed for me sometime in the last two weeks, but really on the home page and the drop-downs. The product pages still look more or less the same to me.

But my copy is in NC with a friend, and I'm broke, and I'm guessing there's a wait list a mile long at the library. Hmph.

I have all three that you can borrow. I have also bought them for my Kindle so I'm pretty well covered. Let me know.

Tom and I can also do animal feedings, gratis, while you are doing extra work.

Huh. I haven't been to Amazon's front page in ages - I almost always follow a link from Google.

Man, I really really need to get out there and move firewood and run errands ahead of this storm, but we got up super early to make a special trip out to the reservation to make a keyboard presentation to a student who passed his first piano book...who turned out to be at an eye appointment. And I have another unscheduled trip to the reservation in the other direction this evening to give lessons and make a guitar presentation, maybe two if the lesson goes well. It's book-passing season, apparently. We want to get it all done in advance of their spring break so the kids have something to do (while they're snowed in) over break.

But I am so tired from this morning and crampy and irritable and it's already windy out there and I just don't wanna. But I need to. This is not stuff that will wait.

And the SO is out there working his tail off in this weather prior to the storm, earning tax cash on his third job. So I really oughtn't bitch.

Nora, you and Tom are the BEST. I didn't want to ask that of you, I feel like I ask for so much, but thank you for offering. I would love it if y'all could feed them tonight. I'm out of dry food, so the kitties just get wet. Frankie gets half a cup of dry and half a cup of wet, add warm water, let sit for a few minutes.

I'd love to borrow the books, too.

Are you watching the parade tomorrow?

Holy crap. That new Amazon design is shit.

I feel like I'm shopping at JC Penney.

I don't expect my next book will find a publisher, and I'm unsure if it'll sell as a self-published ebook, but I am pretty sure that Amazon is giving me such creeps that I'd rather toss all the essays onto a website with a tip jar to panhandle for author pity donations than go through them to publish. Just as an aside that has nothing to do with the design.

Does anyone else have a hard time reading large chunks of text that have been force justified? WTH? Is my brain broken?

Does anyone else have a hard time reading large chunks of text that have been force justified? WTH? Is my brain broken?

Not just you.

Beau writes all his letters justified and I raise Cain every single time. I told him it is hard to read.

He does not get it.