Can someone try PMing me? (If you try and fail, let me know in a comment here.)

I PMed someone today, and they couldn't PM me back due to my privacy settings. They had to resort to replying via a comment thread unrelated to the subject.

I looked at the Privacy tab under My Account, but couldn't find anything about allowing/not allowing people to reply to my PMs. The closest thing I could see was a ticky box for "Comments and messages from users identified as potential spammers will be marked as spam and moved to a special section", but there's nothing in said special section ("suspicious messages" under Inbox).

Anyone got a clue how to 1. find that privacy setting and 2. change it?


ETA: It seems to be working now. Thanks to everyone who helped! You all get virtual chocolate.

I would just like to say that our 2-year-old black cat Serena is a nut.

When I open the fridge door, she chases the reflection from it as it moves back and forth on the wall. If I stand there opening and closing the door to see how long she'll keep it up, the answer is I'll get bored of it long before she does. She even runs over to watch the wall every time one of us heads for the fridge.

Right now she's entertaining herself chasing random reflections from the sparkly holo-butterfly mobile. :-)

In other news, my new med makes me feel like I'm perpetually on the edge of getting a cold.

Gah, enough with the dying already!

So far this year:

1. my chosen sister's dad
2. Zoe
3. my brother-in-law
and now 4. an old friend and mentor of my husband's.

There's just something wrong about going to two funerals in two months. (Yes, two, for #'s 1 and 4.)

I don't think I'd like either a wolf or a weasel.

I'll stick to cats, thanks. :-)

Here's a song for all those bigots in North Carolina (http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/politics/north-carolina-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_c1):

(caution: not safe for work)

Any of the current breed of Republican politicians politicians, because they are pious, pandering liars, and they are actively working to destroy everything that was good about my country (the US).

Also, anyone whose claim to fame is being on a "reality" show (I use the term loosely). Because in general they're vapid, talentless, and vicious, and I can feel brain cells dying every time I hear one of them open their mouths.

My husband's half-brother passed away sometime last night, of cancer. He had a longtime live-in girlfriend, but she apparently is not emotionally up to dealing with arrangements, so my husband is having to do it, as he is the only family member living in the same town and physically able (though his sister is helping from afar).

We're surrounded by death this spring, it seems. (My best friend/chosen sister's dad; Zoe; and now this...)

:-(

I might not reply to condolences, as I will be busy doing what I can to help my husband and be there for him, but they are appreciated.

Happy National Day of Reason!

Here for your perusal, and easy reference, is a list of the acting credits of one David Tennant, whose birthday is today. They are grouped by year and by media, with pictures gathered from various sources on the web. (Note: Most, but not all, of the stage pics come from http://www.davidtennanttheatre.webs.com.)

This is as complete a list of DT's credits as I could possibly collect, mostly using his Wikipedia and IMDB entries. Of course, there may be some that I've missed, or gotten wrong in some way. Let me know and I'll make corrections if you can give me a source.

( DT credits w/pics )

River is only about 10 months old, but I can already tell she is going to be one interesting cat to live with.

Case in point: she seems to *love* grain products. We've learned to always put away the bread first when we come home from the grocery store, because otherwise she will tear holes in the package and nibble it. Once recently I found she had gotten the bread package open and scattered about 4-5 slices all over the kitchen floor. To quote the Tenth Doctor: "What?!"

She did something similar with a box of cereal the other day; and just now she was poking at a box of crackers, trying to figure out how to open it.

Screwy kitten.