Crow’s Neighborhood

Go forth and fill your libraries with media.

Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.

~daisy

I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.

I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.

Cheers,

daisy

Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.

We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.

I will keep you posted.

Thank you for being so patient.

~daisy

Blog Action Day

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Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.

This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!

Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.

Can't wait to read your posts!

~ daisy

The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.

Have a great weekend,

daisy, Team Vox

In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.

Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.

Thanks! :)

daisy

Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.

So sorry for the inconvenience.

Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy

First off, a sort of odd welcome to the two newcomers.  Or possibly just the one, if AmyH didn't add me back.  I'm not really around here much, in part because I'm facing a crisis of media, so it was a little irresponsible for me to add someone new who hadn't added me first, but hey, in spite of the unfortunate circumstances that led me to notice your blog, I figure I ought to make an effort to befriend anyone in PHX intelligent enough to use a computer and choose VOX.  (Though I suppose that choice is less exciting every day.)

Anyway, in spite of the fact that I got around four hours of sleep last night, due to a midnight showing of Half Blood Prince, I lay in bed for a little over a half hour without dropping blissfully into sleep.  My best guess is that the double shot canned espresso energy drink that I administered in the late afternoon is keeping my mind spinning.  Part of my brain just never knows if bedtime for Boots is going to stick, and for how long, so I hold out the insane hope that she'll wake up and we'll go on another marginally irresponsible adventure, sleep cycles be damned.

The closing date for our house is looming especially large.  Technically, it was today, but due to delays earlier in the process, we have an extension until Monday and, so far, there is no word from the loan officers other than saying they're "all hands on deck" for processing our loan-- whatever the hell that means.  As much as I like having the extra scratch living on the cheap in my mother's (unoccupied) condo, we'll be doubling the size of our dwelling, and that extra breathing room is going to be fantastic.  For the first time, I think we're moving into a place where I would enjoy staying in more than I might enjoy going out.  But maybe that's just needless optimism talking.

Boots and I are both struggling with this same odd media crisis.  Perrenial bloggers, we've been finding ourselves with stories to share about our lives for our friends, but discovering that there's nowhere to write them down.  For some reason, I've ended up back on the idea of a wiki, for writing down things like my review of The Fashion Show or thoughts about some of the web games I've been playing.  But that still doesn't address this need to write down, christmas-letter-style, the events of my life, hoping that the people I like will read, offer opinions and we can find a way to still be a part of each other's lives in some small way.

Boots is still on LiveJournal and is as loathe to give it up as I am to abandon this VOX blog entirely.  However, it is a little irritating that the people I once knew in person have scattered across the ether and there is still no way to unify commenting and "friends only" stuff.  Actually, LiveJournal turns out to be better than VOX about this, thanks to Brad's (failed?) dream of OpenID.   Anyway, I suppose my last brain dump involved much of the same rambling.  At least I can say that I am reading your posts a little more closely.  It may still be a once a week sort of affair, but I do tend to actually take the time to read at least a couple full entries for each one of my neighbors that has posted.

Summer will be over soon, and that is a bit of a shame.  We've discovered a love for night swimming, since the pool is just a few feet from our side door.  If traditional night swimming is an all naked affair, let me allay your fears.  We are not risking exposing ourselves to the septegenarians who live in this complex, though my trunks are just some gym shorts and not actually made for that purpose.  They're some kind of synthetic material that could pass for trunks, under casual observation.  Hopefully, even once the school year starts we can take some time to beat the heat before we move away from said pool.

We've been going out, seeing friends on the weekend, actually having a bit of a life. Overall, it's been a fine summer and a momentous summer, and I hope we've taken a few lessons away from it that we can use in the upcoming year.

Surely, though, this isn't what's been buzzing through my head, right?  No, as I was tosing and turning, it had to be more about what I could do with the wiki, design decisions, content pages.  Not so much because I really think I have something to say, I guess.  I just like having something to build.  I do have some knitting to take care of...

Hm.  All in all, I think it's safe to say I should take some time to try to develop the official getting things done rigor again.  I think that, like Betsy, during the school year we have (or maybe just have had) our work cut out for us, and each summer we face a little miniature empty nest syndrome.  Betsy's schedule goes all sideways, she starts buying crazy things, we go to Denny's at one in the morning on a work night.  But ultimately we're both struggling with a lack of direction.  Now that the house is in sort of a waiting game, we really have no direction.

Well, it certainly comes across as a plausible description of this mindset.  On the other hand, I always feel like I'm talking myself into plausible mindsets, just so I have a sense of knowing myself.  Ah well, it's getting late, and I think a tamale and a beer might get my body into the right frame of mind to call it a night.