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Happened to discover a weird LJ Layout issue tonight.
Thankfully, it's only showing up on the Chrome & Opera Beta browsers (at least for me).
I checked it out in Safari, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, & Yandex browsers and everything looks fine on them.

The issue is having thumbnail images in an LJ post that are no longer nice and neat within the confines of the layout, but spill over in a horizontal line to the right, causing a scroll bar to appear at the bottom of the page.

Like this...Ugh!



So I apologize to anyone looking at my big image posts on my LJ or hurtwinchesters or spn_locations on the Chrome or Opera Beta browsers. Hopefully, they will update their code or whatever & those thumbnails will get back in line!

Until then, I hope you use other browsers to view LJ that don't have this issue! :)

I just made this animated gif because I need it in my life. ;)



I'll be making a formal posting of this gif (and in other sizes) next week. Stay tuned!

♦ Who knew you couldn't use Spotify in the Safari web browser??? WTH??? *fumes* I looked into why, but then my eyes glazed over because apparently there isn't any solution. Grrr! Well, that's annoying! Especially since I'm trying to use my Safari browser more now, because for some reason when I watch online videos too long in any other browser, my CPU heats up. WTH is with that??? *sigh*

♦ I uploaded the above animation to one of my old Photobucket accounts. Yes, still trying to decide what to do about them - which account to sign up for with payments again, now that they've got more reasonable plans. I wouldn't have even uploaded it to PB, but I can't get into my account at PhotoLand.io!!!! That's where I've been uploading and posting my gifs from. All of a sudden there's no way to sign in with Twitter, which is what I used. Gah!!!! I've contacted them about it, but who knows if I'll ever get a response. Well, speak of the devil....just got this email from them:

Hello,

We are having issues with the twitter API and are working on fixing it. Will update you once it's working again.

Thank you
Photoland Team

Well, I'll give them points for getting back to me so quickly. Sad that I can't get into my account there though. Serves me right for going the shortcut way into signing into a site. *sigh* So I guess I'll be using my PB accounts again for now...

Ok. Wow! The PhotoLand Support Team literally just got back to me, saying the problem is fixed. Sure enough, I was able to log in w/Twitter and upload the gifs. Yay! Very impressive support at PhotoLand!

♦ For my artsy & craftsy friends, I got quite the deal this past week at Hobby Lobby. A Marvy waterbrush marked down to $1.24, a set of Faber Castell 24 Watercolor Pencils marked down to $3.74 (from $14.99), and a set of 25 Stabilo colored pens marked down to $7.49 (from $29.99!). I've always been curious about the Stabilo pens because I've heard such good things about them (they are good!) but the price always turned me off. No more! These aren't the first great deals I've found at HL. A month or so ago I finally got a Gouache set of paints that was marked way down. I do love saving money on supplies!

♦ I found a great site for free book PDFs! Check out Ocean Of PDF! I've already got a few of them loaded on my phone for reading there. Such a great selection.

♦ Since SPN is finished for the summer, it's time to start in on updating the Locations List (LL) with Season 13 for spn_locations. Problem is...looking up addresses on Google Maps really eats up my internet data. *heavy sigh* I could really use some help from volunteers, but I've failed to use people in the past so I'm pretty sure it's a waste of time. People don't want to risk it. Of course, this time I KNOW what I would have volunteers help me with! :(

♦ Late add-in Edit!!!! OMG Does anyone else play Candy Crush on their phone??? I've been stuck on a level before, but nothing like with Level 149! OMG!!!! I CANNOT GET THROUGH IT!!!!! I've lost track of how many times I've played that level. And I've had tons of help from the game, but alas....still stuck. Gah!

Thought I'd make a post about what I'm working on for LJ, what's still in the works, etc.

First, has anyone else noticed their images being gone in their sidebar???
I noticed it over a month ago, but finally looked into it about a week or so ago. Found that LJ had taken all the URLs I put in from Slickpic and changed them to one starting with https://imgprx.livejournal(dot)net/. WTH???
So I just went through all the links and replaced them with the SlickPic ones yet again! So far they're there, but for how long? Don't like LJ just replacing my links as they please. Grrrr! Odd how the animated gif links from PhotoLand at the top of the Sidebar were not affected at all.

Also, the page view counters that I had in the Sidebar don't work at all anymore. Phooey! That's disappointing. Though I think the Flag one does work, but only in FireFox. Weird.

Moving on!

To Be Capped:
13x08 Highlight Caps
13x09 Highlight Caps
JA Directing
NerdHQ 2015 SPN Panel
SPN 2015 SDCC Panel
SPN Season 10 Gag Reel
SPN Season 11 Gag Reel
SPN Season 12 Gag Reel
NerdHQ 2016 SPN Cast
SPN 2016 SDCC Panel
SPN 2017 SDCC Panel
+ Cap more Season 6 & 7 eps for Beginning & Ending Posts
+ Cap more Season 7 eps for Perfectly Timed Credits Posts
+ Cap Seasons 10-12 for The Road So Far Cap sets


Caps to Finish for Posting:
+ SPN 1x05 "Bloody Mary" -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ -- Then pull Highlight Caps to post
+ SPN 4x16 "On The Head Of A Pin" -- Upload & Post to LJ -- Then pull Highlight Caps to post
+ J2 on Conan (July 2017) Caps -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ
+ JP on Jimmy Kimmel (Oct 2017) Caps -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ


LJ Comm Stuff:
+ Replace image links on Season 7 posts at spn_locations
+ Make list of locations that no longer exist for spn_locations
+ Replace image links on Area Location Lists for spn_locations
+ Cap 1x21 for Locations
+ Replace Google Maps & Street View images for Season 1-7 posts at spn_locations
+ Continue to gather con video caps of J2 for J2 Convention Clothing Guide at spnconcatalog
+ Post a panel video Summary List w/Timecodes at spnconcatalog
+ Post a panel video Transcript at spnconcatalog
+ Try to get some new post ideas for positively_spn
+ Fix more caps for hurtwinchesters


Misc. Stuff:
+ Sort/Delete Etc. Caps from SPN 607-614 for hurtwinchesters, Beginning & Ending posts, and Sample Caps
+ Sort/Delete Etc. Caps from SPN 701-703 for hurtwinchesters, Beginning & Ending posts, and Sample Caps
+ Post more finished SPN Animations


Then there's getting back to the SPN Revealed Posts (someday next year, I hope!), resuming SPN Goes B&W Posts and The SPN Timestamp Lottery, and of course more of your Just 'Cause Cap Requests! Oh, and I'm working on putting together some Special SPN Picspams! Shhhh! SUPER SECRET!!! Hee! :P

I'm also working on re-uploading the older SPN Gag Reel Caps and getting back to making/posting the Hi-Res Caps from Season 11 (as requested...you thought I forgot, didn't you?).

There's probably other stuff that I'm forgetting to mention, but this is the bulk of it. Thank goodness I write most of this stuff down now! I'd never remember it all.

Sure would like to know what this Tweet from yesterday is all about. Btw, Mark Meloche is the VFX Supervisor on SPN.

#SPNFamily Don't bask in the glory of something you didn't do, feel the heat, then come clean. It makes you an even bigger ass. Just sayin'.

— ♈ Mark Meloche ♈ (@rotomonkee) September 7, 2017

I mean, why lump the entire SPN fandom together? Surely we didn't all do something so terrible. Seems unfair to make such a Tweet and then not explain it while vilifying the entire SPN Family.
I've read this statement over and over again and still can't figure out what he's talking about. Any ideas out there?

I've been thinking something was off with my caps lately, but for some reason I just couldn't focus in on what it was.

Until tonight.
I was fixing the Episode Title Cap for last week's ep, 12x12 and realized the resolution was off. Instead of being 1280x720 it was 1280x738. Just to be sure, I resized the cap to the correct dimensions and sure enough, it looked better.

Then I realized, all the caps I've been making for the past several months have been made with the incorrect resolution. GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 friggin' pixels!!!!!

I finally figured out what settings were off in VLC, took another cap and the problem is now fixed, but...

WHAT. THE. FRIGGIN'. HELL!!!!!

So, okay, I can fix all the cap sets I still have waiting to be sorted/deleted/fixed and resize them to the correct resolution, but all the already posted caps...*cries* I know, I know...it's no big deal to all of you. Eighteen pixels isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. But it bugs me!

I'll have to take a hard look at the cap sets I've been posting recently and see if I want to re-fix them and re-upload and post them. Because those 18 pixels matter, dammit! I'm only talking about the episode caps, btw. Everything else I'm willing to let go (JibCon, other video caps). Of course, there's a bunch of caps I use for the Just 'Cause posts that are already uploaded to SlickPic that are also all wrong - those will just have to stay where they are. Sorry!

Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
Alright, I'm going to watch tonight's SPN. *sigh*
/rant

I can't be the only one that feels LJ has become a total ghost town, am I?
Sure, it's SPN's hiatus and all, the start of summer (for those of us in the northern hemisphere), but it just feels especially quiet - at least in the commenting area.

Now I realize I'm way behind (*sigh* again) on replying to comments. May was kind of a rough month for me, so I sort of fell off the replying-wagon, so to speak. I AM going to go back and reply to your comments though. Hope to make a big dent in them this weekend. Wish me luck! :)

But that still doesn't explain how there were 133 visitors to my journal yesterday (Friday) and I only got about 3 comments (not counting the Name That Cap Challenge ones because I don't reply to them).

So I'm feeling kind of like...



So, uh...now's your chance to pipe in and say "Hi" or whatever.
At least let me know you're all still around, huh?

'Cause I've still got a lot of caps & goodies to post and I'd like to know people are around to enjoy them.

The Seattle Seahawks were set to score, set to win the Super Bowl for the 2nd time in a row. We were soooo close! But a poor play and the Patriots intercepted the ball and it was over. Patriots won 28-24.

Stunned is an understatement. I can't believe they threw the ball instead of giving it to Lynch. Lynch, who'd they'd been using endlessly the entire game! Why, oh why didn't they do it when they needed to the most???

Bravo to the Patriots for a great game.
I'm heartbroken...as are all the 12s. We had it...victory was ours and now it's gone.

I still love the Seahawks, after all I've been a fan since I was a kid (Steve Largent FTW!), but this is a tough loss to take. We'll be back. I know Russell Wilson's already planning for next season. He's that kind of guy and a true champion. The team will want to erase this bitter loss, but it shouldn't have happened this way.

Back in August at VanCon, I re-upped and paid for my Gold Ticket (same seat) for next year. It's normal for it to take Creation a while to send out the tickets, so I'm used to waiting. Then I read they were having difficulties and it would be a couple more weeks. That was quite a while ago.

I'm trying to be patient and not worry, but geez, it's been 2 months since the con. I've checked all my email accounts and haven't seen anything about my Gold Ticket from Creation. I even checked all my spam folders, just in case.

Has anyone else who re-upped at VanCon gotten their PDF tickets yet?

Noticed a couple of messages from MediaFire in my email today. The kind of messages that can ruin a person's day. Grrrr.
My files might be in danger of disappearing. :(

The file (Christmas Cottage DVD Extras Caps by Raloria.zip) violates the MediaFire Terms of Service. Due to it being distributed from your account, it has been removed. Also, a Strike has been placed against your account and can lead to a termination of service.
Check our policy violations page for more information.
Thank you for using MediaFire as your cloud based file sharing service provider.

Sincerely,
The MediaFire Team

Gotta love the "thank you" at the end. "We might terminate your account. But hey, thanks anyway!" :P

The only items they've red-flagged are the "Christmas Cottage" caps. In fact, they left one folder up, but I deleted it myself. No sense in it sticking around when the rest are gone.

Now, I believe that the only reason they went after the CC caps were: A) Big movie, and B) the title was written plainly in the folder name. It might be that my other caps (the SPN ones specifically) might be overlooked. Obviously, I need to be more careful about file/folder names.

ATM, I have no plans to re-upload the CC caps. Sorry.

I remember when the 1st of May was a day to pick flowers and celebrate Spring.

Now it's all about protesting, rioting, and damaging public property.

'May Day' protests turn violent in Downtown Seattle
Violence erupts as May Day protesters flood streets
‘Black Bloc’ protesters ignite violence at Seattle May Day protest



There is peaceful protesting and then there's all out violence for the sole reason of being destructive. That's all these black-clad anarchists wanted. It was just an excuse to run rampant through the city and vandalize businesses and cars. People are just trying to work, make some money to put food on their table and now they have to deal with spray paint damage and busted windows. It sucks!