Dreamwidth Plans

First of all, I've got my first Dreamwidth invite code. I suppose I should set up my list of people who want 'em. Comment to this post if you want one, and I'll try to send it out this morning. Otherwise, the best way continues to be to set up an OpenID account.

In moving to Dreamwidth, I want to do my best to remove my content from pages that contain LJ ads. To that end, after I transfer all of my entries over to Dreamwidth, I think I'll go through the LJ entries and remove the text, with links redirecting to the corresponding DW page. Old comments will be kept intact too. Then I'll put a floating post on the front page redirecting to Dreamwidth, and I'll limit the number of entries per page to 1.

On the other hand, if you're using an LJ friends page, you've already made your own decision about ads, so I don't have a problem crossposting. I'll probably limit comments to the Dreamwidth entry, though, and after a little while, I'll mark the LJ posts private so that they only exist on Dreamwidth.

I haven't decided precisely how I'm going to manage my own reading across sites. It'll have a lot to do with the specifics of how a few features work out. Those specifics may change my plan above, too.

Also, I'm trying to add tags to all my entries, starting from the beginning. I've started it on LJ, but I'll probably finish it on DW. So far, I've finished March of 2002. It turns out, I posted a lot about sleep and online personals. I don't know how interesting you'll find most of it, but I did add a best of 2002 tag that might be of continuing interest.

Oof.

I'd intended to do my taxes earlier than later this year, but a delay in getting my game-show-prize form and dithering over whether or not ojouchan earned enough to qualify as a dependent put it off to the last minute again. And boy did it hurt. We'd been on a roll again with saving money and knocking down debt, and this excess cost of the winnings knock us back to the baseline again for a month.

The moral of the story is that if we'd gotten married in Vegas last year instead of holding to our principles and waiting until we could plan a marriage to gloriously inaugurate our marriage (which many would say is already de facto underway), we'd have a few thousand dollars more today with which to pay for a belated wedding.

Stupid principles.

Luckily, that extra liability won't be a problem for next year, and I'm glad it's not still hanging over us. But still: Oof.