Sep. 26th, 2007

silverthorne: (Storm Front)
LJ is apparently switching a lot of paid accounts to the automatic payment option on their end without notifying users. This isn't on either the news or biz comm, but several people on my flist have perked up with it since last night.

At this moment, the only journals I still have here are this one, [livejournal.com profile] derek_bliss, [livejournal.com profile] that_surfer_guy and [livejournal.com profile] carpentersbride

The first two are already perm accounts, and the last is a plus. Baby Derek's ([livejournal.com profile] that_surfer_guy) account hasn't been involuntary switched (yet), but I'm seriously considering shutting it down in he next few days even though it's paid for through next April.

Anyhow, I'd advise everyone who has a paid account go and check and make sure your account hasn't been, um, 'helpfully' switched to 'autopay' status.

ETA:

On further reading, I saw that an LJ helper mentioned on a flist buddie's post about this that LJ was not intentionally doing this, so it may be a messed up glitch (or a hacker). I'd still advise checking your accounts anyway, since I've seen several people already state it's happened to them. My other advice would be to alert the LJ team if you find this has occured. Even if they take the stance of 'we didn't do it', at least if people are telling them about it, they can't claim they didn't know.
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The elevator demons are trying to eat me. I know this for sure.

This morning I got stuck in the elevator again--not even the same one, although it's part of the same cluster.

This one, at least, announced its intent by having the doors, both sets, jam halfway to being closed and then refusing to budge no matter how long I waited, or what button I pushed to try and encourage the doors to either shut completely or re-open. Fortunately, the opening was wide enough for me to squeeze through, although I had to leave the linen cart for Engineering to retrieve later once they got the dumb thing fixed.

This incident has brought me a few realizations:

1) I watch way too many movies where the elevators go crashing down, to the doom of everyone inside.

2) I watch way too many movies where people trying to squeeze through the semi-open crack end up getting squashed, beheaded, delimbed, etc.

3) Both one and two made me too afraid to stay inside with the cart, but also scared of trying to get out (in case the elevator, you know, moved...or decided to snap its doors shut at just that moment).

4) If this keeps happening, I'm going to re-develop claustrophobia, or at least a healthy trepidation of getting onto any elevator. Which would suck majorly.

Still, other than the unwanted adrenalin rush and jolt of fear as I squeezed out of the thing, it was pretty funny to get stuck, again, within a month of the last time it happened. It's like weird karma, or something.

I wonder what causes that kind of karma, anyway?
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But it bears repeating.

Richie has a beautiful voice...and he sings better than Jon. :)
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