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August reading aka these long gaps in my memory, where do they come from?

English
Buried for Pleasure

Japanese
Phantom Moon Tower 2
Aoneko 5
--both rereads

Kasho no Yume

-half of which I read in July anyway. This month I only read the title story and almost all of the last one, because the so above it all prince of Sou annoys me, wandering the world and observing tilting kingdoms (yes OK, that's 'declining' but tilt is what the kanji means) to see what will happen to them. Also because I can make *no sense at all* of the arrangement of the palace of Sou whither our prince has gone to report, so screw that.
( Cut for literary thoughts and health grumps )

Getting rid of the fail and twit logos

Supposedly you can add customized css to your lj so you no longer see the boxes under the comment box.

This post gives the css to do it. Note that it doesn't work for me. Its coding is .b-repost-item, #repost_twitter, #repost_facebook{display:none;}

This post gives a slightly different css to do it. Note that it doesn't work for me. Its coding is .b-repost-item {display:none}. Does the extra semicolon in the first css make any difference to anyone else?

I talk a lot today...

Yes, yes, I am not alone. (Ganked from Hyperbole and a half's Social Entrapment post. Except that living in Japan taught me that 'Hot today' 'Yes it's hot' 'Yeah, it's really hot' 'It's hotter than last year' 'Yes, definitely hotter than last year' 'Well see you' 'Take care, bye' is a perfectly rational and permissable conversation.

But anent #4-is-it? I do have the fantasy of friends I can just drop in on and hang out at their place, no problem. But anybody wanting to come hang at my place? Forgeddid. I'm *busy*. So why would my putative friends not be busy too? Well, going by next door, there are people who spend their home time sitting in the kitchen doing crostic crosswords and drinking coffee and chatting with their SOs, so having another person hanging about the kitchen doesn't change things much. Maybe that's another facet of coupledom.