Recent events

So recently I was contacted by someone I most definitely did NOT want to be contacted by on FB. I don't want contact with this individual at all, but FB was the medium chosen. One of the comments they made, though, seemed to refer to a blog entry from a year or so ago (which would make it on LJ). Nevertheless, between this and their "offering" to look up my number and phone me, I was rather worried. So I have now, at this point gone back through my entire Livejournal account, and locked the majority of the posts up so that they are readable only by those on my "Friends" list (similar to FB, really). There's still a lot of stuff publically readable, but it's mostly articles, etc, not my personal life or reflections.

An interesting side effect was getting a look at all of my old posts. One thing that really stood out for me was in one of the very forst posts. I was discussing the "Patron Gods" dream that led me to a Germanic path in my Druidry - only the dream had been the night before the post was written, which means there were details that I had since forgotten. They were rather enlightening to see, really, and reflect upon.

Anyway, back to the point, here. This newfound caution with what I have written naturally extended to this blog as well - especially since I had put a link to it recently, along with an invitation, in my LJ. So some thought has been put into it. What does this blog want to be? At first it was for some of my more personal observations, with the thought that it would be easier for a couple of my friends, who use Blogger, not LJ, to follow. Perhaps a bit naive, I know, but I assumed that Blogger worked similar to LJ, with lockable posts, Friends lists, etc. Now I know that you either lock the entire blog to all but your friends, or you leave it open. But it's measured by the whole blog, not on a post-by-post basis.

Hm. this explains why Fourleaf deleted her words, rather than merely lock them up.

So if everything I write here must be public, then a certain caution must be placed upon it. It can be easy to forget that caution, honestly, and in the meantime I have continued using LJ, and locking things as I go. Sorry, gang. But what of the ol' Blogger account? Well, my articles have been mostly getting put up in LJ, lately (though there haven't been many), since that was set up to be my ADF log, and they were written largely for that purpose. Personal stuff ought to be less public, more lockable. Hm.

But not all personal stuff need be. Hence this entry. Some of what I write can and should still be viewable, I think. I considered moving some of the more personal entries from here, over to LJ, but the time date stamp thing kind of blocked that idea (I wonder if I can change the date on a post there...?). So this journal remains, warts and all. It's not as though I didn't suffer another recent attack over there, as well, anyway, over something publicly posted.

Basically, I had attended an event, then written a review of it. While I didn't think I was being horribly unkind in it, I did write it as honestly as I could, and I suppose one or two things I said could be seen as rather unkind. Well, the post was found and read by a friend of the event's hostess, who attacked me in the comments field, then sent the link to the hostess herself and one other friend of theirs. The hostess was most upset, and also unleashed a verbal barrage upon me, but the other friend, who also commented, was more reasonable in his comments. So I locked the post up. Sigh.

The hostess and her friend also cut me from their FB lists.

The upshot of this is that I need to be more.. cautios with my words, I suppose, though I thought I had made clear that my observations were purely my own experiences.

So that is where things stand at the moment.