Texas Mom gives her daughter some real heroes to look up to instead of Barbie and Snow White.
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Harry Potter HAS grown up...
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IT ALL GREW FROM A NEARBY TREE
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According to Ancient Norwegian mythology, the world isn't flat nor is it round. The world simply grew from a tree branch. Ancient Norwegian mythology pretty much stated that everything, the universe and the afterlife and everything else in between grew from an old ash tree called Yggdrasil. And growing from the branches of the old ash tree Yggdrasil are nine worlds (or plains of reality).
The first plane of reality is Midgard aka Miðgarðr---That's where humans live.
The second plane of reality is Asgard aka Ásgarðr---That's where the GODS and dieties live. It's the primary plane of reality that all the important dieties reside.
The third plane of reality is Vanaheimr---That's were the lessor secondary GODS related to future prediction, fertility and wisdom reside.
The fourth plane of reality is Jötunheimr---That's where the frost giants, rock giants and other giants reside.
The fifth plane of reality is Álfheim---That's where the elves reside.
The sixth plane of reality is Hel---That's where all the corpses, both good and evil, reside. In other words, the sixth plane of reality is the afterlife.
The seventh plane of reality is svartálfar---That's where all the dwarfs live.
The eighth plane of reality is Niflheim (or Niflheimr)---That's a mostly empty plane of reality that's covered with ice. Sometimes people living in the sixth plane of reality called Hel would rent out space, but it's mostly empty and never used by anybody or anything.
The ninth plane of reality is Muspelheim---That's a mostly empty plane of reality that's covered only with fire. The Sons of Muspel and plotting to wreck the ice bridges of the eighth plane of reality in their quest to destroy worlds might be living here, but it's mostly empty aside from those group of individuals.
Oh yeah, today is Norway Constitution Day (Norway gained independence today on May 17, 1814).

WHILE I'M SURFING THE INTERNET
chicago976
Well, with the need for maintenence successfully being concluded, the correct functioning of Livejournal has been restored. Livejournal is back online once again. And so here I am typing on the Internet once again. I can freely post on Livejournal once again. I'm not sure what the problem was that required almost a full day of maintenence, but it's good that it isn't a problem anymore. And so continues my existence in Cleveland, Ohio, the United States of America. The sky is a deep shade of blue and the weather feels more like Summer. I'll need to mow the lawn soon. I'll put the lawn mowing on the list of things that need to be done before the weekend ends.






The One with An Important Signal Boost
ragnarok_08
Janelle Goins got sold by her family and since, no one's seen her.

Please help!!!

ONE MORE THURSDAY
chicago976
Is it ok for me to type something on this blog? I hope so. The last time I tried to do this, I wasn't allowed access because livejournal was under maintenance. And while the under maintenance bit is still around, I appear to be more successful in typing this. Or rather, I hope to be more successful at typing this. The Gentle Reader and I will see if I'm more successful at typing this. It will be almost roughly one more hour to go before midnight by the time I'm able to type this. Hey, if I have to wait until midnight for the ability to type this Internet blog, he's the wait that I have to endure. Whatever was holding me back from typing this isn't holding me back anymore. So I get to type this Internet blog. So that's a good thing. And now I'm about to push the button that will post this Internet blog and I hope to be successful the first time around.









Back online
markf wrote in lj_maintenance

We've just brought User Cluster #9 back online, and the errors being caused by the maintenance should stop occurring. Notifications are sending again, but may be delayed as there is a backlog of notifications waiting to be sent. If you are still encountering any errors, please open a Support request so we can investigate the issue.

Maintenance still in progress
mferrell wrote in lj_maintenance

We are still in the process of bringing User Cluster #9 back online, and it is unfortunately taking longer than we anticipated. We are making progress, but are still several hours away from this being fixed. To address a few common questions we are seeing:

How many user clusters are there?

There are 13 user clusters in total.

How can I find out what user cluster my account is on?

You can see which user cluster you are on at http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml if you are logged-in. If you cannot login, your account is located on user cluster #9.

I am not on cluster 9, but still can't post or edit entries. What's happening?

Trying to update or edit posts may still fail even if you are not on user cluster #9. An Error 500 will appear when loading the update/edit journal page if you have posting access to a community which is located on this cluster. The update module at http://www.livejournal.com/portal/ may still allow you to post while maintenance is ongoing.

I'm not getting notifications. Is this related?

Subscription notifications are not currently being sent as a result of this maintenance. You may still receive other types of emails, such as pingbacks and password notification emails, but will not receive notifications of new entries or comments being posted.

What other things aren't working right now?

Twitter digest posts are not currently being imported as a result of this maintenance. Some other pages & features may display errors if they need to access information located on user cluster #9. The inbox and community management pages are both known to be showing errors for people affected by this.

We will post again either when user cluster #9 is back online, or if we have any additional information to post. Thanks again for your patience while we work to fully restore service to the site.

Maintenance update
livejournal wrote in lj_maintenance

We successfully finished maintenance on cluster #7. All accounts’ owners from this cluster can now log into their journals.

We are working on restoring the user cluster #9, it will take approximately an hour. We will keep you informed. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

Maintenance update
mferrell wrote in lj_maintenance

To followup on the previous post, the same symptoms for user cluster #7 are also present for users on cluster #9, so we're in the process of fixing it as well. Having 2 clusters to work on rather than 1 unfortunately means that we expect it to take approximately 6-8 hours for everything to be resolved. We do, however, know how the problems with each cluster started and it is not something which will cause any additional clusters to have these issues. We'll post here again either when the issue has been resolved, or if we have any significant developments to update you on.

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