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Friday August 7, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center to use the computer lab. Including posting to and reading LiveJournal.

According to headlines on Google News, Facebook and Twitter had been down on Thursday --- thanks to Denial of Service attacks. If I'd read beyond those headlines, I would have seen that LiveJournal had also been under DOS attack.

I couldn't get to LiveJournal.

I googled on "LiveJournal down." Got reports that LiveJournal had been under attack, but had recovered. Obviously, the recovery hadn't lasted.

***I'd intended to begin planning a novel in October. For once, I got an early start; tonight I decided what it would be about.

Working title: Dreams of Strangers. Subject: contact with the political, religious, artistic, etc. beliefs of intelligent nonhumans.

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Saturday August 8, 2009 Walked to Roosevelt Library to get on the Internet. It's a small library which was barely saved from closing; it's open three days a week.

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[human] "Are you male or female?"

[nonhuman] "Sometimes. And you?"

[human] "Always."