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This was the conversation in our house this morning: (I'm sure it sounds familiar to many of you).
Emjay: Our TV sound is working but there is no picture.
Manservant: You must've pressed something on the remote.
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Emjay: Oh - by the way - there is no hot water this morning.
Manservant: What's wrong with it?
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Then I get to work and someone says: Can I ask you a question?
Then I get home and find that vox is closing!!!
God, this first glass of wine tastes good tonight!!
Well, here is the next set of the photo-a-day for 365-days photos... I guess these might be the last ones on vox:
221 - Medi-evil looking row houses
222 - this was some funky fungi growing in the park near my office. I was in business dress otherwise I would've changed the setting to "macro" and got down closer.
223 - the ceiling of a metro station. I wonder how many hours over 10 years I've looked at the honeycomb type structure.
224 - this is how the manservant leaves and returns
225 - another stormy sky
226 - this skirt is the lightest silk imaginable. It can be the stillest day out and this will blow around a la Marilyn. I keep thinking I should put some pennies in the hem.
227 - favours from the wedding I recently attended
228 - this shot was taken on a Sunday - as I was on my walk I thought "it's Sunday so I should do my photo of the day of a church?
228b And then I thought "I should take two churches"....
229 - the house across the alley (as this house has been the subject of many of my photos I am going to be rather sad if it is ever sold and repaired!)
230 - my sister, Cat went to Thailand and I got a lovely cushion.
I got pissed off and walked out of an important meeting, saying "fuck this" on my way out (in front of several managers) then found vox closing. Double bad. Plus my neck is STILL knotted up... started yesterday and I almost passed out on the freeway.
And I can't drink booze for several more weeks (but I can take liquid tylenol with codeine!!).
Man, talk about "one of those days"!!
What was in the 227 favor boxes??
Posted by: LeendaDLL | 09/02/2010 at 03:48 PM
Vox is shuttimng down? When?
Posted by: An Ex-Expat | 09/02/2010 at 03:54 PM
Chocolates - something else I wish I had right now!!
Sorry about your neck - I hope that gets better soon.
It seems that everyone is moving to wordpress rather than the suggested typepad? It is going to take me ages to find everyone!!
Posted by: Emjay | 09/02/2010 at 03:56 PM
September 30 ..... it's right at the top of the banner.
Posted by: Emjay | 09/02/2010 at 03:56 PM
Huh, how about thart. Have thoguht about blogger but I do see a way to import what I have onto Blogger, or is it that I do not know?
Posted by: An Ex-Expat | 09/02/2010 at 04:01 PM
I just saw the bright red Vox is Closing message myself. OMGosh. How heartbreaking. What are you going to do?? Please let me know cause I enjoy your posts so much.
Posted by: LBeeeze | 09/02/2010 at 04:11 PM
I love the pictures! I would like to know where you are going too! I have a new one posted here on Vox. I'll be around here until it closes.
Posted by: Alicia | 09/02/2010 at 04:14 PM
I am also moving to wordpress. I'm so incredibly sad that vox is closing. I have already had a wordpress blog for a while as a backup - I didn't even trust vox to give us this much warning. So as of today I am going to try to start writing there and adding people there from my 'hood as I find them.
God, did I mention I'm so fricking sad? :(
Posted by: Little Odd Me | 09/02/2010 at 04:16 PM
Emjay, I just found this place now it's closing the doors, I've just opened a WordPress account with the same user name. Hope to see you there.
Posted by: Sharnsgarden | 09/02/2010 at 05:37 PM
I'm going to miss your pictures! Are you getting a wordpress account?
Posted by: Shutterbug | 09/02/2010 at 05:37 PM
oh that cushion cover is nice - I'd forgotten waht it looks like
Posted by: cat | 09/02/2010 at 05:57 PM
Ha, you lost hot water and we lost electricity. Doesn't life suck this week???
And Wordpress is being a jerk......oh well, at least we're all apparently going to the same sucky website.
Posted by: Emmi | 09/02/2010 at 06:05 PM
PapiChulo is saying typepad is more friendly. I can't get "leendadll" there because it's "already taken" WTF? and I can't get the export tool to launch, despite over 200 tries, though Vox claims everything is running just fine.
Posted by: LeendaDLL | 09/02/2010 at 06:38 PM
Are you moving to WP too? I haven't been on Vox for a while but I have been lurking, hopefully I can find everyone after the move :)
Posted by: kalita | 09/02/2010 at 08:48 PM
So where are you going? I assume that you're going to keep up a blog, right?
I'll be at erinmichel.wordpress.com.
Posted by: ErinGoBragh | 09/02/2010 at 10:36 PM
I've been saying for a long time that Vox was dying. Glad they finally acknowledged that and are making it official.
Posted by: Waterbaby | 09/03/2010 at 12:18 AM
OK - how do you even get the import wizard? I opened a typepad account but can't see anywhere where there is an import wizard or a link to "tools" ...
I set up a wordpress account with out any trouble at all and imported all my blogs there. It seemed really easy. I'd like to try Typepad too but can't see how to (perhaps I'm being very blond!!) For now I will be at: aussieemjay.wordpress.com
Posted by: Emjay | 09/03/2010 at 05:17 AM
There is no import wizard for Vox on typepad. But the export-to-typepad link on closing.vox.com seems to be working now.
Posted by: LeendaDLL | 09/07/2010 at 05:17 PM