I learned something about LJ that I'd not known -- you can, on your friends page, only go back 1000 (total -- for me that is skip=950) journal entries. So, on my return from Japan, I could only see what had happened since 9/4. I'm guessing it would have needed to be about skip=3000 to work for my 3.5 weeks gone.
Not good enough. So I started working, alphabetically, through the then-203 people on my flist. Today I have finished this first pass. *And* it's not going to require another of the same -- I started this on 9/18, and skip=950 shows me stuff from 9/13.
No, I'm not following every link. No, I'm not reading most of the responses. But I'm at least glancing at each and every entry. And, as I tried to figure out where to read from, I discovered some items I'd not known about a person who friended me back while I was in Japan.
Of the 203 people, 11 have never posted anything, 52 had no new entries since I last read them on 8/22, and the remaining 140 had at least one new entry (and sometimes over 100 new entries).
Now the fun of breezing past the items I have read because they came later in the alphabet while not missing the stuff from those who came earlier.
Mmmm. Hadn't thought of that. (Might be related to me not having done any reading-by-filter yet.) Thanks for the thought -- that would surely have been easier. (Although it woudln't have fed my stats nature quite so much.)
Basically a way of saying "whew! -- I've been out of touch and might miss something -- explicitly point me at anything you think I _need_ to know."
Sometimes folks'll say "My pants aren't entirely bankrupt, but they're rather threadbare" to indicate that they've fallen behind but possibly not hopelessly so.
Well, this goes to show that the only stupid question is the unasked question.
I have seent his phrase exactly twice in LJ. Yes, both times the journalist was talking about or was involved in a trip, but both times they were also talking about *expensive* trips, so I took the phrase literally to mean that one had had a good time, but was now fairly broke.
That it also meant one was away from it all never occurred to me.
Hmmm... I'd never tried to see how far back I could go, but I can only go back skip=510, which takes me to Sept 12, which is two weeks ago. So perhaps it's date-based rather than number-based?
And, btw... wow. I can't imagine trying to actually catch completely up after that long a trip! I'm impressed!
Correct at least in part; there is a 2-week date limit on friends lists' history. On mine, the 2-week period rarely goes beyond 600, sometimes less (450 was the "lowest") and sometimes more (I've not had to go beyond 800).
One other possibility: You could post an "I'm back and am unlikely to catch up, please point me to anything urgent" entry.
That way you can see the most recent 1000 posts by 1/2 your flist, or 1/4, or whatever fraction works for you.
Basically a way of saying "whew! -- I've been out of touch and might miss something -- explicitly point me at anything you think I _need_ to know."
Sometimes folks'll say "My pants aren't entirely bankrupt, but they're rather threadbare" to indicate that they've fallen behind but possibly not hopelessly so.
I have seent his phrase exactly twice in LJ. Yes, both times the journalist was talking about or was involved in a trip, but both times they were also talking about *expensive* trips, so I took the phrase literally to mean that one had had a good time, but was now fairly broke.
That it also meant one was away from it all never occurred to me.
So I didn't ask. Stupid, really. At least, silly.
And, btw... wow. I can't imagine trying to actually catch completely up after that long a trip! I'm impressed!
One other possibility: You could post an "I'm back and am unlikely to catch up, please point me to anything urgent" entry.