Users of the Astro News may be wondering why the feeds are flooding in all at once the short answer is: I don’t know.  It appears to be the feeds of the people using blogspot which have never worked on this system which is why I have been adding posts from blogspot bloggers manually.

We have not fixed this because effort and energy has gone into building a new and PERMANENT replacement for te Top 10 which is 90% done, looks great and is up and running as of yesterday.

I have to load all the feeds though which I hope to do today and then I will come on here, announce the new location and beg people to change their links for the last and final time and hopefully we’ll all look back in 5 years and say this wasn’t so bad though at the moment… ::rolls eyes::

UPDATE - The blogspot feeds continue to flood in and there is nothing I can do to stop them, sorry! I have not made progress on the new site because I am waiting for instructions on how to load the feeds… hoping this will get done tonight!

If you did not catch the update in the comments around the soldier’s extreme emotion about the potential of my being ill - within an hour of my finding out I have a hernia rather than cancer or something dire, we learned his mother was in the the hospital in ICU where she remains, her prognosis is up in the air. All the things that happen when something like this happens are now happening and other things are happening as well.

I have been having issues with my cable connection for the last week or so… 3 tech support people have come out here and not been able to resolve the problem. It’s hindering things to say the least.
Continue reading Various Chaos Behind The Scenes

Mercury is applying to square Pluto and things are hopping around here in some spots. In other spots there have been total black outs. For example over the weekend my blog was down for half a day and there was nothing I could do about it

Today, I some how dropped half my bookmarks and cannot figure out how to find the link that allows me to add things to the Astro News at the moment so again another black out.
Continue reading Astrology Today - Mercury Square Pluto… Communication Black Outs

We think this has died and my editor, HQ is working on a solution. He hopes to get it out by tomorrow so please cross your fingers. We had a lot of traction and hope to lose very little in transition.

In other words, I think the tide is coming back and hopefully it will be high!!

UPDATE - Very sorry this has been delayed. HQ had this ready to on Friday but ran into a bug. I woke to an email this morning… he was up late last night working on this and hopes to have the problems resolved quickly. We both feel very pressured… he is doing his best and meanwhile I am brainstorming what I might be able to do to make the new site better than the old. I aspire anyway…

If you have been reading here awhile you are probably aware that every once in awhile someone (occasionally one of the regulars) goes insane.  They start messing with me, complaining in the comments about how unfair I am or how insensitive I am or how I ought not to be doing or saying what I am saying.

Now obviously this is an attempt to control me which anyone who reads here ought to know, is not going to be possible. Not after having been raised by those Aquarian parents, are you kidding?  But somehow they get this idea they can dictate what should and should not be posted to MY blog which to me… well, as I said I just think it’s insane.

Continue reading Behind The Scenes @ ElsaElsa - Gossip, Group Dynamics, Hate Mail, The Toilet Flush And My Current Resoloution

“We were talking about that today on my blog,” I told the soldier. “I wrote about how gullible I am.”

“Gullible! You’re not gullible, P. Nobody pulls anything over on you.”

“Yes they do. People trick me all the time. These people write me and have me going in all kinds of directions. There is one gal out there who has tricked me repeatedly and elaborately for 6 years!”
Continue reading Elsa P, Gullible? Maybe Less Than Has Been Reported

Starzhollow came through with the first elsaelsa design for a coffee cup and I think it’s grand!  I am going to make this available as soon as I can figure it out.

Starzhollow is going to work on some other things and you can track her progress on Flickr here -> starzhollow’s photostream

I think Deirdre is working on “I have Libra and I can’t decide” T-shirts.  If anyone else has ideas… great!  Outside of that, I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks, starzhollow!

Laptop went down on holiday. Will be back up to speed asap.

Just a note about the people who are not me who have contributed to this blog: Thanks to satori, Deirdre, Loonsounds and Goddess… to date.

Always one to experiment I wanted to see what it would be like to have some other voices on here that are distinct from mine.  We get some of this via the advice and open questions but I wanted to expand the concept.  I like variety and thrive in a diverse environment and I’ll tell you how I see this in my Elsa bar model…

These people who are writing once, twice or now and then are performers. They are showing up impromptu with their guitar, their ukulele, their Stradivarius, their accordion or whatever else they’ve got whenever they’re in the mood to play for this crowd.

We are specifically interested in a person’s real life experience with astrology added.  This type thing:

“I had this transit and this happened…”

“My Mars is square her Venus and this is how it played…”

“I use astrology to enhance my life in this way…”

If you think you might like to contribute original content that is exclusive to this blog, please drop me a line. Thanks!

I just got an email from someone expressing their concern over my well-being. Writing this on the chance others are having similar feelings about me - Fact is I am doing inordinately well. I feel really good, we are just busy settling.

The soldier has only been here a week and a half. We are currently sorting through his stuff that was pretty much dumped in a heap here in February. The sink has problems, Vidroid is thrilled with the soldier but wants to hang around us every minute he can. We are accommodating him and in short while I am maintaining this blog I am really not able to track how it might be coming across. Come to think of it, I can’t do that under the best conditions!
Continue reading Reality Check From The Hologram That Is Elsa P….