04-01-03 @ 1:18 am EST

No views for my last entry. I guess my readers all left.

I do not like this. What they did to my username. I would not have minded if it had dumb emoticons in it like everyone else's seems to have, and I don't care that they reversed the name of my journal. But to merely take away the capital letter of my Eight severely irritates me. I don't see the capitalization of other members' names messed with, only emoticons. They couldn't think of anything to do with the e in Tehuti? Typical. They could have at least made it symmetric and gotten rid of ALL the capitalization, but to get rid of the capitalizaton of just that one word pisses me off.

I know, it's petty, but I've never liked April Fools' Day. I see it as an excuse to mess with people's minds, and I have never found that funny. And while I don't mind the messing with item titles for a day, to screw up people's usernames in a non-funny manner (like getting rid of a capital letter--what is so hilarious about that?--I'm probably the only one who'd even notice it in my own name) isn't funny and I wish it wouldn't have happened. Forget opting out of convention e-mails, I would like to opt out of the so-called "jokes" if I could.

Not as if I have any say in anything though. I'll have to carry this ugly username for the rest of the day. Thanks a lot...

Edited to add: Right after I posted this entry, of course, my name as it appeared on Skew changed so all the e's were emoticons. But as I see it now it still has just the small e in Eight with no emoticons, and prior to posting this it was not changing at all on any of my items--no emoticons or anything. Just a small e. What was it I just said about messing with people's minds? Never funny. Though I'm sure somebody's laughing at me at the moment.

I wish instead of working on jokes they'd work on optimizing site performance. Since the server trouble the other day everything around here's been very sludgy and it stalls out every few minutes. When I posted in my dream journal earlier and tried to view it, it actually told me the entry was private, didn't exist, or there was a server problem and to wait a moment or two. That's a problem I've never had before, but I'm not surprised.