What kind of happy endings were there where a person posted a final entry but it was happy? How is the ending of an LJ happy? (I don't find it inconceivable, I just can't conceive it.)

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H'm - looking at it again, I had two examples in mind. One of them has the "final" post being friends-only. It roughly said that "I'm happy. I miss all of you very much. However, these days, instead of LiveJournal, I'm doing..." and then listed about six very happy and very positive things that the poster was doing. Now maybe that's not completely close-the-door final, but if it turns out to be final in practice then it at least has a sense of completion to it - the end of a LiveJournal phase and an indication of why the phase ended, what's in the phase which replaced it.

The other example I was thinking of was very much along the same lines (nothing for a couple of months, an indication of why nothing and what has replaced it) except that it hasn't turned out to be so final after all. :-)

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My guess for the number-of-entries-you'll-have-posted-in-a-year's-time factors in my hope and suspicion that you're going to find something happy which, though you'd like to write about it, will use all your writing time (-:

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I award you plural prescience points.

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Congratulations and happy birthday, livejournal!

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Happy LJ Anniversary! :)

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So, um, how long did it take you to do the whole statistics thing?

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The real question is not "how many entries will you make" but how careful will you be to NOT make as many entries as were predicted, thus avoiding having to pay off?

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Impressive statistical work, but I would expect no less from you.

And as for the life-in-others'-hands thing:
(1) It's terrific that you feel that way.
(2) When you come right down to it, aren't ALL of our lives in each others' hands?
(3) If I mispunctuated "each others'," will somebody please explain how I should have done it?

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3) I believe that you punctuated correctly -- showing possession by a plural entity. The trick that makes this particular usage seem confusing is that an individual has two hands, and while you're talking about potentially many individuals, in essence you're also talking of significantly more hands than individuals. (Unless of course the people whom Chris trusts with his life under various circumstances are those with only a single opposable appendage.) If instead you'd gone the "one another's" route instead of the "each others'", the apostrophe would lie just after the "r," as "one" indicates a singular entity with multiple hands.

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Number of Friends I would trust with my life, if the alternative were a painless, instantaneous death: about 85
Number of Friends I would trust with my life, if the alternative were an intensely painful death: two?

This provoked a serious thought (I do have them every now and then) - notwithstanding the actual numbers, I feel sure that I'd trust more people with my life in the latter case than the former. I would have thought they'd be more careful with it in those circumstances.

I know that picklepuss and myself are two of the beneficiaries of your invite codes. Might you at some point recap who else you've brought into the madness?

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