Clouds drifting by

I posted on the 15th about my attempts to acquire a prepaid debit card in order to pay LJ without using my bank debit card.

I first of all tried Pockit on the 10th but they're apparently still reviewing my details.

Then I tried FairFX on the 15th. I signed up for a card, loaded money onto it, and waited 5 business days for my card to arrive. As of today, they haven't taken the money and there's no sign of any card. Maybe I did something wrong? In any case, I've emailed them to cancel my account.

Both Pockit and FairFX charge £1.99 a month for their reusable Visa cards (assuming you ever actually get a card). I really didn't want to sign up for an ongoing account but I didn't know what else to do. £1.99 a month was the cheapest I'd found too.

Then I discovered PayPal do a Mastercard on their account. Yay! Oh, it's only for business accounts. No yay.

It finally occurred to me to try sending myself a gift Mastercard or Visa card and I found Their Perfect Gift on Saturday 22nd. The reviews were good, so I put £30 on the card, paid £3.99 for an e-card, and waited. Yesterday, I got an email acknowledging my order which said they'd send me (at a different email address) my gift Mastercard and activation code by close of business today.

It arrived and I paid LJ for another year's account at last. Yay! LJ's checkout broke the 16 digit code up in weird blocks of numbers but it went through okay, and LJ have emailed me the confirmation.

It didn't take up all the £30 (I have £11.80 left over), of course, but I wasn't sure of the exchange rate nor did I know if there'd be a charge for the different currancy. I didn't want to go through all that and not have enough money on the card that took me weeks and a ton of searches to acquire. I thought I'd use the rest for a few months' Dreamwidth account but DW's checkout process informed me the card doesn't support this type of purchase. I don't know why. At least it worked for LJ.

Stolen from spikesgirl58 while her back was turned.

Just like last time, the rules of playing this game are easy: introduce me to a new friend (or two, or three) over on YOUR LJ and I will do the same in a comment here.

This isn't your typical free-for-all cold-call friendzy, think of it more as an intimate dinner party - if we have been friends for awhile, you know my posting style and interests, my commenting habits (ie: I am not interested in connecting to folks who rarely comment) and I know yours... If you were having a dinner party, who would you introduce me to during cocktail hour? Who would you sit me beside at the dinner table? Who is it you want to connect at this evening soiree?

If you want to meet a new friend or two, drop me a comment here, and then share this post in YOUR LJ with a comment introducing me to the friends you think I should meet.

So the invite is open - I'm mixing up the cocktails, so put on your evening attire and join me for another round of Grow The Circle!

Okay, apparently the new version of post-dated posts is a 'sticky'...but you can only have one of them. I'll tag this as 'livejournal' instead so I can find it when I want it. Sheesh!

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Go into your profile and hover your mouse over the word "profile" to get the drop down menu, then click "settings".

One of the first lines on that page is: "You can edit your account settings below. You may also want to edit your profile or your journal style".

Click on the link "journal style", then choose "customize your theme" (right half of the page, near the top).

There's a sub menu, on the left, on that page. Choose "entry text".

There's a line that says "Text to share this with a friend". Whatever text is in that box (mine said "share"), remove it and leave it blank, then save your changes.