Yes, I still plan to use LJ's Scrapbook. For some reason, LJ makes it possible to hotlink. I figure I use a tiny portion of the space I paid for and LJ allows me to use it like a Photobucket account so I do.

<--- hotlinking my own icon

Thanks for the kind thoughts. The last couple of weeks have really sucked but life goes on, you know? Something about LIMS plays havoc with my life. The finals of the first round coincided with my two weeks of non-electricity following Hurricane Ike; this round's finals coincided with the death of a 16-year relationship. I don't look upon the start the third round with unabashed joy, I gotta admit, irrational though I know it is. :)

Pasting LJ posts into Insanejournal (your icon comm there!) always worked, so I figured the same would work here, at least as long as LJ keeps allowing it, so I guess I'll keep doing the same thing too. I'm in the same situation regarding the use of only a fraction of my space there and so on. And clunky as the Scrapbook interface can be, I'm awfully accustomed to it now. Thanks for the input -- you've saved me from a lot of unnecessary re-uploading.

::savors your oh-so-cool Teal'c::

I'd forgotten about the timing of Ike last round! Jeez louise. I hate for you to have that negative association with something so wonderful that you created. You are such a fabulous mod and it's such a great comm. I will be fervently hoping for next round to break the streak.

Aw, Mish. I'm sending you so many good thoughts, for peace and strength and the return of happiness.

Yeah, well, some day LJ is going to catch on and prohibit hotlinking (although I suppose it could be viewed as not hotlinking since I paid for the space/bandwidth) so it would be prudent to check out gallery downloading tools.

I know exactly what you mean about the clunky interface but having invested time in learning to navigate it AND the time required to upload. The thought of downloading each icon individually strikes fear into my heart. I don't have a file system at all! I use file names to help me organize but even that will be cumbersome to upload to another system. There really isn't a good, foolproof method, is there?

Thanks for the good thoughts. :) I've had a lot of private e-mails and messages. There are a number of really nice people out there and I have a best-friends-since-we-were-8 friend who lives about a mile away so I have very strong support in my non-digital life, too.

If I must be superstitious, and I prefer not to be, I choose to believe that the third time's the charm for LIMS. ;) I don't actually associate my hurdles of late with the LIMS. Rather, I find that the difficulties suck the fun out of the finale for me. That stinks because I enjoy the comm and I want to celebrate the winners and everyone who takes part. Luckily, I am not the only mod and others pick up the slack.