Prior entry, subsequent life:

[captainsblog]

Thank yous and smoochies to ellettra for fixing the repost bug, via a couple other friends. Follow these simple steps of code, and those repost lines go away:

Via popfiend, via dydan

To get rid of the twitter/facebook repost links in your journal entry comments do the following:


1. Go to your "Journal" menu, and select "Journal Style"
2. To the right, you'll see what theme you're using, with a link stating "Customize Your Theme". Click that link.
3. Scroll down a little ways, and you'll see that on the left side of your screen, you have multiple options to modify your theme. Click on the "Custom CSS" link, and it should load the options for doing Custom CSS.
4. From here, all you have to do is go to the "Custom Stylesheet", and put in that line.

.b-repost-item {display:none}

Once that's in there, you want to save the changes, and you should be done. Leave everything else as it is (unless you want to remove more things!).


It works, but I will offer one caveat. I suspect if someone is viewing your LJ in their style (I view all your LJs in mine, it makes it easier), that your CSS doesn't mean anything. I don't say this with anything approaching absolute authority, but as always YMMV. And it is still an action that minimizes the issue regardless.

Thankee thankee thankee ::hugs and re-hugs and re-re-hugs back upline::

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Also, if it wasn't apparent from the hour, we're back. Two of us.

Plenty of glitches along the way. Minutes into the trip, Emily called from the car behind us, to tell us that her EZ-Pass hadn't registered at the toll barrier. That led to some fire-drilling just before the Henrietta exit so I could ride with her to the exit booth from there and take care of the toll for her. Next, the Campus Safety types did a less than stellar job of directing us to the initial parking lot, and the walk from there to the general sign-in at the Field House was brutal. She'd forgotten necessary information for two of the three essential stops she had to make at that stage, but all are re-doable in the coming days, and she did accomplish the most crucial one of securing an ID.

The parade then proceeded to her dorm, where things went much more smoothly. Truck and car got unloaded quickly and in an orderly manner; Em and I then got most of the stuff uploaded to her room while Eleanor parked and took a shuttle back to join us; and we ended with a dinner out at Uno (a chain pizza place which abandoned Amherst a few years back but still holds forth in Henrietta) and some final hugs in the parking lot where her car will now semi-permanently reside.

We were home almost by 8, the animals promptly got their OM essential NOM attention NOM. I'm supposed to be back on campus for more academic pageantry by 9:30 tomorrow, but the over-under on that right now is "not bloody likely." There's only one thing she absolutely needs (her actual social security card so she can sign up for work-study), along with two she'd rather like to have (her small television and a watch Eleanor still has to put an unpurchased battery in); and I have to be back downtown there for court on Friday, when the watch will be ready, so I'm leaning seriously toward postpoing until then. If she needed-needed me, of course, I'd go back tonight, despite the exhaustion and the missing-work stress and (yes, did I mention this yet?) Teh Rather Sick I've been for the past three days that I'm hoping is no more than a late summer cold- but I'm not going to make a trip just to see some Pointy Headed Academics processing with maces, scepters and other implements of destruction. I did that drill for the Cornell president's inauguration in my freshman year, and I don't think anything could ever possibly impress me as much again as long as I live /sarcasm.

Comments

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Done! Though the "Repost to" header is still there, the links aren't.

But I see them above this window as I respond to you. No idea what that means.

I've lost track. Which school is your offspring attending?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

She's at RIT. I saw more orange today than in a week in Central Florida.

And I don't understand all the intricacies of how this code works.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

If she needed-needed me, of course, I'd go back tonight, despite the exhaustion and the missing-work stress and (yes, did I mention this yet?) Teh Rather Sick I've been for the past three days that I'm hoping is no more than a late summer cold- but I'm not going to make a trip just to see some Pointy Headed Academics processing with maces, scepters and other implements of destruction.

Excellent call. You will all be absolutely amazed at how many crazy helicopter parents will be completely and utterly embroiled in their kids' college lives for weeks and months to come. I dread dealing with some of those folks this Saturday when I work dorm check-in.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Coming from a professional on the other end of the life, the experience, and, yes, the money, that means a lot.

The NYT did a piece about this phenomenon a week or so ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/education/23college.html?_r=2&ref=us

I would sooner jump off the top of McGraw Tower than interfere with my child, or her educators, to the extent of some of these Chopper Parents.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're welcome! It's true, I think you're making really good decisions about this.

Bob help me, last year I saw someone who brought their household help to assist with unloading. At least the lady (impeccably well dressed, looked like a Real Housewife of Orange County) was also helping to bring in her kid's stuff, but the obvious hired help was freaking. me. out.

Also? Here in womens college land, we STILL get daddies and boyfriends bringing their dear student's laptop in to make sure it gets hooked onto the network, and we have to gently and politely explain that part of the experience is making sure we teach the student HERSELF what she needs to do to get her machine on the network, keep it free of malware, and back up her data. And no, you can't just tell us her password, WE NEED TO TALK TO HER ABOUT NOT DOING THAT EITHER. Luckily, we get fewer of those each year.

I'm amazed at how many people apparently lurk around campus for a week or two, according to that article. We see a few come through our complex the first week, and wonder what on earth their deal is.

At the same time, on my campus we have quite a number of students who fly here on their own from the other side of the planet, with a few suitcases. They're such sweeties, and I cannot imagine how nervous they must be.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

"At the same time, on my campus we have quite a number of students who fly here on their own from the other side of the planet, with a few suitcases. They're such sweeties, and I cannot imagine how nervous they must be."

One of Em's roommates, Wen, isn't from the other side of the planet, but her father is, clearly. Yet, when I went around to introduce myself to the other girls, he jumped at the opportunity to do likewise. I can try, but I'm sure I cannot truly fathom the changes he's seen in his life, from China to Western New York State and thence to a really great school. As I so often feel, I felt humbled when I thought of how hard he's probably worked to get himself where he is, and to get her where she is.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Thank you.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the kidlet being safely tucked away!

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you've been sickly. I'm really glad you got the kid moved with low drama. Here's to getting some rest. You and E are such wonderful parents. Emily is lucky to have you both.