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I did get a few things done this week. Most notably, made a dentist appointment. (Obviously I should have done that two years ago, but better late than never, I suppose.) Worked on the GoingSideways post about the eclipse trip, which is going rather slowly, but it is going. Cleared a lot of dead leftovers out of the fridge. Had my hematology appointment on Thursday, where I was told that my anemia was stable enough not to require a biopsy or other intervention. Got my iron supplement increased to 3/week, at my suggestion.

OTOH, failed miserably at getting appointments at my GP. That requires a phone call and, well, ... And my beloved Logitech Anywhere mouse died. Scroll wheel doesn't work. (I have another, but since I'm down to one I can't just leave it in my backpack and forget about it.) (I do have another but it's bluetooth only. I suppose I could give it another try; last time I tried to use a BT mouse -- BT anything, for that matter, it sucked, but I suppose it may have improved.)

On the gripping hand, there some positive things going on out in the world, including the Dutch government switching to Linux. Not that that comes anywhere close to compensating for all the bad stuff, but I'll take whatever hope I can get.

Linkies:

No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux | Hackaday
Scientists discover a bizarre “devil flower” hidden in Thailand -- more on Sunday.
Abstruse Goose | Turtles not quite all the way down. Rabbit hole warning.
Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia Rabbit hole warning.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: unknown
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: earworms from Iolanthe and Pirates

amalthia

My friend and I just finished watching "Veil of Shadows" on Netflix and we had a blast. If you liked "Fangs of Fortune," this TV show should be enjoyable as well. It was filmed by the same director and has some of the same cast. I loved the story, the fantasy elements, like shapeshifting and magic, the visuals, the fight sequences, the last 10 episodes had me crying, and the ending worked for me.

Everyone in the cast was hot in different ways.

Here is more information on the show at MyDramaList: Veil of Shadows (2026)

sovay

Because I slept a normal human minimum last night, I was able to drive

spatch to work on the short notice of his alarm sleeping through itself and then to walk down to the park in the later afternoon where I had a secondhand encounter with mortality. I was slightly buried in a yew tree at the time. I did get a bunch of pictures first.

( Are these exposed wires all good? )

I have spent most of the rest of the day engaged in very little except reading on the couch and making myself a pumpernickel bagel with chopped liver courtesy of Mamaleh's. I think it is great that butterflies prove the efficacy of dazzle camouflage. Sunkist Fruit Gems have been saved and it appears we are reinventing the flying boat. I had also not realized that Inspirobot was still around.

Current Music: Dry Cleaning, "Hot Penny Day"

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As of writing, there's 22 hours until assignments are due. If you need an extension, now is the time to ask. So long as you request an extension before the deadline, you can consider it granted, even if I don't reply to your request.

Extensions are 48 hours (making the new due date Oct 6 at 11:59PM EST).

A new pinch hit post will go up after the deadline has passed.

ysabetwordsmith

Drought and extreme heat pile up in some of America’s most vulnerable counties

In the U.S., greater exposure to drought and extreme heat often overlaps with poverty, older housing, and limited health insurance.

Well, yeah. Drought and heat feed each other. Low-quality land causes poverty by reducing crop yields. And poor people aren't allowed to live in nice places and can't afford to upgrade what they do have.

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Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana to meet some relatives coming down from Chicagoland.

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torachan

1. Absolutely awful weather today. It got up to 99 even here in Santa Monica, though thankfully the peak was brief and fairly early (around 12:30pm). It's down to the low 80s now at 7pm, but the house still feels super gross. Carla's been out in the garage most of the day with the AC and I've been out there a couple times myself when I needed to cool down more. But it was actually pretty nice this morning before the heat got going, and after my walk I went right out for my bike ride and got about 16 miles before the sun was really out in force. It was pretty dry then, too, and not as humid as it got later in the day (and still is). I'm hoping to be able to do the same tomorrow.

2. I stopped to take a couple more Halloween decoration pics while I was out this morning.

( Jack Skellington and witches (not together) )

3. Chloe's such a cutie sleepy-pie.

hannah

Today, someone told me I'd been described to them as a "smartass."

I immediately said, "It beats a hardass."

It was said at a remembrance service, not a memorial, for my aunt's husband. We weren't quite close enough for me to comfortably call him uncle, though that's what he was to me. Some people came from other parts New Jersey, my family came from New York City, a few from Ohio and Texas. We chatted, we talked, we shared good memories of him. I'm glad I went and had a chance to say hello to many of these people, some for the first time in a long time and some just for the first time. The location wasn't the best and the food was merely okay, but as always for these things, you go for the company.

Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: nothing now

senmut

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senmut

Light is on for: Anyone that drops by. I don't care if you're a teenager with no costume, or a parent with a baby too young for treats. Come by.

What's in the Bowl? Drabbles (100 words), 5 things (meta or fic), rambling about your subject of choice (likely will have wikipedia links for you), or if you link me a song or picture, I'll tell you if it sparks for a fandom/character.

Let Me Know: Choose a fandom or subject, drop it in the comments. Tell me what you are dressed up as if you wish. Character choices and simple prompts welcome. My original universes are open to requests, as are general original concept prompt.

Other info: Find me at

Merfilly |

Merfilly (some original, backup to AO3) |

Merfilly (Star Trek only) |

Merfilly (some of my comic book fics) |

senmutthebuilder |

sylph_and_asp (Original only) to see samples. Of late, I do not care to write truly darkfic or death fic most of the time. I will not do rape, non-consensual touching/kissing/what have you, harm to kids, or other dark themes. Any fandom I have touched, even just discussing it, is open game. Links to previous works and "what happened X TIME" in/before/after it are welcome.

pameladean

Hi, everyone, I'm sorry to disappear for months and then pop up with this, but I don't have a local filter.

Can anybody recommend a local plumber who doesn't charge insane rates? We have been employing Doug Linden, a small independent outfit, and they're great, but also small, and not available until Tuesday.

Possibly all the larger plumbing companies with overhead and 24-hour service charge horrible rates, but if you've used one that's less bad than the rest, let me know.

We have a very slow drain and a non-working faucet in the upstairs kitchen. The refrigerator is also broken, which is one reason money is a serious concern.

Anyway, recommendations in Minneapolis/St. Paul solicited.

I'll try to do a general catch-up post soon.

I have been reading your journals, at least.

Pamela

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/3/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

At least half the fields are harvested.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

kaberett

Yesterday I made the quinoa salad thing for lunch. This meant that for lunch today there was... quinoa salad thing! And I didn't even have to do any work.
Cake (Topfenstrudel) for breakfast; cake (Apfel-Mohn-Torte) for pudding. Thus are the Viennese pastries finished. (A turned out to be a bit sad that I had eaten most of the Apfelstreuselkuchen, so given that I still have the better part of 20kg of apples in bags on the patio, that's one of my baking jobs for tomorrow...)
A looked sufficiently as though they had cleared the upper respiratory grot that we are sleeping in the same bed again. Better. (Cross your fingers for me that I did not make the call they were probably non-infectious again too soon...)
A few days of bracing has calmed the ankle right back down: for today's Stupid Little Walk I wore the hiking boots and stuck the brace in my pocket, and did not wind up feeling the need to stop and put it on. Hurrah for Management Strategies That Work and also Listening To My Body.
Supermarket, not unrelatedly, yielded cut-price British strawberries that on the one hand were still very expensive and on the other are very tasty.
I am hitting the point of having a pretty solid stash of dried poblanos, and the heatless habanero is abruptly COVERED IN FLOWERS again and I am somewhat hopeful that if I bring it inside they might actually usefully fruit...

cosmolinguist

D found out about the Power to the People, a "rock the vote" thing put together by Tom Morello with a lot of fun stuff: Jack Black doing Black Sabbath (he calls it Jack Sabbath obviously), everybody singing along with "Fight the Power," not even needing a singer for "Killing in the Name Of" because all of the audience knows the words... Everyone on stage is having fun singing each other's songs and jumping around and whatnot.

V and I would both normally be in bed by now and it's so fun to stay up late and have popcorn and a beer and be doing this instead, all three of us (for now).

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thistleingrey

Antipodes has reached the predictable part where one knits the same colorwork rows over and over for a while. That means it's okay to unload from short-term memory all the things I had to track in modifying the yoke, and to pause the WIP until it feels less boring. (A couple of early garment attempts failed when I let those tracked bits drop too soon.)

The no-link shawl made mostly of remnants is written for three yarn colorways. I'm on my last colorway now, #19 or 20. Someone has told me (now and then, I knit in public) that it evokes the idea of butterfly wings---not the shape but the segments of light/dark.

I've worked on my mother's red scarflet, a bit.

Contemplating Natalie Perreau's Big Sis, a sleeveless cardigan whose fronts are meant to meet and which I won't knit, has reminded me of two things. First, garments meant to highlight relatively delicate bone structure, such as Big Sis and 1980s women's blazers, look on me as though my next stop were a US football field.

Second, I began Yamagara's Dawa more than a year ago to wear to a friend's wedding (now past), it stalled, and I almost forgot about the WIP. I could knit a Dawa with too-drafty armholes, or I could knit a Dawa I would struggle to wear, but I can't make one for myself that'd have the effects the designer intended (unless, perhaps, I added a hidden zipper below the upper back's plait, and ...no).

What'd be more effective is upscaling a pattern not meant for delicacy or nicer occasions. Garment patterns, especially sleeveless ones, always have a basic physics issue (my circumference is larger at shoulder than at torso, waist, or hip), but I could just knock the sleeves off something that's not fitted snugly, as with Antipodes, and make it subtly punk. What-if-Yorlin was a good exercise, and I've learned thence (more than a month ago) what I needed to, which is---what if not.

forestofglory

Translation State by Ann Leckie—Since I accidentally read a novella the other week I decided to try and read some of the novels that have been sitting on my ereader for ages. I told myself that I could be as ruthless as I am with fic and stop reading after the first couple of lines if I want. And I did decide not to read a couple of books, but then I got to this and read it!

It was a good read. I enjoyed it in a worldbuilding puzzle solving way, more than intense feelings about the characters kind of way. I mean liked the characters and cared about what happened to them, but the thing that made me want to keep reading was learning more about the world and finding out what happened next.

This was published in 2023 which is not that long ago, but somehow reading it felt like a blast from the past, probably because it’s been so long since I read the other Imperial Radch books.

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time by Dan Jurgens et al—I don't know why when recently I saw Zero Hour mentioned my brain latched on and decided to read it. I'm not usually into big crossover events. I only know who 2/3 of the characters are at best. (This way more than I would have recognized a year ago!) Anyways the story was fun, if confusing in places, and there’s so many characters no one gets much screentime. The art is very 90s and also kinda trippy, so many rainbows!

Also it was neat to see Hal Jordan in his Parallax phase, since the thing I’ve read the most of with him is The Spectre, and it was interesting to see his evil phase from which he needed redemption. I found his motives surprisingly sympathetic (I read some more about this and apparently they later retconed it so that Parallax is an evil energy being possessing Hal, which I hate! Give him some agency!)
Content note: childbirth, mostly off screen

Emerald Twilight by Ron Marz et. al—This is the Hal goes bad arc. It's only three issues and kind of a lot happens. I think this would hit harder if I knew who any of the characters other than Hal were. As I said above, being mad at all powerful beings for not saving people is something I found very sympathetic as motivation.

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lotesse

The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything by Cameron Cummins-Smith: "The interracial cuck porn theory of everything (IRCP theory) is that essentially every aspect of the modern online right’s politics is reflected and amplified by porn narratives. “The Great Replacement” and trans panic, inceldom and tariffs, the nuclear family and hatred of academia; these are not separate bullet points on a list of far-right talking points but interconnected nodes in an ideological web that is largely held together by porn, specifically interracial cuck porn. The online far right simultaneously creates porn based on their political beliefs and base their political beliefs on porn; it’s a horny, racist ouroboros."

luzula

I wrote a fic! Not sure whether to tag it with Ewen/Keith or Ewen & Keith, thus the "Ambiguous Relationship" tag. In the process, I discovered there was only one fic in the archive labeled with Ewen & Keith, so I ended up putting that tag on it.

Applicatione Animi (2403 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant, Ewen Cameron & Keith Windham
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron, Alison Grant (Jacobite Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Ambiguous Relationships, Post-Canon, Domestic, Romantic Friendship
Summary: Friendship, and what it can mean.

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