Just one thing: 5 October 2025

Oct. 5th, 2025 06:22 am
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Oliver's Big Adventure

Oct. 4th, 2025 11:36 pm
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Shit shit shit. Oliver got out and ran under the porch, where I can’t get him. I guess that he’s going to spend the night outside. I hope that he’ll come in when he’s hungry.

I’m achy and feel like crying.

Gracie woke me up at 7:30 AM. I took the dogs out, and no sign of Oliver. Bella got stuck under the porch, so I brought Gracie in and got her out. I opened the door to get some soda, and Oliver came in! Gracie jumped on him though. I got scratched trying to get Gracie off of him. He ran upstairs. But at least, he’s home. Whew.

Gracie is nonstop barking at Oliver. She’s giving me a headache.

Fed us all. Nap time. I think that Oliver is upstairs sleeping. He might have had a rough night. No, he’s napping on top of the refrigerator.

The arthritis in my toes and fingers is bothering me. Getting old kind of sucks.

Had lunch. I’m taking nap #2. Put my linen pants and top in the dryer to dewrinkle. Scanned another song and sent them to my singing teacher.

Gracie is barking at Oliver again. Sigh.

Showered and got myself together. Fed us all. Now I’m at the theater for the symphony concert. The concert was all right. None of it was music that I’d want to hear again. I got drowsy during the third piece, but I think that was because I was dehydrated.

Stopped at the grocery store on the way back. I wanted hot dogs to use as rewards for Bella and Gracie. I also picked up some bread and cake. Ate some of the bread and cake. Now I’ll post and feed the cats and Gracie.

Oliver is now showing zero interest in going outside. Yay.

Write Every Day Day 5

Oct. 5th, 2025 12:22 am
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I wonder if this works for all filter words... How's it going? I soaked up a lot of local history today. I love using history in my writing. How about you? Day 4 brought about 1300 words, some on [community profile] fandomtrumpshate story and on my Hazbin Hotel story The Porn Star Murders (posted the chapter) If I've forgotten you on the list, poke me

Day 4 [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] brithistorian,


other days under here )

Local History

Oct. 4th, 2025 11:02 pm
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I had planned to go to the cemetery walk for the first time ever in Gallipolis. I had done this once before in Logan OH years ago (like 17) and I enjoyed it. What they do is have reenactors at the gravesite giving out local history of the people buried there. It was a cool idea but I've never could go to the this newish one in Gallipolis (because I've had conflicts the last few years).

I also needed to go to Point Pleasant because the cryptid anthology I'm going to be in wanted promo photos and I thought my god I need to take mine with Mothman!

But I woke up too early so I was reading a book I got at the loveland frogman fest 2 years ago, the haunted cemeteries of Ohio (which I did use to go to Ironton to do some investigations) but somehow didn't read Jackson and Wellston...only to find out there were accusations of witchcraft in both towns. Well now I know I'll have to go to the historical society....

I hit Point Pleasant only to find it overrun. Wow. I don't normally go on a weekend. I knew they were doing a lot of paranormal tourism. It's literally saving the town but wow, even off the festival days there was a LINE to get your pic so I go into Grinders for coffee and writing and waiting it out. Not my favorite local coffee house, best you can say is an attempt was made.

I meet TH at the cemetery. It feels hotter than it is (I would have sworn it was 90 but it was only 80) the heat made me ill by the end (I was there 2 hours) and the stress drove my sugar to nearly 400. Fun times but it was really neat. I do love history and there was a lot of history I had NO idea about.

This was held at Pine Street historical cemetery in Gallipolis (which has a small confederate soldier burial because as I learned last year there was a Civil War Hospital in town). It's a small cemetery a couple acres, nice and flat. My friend L was one of the reenactors. Her person was Mrs. Curry who lost her 12 y.o. son and husband to the John Porter a plague ship in the 1870s from New Orleans. It left port in LA bringing with it mosquitos filled with flavivirus which causes Yellow Fever. Other ports wouldn't let them dock (Cincinnati noped straight out) but the ship broke down near Gallipolis (in the Ohio River) and townspeople basically looted it for blankets etc. And....nearly 70 people died of Yellow Fever.

Along with back of the cemetery they had a bunch of hand made tombstones to do more local history but from Mound Cemetery (which is further downtown, more the main cemetery BUT is up and down huge hills and is too big to walk easily) so they brought their stories to this cemetery. There was an entertainer who worked with the Ziegfeld Follies. There was Alber Ankeny Stewart a banker who ended up the 5th richest dude in OH who had a mansion in gallipolis, NYC and the French Rivera. He was big into circuses and tried to help bring a Bulga whale to Cincinnati It didn't go well And he ended up going on a little ocean voyage on the unsinkable Titantic It also didn't go well.

I should have taken a picture of the book about Franny Angel because the title I thought it was brought up nothing. Franny (like many other erased women) joined the Union army, undiscovered until she got shot in the leg (and nearly lost it, don't worry childbirth killed her later on) When they discovered her sex at the Civil War hospital, one nurse had an idea, take some pictures in your uniform and sell them to make money. It worked but it also was used to keep her from reenlisting.

I didn't realize Mayme and Jeannette Emerson were buried there, they were the African American sister podiatrists I put in my speech. The reenactor knew them when she was a kid (they died in 57 and 61 respectively) and she was telling me about how she couldn't get her hair done (they also had a beauty salon) by them because they only took care of white women in the day. (she like other African women had to go at night because the white women didn't want to share their space. Jesus) They recreated the sisters' sign limp in leap out (clever) and they advertised country wide and had people from all over, sort of like the Dr. Pimple Popper of their day.

Shockingly they were buried in the White cemetery (maybe because it was mid century, maybe because they were wealthy and important) and not in the Colored Pine Street cemetery across the street. I meandered over there and learned some more history, most notably Lloyd Gee, son of John Gee of the John Gee church, now the Black history center and former stop on the Underground Railroad. Lloyd died on the river trying to save lives in the course of his duties as a riverboat captain. I asked if he was included in the River Museum in Point Pleasant. They didn't know. I will go looking next time and if he's not, maybe these two local history centers need to talk.

So in spite of the heat making me sick, I had an enjoyable time.

and I'm feeling lazy this Science Saturday so here's a bunch from one place

James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week

Scientists find best evidence yet that icy moon Enceladus is habitable

Chimps eat fruit full of alcohol, but no, they don't get drunk
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In lieu of working on my Tunisian crochet afghan today, I decided to sort through the bags of yarn that are cluttering up my living room. The back story is that I have a friend whose method of destashing is to give me all the yarn she doesn't want. In fact, that's where the yarn for that afghan came from. But there is also a lot of stuff I would never use. In this case, both the black and the red and grey yarn fall into the category of what I think of as "muppet fur," which I find annoying to work with. The light brown yarn has two strikes against it. Aside from being a color I don't wear, it's 100% scrylic.

I also had a bag full of bulky weight light grey yarn that was from a sweater I knitted several years ago and frogged because I decided it didn't suit me.

I've just listed all of that yarn on my local Buy Nothing Group.

(If any of y'all are in northern Virginia or the DC metro area and want some, you're welcome to it, too.)

Day 4 - more progress

Oct. 4th, 2025 08:34 pm
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In between cooking all the things for a birthday dinner, I stitched two needle's worth of gray on the cross stitch.

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[ID: A cross stitch in progress, in turquoise and grey thread, so far. End ID]

I probably won't be able to post tomorrow, but I'll still be creating...

Weekend Again

Oct. 4th, 2025 11:14 pm
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A strange week...

September was a decidedly expensive month, so October's personal theme involves being a bit frugal if possible. Nothing is wrong! It was a just a collision of larger bills + events.

This last week was busy: house-sat, had some grout come loose in my shower and had to acquire grout supplies and learn all about grout, got the windows washed (and finally got the screens back in), took the big comforter to the laundromat and washed it...

[community profile] ficortreat is live, as is [community profile] octobercest, though the latter hasn't had any activity yet. I suppose I'll advertise both in the days to come.

Finished up the... 1/72(?) Mailes Kenbu, who was a decent-enough build. I might still get the Ghost from that line.

Working on MG Astray Blue Frame D, and when I get annoyed with her, I'll get back to Zwei? No polls for awhile; I really want to enjoy the feeling of grabbing whatever looks interesting and building it. (Next MG-or-1/100 will be a Wing kit though.) I have another kit on the way as audition for Revenant's backpack since I'm not entirely sold on my current choice. Eventually I'll have to decide on colors. IIRC Reverent was mostly white and Revenant decidedly is not.
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It’s that time again. Here in California we normally don’t have statewide elections in odd years, but this year is special. We do have an election, with one Proposition on the ballot. This means there is no signature battle driving people to the ballot box, so it is even more important to get out the vote. Sample ballots have been mailed; the ballot guide has been mailed, and the actual ballots were received a day or so ago. Now, every election, I do a detailed ballot analysis of my sample ballot. This is where I examine each candidate or issue and share my conclusions, and invite you to convince me to vote for the other jerk or the other way. Fasten your seatbelts.

Here’s the issue that’s on the ballot:

  • Proposition 50:  Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.

According to the legislative analyst, this proposition does two things:

  • Use Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition 50 replaces California’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps. (The total number of districts would not change.) Proposition 50’s maps must follow federal law, but they are not required to follow the state requirements placed on the Commission. The state would use Proposition 50’s maps for congressional elections starting in 2026. The state would use these maps until the Commission draws new district maps, following the 2030 U.S. Census.
  • National Congressional Redistricting: Call for Change in Federal Law. Proposition 50 asks the U.S. Congress to change federal law and propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require redistricting be done by “fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.” Proposition 50 expresses voter support for this idea, but does not change federal law or require any particular action of Congress or the California Legislature.

Let’s start the analysis folks:

In an ideal world: Congressional boundaries would be drawn by independent commissions putting like interests together, either ignoring party or making districts politically even. They would overall make the makeup of the districts representative of the state overall in terms of politics, gender, race, etc., so that the state’s congressional delegation looked like the state. They would eschew gerrymandering, where districts are drawn to favor particular candidates or political parties. A few states, such as California, enacted laws to do this.

In an ideal world: Drawing of congressional districts would occur ONCE after each 10 year census, so that battles in the districts can reflect changes in political and district makeup, and folks that don’t like their congresscritters could vote them out, and vote new ones in.

But we live in Trump’s world right now, and Trump doesn’t like to lose. He’s made clear that he will do whatever it takes to ensure he wins, his followers win, and he stays in power, and that no one investigates his behavior. He’s file lawsuits. He’ll attempt to tamper and interfere in elections, as he did in George in 2020 when he asked them to find votes. He’ll rig the election rules to make it harder for those in the other party — and those he doesn’t like — to vote.

This year, he’s trying to protect himself by Gerrymandering. He specifically asked a number of states to redraw their congressional maps to increase the likelihood that more Republicans get elected to Congress, ensuring he has a majority there and is safe from impeachment and investigations. In response, states like Texas and Missouri did, increasing the likelihood of there being more Republicans and less Democrats, despite how the actual demographics might be.

In response, California — not wanting to dilute its power and Democrat majority in Congress, as California is a Blue state — created this proposal. It temporarily sets aside the results of the independent commission for this 10 year cycle, and redraws lines in response to restore the balance in Congress. It also asks Congress to create independent redistricting commissions. I wish it had gone further to ask for an amendment that restricted redistricting to once every census cycle, but you can’t get everything.

Let’s follow the money.

Who is primarily funding the “No” side. First, the California Republican Party. That’s understandable. Those ads with Arnold? Those are coming from a coalition primarily funded by Charles Munger. Munger is an anti-choice billionaire. A strong Republican.  According to Politico, Munger isn’t MAGA. But he is strongly Republican, and presumably aligned with Republican Values and keeping Republicans in power. Reform California is also against it, and this is a clearly MAGA group, from what I’ve seen them trying to do in the legislature.

Who is in favor? The California Democratic Party. Again, not a surprise. Courage California (where you can order a yard sign). A very large coalition, including major Democrats and Democratic organizations.

So what are my thoughts? In an ideal world, we would have fair elections. We would make it easy for citizens to register and vote, and to vote securely by mail. We wouldn’t put roadblocks in the way of registration (such as requiring certified birth certificates, passports, proof of marital name changes, or long trips to get those documents). We would have independent commissions drawing boundaries once every 10 years, and there would be no Gerrymandering.

But we live in Trump’s world, and the only way to remove Trump from office (barring natural causes), or at least hold him accountable, is through the ballot box. And for that, we need fair and balanced districting. Trump has convinced some states to put their thumbs on the scale of that balance in order to tip the scales in favor of the MAGA Republicans, regardless of the ballot box. So, California must, once again, step up and do its part to protect the nation. We did it with air emission standards. We did it with CEQA. We did it with fuel economy. We’ll do it again by offsetting the Yellow Thumb of Texas, and by Showing Missouri that their attempts to cowtow to Trump are for naught.

I guess you know my position now: YES ON 50.

I guess I should go order my yard sign…. too bad I don’t live in El Dorado County.

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NaCraMaMo Day 4: Jewelry

Oct. 4th, 2025 12:06 pm
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Meant to post this yesterday but got derailed several times:

Read more... )

Yesterday and today

Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:09 pm
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The picking up of the sofa cushion was every bit the nightmare I though it would be. Driving around in a web of undermall parking surrounded by downtown one way streets and traffic looking for a really horribly identified place with no signage. Well, there was a sign, actually, once you got there. Not helpful. I was so pissed off. But, I got the cushion and got the fuck out of there. I do not ever have to go back. Well, maybe next time Scott and Julie come from New Zealand but that won't be for two years. I'll be recovered by then.

I did go to Uwajimaya after. It's a decent sized store. I couldn't find the sandos but I got my noodle salad and a few other goodies plus a few dinners worth of Mongolian beef. And a banana milk cake. The beef made the car quite aromatic. It was fun to see all the stuff again. They are, supposedly opening here a store here next year. Their poke is my favorite but I did not get any this time. Should have. The noodle salad was not nearly as good as I remember it. And the Mongolian beef was a fail. BUT I'm still glad I went.

Then I also stopped at Daiso on the way home to get a couple of things that I cannot get anywhere else. Then, uneventfully, home. I was going to stop and fill the tank but it's not yet below the halfway point so I didn't.

This morning's volleyball was cut short. Linda and Bob are in Canada, Cecil was missing (he's the asshole so it's hard to count this as anything but a win), Wally had to leave early and Tina always does so we had a great time and then called it at 8. This gave me enough time to run take my Amazon returns to UPS. Turns out there was also enough time to pop into Safeway but I didn't think of that last bit until I got home. I may go later.

The first baseball game is at 11 just after elbow coffee but it is the one, out of the four today, that I really don't care about. Maybe I'll pop out then and also pick up some lunch. Then the games at 1 and 3, I do care about and, of course, the Mariner game at 5. Full day.

And now I have a fully cushioned sofa to enjoy it on.

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Oct. 4th, 2025 12:14 pm
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It was a beautiful morning for parkrun - mild, sunny, low humidity - and I managed to run my best time this year, slightly faster than last week. (I'm still a "back of the pack" runner, but it's nice to beat my own time.)

When I checked my email very early this morning (just after 5 am) there was an email (sent at 4:40 am) from the landscaper I had organised to do a yard clean up on Monday. He said he had a crew available today and could they come today instead of Monday? Of course I said yes, and they arrived not long after I got back from parkrun. I've discovered that even if the yard is all overgrown and weedy at this time of year, everything dies off over the winter and by spring it doesn't look too bad* (with some minimal help from me), but I want it to look ok when the house is on the market so I thought I'd better take some serious action now.

*Not too bad" is very relative; it never looks perfectly manicured like some yards, but none of the yards in this street look like that - the yards are cared for but interesting with shrubs and groundcover rather than lawn - so mine isn't too out of place.

I have to say I'll be happy to be living somewhere where I'm not responsible for a yard.

I've been feeling stressed about cancelling various contracts (gutter cleaning, HVAC servicing, phone and internet) and kind of putting it off, but a couple of days ago I decided I had to tackle them and decided I'd start off by emailing rather than making any phone calls. This worked well; two places said they just won't renew the contract when it expires and one place asked me to call so I did. For the phone/internet, I went to their website and started a chat which also worked really well and the service will be cut off on 30th October. There are one or two other things I have to cancel I think, but I'm encouraged by how easy these that I've just done were since I had a big mental block about them. (I don't have to think about gas, electricity, and water until the house sells.)

Through the Dark of Burning Morn

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:55 am
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At one of the households we canvassed yesterday, the couple who own the place had taken out their lawn & put in a huge garden. Very impressive! They did all the excavation work themselves. Not by hand—they bought a mini-tractor—but they didn't hire anybody.

I spent 20 minutes talking to the guy. He grew up in Ohio, right outside Cinncinnati. Spent a lot of time working in agriculture before he came east.

"Why'd you come to New York?" I asked him.

"I followed the jobs. When I finally went to college, I became a graphic designer. There aren't any jobs for graphic designers around Cinncinnati. If you go up to northern Ohio where the jobs are, you might as well be in any souless suburban area, and there are souless suburban areas that pay graphic designers a lot better than Columbus.

"Besides. Upstate New York & some parts of New England are the last bastion of the family farm in the United States. The midwest is all agri-business, soybeans & corn."

###

We cased a road called Garrison Drive.

"Is it called 'Garrison' because there was a family called 'Garrison'?" I wondered out loud. "Or did they actually house soldiers here in some 17th or 18th century Indian skirmish?"

Adrienne didn't know what I was talking about.

###

I am thinking Adrienne is going to lose this election. But Joey, the Dem she is coordinating her campaign with, is gonna win. Adrienne is running for the Ulster County Legislature, Joey is running for the Town of Shawanagunk Council.

Partly, Joey is gonna win because he's in his 40s and projects 10 years younger, but partly he's gonna win because he's not a Jewish liberal. Jewish liberalism just isn't selling anymore—not because of anti-semitism per se but because it is associated with an old, tired way of doing things.

Adrienne's opponent doesn't seem to be mounting any kind of campaign at all, but he is an X-cop, and he did tell The Daily Freeman he would offer voters a 15% property tax refund—which is obviously impossible: While it's true Ulster County right now has a cash surplus, it is also true that we are at the beginning of what is promising to be a loooooong federal government shutdown; New York State will not be able to funnel federal money into county coffers, and in three months, there will be ice and snow on the roads that will need to be removed. Something's gotta pay for that.

"Voters really go for that tax-cutting stuff," I told Adrienne. "You should figure out a way to work it into your stump speech. Like maybe say you are staunchly pro-business because if there are more businesses in Shawangunk, it will lower the property tax burden on individual home owners."

And Adrienne did indeed use this schtick on the next five people we talked to.

See, this is why I like local politics. You can have an immediate effect.

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Other than that, I Remunerated away & felt disheartened because I just can't gear myself up enough to do all the work I need to do.

Also, I saw this video, which moved me immeasurably for whatever mysterious reason:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1320606452767574

Birthday in Maui

Oct. 4th, 2025 12:39 pm
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I spent my birthday on my own in Maui after the conference I attended there, and I had a brilliant time.*

My birthday treat to myself was a boat trip to Molokini crater to snorkel with the fishes, and to Turtle Town off Wailea Point to swim with the sea turtles. I got really lucky with the weather, and Cap'n Doug sailed us around the far side of Molokini so we could see the sea bird nesting sites. Then we pulled into the harbour and we were allowed to jump in the water. I don't have a waterproof camera and I also don't feel too secure snorkeling without a boogie board in hand, so I've no photos of that. But the visibility was incredible, like I remember from Hanauma Bay as a kid. I saw a tube fish and a giant parrot fish. I followed her around for a bit, listening to her chomp the coral and seeing her make sand. I saw wrasse and tangs, sea urchins and crabs, and of course the legendary Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, from whom Eldest gets her moniker. It's colourful, pugnacious, and territorial. Mmhmm.

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[Approach to Molokini crater.]

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[Seabird nesting sites round the back of Molokini.]

Turtle Town offered excellent fish viewing in the water as well, although to be honest it was much better watching the turtles from the boat as the view was clearer and they got quite close to the bow, where you're not allowed to snorkel.

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[Sea turtle next to the tour boat.]

There were lots of older retired couples on the boat - because who else can afford $200+ plus tips for a five hour boat trip - and I could see them looking sidelong at me until finally when we were eating lunch someone sidled up to me and after some desultory introductions, asked if I was scared to travel alone. Hahaha. Nope! Very happy by myself, tyvm.

I pootled back to the hotel in the convertible Mustang** I’d hired with the top down, although “pootled” doesn’t feel like quite the right word for travelling in an absurdly ostentatious car. I had a shower to get all the sand off, liberally slathered on the after-sun, and got dressed again. I had a couple of chats with family and friends. I got myself a cold drink at the 808 market and wandered down to watch my last Maui sunset on this trip.

I got changed into a nice dress and spoke to the family before hopping in the car again to take myself to dinner: Isana in Kihei. I ingested a heroic quantity of nigiri (choice bits pictured below) and part of a silly cocktail (because driving, and that thing was strong).

Sushi under the cut because raw fish isn't everyone's cup of tea )

I plucked up the courage to ask my waiter a very odd question. I explained to him that I’d grown up in Hawai’i, and I had happy memories of eating something we called “stinky pickle sushi” which you obviously cannot put on a menu in a nice restaurant. After he’d finished guffawing, I explained that it was pickled daikon radish in a maki roll. He said he would go ask the chef if he knew about this.

Two minutes later, he returned, placed a small black dish in front of me, and said, “Yes, chef is from Japan, he knows this ingredient. Is this it?” I popped the bright yellow rectangle into my mouth and clapped my hands with joy. The waiter returned to place my stinky pickle nori roll order. And that, my friends, was my final brave birthday treat to myself: procuring a sushi roll I have not tasted for over twenty years.

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[Behold: stinky pickle maki]

* Sorry, family! We would have had a brilliant time together, too. But this conference happens during the school year, and so I was on my own. I love you guys. I also love time to myself.
** I actually wanted to hire the Mazda Miata but they didn’t have any, and also the hire car person said my giant battered old Briggs & Riley suitcase would not have fit in the boot anyway.


THE END.

Just One Thing (04 October 2025)

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:14 am
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Day 3 - a little finishing

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:48 pm
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I was looking at some unfinished projects early-ish in the day, and decided to finish this bookmark that I knitted last month for one of my kids. (I am really terrible at leaving projects with only the last little bits to finish.) It needed to be iron-blocked and to have its ends weaved in. Which I did!

Here's a before and after:

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[ID: A light-green knitted bookmark that needs iron-blocking and the ends weaved in. End ID]

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[ID: A light green knitted bookmark on a black background. End ID]

It's a good thing I did this early, because the day got busy and I didn't get anything else done.

Write Every Day Day 4

Oct. 4th, 2025 12:39 am
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Ugh I meant to do more with these other than the tally but I'm barely keeping up with that this week. How did we do? I got about 1900 on day 3, finished cleaning up and posting two [community profile] fandomgiftbasket stories and did more work on the [community profile] fandomtrumpshate story

If I forgot you, let me know and let me know what day you're checking in for

Day 3 [personal profile] cmk418 [personal profile] brithistorian[personal profile] sylvanwitch [personal profile] trobadora [personal profile] luzula [personal profile] justphoenix [personal profile] sanguinity [personal profile] china_shop [personal profile] callmesandyk [personal profile] carenejeans [personal profile] cornerofmadness [personal profile] goddess47 [personal profile] the_siobhan



other days under here )

TGIF

Oct. 3rd, 2025 08:57 pm
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Tell me some good news, I beg you. Or give me a cool song, or kittens or something. It's personally been a horrible week and today was a really sad topper.

I gave a make up exam to a student who turned it in to me with an 'I know I didn't do well. I missed so much.' and then broke down crying because she'll miss so much more because her cancer is back. I'm used to consoling patients but let me tell you, it's very different consoling an 80s year old with life threatening news than it is an 18 year old (The people at St Jude's, you have my undying gratitude and your strength amazes me). I felt so bad for her. I told her to ask for any help I can give (but I also think I'm going to double check on medical withdrawals and money back but honestly if she's going to be getting chemo and is going to be gone, that would be the best for her. No one needs to face what she's facing AND knowing you're going to fail too)

Also did I mention that I got my abdominal CT scan back? No signs of more cancer so good for me.

ANd changing gears, have the fannish 50 weekly recs.

Moth’s Web Hazbin Hotel

Dinner And A Weevil Torchwood

Love Walked In FAKE

Doesn't Matter Hazbin Hotel

The Winner Torchwood

Buying Time Doctor Who

The Price of Your Touch Hazbin Hotel

Multi-Fandom Fictober!

Shoulder to Cry On - Day 1 Forsaken

Fractions of Never Hazbin Hotel

Seeking Sanctuary 911

Stuck in this Godforsaken Town Hazbin Hotel

Minor Malfunction Torchwood

His Beautiful Bride Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Kinger: Dad of Girls (and Zoobles) The Amazing Digital Circus

Art for Passing Through Doctor Who


Wedding Day. Teen Wolf

Spoils of War Stargate Atlantis
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I actually managed to do two rows, rather than just one, today. I'd been hoping for three, but I got wrapped up in a book, so spent less time watching the livestream of the National Storytelling Festival than I'd planned to. And I had theatre tickets tonight, which limited my time further.

Medical Day

Oct. 3rd, 2025 09:57 pm
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I forgot to submit a grocery order, so I jammed to get one in. I need to scan music too tomorrow.

Woke up a little after 7 AM. While we were outside, Gracie took off because she saw a dog (while I was holding onto her leash and sitting on the bench) and I fell over. Gracie meanwhile was bouncing around, and I told her to chill because I just fell over. Eventually, I got myself up.

Got my groceries.

Lily is head-bonking me. Yes, Lily, I'll feed you in a few minutes (done).

Scanned my music for my singing lesson.

While I was on lunch, Gracie pooped in front of me, so I ran a stool sample over to the vet. One thing down.

Got my CT Scan taken care of. I left way early, but I wasn’t sure if parking would be a problem. (It wasn’t.) The CT scan was negative. (They’re checking my lungs because I used to smoke.)

Oh crap. Gracie still has Giardia. The vet said that they might not be able to get rid of the stubborn last bit. He recommended that I feed her kibble instead of wet food to firm up her stools (ordered).

Fed us all. Had my singing lesson. The “hard” piece is driving me crazy. My teacher wants me to send her two more songs. I’ll scan one tonight (done), but I’ll scan the other tomorrow because I got water on it.

A pair of my glasses are missing. I thought that I put them down by accident and Gracie got them, but I don't see pieces of the glasses anywhere. They're my favorite pair too.

I'm going to feed the beasts, and then go to sleep.

The Friday Five on a Friday x2

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:57 pm
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[HELLO I AM COMET AND I AM TOO CLOSE]

  1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?

    Frequently. My partner and I sometimes have very different perceptions of certain colours (and no, he’s not red-green colour-blind).

  2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?

    Sounds I didn’t choose to hear, ha. Seriously, though, I quite often put my noise-cancelling headphones on with nothing coming through them, just to block out background sound.

  3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?

    I *want* to do that all the time. I’m very sensitive to touch. I restrain myself most of the time unless it seems like it is OK (like in a clothing shop). I suspect I’d get thrown out of places if I went round running my hands over veg, freshly baked goods or pick-n-mix for example.

  4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?

    My cats’ fur when they come in from outside on a cold day. Black Opium by YSL. My partner’s armpits. I am not joking.

  5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?

    Everything! I love food so much. I especially love very cold fruit juices on a hot day or with a sore throat, the velvety texture of a good chocolate mousse, and the salty satisfaction of slurping ramen noodles.


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