In case anyone over here needs any of this... [LJ/DW]

I stopped crossposting to LJ during the most recent crosspost-fail saga, but the biggest thing that has caused me to hold onto my LJ account was photos. I had around 2500 photos hosted in the Scrapbook, and for various reasons some of those photos were really inaccessible anywhere other than LJ.

Someone pointed out that it may become very difficult/impossible for those of us who don't live in a northern Asian/European country to send money to the owners of LJ due to recent sanctions, so it was time to redouble my efforts to figure out how involved the process of downloading my old photos was going to get.

Thankfully, someone came up with an achievable workflow:
https://ironymaiden.dreamwidth.org/1072255.html

I had around 100 albums over there, containing those 2500 photos. I feel so much better knowing that I now have at least local copies of those photos. I also saved a copy of my text file that contains the alt text and titles. So at some point when I'm not in the midst of trying to finish grading lab reports, I could see it being possible to come up with a method to reapply the titles and alt text to the images.

I will most likely repost everything over to Flickr at some point.

This does trigger lots of thoughts and feelings about having been blogging for nearly 20 years now, and how much of what I've written is probably unimportant and trivial in retrospect. I'm not going to worry about that right now. The bots can deal.

Nearly Finished; Finished [projects, work]

Here's a sewing machine cabinet update from last night, when it was nearly finished, just needing one more coat of Polycrylic:



I stuck another piece of 1" square dowel across the back part of the cabinet to hold the back portion of the insert piece:


In the above photo you can also see a couple of spots where I accidentally caused some raised grain. I am also *pretty sure* I used something close to walnut when I stained the cabinet, but of course it's made of much older wood, so the insert piece was never going to match it anyway.

And here's everything again today, finished and in situ:


This is a very busy room, but it all fits, I guess.



Also in the "Nearly Finished - Finished" department: I just finished grading the first batch of lab reports. Only took the entire weekend. I did take some breaks between reports just to try and preserve whatever is left of my sanity. Nothing like finishing grading at 8:30 pm on a Sunday. So much for the weekend.

Foods of the week are pretty simple this week: loaf of bread, pancakes, pot of rice. I still have beans and some Indian food left over from last week, and in a pinch I can have ravioli with dandelion pesto. I did also make one more exciting item, some Hawaiian Butter Mochi. The grocery store was out of sweet rice flour, so, not knowing any better, I bought a whole bunch of plain rice flour. So then I added ~4 Tbsp of corn starch to the Mochi recipe, and I have no idea to what extent the tasty substance I baked actually resembles what it is supposed to resemble. But if it tastes good, does it really matter?

I took a couple of photos of some of the offending molding in the bathroom. I'll put them under the cut, for the morbidly curious.
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