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An exhausting shopping day. Imagine how exhausting it would be if I had to go out and fetch the stuff myself instead of just ordering online and having it picked up for me. Half of what I ordered for dinner was unavailable, so I ended up eating half of a dinner, as the half I got wouldn't have gone well with anything else I had. The store was also out of my favorite donuts again, so there will be two weeks of substitute donuts. But I also got a lemon cake that will last for a few days, so the true horror won't bein until later this week. I'll drink extra beer to soften the blow. And maybe sleep a lot more. We do what we can.

thewayne

The title is Darksight Dare and it dropped a couple of days ago.

HOWEVER, there may be a problem with the Kindle release. There are reports that the edition that was available as soon it released was only about half there. The Apple edition was complete.

I haven't read it yet, I'm working on a 'making of' book of Monty Python's Life of Brian! As it is one of my absolute favorite books of all time, it has a little priority. I'll read the Bujold next.

chefxh

Festes de la Primavera this weekend, though I doubt we will be attending. Another correfoc tonight. Thursday was Sant Jordi, and we ignored that one as well. No roses, no books. (Not really feeling that one, guess you have to be Catalan.) I still want to get to the art store and the hat shop, but on the days when I 1) don't have class, and 2) have only one dog walk, I generally am too tired and need the rest. So Fever stays rolled up in a tube, and I am missing out on hats (which I love), in a culture where they are worn.

I told myself 4 classes ago that I would buy myself a hat if I passed. See how I keep my commitments to myself?

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olivermoss

Yup, some 90s edgecore vibes in this Chilis tonight

guardian_blinddate_feed

Posted by Guardian Staff

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/25/blind-date-most-awkward-moment-when-he-nearly-set-the-menu-alight

Abby, 25, a partnerships manager for film, meets Charlie, 26, a finance analyst

What were you hoping for?
A different kind of Friday night with good company and a fancy meal!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/25/blind-date-most-awkward-moment-when-he-nearly-set-the-menu-alight

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260424.html

Sunlit arms of a

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260424.html

offcntr

Got an email a couple of weeks ago from a fellow up on Whidbey Island; his father had bought him a gift certificate with Off Center Ceramics as a Christmas present, and he wanted to order some tumblers. Wasn't sure how many, four, maybe six, wanted ocean life patterns, but wasn't more specific. I sent him a list of possible patterns, and waited for his reply.

And waited. And waited.

Finally couldn't wait any longer, had to finish glazing and load the kiln, so I picked out ten patterns featuring sea life and shore birds, and hoped he'd see something he liked.

Naturally, he emailed me Thursday night, right after I'd finished loading the kiln.

I sent him the list I'd made, directed him to my Instagram to see pictures. He chose seven of the ten, plus one that was already fired and in stock.

And ordered three more for my June firing.

offcntr

Yep, loading a glaze kiln again. Had so much work left over from my last firing that a quick week's throwing to fill the gaps, and about three days' glazing, and I'm ready to go again. Jon bailed out of his scheduled firing, so I loaded up the kiln on Thursday. Won't be firing until Monday, though; had to prep the van today, Market tomorrow, and Sunday is Denise's birthday. But things are all set to light the kiln off Sunday night, and I even got the leftovers counted and put away and cleaned up the glazing room, so there will be less busywork on Monday.

jadelennox

I hope Nael, currently age 16-ish, is doing very well, and still writing delightful poems about tigers.

tsuki_no_bara

the garage finally (hopefully) figured out what was wrong with my car and i should (theoretically) get it back next week. i'm not holding my breath that this is the last time but, y'know, it would be nice.

The rabbis
advised:
keep two truths
in your pocket,
one should read:
I am but dust and ashes
and the other should read:
the entire world was created for me.

An 8-year-old
has something else
in his pocket.

Confetti.

Why?

It's his emergency confetti,
he says,
during these raw days
he carries it with him
everywhere
just in case
there is good news.

--"In his pocket", Hanna Yerushalmi

Current Mood: meh
Current Music: spider-man: no way home

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Today I made two short trips to a local stream and saw quite a few different kind of birds, partly with the help of binoculars:

Great blue heron wading in the stream
Hawk (red-tailed?)
Green-winged teals
Black-capped chickadees
American robins
A reddish finch (house finch?)
A hummingbird too far away to identify and too quick for me to binocular
A little yellow-and-black bird, probably a goldfinch but it was gone before I got a good look at it.
A tiny bird that I suspect was a golden-crowned kinglet because I think I saw a splash of yellow on its crown but again I didn't get a good look before it was gone.
Some brown sparrow-y birds that I couldn't identify
Plus the city birds I see all the time without going anywhere: pigeons, crows, starlings, gulls (glaucous-winged?)

I also saw some red admiral butterflies and I think I caught a glimpse of a scampering mouse-sized mammal but it got into cover too quickly for me to really see (probably just a mouse).

olivermoss

* Baldur's Gate 3 prequel novel by T Kingfisher is happening. The audiobook will be narrated by Neil Newbon. It will be interesting to give him a canon backstory because last I was active in BG3 fandom everyone was married to one of two completely conflicting fanons that they pretended was actually canon.

* I'm watching a livestream of a paranormal investigation of The Sally House and trying to plan my trip to Seattle tomorrow.

kaffy_r

Music Meme, Day 29

A song that you downloaded:

That would be damn near every bit of music that I've lately enjoyed, which amuses me.

I mean, I still have a large number of CDs out in the living room, music that I used to play all the time. And of course, prior to CDs, I used to play LPs all the time. Musical evolution, or at least musical tech evolution. I'm still not a Spotify type of person, which appears to be the way things roll these days. I'm old enough that I want to actually own the music I play. So even though I may own it in a way that the RIAA doesn't approve of, I still own it.

Downloading: threat or menace? Discuss.

But I'm still enjoying this meme (good lord, I'm almost done with it. Whatever shall I do with myself once Day 30 is done and dusted?) and I've completed a few downloads from YouTube lately, so I can at least show you one or more of my most recent musical acquisitions.

Let's try this one. "NASA" by Ateez came out not all that far before Artemis II took off. As a NASA fan, I loved the performance video, and once Artemis II blasted off, I kept going back to the video and grinning. It doesn't hurt that Seonghwa, the group member who is the main singer in the MV is my bias wrecker. (That's simply saying that he's my second favorite in the group. He's really sweet and unsure of himself, unless he's got his makeup on and he's onstage ... but you didn't need to know that, did you?)

Without further ado, here's Ateez, doing "NASA"

Watch on YouTube

And here's my previous meme day, which has links to all my answers. Because of course you'd be interested in those.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Dancing Like Butterfly Wings"

muccamukk

3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥

A couple years ago, I did a daily tarot prompt (see this tag), which I'm thinking about doing again, but realising that consistency isn't going to be my best point, I'm not sure if it's a good idea. I guess I could draw a card when I remember to do it, and not commit to writing a drabble/ficlet every day? I really did have fun last time, but I also wasn't... fully burned out. so

Thoughts?

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: No conference today! Also, beta managed to get her edits done yesterday afternoon while I was watching a demonstration of modeling and visualization tools! So although I am blasted and stupid today after two days of overstimulation, I was still able to make a bevy of minor edits AND come up with a title and whatnot. I might just get this story posted after all…

Day 24:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 23:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

Day 22:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

( More days )

When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!

susandennis

Jan and Dick Gram live in Myrna's old apartment. Jan just came to my door and asked if I was busy. Their printer was offline and they couldn't get it online. Windows and Epson. I last used a Windows computer maybe 10 years ago. I'm not sure I've ever used an Epson printer.

Dick has a very large voice and he wanted me to know that the printer worked two nights ago and he put in new cartridges and why does it not work now. What is your password, Dick. The printer worked two nights ago and he just put in new cartridges and why does it not work when you need it. So you don't know your wifi password? Why won't it work when I need it?

I learned a while back, by accident, that an iphone will give you the wifi password you are using if you dig deep enough into the network info. Then I remembered that Jan has an iphone and so I was able to get the password which is about 25 characters long and has 3 dashes. Of course the Epson keypad has no dashes. My looking for it erased all the work I had done so far.

And, I need to mention that this was in a tiny room that is stuffed to the gills with furniture and papers. There is barely enough room to stand, much less get to the printer and it's about 85 degrees.

So I bailed. Sorry. Call IT. If they have left for the weekend, send your documents to the reception desk. They will be happy to print them out for you. I felt badly about it until I got home and did a search on how to get dashes out of that stupid Epson keypad and Google didn't know either. Now I no longer care. Those Timber Ridge IT guys are not paid enough.

p.s. BUT Google did know how to find the wifi password on an Android phone. I never knew that either.

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Chivvy [CHIV-ee]
(v.)

- To tell (someone) repeatedly to do something; to nag or harass.
From “chevy” (to chase) used as a hunting cry, from “chevy chase” (a running pursuit) probably from the "Ballad of Chevy Chase," a popular song describing a hunting party on the borderland that turned into a battle between the English and the Scots — 1918

Used in a sentence:

“She chivvies her long-suffering husband with unrelenting insistence to remove the trash, clean the garage, and mow the lawn, such that he lives in perpetual dread of her summons.”

(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page)

I, of course, immediately thought of this example:

"During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me. He was a very brilliant boy, and carried away every prize which the school had to offer, finished his exploits by winning a scholarship which sent him on to continue his triumphant career at Cambridge.

He was, I remember, extremely well connected, and even when we were all little boys together we knew that his mother’s brother was Lord Holdhurst, the great conservative politician. This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.

On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket."

(poor Percy, I know...)

(Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty")

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Current Mood: hopeful

summersgate

Yesterday's. Mirrors again. Circles reflecting more circles.

Today's. Sunrise. Quick sketch from the back porch looking east this morning as the sun was breaking through.

We've been having busy days. Yesterday we drove to Myakka State Park and explored there. Then last night we went to the beach and watched the sun go down. This morning we did some doctor office visiting to get some things straight for Kathy's upcoming laser surgery and then explored at Robinson Preserve and stopped at the boat basin where the manatees live. We saw more manatees than I've ever seen and saw them better. Usually you're lucky if you see a snout barely sticking out of the water. Today we could see the backs of them passing by. The backs look rough and like they have barnacles on them. By the time I got my phone out it was too late but I think Chloe got some good pics. Here's seven pix of other things from yesterday and today - not in order. Too fussy to have to do that with my phone. While I'm here I miss using my computer to write entries and post pictures with. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will be another busy day. Going to visit Emerson Point in the morning then have family over later.

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