manoah

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Switched shifts

Friday, December 5th, 2025 05:17 am

so now I'm spending some part of my evening with another coworker instead of by myself, which means I can't just summarily turn off the TV. Other people are weird when they want the TV on even if they aren't watching it, but since they think I'm weird for preferring blissful silence I guess sometimes I have to compromise.

Which means that the other day my entertainment choices were either a long and frankly tedious piece on the JFK conspiracy theories, or HP1. Welp, JFK won't get any deader, and practically speaking, JKR won't get any richer. The choice wasn't really very agonizing, is what I'm saying. I feel like maybe it ought to have been, but no. (That place does not have enough channels. If I'm going to be stuck watching TV for even part of the night I really need to figure out how to get my phone on the screen.)

All this led me to realize something that I somehow don't think I ever thought about before, which is that the plot of book 2 doesn't make any fucking sense, like, right from the start. How exactly did Lucius set it up so that he'd happen to bump into the Weasley family? What if they hadn't gone shopping that day? There clearly was a lot of planning that went into this, so what was his backup? Really, none of those plots hold together if you look at them too hard. And that's not too unusual for fiction, but I'm not particularly inclined to be charitable about it.

**********

( Read more... )

I had no idea bears were so squishy!

conuly

Saturday, December 6th, 2025 11:02 pm

Watch on YouTube

But never fear, he no longer has a bear living in his crawlspace. He now has two bears.

Hey, can somebody who knows pauraque ask if they intended to ban me?

conuly

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 05:40 pm

Honestly, if you ban somebody it ought to warn you before you comment on their posts so that if you forget or don't realize you don't end up in an awkward situation.

(no subject)

angrboda

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 02:54 pm

I went to the pharmacy today to give back Luna's left-over medicine. Also washed and decommisioned one of the cat toilets. It doesn't feel necessary to have two while Holly is an only-cat.

In a few months, when we're ready, we will of course find a new co-cat for her that she can train and teach everything that she knows. I have been low-key collecting potential names since we got Holly.

I have been thinking about it, and I have come to the conclusion that I don't think there is any alternative reality in which the medicine we were given, or any other medicine, would have worked. I think it was simply her time. 14½ is not a bad age for a cat after all.

I have a germinating idea for a little memorial feature in the garden, which may or may not happen. I need to consider and plan, and then see what we can do in spring. I like the idea of something small and simple that you might not even notice unless you already know it's there.

Merry Early Christmas!

conuly

Thursday, December 4th, 2025 05:05 am

Watch on YouTube

Just finished Bear Head, the second Dogs of War book

conuly

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 01:36 am

I have the distinct impression that Adrian Tchaikovsky doesn't like Donald Trump.

( Read more... )

(no subject)

bubblesbrnaid

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 08:32 pm

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Current Mood: annoyed

Tags:

health

Don't forget about the DW points bonus sale

conuly

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 04:44 am

Which I nearly forgot about, but here we are!

You can buy points here, and then spend them on a paid account.

And then you can post a poll!

Poll #33906 Gratuitous poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

View Respondents

On a scale of one to ten, crickets or walnuts?

View Answers
Mean: 6.32 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.66

1		2 (8.0%)
2		1 (4.0%)
3		2 (8.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		3 (12.0%)
6		3 (12.0%)
7		7 (28.0%)
8		1 (4.0%)
9		2 (8.0%)
10		4 (16.0%)

The Early Years by Mark Waldron

conuly

Monday, December 1st, 2025 04:41 am

I don’t want to say
things were indescribably
bad exactly

but things were
indescribably bad exactly

I don’t want to say the tide
went out and left him
gasping—a landed fish precisely

but the tide did indeed go out
and left him gaping—a dropped ghost

to make matters worse
god gathered up all of god’s things
and paddled out on that tide
so he swore he would die

and to make matters worser still
he rocked back and forth
in a bubble rather boggy and sad

ate nothing but thistles therein

I don’t want to pretend
things were very much worse
than they were
but they very much were

*********

Link

So, wait, wait, wait wait wait....

conuly

Sunday, November 30th, 2025 01:02 am

are you seriously telling me that chronic nosebleeds are potentially (yet another) symptom of (the same underlying connective tissue problems that ultimately cause) hypermobility?

Well, fuck.

(Oh, and myopia's on that list too, but I somehow find myself less flabbergasted by this one.)

***

( Read more... )

140 in 1400 List

zhelana

Monday, December 1st, 2025 06:58 am

Checking in on goals

Finished This Month

Cook 12 times 2025

Progress this Month

Exercise every day in 2025
Brush teeth 360 times in 2025
Shower weekly 2025
Art Every Day 2025
Write in Spanish every day of 2025
Finish my memoirs
Write weekly 2025
Read 2 pages of Spanish every day 2025
Clean 2 minutes per weekday 2025
Clean 10 minutes per week 2025

Tags:

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

denise

dw_news

Sunday, November 30th, 2025 02:42 am

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

Today was bright and cold

conuly

Saturday, November 29th, 2025 08:03 pm

I guess winter's finally here.

**************************

( Read more... )

The cats were so inspired by Thanksgiving that one of them made her own contribution to the feast!

conuly

Friday, November 28th, 2025 10:30 pm

Well, she tried, anyway.

*************************

( Read more... )

The Friday Five for 28 November 2025

anais_pf

thefridayfive

Friday, November 28th, 2025 02:33 am

These questions were originally suggested by

the_heartless.

1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?

2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?

3. What elementary grade was your favorite?

4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?

5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

Current Mood: drained

Happy Thanksgiving!

jerusha

Thursday, November 27th, 2025 09:13 pm

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating today, and happy Thursday to everyone else. I hope your day was filled with everything good.

Thanksgiving dinner is cooking

conuly

Thursday, November 27th, 2025 03:15 pm

I put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.

Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.

(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)