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Like buses in a bunch

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 07:28 pm

So, I may have mentioned I would be giving a paper in one of the Fellows' Symposia of the Institution with which I am now affiliated, coming up over the horizon very soon. And I had originally intended to revisit some research I did Before Events Intervened and Do Something with that, but it has not been coming together as I should like, needs more percolating I think. So I am instead returning to a project I put aside when other things supervened and demanded my attention, for which I did a preliminary paper or two, and can spruce up and get, I hope, some feedback on, and maybe kickstart this back into action.

Meanwhile....

I think I mentioned being solicited to give an entertaining and instructive talk on the history of johnnies/baudruches some months hence, which I have a fair amount of material already on hand for. However, what the organisers would like is An Image for publicity purposes, fairly soonish, and REALLY. One is tempted to go with the Dudley Hoard which require a good deal of imagination to reconstruct for their original purpose.

Younger scholar whom I have been somewhat informally mentoring has now submitted their PhD thesis and would like me to read it, and think of what might come up in viva.

The project which I was involved in for some considerable while which went very weird last year, with me being somewhat accidental being left out of the loop for some months due to error in email address, so I never really got the full story, is being revived in a smaller and more defined way as a journal special issue edited by Old Friend and Me.

Meanwhile I am in the process of getting the latest volume of the Interminable Saga prepped for publication.

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Too much of a good thing?

sistawendy

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 06:40 am

A pattern, repeated several times over the last two months: after dinner & Duolingo, I veg out from about 1830 to at the latest 2100, and then crash and sleep pretty well. And this is the time of year when my sleep is usually terrible. Don't get me wrong, I love not being a zombie the next day. But I also miss having the energy and inclination to circumflatulate or get out of the house at night.

The question is, as ever, why? I've ruled out lower hormone levels and if anything, the significantly longer days should be getting me wired as they have in the past. But neau. Maybe I'm just geezing. Oy.

You know, there's a women's munch tonight at the 'Rose, and I'm low on lube and reading material. (The Tickler & I killed time at Elliott Bay on Saturday night. I feel as if I owe them another book purchase.) I could do worse than hitting the Hill. We'll see if I feel like it.

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

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summersgate

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 08:29 am

Meds all given, everyone fed, chicken butt washed and now drying in the bathroom.

Rocky eating her breakfast. I think I'll keep her isolated in the bathroom for awhile just to keep an eye on her.

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summersgate

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 06:54 am

I made this for Hazel. She especially likes opossoms.

Fragments. Watercolor, ballpoint pen and alcohol markers. I feel like I am fragmenting sometimes. So much stuff to remember and think about. When I read the news (world news, national news) I feel like I should be doing something about this stuff but there is nothing that I can do. I feel pulled apart. I decided that instead of watching netflix so much I'm going to start to just listen to music instead. That keeps me centered better.

There is lots of animal care that needs done right now. Skye gets meds twice a day and a shot once a week, plus fed multiple times a day. Now Andy has something going on (maybe a flare up of anaplasmosis) and needs meds twice a day and special food to encourage him to eat. Rocky the chicken has poopy butt. When it's time to let them out this morning I'm going to grab her and bring her into the house so I can soak her bottom in epsom salts and get that poop off her. Then I need to find the probiotic powder I have somewhere and dose their water with it for a few days. See if that will fix it. I worry that these issues (Skye especially) won't be settled before I leave for Florida in April, or other things will crop up and I'll have to leave complicated stuff Dave to deal with. In my mind no one can do it as good as I can.

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oursin

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 09:41 am

Happy birthday,

afuna and

katharine_b!

You imploding is the outcome, your running systems failed

josilverdragon

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 11:14 pm

So. I am wayyyyyyy off on my schedule this evening. I ended up staying late at work trying to finish a report because it's due the day I get back from my mini-vacation this weekend. I took Friday through Tuesday off and the report needs to be returned Wednesday. I have the majority of it completed but there are these four accounts I have to resolve altogether and it's a pain in the ass. And on that note, it's typical that I plan to be out of office for 3 days plus 2 weekend days and I suddenly get inundated with the work I wanted to have the week or two weeks prior. Typical. I have a few items (over 100) to key tomorrow, which in theory shouldn't take that long, but I still have to finish the report among other things. If push comes to shove, I can finish the report up Wednesday by end of business and send it out, I'd just prefer not to.

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Trying to Read: You Deserve Good Gelato by Kacie Rose [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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weofodthignen

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 11:32 pm

The first bluebells are flowering, and the first leaves are appearing on the overgrown plum tree in back.

I see Palo Alto also had a shuttle, but replaced it with a "rideshare" app with only 9 destinations, at $4 a pop. On a similar VTA grant to Sunnyvale's Peery Park Rides. And the proposed sales tax bump to bail out local transit would give vastly more to BART than Caltrain (of course) but would also give vastly more to the damned VTA.

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sonia

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 09:45 pm

Birbs and Borbs Birds with queer flags. I'm eyeing the bisexual oystercatcher sticker. Pride is resistance!

Resist and Unsubscribe. Unsubscribe from services that support fascism. Every little bit helps! I didn't subscribe to any of these things in the first place, so I guess I've been resisting all along.

Taking action against AI harms by Anil Dash. Speaking can help get businesses off X and schools off ChatGPT.

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conuly

Thursday, March 5th, 2026 02:42 pm

(or ever) but I also don't want to not do it, so here we are I guess?

In order to make this a normal post, let me say that my Robert Moses counter is incrementing up again. It has now been 0 hours since the last time somebody brought up Robert Moses, but it's my fault for reading an article about walkable cities and then scrolling to the comments.

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Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 11:00 pm

Posted by Samuel Pepys

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Lay long talking with my wife about ordering things in our family, and then rose and to my office, there collecting an alphabet for my Navy Manuscript, which, after a short dinner, I returned to and by night perfected to my great content. So to other business till 9 at night, and so home to supper and to bed.

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is it ever too late to say i am sorry

somedayseattle

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 06:19 pm

It’s no secret. The world is filled with highs and lows. It’s also no secret that when you’re in the Lowe’s shit always seems to pile up. it’s tremendously easier to fall from the high than it is to dig out of the low.

For the last couple of months, Erica‘s sister, the one and only Drama Queen has been burning the candle at both ends. She’s been working hard to secure funding to get their mom Mother Mary into a locking facility much like MeMum. Thankfully, they did not have to deal with all the Medicare and lawyer bullshit that we did. It was a lot of work but two or three weeks ago Mother Mary had a new home. Her whole attitude changed. She was smiling, laughing and slowly beginning to join in with the social activities. Erica, Drama Queen, and her family had slated a visit for this Sunday past. Those rays of sunshine was doused when we received a phone call from DQ saying Mother Mary had fallen. To this day we don’t have the details, all we know if she fell and was transported immediately to the hospital along with DQ who had been visiting. She was knocked out and the doctors determined she had massive bleeding on the brain. We all spent a nervous Saturday night, Concerned for her health. She made it through the night and was beginning to stabilize.

Things were a flat lining for a while until Monday when DQ said she had taken a turn for the worse and she was searching for a hospice facility. DQ had a meeting yesterday, but regrettably all beds were filled. The aforementioned group are visiting her right now. Unfortunately because of my wheelchair, I don’t have access to a ride on the other side of Cary. It breaks my heart because the possibility is this may be my last chance to see her, as I’m sure it is Erica‘s. Hospice told DQ at this point. It’s probably just a matter of counting down. A day, a week, a month. I lost my MeMum in August and now it looks like Erica is going to lose hers.

I don’t believe in god, buddha, a broccoli or a goat. I believe in Da Universe. I have never asked for anything regardless of my situation. I was a paraplegic. I’ve spent two years in therapy. I will lose all of that progress because of the infections in my feet, yet I never asked Da Universe for a goddamn thing. But I’m asking now.

Da Universe...in your infinite wisdom, please shed some strength and grace to Erica, Drama Queen and thee fam as well as myself. We are not asking for much but in the The blackest black, even a faint light shines brightly.

Because of my past I can handle more than the average bear but there is only so much shit you can pile on me before I drown. Right now I am in a lifeboat with no oars. Erica is a sensitive and frail person. When Mother Mary moves on it is going to completely crush her. I don’t know what to do or say to her right now.

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twistedchick

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 05:50 pm

This has been a less easy day.

It's the 35th anniversary of my mom's death.

It still hurts, all of it.

At least, I'm not reliving the whole thing, just dealing with emotional splashback this year.

She died in hospital, during an ice storm, and I was not informed of it until after I'd come up there, so I traveled expecting to see her when she'd passed before I'd gotten the phone call.

And that ties into even nastier family crap that I'm not even going to mention except to say it happened and was absolutely shitty.

So I am sticking to the more cheerful reruns of shows to watch, plus Colbert, and the sillier novels. They don't dig me out, but they keep me from going deeper into the Marianas Trench.

It's Been a Weird Day

yourlibrarian

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 01:58 pm

marchmetamatterschallenge has begun! I'm particularly excited this year since I will finally come current with my meta archiving. I'm already finished with 2024 and should finish 2025 by tomorrow. One thing I hope is to do more writing this year.

2) The February CheckIn at

everykindofcraft has gotten a lot of responses. It's interesting to hear all the different ways that people have learned these skills.

3) In less good news, a bunch of RSS feeds seem to have stopped working. The AO3 vids feed hasn't updated in weeks (so unlikely to be AO3's recent issues), and 4 feeds from Tumblr have stopped as well, though it seems only 2 have been updating lately. It's definitely not the feed service, because at least 3 other feeds I have set up have updated within the last few days. I'm wondering if Tumblr is somehow blocking RSS feeds now?

I also feel like there are people's posts that I have missed though I am less sure about that.

3) I was waiting for a cashier and there were 3 women and 2 small girls ahead of me. The two little girls were racing around everywhere, grabbing things and then having them put back by the women. It was all taking some time, and the squealing was getting on my nerves. But then one grabbed an Easter Bunny and told her mom she wanted it.

The mom asked the cashier if it was solid or hollow, and was told it was hollow (which seemed most likely to me given its size and price!) The little girl then asked what "hollow" was, and her mom struggled to explain it, finally saying "It has a hole inside it." The little girl then said "I'll put it back and get another." We all burst out laughing as her mom then tried to explain that the bunny wasn't defective, it was just the way it was made.

4) So it looks like Paramount will fold HBO into its service. I expect that will put paid to its bundling with Disney services, though it does make it more likely we'll keep Paramount+ around post-The Late Show cancellation. At this point the U.S. looks like it's going to have 3 major streamers, a number of secondary streamers (in which I include Peacock) and a vast number of tiny streamers.

5) Never posted here that I finished the latest season of Strange New Worlds. Thought it somewhat better than earlier seasons, despite the way it started, though I find it a bit jarring to see TOS episodes essentially revised for use here. The finale seemed a cross between Rey at the end of the Skywalker saga and ST:TOS's Lazarus episode. ( Read more... )

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oursin

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 06:17 pm

What I read

Finished A Slowly Dying Cause and she does seem to be grinding these out rather. Also I didn't actually check the details but there were some descriptive passages of places that seemed very similar, or least deploying the same epithets - 'the demilune beach' I think was one - that seemed a bit cut and paste. Also maybe more Havers, but when she finally appeared did we want that plot development??? And something entirely new (or rather, old and heritage) for Lynley to angst about.

Then read the latest Slightly Foxed.

Then onto GB Stern, The Woman in the Hall (1939), which it is longer since I last read than I thought. Still v good but not sure that I will be reccing it for the book group.

Then this already discussed - further thought that it was rather like hearing somebody tell one about book they have read - at least this bore a fairly close resemblance to the original, was not like that scene in one of E Nesbit's Bastable novels in which they talk about Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain and all appear to have been reading entirely different book.... But still left a lot out.

On the go

After that I actually started Nicola Barker, TonyInterrupter (2025), Kobo deal/sortes ereader, which I was quite enjoying, and then -

Arrival of Barbara Hambly, Death at the Palace (A Silver Screen Historical Mystery Book 4) so am currently immersed in that.

Next up

And after that, imagine it will be straight on to Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped, which also published yesterday. Then maybe back to TonyInterrupter.

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arlie

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 10:08 am

Yesterday I decided to work on the long postponed adaptation of ancient DOS games, long ago purchased from GOG to run on my current linux system. They were neatly packaged for an earlier version of Ubuntu, but the DOSBox version they included was so old it required specific ancient versions of libraries neither present nor available for current versions of Ubuntu.

The fix was to install a current version of DOSBox, then modify each game's startup script to use that rather than the version included in their package. Bonus if I also freed up space by deleting the DOSBox version they came with. This proved to be utterly trivial - more trivial than changing each game's DOSBox configuration so that it will play nicely with my monitors, and allow me to conveniently move my mouse out of the game window. (I'd already had to do that earlier, to get them playable on a previous linux system.)

I went a bit farther than that. I condensed the scripts and other extras for one game, losing the ability to report issues to GOG, which doesn't support these games on recent linux versions. I got it down to one ultra-short script. And then I downloaded some games that weren't pre-packaged to run on linux - first DOS games I already owned from GOG, then others, elsewhere on the net, which I'd owned on diskette several decades ago.

I now have CIV I working on the linux box, and Merchant Prince ready to adapt. Both were games I loved, back in the day, which GOG hadn't chosen to adapt. (Possibly there were license issues.)

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lydamorehouse

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 10:37 am

Apologies for the long silence.

I've mostly just been keeping on keeping on, as they say. I'm still regularly going to my mutual aid place, the Food Communists. Their work continues apace, although Monday was fairly quiet, as such things go. By yesterday, the pace had picked back up, but they're closing today and tomorrow due to renovations at the church they work out of. So I have two days completely off! What will I even do with all that time? She asks, looking around at housework she's ignored for almost two months.

I'm still doing the school patrol (M-W) and mosque watching too. Although, at the mosque we have switched to evenings (and every day of the week) during Ramadan at the request of the imam. I have not been standing outside every single night of the week, however. I signed up to be the point person on Fridays and Saturdays, but am otherwise trying to let other people fill the slots. We are getting some help from neighborhoods outside of our own, so it's looking a little less sparse than the last time I reported, by all accounts.

I'm noticing some cautious hope during the school patrol, too. More moms are willing to bring their very little (pre-school aged) ones with them when they come to meet elder siblings at the bus stop. Very heartening. It does feel like the cloud is lifting finally.

I'm starting to be able to write a little bit again, which is lovely.

naomikritzer and I started working on something together that has lit a fire under me. We'll see what, if anything comes of that, but it's been nice to feel inspired again. Hopefully, that will bleed into the Boy. net sequel (and it should. I tend to be like that. Writing anywhere seems to mean writing everywhere. I am, apparently, polyamorous in my wirting style--I have more to give than to just one project!)

We woke up today to dense fog. Shawn was actually telling me that she hoped it would last all day, because she really wants to go for a walk in it s she can pretend we live on heather-strewn moors.

How've you been?

I guess it is Wednesday? I have nothing of note to mention in terms of things I've read. I've been listening to an extremely boring podcast about the Roman Empire--it's exactly my speed right now, but it's run by a university and I have notice a distinct lack of salacious factoids about what the Romans got up to... ah, well. It helps me get to sleep and that's really what I am using it for.

What about you? Listening to or reading anything fun?

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summersgate

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 07:21 am

Worm Moon. The latest full moon we just had is called the worm moon. I guess because this is the time of the year that worms are waking up after hibernating through the winter. Just in time for the robins' arrival.

Dave took the potatoes from the basement outside. They're ready to quit hibernating too.

On Monday Candy and I hiked the trail beside Two Mile Run in the park. It was neat because the ground underfoot was crispy and noisy with frozen leaves.

I finished a raccoon yesterday and started an opossum. I don't have a pattern for the opossum but I think I can change the raccoon to have a pink nose and feet, black ears and put on a pink string tail and it'll be a possum.

I dreamed last night about having a little kitten that I was taking care of. We were visiting David Z's mother's house. The house was a huge old mansion that was rotting and falling in. Our feet were going through the floorboards. The living room was like a big auditorium and the stage was covered in flowers in vases. They had a bunch of older cats that lived there and my little cat was mixing in with them somewhere in the back rooms. It was time to go and I wanted my kitten back. I called it and found it again and carried it out. Put it down on the steps outside the house. Dream over. I think it's kinda easy to see the dream's connections to Skye right now, especially since David Z died of a cancer.

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oursin

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 09:44 am

Happy birthday,

sister_luck!

just hear the words i don’t say

josilverdragon

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 09:41 pm

Trying to make posting here more of a daily habit so it's been written into my schedule that I want to have and that I'm trying to have. So, hi, once again.

Set up all my monthly posts so if you're curious, here is my Read in March 2026 post and my To Do List - March 2026. I'll try to remember to post them at the end of what posts I make for easy finding (as if it's something anyone really wants to see hahaha - sigh). I added a few private posts, such as the daily schedule I'm trying to keep as well as fully fleshed out my 2026 goals post. I'll reveal the schedule at the end of March if it works, or if it changes. And the goals one will be for the end of the year, when I do a recap. Some things I want to keep to myself for the time being.

Speaking of my self-proposed schedule, if I don't post on DW on any given day, it's because time ran out. Yesterday I had wanted to post but I was trying to update my calibre fanfiction archive with email updates while the site was up, as well as get some reading done, so I ran out of time. Plus, I was about an hour and a half behind all day with my personal schedule, so I had to move some things around and DW was a casualty.

In reading, which has made a poor showing for me this year, I've been working through Kacie Rose's "You Deserve Good Gelato". She's a travel influencer who kind of fell into it because she met her fiance while on a solo trip to Italy and now lives in Italy with him. I initially had a video of hers come across Tiktok when I first was on it and I've enjoyed her recounting her cross-cultural hilarities and missteps. She has a lovely written voice and she comes through as genuine and funny and relatable. I've enjoyed it and have about 25% left, I think.

I was going to write about my massive music playlist, including artists I love and want to listen to but that will have to wait along with the story of the new exercise/yoga ball I got. Not much today as I was trying again to add more fanfiction to my archive and got delayed getting to my DW update time slot. OH and I should also tell you that despite being an atheist, I've joined a pretty rad bible studies under Monte Mader. It's fascinating. And I'll expound on that later.

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Trying to Read: You Deserve Good Gelato by Kacie Rose [Goodreads][Storygraph]

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weofodthignen

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 09:32 pm

I went out last night at about 3:00 and saw the almost complete blood moon. Very red. Clearly visible despite all the backyard lights (I waited for ours to wink off). Appropriate.

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Too much of a good thing?

thursday later

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You imploding is the outcome, your running systems failed

D.O.P.-T.

Links: Small steps to resist

I don't really want to make a regular post now

Wednesday 4 March 1662/63

is it ever too late to say i am sorry

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It's Been a Weird Day

Wednesday offers condolences

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What month is it, anyway?

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just hear the words i don’t say

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