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Soooo since we have Window Guys coming to give a quote next week, Mama's had a bee in her bonnet about cleaning my room up. Which is. Um. Possibly fair. >>;;;

Anyway, since my father was using the area we're making the chook run thing in to varnish some stuff today (which is important too, we're not at all mad about it), she got me to tackle that instead. Which. Bleh. But! She helped, and by helped I mean folded my washing and found stuff and did all the vacuuming so yeah, really helping! Which was nice. And I managed to at least put some stuff properly away, though I should. Really work on that more. Yes.

And now my floor is very clear and clean, which is nice! It's not gonna last but it's nice! (T-minus something something until Sushi plays gravity with stuff on... probably my display cabinet again. But maybe the bookshelves.)

Other than that, I did three more rows of quilting! Whee! Probably two more until max length? Hard to say for sure until I draw the lines, but it'll probably be tomorrow! :O Am hype!!!

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Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

In a true strike of fate, I got my health care card this morning! When I had to go to the doctor to get my new meds script! \o/ This means the doctor's visit is free! (Otherwise you pay up front and get a certain amount back, which is a) annoying, and b) still requires you to pay extra money, bleh.)

It ALSO means my meds are cheaper, not that they were breaking the bank as it was since they're generic and also our medical system is halfway decent. But still, is nice!

Anyway, did that, and then got a BUNCH of snacks at the supermarket - I've been utterly out for over a week, it's been sadtimes for me - and then came home and just passed the fuck out. Sigh. Not that we'd've been able to work on the chook run thing anyway, given the weather - it wasn't raining excessively, but enough that everything would be wet and slippery and someone (likely me) would end up injuring themselves.

I did another couple of lines on my quilting project, too. Only two, but they're getting so goddamn long that that took like four hours orz orz orz. Still not max length! Soon though. Soon. And then they'll get smaller again!

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Current Location: Birthplace

alierak posting in

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

requiems

Make it to Ishgard x3 is done 😤👌 speedrunning at 80 is my new favourite method for ARR patches, I did Mél from Thornmarch to entering Ishgard in two days. It takes a lot of additional effort to get there by reaching 80 first but it is so so so so worth it. Faye hit lv50 AST earlier so now I'll pivot to MCH... possibly double MCH, Mél needs a ranged. I wasn't originally going to give Faye MCH but an Ashe-Amélie daughter would carry a gun lbr, this is why they both have the bouncer holster trousers in half their glams.

I should bring Yorva through the end of ARR... but I may finally go back to Stormblood like, four months later. Woops. Pilgrim's Traverse is making me really want to play and gnaw on Shadowbringers again, and it's been like, three years since I have, so...

I think I'm mostly settled on how I want my OG Kallax to look with figures, minus a few that are not in there yet, either because they are on p/o or I need to pose them. I do this in stages by letting whatever I do sit a few days to see if I like it, so it takes a bit of time. I put the Mane Six across three cubes horizontal with two each and it looks really nice, though I'll try some different combinations once Rainbow gets here to see who looks best where. Applejack and Rarity together is non-negotiable though; this, too, is ouihaw...

I should probably look into lighting if I'm going to do that, though... this will probably have to be external somehow, because the acrylic inserts are very much flush. I will contemplate this alongside one of my kitchen lightbulbs I am still struggling to replace. I might have to abandon my preferred brand and try some independents with some more research. I'm also looking into potential tv benches since I'm still furniture kicking, though that might have to wait a bit for £££ reasons.

I've been working on some site maintenance I was endlessly asiding as a distraction for something, being changing filepaths on tributes so they link neatly to a folder for a page instead of bringing up the filetype - by which I mean, changing something from serah.farron.net/credits.php to serah.farron.net/site/credits. I did this for Control, Fire Emblem, and after two hours of fighting with the random image php script that was being picky, Serah - all tributes done now. I might try my fanlisting collective as well (and maybe fanlistings themselves?) although I too anticipate that breaking somehow, so not right now. Whilst I was doing that I also went through and added disclaimers of sensitive topics to get the children to leave... I drafted a list for Fray and Amélie and the first line of both is just "murder". Holding hands with healthy(?), entirely logical(??) grief coping mechanisms.

Lastly, added high protein lentil flour pasta to the accepted food list, hurray. (My body has been very upset after every dinner time but not for any specific reason or intolerance it seems, it just does that now.) this will help since all my protein options are fairly limited right now... I may try tomatoes again soon, since I feel like that may have been an onion misdirect... please let me have tomatoes again. 😭😭

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tyger

We tried to work on the chook coop thing again! It... did progress? But not far. Fuck this fucking kit, I swear. (Also Mama is SO SURPRISED at how small it is, and is like, I don't think it's matching the measurements on the website. Me: No it totally is, it's just that you thought that meant something bigger than it actually is.)

Anyway, might try and get some more done tomorrow, though it'll depend on how late my doctor's appointment is and when I get back from getting meds etc. etc.

I did also work on the quilt tonight! Got three more lines done, which is half the number of lines as yesterday, but more than half the work. They're still! Getting! Longer!!! Getting through thread, too, which is part of the goal! Looks like we'll be running out of variegated stuff sooner than I thought we would, I thought it'd last one whole direction, but looks like not so much. Oh well! Still got a fuckton of thread to use, I'm not worried about that so it's fine. :3 (Hopefully after this we'll at least be down to two boxes of thread, though I'm not gonna be mad if it's only one... :D)

Also! Managed to brush both cats this afternoon, which is extremely handy given it's shedding season again. They're still gonna be shedding every-fucking-where, but at least some of it is contained! :3

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Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Working on the chook coop again today, and. Wow. Just. UGH. Part of this thing is EXTREMELY ANNOYING and I ended up nopeing out of it for today because frustration levels too high. Nope!!!!

Will try with a different approach probably tomorrow (depending on weather).

I DID get a bunch of quilting done, though, so I'm happy with that. It's looking pretty good! Definitely amateur, but as I AM an amateur, that's fine! I don't actually care about stuff like 'gaps should be exactly half the stitch length', or even. You know. Super consistent stitch lengths in general. I mean, they should be ballpark the same, because I want this thing to STICK, but that's a practical consideration rather than aesthetic. The thing's big enough it's gonna fade into the background anyway, so I really do not feel bad about not caring. XD;;;

I also went for a walk to the shops with Mama, and we got extremely useful staples, milk and cordial. I continue to combat dehydration! Not the best at succeeding, but I also don't lose majorly, so it'll be fine... Having non-gross things to drink does help a lot though.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Did a few things, today!

Helped Mama out putting together this chook run kit thing she got - the idea is to replace the run we have so it's less. Completely terrible to move around in. Not sure if it's gonna be big enough, but it's something at least! Very fiddly to put together, but should be okay.

I also started the quilting part of the blanket! Doing sashiko-style, and it's going pretty well! Faster than I was dreading, too! Still going to take a while, but I might end up doing the entire pattern rather than just bare bones... Will see how it goes; since I'm going on a diagonal the rows are getting longer, and I haven't reached max width yet, so might take forever after all. Still, it's encouraging!

( Home repairs/improvement updates )

...anyway. Yes. House stuff is happening! Slowly, but still! Happening! :D

Also my toof is pmuch better. Which is great! :3

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Yeah, dentist today. Bleh. I mean, they're nice and they do good work but. Well.

It's like I said at tea time, on the one hand the anaesthetic's worn off. On the other hand, the anaesthetic's worn off...

One was a really deep one, and that's the one that's hurting. Bleh. It's not too bad, I don't even actually need painkillers for it, it's just annoying. Also I'm hungry and there's a couple of jaw movements that are painful, which is. Not a great combination. :( I did eat tea, and I had a boiled egg and a lychee pudding cup a couple of hours ago, but stomach says MOAR. Bleh.

Clearly it is time for sleepy sleeps, and hopefully my toof will have settled down in the morning!

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tyger

It's done! It's finally fucking done! \o/!!!!!

I had to work pretty late to get it done, honestly it was a little much for one day (for me), but I was SO CLOSE so of course I pushed myself and got it done. Eeeee, done! Hopefully I never have to do that again omg. Particularly not on this scale!

Still, yay! May or may not start the actual quilting tomorrow; I've got the dentist again with a couple of fillings and it'll depend on how motivated I feel as much as anything hahaha.

Other than that, went for a walk with Mama, which was nice! I wore my new shoes and got a blister, though, which I was pmuch expecting. Hopefully once I get my feet used to them / shoes worn in I'll get a callus that'll fucking stay, but given how often this happens I'm not gonna count on it. :/ At least these are all season shoes so it won't be like my goddamn sandal calluses that need to be acquired every fucking year...

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Taste of Home Fall Baking: 275+ Breads, Pies, Cookies and More!
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)

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tyger

No post last night as the internet went down and I said fuckit and went to bed, hahaha.

Both yesterday and today mostly just working on the blanket, nothing too exciting really. Still not done, but I'm getting much faster, which is something! Hopefully I'll get it fully basted tomorrow, but we'll see, it's uh. Still a lot.

( Blanket rambles. )

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Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

Furniture day was today! 2x2 kallax is in, filled it back up with my art books and some smaller figures and pokemon terrarium's in front, and blankets on one side of the bottom. Gotta decide what I'm doing with the other half once I get a box emptied for it; the style I like and was going with got discontinued and they had some left in a different design, so I'm using those for underbed storage (it's all figure boxes lmao). For the time being I put a framed picture on top and a vase of artificial lilac, since it's wider and slightly taller than the old one. I'll have to get used to it since I put my drink on top of it.

Dad also made the 2x1. It's sat on my four high malm in my bedroom and I'm having major buyer's remorse over it right now, which I'm having to remind myself that it feeling too tall will either fade after a few days of getting used to it (this happened with the 4x3 kallax) or if I still don't like it, it can go into the other bedroom on the desk when I... eventually get back into there. Next is a Billy bookcase sideboard and we should be done, plus extra shelves for my Billys that are display cabinets in my bedroom once those come back into stock. Which means I'm now inevitably considering rearranging the other bedroom a bit once I get back in there...

( making the room usable instead of storage only )

In other news I want to do shrine challenge (community building!!) but the bad months will wipe me off the face of the planet, and I should?? Write?? Next month?? And goodness knows I can't commit to timed things with my body as it is with regard to food, which is to say next month's eighteen yearly thing may be a bust as is. But I want to. 💔

marycatelli posting in

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Sanders' High School Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

The final reading program with more elocution exercises. The standards by which the choices were made are laid out in the preface.

So again the interesting thing to the modern reader is probably the choices. Scientific, religious, political, historical -- poems, speeches, essays --

The religious is sometimes generically theistic, sometimes Christian, sometimes specifically Protestant (in a passage where it is explicitly stated that the contemplative vocation is non-existent).

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This one is not likely to be of much interest to non-Americans. This weekend I blew through The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People can Take it Back by Madiba K. Dennie. This book delves into the originalism theory of constitutional interpretation, why it's far more ahistorical than its adherents want you to believe, and some tracks we could take to counter it.

If you aren't familiar, "originalism" is a theory of constitutional interpretation that says in order to understand the Constitution, we must interpret it as closely as we can to how the original writers would have interpreted it. It posits itself as the most true-to-history and unbiased way to interpret the Constitution. It was also a fringe theory for decades, until relatively recent political winds brought it to the forefront.

Originalism traps us in the mindset of 18th century wealthy white men and refuses to let us progress any further. Originalism says if we didn't have the right then, we can't have it now. Originalism cherry-picks its history to conveniently arrive at a conservative goalpost no matter what the real story is. I wrote an essay in grad school on why originalism is horseshit, so this book was of particular interest to me.

Dennie does a great job making this book accessible to everyone. I would strongly recommend this as a read for any one in the legal or legal-adjacent professions, but I think anyone can read and pick up what Dennie is laying down here. She summarizes the history of originalism as well as deep-diving into its most recent developments (this book was published in 2024, so it's quite recent).

Originalism has a way of making itself seem inevitable, but Dennie reveals with researched ease how untrue that is; she shows the hypocrisy and insincerity of the theory over and over.

Dennie doesn't stop at "here's what's wrong" either--she has proposal and suggestions for how to counter the outsized influence of this once-disfavored theory and what we as citizens can do to push back against it. On the whole, while there is obviously anger and frustration in this book--feelings I share!--there is also a lot of hope and optimism. Dennie calls herself an optimist at heart, and it shows. This is not a doom-and-gloom book foreseeing an indefinite miserable political future for liberals and anyone who wants to expand rather than contract the depth and breadth of our rights. It is a justified call-out to political opportunists seeking to dress their partisanship up as rationalism, but it is also an essay on how it doesn't have to be this way.

At a brief 218 pages (plus bibliography), The Originalism Trap is easy to recommend to any fellow Americans, both as a way to understand where we're at, and a way forward, hopefully out of this extremist quagmire. Dennie can occasionally be irreverent in a way I feel detracts rather than adds to her argument, but she is also dealing with incredibly dry material that the average reader will probably struggle to stay engaged with, so I can forgive it. Very glad I picked this one up and I left feeling hopeful that there is an achievable alternative to where we are now.

tyger

SO IT TURNS OUT I TOTALLY FUCKED UP THE BASTING

By which I mean. The blanket was turned 90 degrees from where it should be. So the new top didn't fit.

So yeah, had to pull it ALL OUT omfg ARGH

...yeah I sulked a bunch about that. Because. No. Goddamnit.

Anyway Mama did help me re-fold everything this evening once I'd sulked enough to face it, but I've still gotta start from scratch again. :|

But hey at least shopping this morning was successful! Mama got the doona covers she was looking for, and I got some new shoes! (AND they were super cheap!) Gonna have to wear them in a bit, but they definitely fit better than the previous ones, whee! Don't need to worry about them falling off my feet at all!

Also heard from A about a possible tech thing I could help out a friend with - unless it's a MUCH bigger project than it seems I wouldn't charge for it, but it'd be something else to put on my resume, which is extremely important right now too hahahaha. So we'll see how that goes!

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Current Location: Birthplace

marycatelli posting in

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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 5 by Grrr

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.

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tyger

More basting today. Didn't get it all done, alas, but I'm getting faster at it, which is nice. :3

Pmuch nothing else, honestly. Naps. Some reading. Etc. Now bed! Mama wants to go shopping tomorrow morning, so gonna try and be awake from kitty breakfasttime onwards. We'll see how it goes!

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rocky41_7 posting in

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I picked this out of the free book box and October seemed like a good time to buckle down with a gruesome murder mystery, so I started into Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (if you recognize her name, it's probably because she also wrote Gone Girl). This book is about a newspaper reporter, Camille, who returns to her tiny, rural Midwest hometown of Wind Gap to investigate a missing girl.

What to say about this one? I'm struggling. It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible. I was engaged enough to finish it, but I also dropped it back in the free book box right after finishing it. I don't feel like I wasted my time, but I also don't feel inspired to read more of Flynn's work.

The book definitely goes hard on portraying women with capital I Issues, as well as the effects of generational trauma, be it from bad parenting, mental health problems, or misogyny. The toxicity of life in a small town is also a strong element, and the claustrophobia the protagonist Camille feels being back there, seeing all these teenage girls who seem doomed to follow the same dour, unhappy paths their predecessors did. The misery that these unhappy girls and women inflict on each other, perhaps in absence of a healthier outlet, also features prominently and heartbreakingly.

Camille herself I didn't care for. She's aggravatingly passive for most of the book and her own emotional distance (as well as perhaps the writing) keep the reader at arms' length from everything that's happening. Hated her love interest too; exactly the kind of arrogant, presumptuous type I can't stand. I kept hoping she'd tell him to fuck off, but regrettably she found him charming.

Flynn's writing style was fine, although I didn't always love her choppy sentences.

The crimes in the book are quite dark, but held up against the smaller instances of violence, physical and emotional, being perpetrated in this small town day after day, the reader is left to wonder how much difference there really is between them.

Flynn shows well how the toxicity of Wind Gap impacted Camille, but I felt that not enough attention was paid to Amma, and why she alone among the family turned to such glee over violence and cruelty as an outlet for her trauma. This is one colossally fucked-up 13-year-old and I think the narrative would have benefited from more time in her head.

On the whole: idk. It was fine? Flynn obviously had things to say about life as a girl in a small town, and I think she said a lot of that effectively, but as for the enjoyability of the book? Eh.

tyger

Started basting today! Haven't done huge amounts, but I've done the hardest part so I'm not too upset either. Will hopefully get it finished tomorrow? But it'll depend on how brain-draining it is; it was kind of A Lot. Might be easier when the house is quieter, though...

Other than that, went for a walk with Mama! And also the stupid unemployment stuff has FINALLY started, so I worked on that a bit. Seriously though w h y did it take so long, uuuugh. Still, will hopefully start getting money next week, so that's something!!! >:

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tyger

Slept in today, which was glorious, particularly after how stupid late I was up yesterday. (Still up later than I planned, but hey, it's an improvement!)

Mucked out the chook coop, did some weeding, and ironed down the seams I made yesterday. Most of the day, however, I was finishing off that fic I was reading last night. It was a long one! (And it's unfinished, which is always disappointing.) But now I am free of it and I am going to pass the fuck out.

...of course, now is when Sushi decides to jump up into my lap and snuggle, which he hasn't done for a while, because. Of course it's now. Of course.

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Current Location: Birthplace

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i will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Room cleaning?? What??

Meds get! With perfect timing!

AWS outage

Keeping busy

Sleepy Sunday

I am not one of nature's natural builders

Fwee!

Toof hurt :( :( :(

Basting! Is! Done!!!

Review: Fall Baking

Progress, if slow.

I hoped my body would pass out after being up since before midday, I was wrong

Sanders' High School Reader

Recent Reading: The Originalism Trap

FUCKING DAMNIT

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 5

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Recent Reading: Sharp Objects

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