Daily Happiness

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:08 pm
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1. I had a meeting at 6pm today, which I stayed at the office for but was then told everyone was just joining from their own desks (only four people in the meeting were there in the building, the others were in Japan) so I could have done it from home, which was annoying as my meeting before that had ended at around 3:30. But I did get a lot of work done on a project in the time between those two meetings, wheras if I'd gone home, I would have just said I was done with work for the day and did non work stuff until the meeting.

2. Gemma's soaking in the sun.

Me-and-media update

Aug. 28th, 2025 03:32 pm
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Pandemic life
Colds and so forth. )

Previous poll review
In the Plaguefic poll, 46% of respondents were okay reading about Covid and related subjects, 52% didn't mind mentions, and 28% like it when characters mask sometimes, while 22% said there are aspects of the pandemic they avoid, and 22% prefer their reading matter to avoid the subject entirely.

In ticky-boxes, hugs won with 74%, followed by wallabies at a disco with 48%, and battery acid and protest signs with 36%. Thank you for your votes! <3

Reading
Audio: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, read by Candida Gubbins. This continues to be fascinating and put present times into dryly alarming perspective, in a "thus has it ever been" kind of way. Most of the names and all the dates are in one ear and out the other, but Palmer spins an excellent yarn and kindly gives key figures nicknames (Battle Pope!). I'm up to Lucrezia Borgia, ie, about halfway.

Library book: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. I'm about halfway through this, too. Everything I know about Regency is from non-contemporaneous novels (Heyer), but still. These characters are clearly modern LARPers, but the central conflict is good.

Kdramas/Cdramas
I'm restricting my Nothing But Love rewatch to the exercise machine, to make it last.

Other TV
We finished Bookish. I came around to it in the end; the flashback to Book's long-lost love was heartrending. Looking forward to season 2.

Nothing else. It turns out I don't watch much TV on my own.

Guardian/Fandom
I posted a poll to [community profile] fan_writers about whether sharing is part of your creative process, and there's some great discussion there.

Upcoming in Guardian fandom: [community profile] guardian_wishlist sign-ups open tomorrow. And the Slo-mo Drama Rewatch starts on [community profile] sid_guardian next week. \o/

Audio entertainment
Writing Excuses. Letters from an American. More Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones (which aside from being really fun, highlighted this line from Archer's Goon: Mum always said that you could tell what people were like by their houses. So naturally now I keep thinking about Guardian through that lens and wondering what everyone's living spaces look like). I tried a local politics podcast (RNZ, equivalent of NPR), but apparently our political commentary has been reduced to economics, blah.

Online life
  • I need to stop making discussion posts when my arms aren't great.
  • I've found the frame-by-frame key in VLC, and nothing will stop my screencapping now, mwahaha!
  • Randomly alternating my comments between Casual HTML and Markdown. What could go wrong?


Writing/making things
My DNW-kinkfic continues, as I turn 1625 words of zero draft into Draft 1.0. Ot1h, it's very freeing to know almost no one will read this; otoh, the zero drafting comes with that feeling people talk about with outlining, where the impetus starts to leak out of the balloon... I'm going to finish it anyway, and I need to hurry up so I can make stuff for Wishlist.

Life/health/mental state things
For most of my adult life, I needed 8 to 9 hours of sleep a night to function well and be healthy. A couple of years ago, I read an article about how people over fifty shouldn't get more than 8 hours, and actually 7 is better. (Cannot remember the reasoning.) My expectations and sleep needs immediately dropped to 7ish hours per night, for lo, I am profoundly susceptible to the power of suggestion. Except that this week while Andrew's been sick, I've been getting 8 hours, and I feel good actually. So much more energy. tl;dr: I am ridiculous.

Cat
Sometimes during morning on-the-bed strokes, Halle crawls between two layers of blanket, and I never know if she's calling time on the stroking, or if this is some hide-and-seek cat game I'm supposed to know the rules of.

Food
I cook mostly vegetarian when it's just me. I really want a burger.

Good things
Immune systems. Fresh fruit. Several days of sunshine. Guardian. Dreamwidth activity generally. Cat. Andrew. LWS Writers' Hour. This cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" (Youtube).

Poll #33544 Cluedo
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13


Your murder weapon of choice

View Answers

asp
4 (30.8%)

cyanide
0 (0.0%)

bulldozer
2 (15.4%)

heartbreak
4 (30.8%)

industrial freezer
0 (0.0%)

fright
0 (0.0%)

cassowary
10 (76.9%)

extremely elegant clothing
6 (46.2%)

other
1 (7.7%)

ticky-box full of musical frogs jamming away on their bongos
2 (15.4%)

ticky-box full of neglected-houseplant guilt
6 (46.2%)

ticky-box full of throwing coins into the wishing abyss
6 (46.2%)

ticky-box full of cartoon dogs going to the movies
4 (30.8%)

ticky-box of what would a Gamma/Delta/Epsilon AU look like? radioactive river permittivity?
5 (38.5%)

ticky-box full of vertical stripes
4 (30.8%)

ticky-box full of hugs
9 (69.2%)

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[personal profile] musesfool
So here's a question for you, especially if you do office-type work: when did people start sending pictures of things instead of actual documents in a work-related setting? And WHY???

I have had this happen repeatedly recently, and then instead of just going on with my work easily, I have to email back and ask for a version in a program that I can edit. (If I don't need to edit, I will sometimes just print it as a PDF so I can attach and send it to people, but that is still an extra step I have to take because someone else couldn't put their work in a work-appropriate format.)

Personally, I get not wanting to share a linked document - I do it but I kind of hate other people in my documents because of version control issues (...or maybe just control issues? 😬😬😬) - but anything is better than a useless JPEG pasted into the body of an email when what I ASKED FOR was a list of attendees for a meeting I may need to sort, or a purchase requisition that I will need to update.

As a related item, stop with the QR codes! Our HR department sends emails about training opportunities or other events and is like, "Use the QR code to register!" Like, how about no? And certainly not when it's an event to which we are inviting board members, some of whom are LITERALLY in their 90s and not tech-savvy. What is wrong with a nice LINK to a FORM on a regular WEBBED SITE?

I guess I am feeling very Abe Simpson yells at clouds today, but come on. These are not things that make work easier! (Well, maybe it's easier for the people who do this, but then they have to deal with my annoying follow up emails, so is it really easier for them???)

In other news, my younger nephew got a promotion that required him to move to California in a hurry, so he flew out last night. I will miss him! Who will I call now when I need a tall person to do things in my apartment??? (Just kidding! It's a great opportunity for him, and he is some kind of regional manager now with a region that includes Hawaii, so my sister and I are already like, "let us plan a trip to visit him IN HAWAII!" [note: I will likely never be able to afford a trip to Hawaii, but a girl can dream.])

*

Exchanges and things

Aug. 27th, 2025 11:25 am
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[personal profile] snickfic
- "I am definitely not signing up for [community profile] ficinabox," I said, and then promptly wrote most of a letter. I now have a request I can match to and spent the morning making a list of other requests that I could swap for. I've submitted a swap request, maximum two swaps of 2k each, but there's time to change my mind before swaps close.

- The Kinktober prompts are out. I have managed to write like one kinktober fic ever, plus October is the WORST month for this when I'm also working on FIAB and Yuletide treats and watching all the horror movies, and yet. You know what ship I want all the kinks for, all the time? It's Gallaghercest. I've made a list of all the kinks from this year that I think would be the most fun for them, and I think maybe I will try to post... one a week? That seems like something I could do.

- Speaking of the Gallaghers, I have almost 7k of reunion... vignettes? At this point there are enough of them that maybe it's just a story, lol. I keep pecking away, and words keep happening.
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I was watching this video yesterday and today, which inspired me to write PBS Terra and Howtown lick fossils, demonstrating Ig Nobel Prize winning science.

Daily Happiness

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:15 pm
torachan: an orange cat poking his head out from blankets (ollie)
[personal profile] torachan
1. I'm definitely starting to feel a lot more comfortable with this new project at work, though it's still a lot of unknown territory. It's been good having this team here from Japan for this month to help hammer things out, but I will also be glad when they're gone and there are less meetings (I've literally have two hour meetings every day with this one guy for the past two weeks; they are productive, but still).

2. It was much nicer weather today. Even when I came out to the car after being at work, I didn't have to blast the AC to get it bearable for the drive home.

3. Yesterday's episode of Game Changer was so good. This season has really been hitting it out of the park, but man. That was amazing. I can't wait to watch the behind the scenes episode next week. The episode also involved mentioning a lot of previous episodes, which made us want to do a rewatch, so I think we'll be doing that soon.

4. I love Chloe's little foot freckle.

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Title: The Florist and The Captain
Artist: DragonK
Writer: Hkandi
Universe: MCU
Rating: Gen
Fic Wordcount: 6647
Summary:
Steve comes across Tony's flower shop and starts to buy flowers for himself. Tony find himself with a massive crush on his new favorite customer, who Pepper swears is Captain America. But as Tony tells her, “Yeah, Pep, Captain America totally came in on a random Tuesday morning for flowers after happening to see our van,” he sarcastically said. “Of course it wasn’t him, just a ridiculously handsome guy who maybe looks a little like him, I guess.”

Link to DragonK's art and Hkandi 's fic on AO3

8/26/2025 Lower Packrat Trail

Aug. 26th, 2025 12:24 pm
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I was in the Inspiration Point parking lot about dawn with the intention of hanging out in the dip for an hour or two, but I'd wildly misinterpreted my weather app and found, surprise! blowing fog. I considered suiting up and going on down, but when I opened the car door the wind was so loud! So I drove down to the Nature Area with the intention of walking up to the Lake but somehow started up Lower Packrat instead. Good thing, because this was about 7 am and about 7:30 the chainsaws and heavy equipment started up. By then I was sitting on the bench at the top of the trail, and while they were annoying they weren't as immediate as yesterday at the Lake. My list was the same length as yesterday but different, and I heard some very interesting vocalizations. The Swainson's Thrushes were making lots of "whit" calls and some of their weirder calls, and they also sang occasionally. I could hear a White-breasted Nuthatch somewhere, and a Western Flycatcher's little chip note, which I hadn't heard in a while. Best of all was the "wheeuw" call of a juvenile Black-headed Grosbeak mixed in with adult pik calls. The call was moving about, so presumably it was a fledgling; August 26th seems a bit late for this. Most amusing was a California Quail somewhere to the east whose call made me think not of "Chicago" or Vallejo" but "what the hell? what the hell?" The list: )

I went back the way I'd come and walked around the perimeter of the picnic area for a ways. When I pulled out my phone, merlin suggested Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and I said, oh, sure. I mean, it had suggested Western Barn Owl earlier, and I'd never found a BGGN right in Wildcat Gorge. But then I heard it! So I apologized to merlin.

Unused video for Randy Rainbow post

Aug. 26th, 2025 08:23 am
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I decided I didn't want to do the work to make this the third video in Randy Rainbow sings 'He Just Can't Wait to Be King!'

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[personal profile] yui_miyamoto posting in [community profile] anime_manga
Fandom : Yowamushi Pedal / 弱虫ペダル
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : my Sleeping Beauty.
Rating : PG -13
Genre(s) : Romance, Humor
Main Character(s) : Makishima Yuusuke, Toudou Jinpachi
Summary : Before going abroad, Makishima visits Toudou.
Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : This title is owned by Watanabe Wataru-sensei. I’m just here because of all the cuteness. And the fact that Yamashita Daiki’s rendition of Love Hime lives rent free in my head.

Livejournal / Fanfiction.net / AO3

Spy X Family: Code White

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:59 am
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Been watching the Anime movie Spy X Family: Code White and its quite fun. I really wish that I could watch new episodes of it. Characters are highly entertaining. Well, most. There's this character called Agent Nightfall who like Becky Blackbell, has an unhealthy crush on Loyd Forger. However she's a bit more annoying about it than little Becky bothered to be. Still, there's plenty of laughs and action with a dash of feel good moments and I can't quit it.

I just hope next time Anya sees a suspicious piece of candy in a box she refrains from eating it.

Daily Happiness

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:58 pm
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[personal profile] torachan
1. Got my hair cut this morning.

2. I just remembered next Monday is Labor Day, so I've got a three day weekend coming up! And Carla has a very early doctor's appointment that Tuesday at a location that's not super far but also not really close, so I offered to drive her, and was at first thinking I'd just go to work after that, but then decided to put in a sick day request for that day and just take the day off, so I've now got a four day weekend. :D

3. Molly has been really into my chair lately.

Music Monday

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:04 pm
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Obsessed with the guitar here, for real.

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