Hello LiveJournal audience! ^_^ I am just waking up now. After getting the cats some wet food, I made myself some oolong tea, then looked at some photography of owls on Facebook, ignoring some instant-messages from people I recently friended but didn't really know. I may subsequently unfriend them but I'm unsure. That is mean of me and I don't want ( Read more... )

... cute.

Also, Happy 4th of July! I googled that what I saw before on TV (that the UK was pausing too for this holiday) was nonsense. I am not that gullible.

My cat, Matilda, is reading the Chinese book with me since that was the language she chose in high school. (And Cora picked Japanese. Sunshine, my grandma's cat who briefly stayed in my room ( Read more... )

"IN DEPTH | PLANETARY SCIENCE

April 26, 2024

China set to fetch first rocks from mysterious lunar far sideIN SECTION IN DEPTH | PLANETARY SCIENCE

Chang’e-6 to target Moon’s largest and oldest impact crater

By Dennis Normile

There’s a giant hole on the backside of the Moon. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest impact ( Read more... )

The types of dementia are here. It sounds like I am at mild risk of the "repeated knocks to the head" one, but that condition slowed-to-stopped, so I am not that concerned. I think the biggest concern for me is a loss of empathy from the list of problems stemming from that, but if I am from the Year of the Snek, then I already knew that I might be ( Read more... )

I am just waking up now - it took me two weeks to decide the beginning of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd said two nothings in two paragraphs and two endnotes, although I did find it interesting to look at the chronology of the author's life in the beginning. He is from the late 19th century.
I may decide it's too annoying to finish, I may read a ( Read more... )