tuesday olio
I remembered a few days late to switch my default icon to Medusa Santa for December. Lookit all the cute little Santa hats on the snakies!
❄ My Yuletide story is done and at the beta, hooray! I had let all the pinch hits go by while I was working on it, telling myself that it would not be a good idea to add to my obligations while I was struggling with a moderately complex and long story, but basically three minutes after I sent it off to the beta, a new batch of pinch hits came through. And hey, this one asks for one of the fandoms I originally offered! So, oops, writing again...
❄ Speaking of Yuletide, sort of, for the first time in a long time I won't be snuggling into a blankie with my laptop to spend Christmas morning reading the collection, as we've decided to take a long weekend in Santa Fe. B used to live there and has fond memories of the farolito walk on Christmas Eve, and we'd been sort of planning to get down there anyway once we got a new vehicle which we would trust to make the drive (which we did in October, but have been busy since) in order to visit the House of Eternal Return. I'm not bringing the laptop, just the phone, so though I might do some reading, I won't be making my usual rec posts (or commenting on my gift other than a quickie) until at least Wednesday.
❄ Speaking of my phone - I got a new one! We decided to splurge on the latest greatest and got Pixels to replace our Nexus 5 phones (which were only 3 years old, but can't upgrade to Android 7). Both the phone and the OS are pretty nifty, but the best thing about the Pixel is that you can use Project Fi, which of course we immediately signed up to do. (This is Google's phone service, which partners with multiple carriers such that it uses the fastest available service among wifi and three 4G LTE networks.) Not only is it less expensive than our old StraightTalk prepaid plan (if you use a LOT of cellular data it might not be, but we don't) it includes 135 countries for which there are unlimited international texts (either texts to numbers in those countries, or texts sent while in that country); fairly cheap phone calls to foreign numbers, and fixed $0.20/min while roaming in those countries, and data at the same rate as in the US ($10/GB prorated). If only we'd had this two years ago in Canada!
❄ I need to get back to doing the bullet journal thing. Inspired by several people in my DW circle, I started one in a partly-used blank book, and I kept it up until my Thanksgiving vacation, but since then I have let it slide. I had told myself that if I did it for the rest of the year I would let myself use my beautiful Hobbit-themed blank book (someone here gave it to me, right?) for next year. (Bullet journaling, if you don't know, is essentially making an on-the-fly planner with divisions and specific pages that are actually useful to you, rather than pre-printed things that might not be relevant.) I am much better with paper to-do lists than I am with online/phone ones, so this seemed to work pretty well for keeping my tasks organized and top-of-mind, but alas my motivation still sucks, so I look at my nicely-laid-out list of THINGS TO DO and immediately see the items that have been languishing for days...and then I ignore them. Oops?
❄ Finally, there is a trailer for Bon Cop Bad Cop 2!!!! Two versions: French subtitles for the English dialogue and English subtitles for the French dialogue. It brought back ALL THE FEELS. I loved that ridiculous movie so much. I even made a vid for it for Festivids 2010, and requested it for Yuletide 2007 and received a fabulous story, Plus ça change by
cjmarlowe.
And that brings me full circle back to Yuletide!
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
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❄ My Yuletide story is done and at the beta, hooray! I had let all the pinch hits go by while I was working on it, telling myself that it would not be a good idea to add to my obligations while I was struggling with a moderately complex and long story, but basically three minutes after I sent it off to the beta, a new batch of pinch hits came through. And hey, this one asks for one of the fandoms I originally offered! So, oops, writing again...
❄ Speaking of Yuletide, sort of, for the first time in a long time I won't be snuggling into a blankie with my laptop to spend Christmas morning reading the collection, as we've decided to take a long weekend in Santa Fe. B used to live there and has fond memories of the farolito walk on Christmas Eve, and we'd been sort of planning to get down there anyway once we got a new vehicle which we would trust to make the drive (which we did in October, but have been busy since) in order to visit the House of Eternal Return. I'm not bringing the laptop, just the phone, so though I might do some reading, I won't be making my usual rec posts (or commenting on my gift other than a quickie) until at least Wednesday.
❄ Speaking of my phone - I got a new one! We decided to splurge on the latest greatest and got Pixels to replace our Nexus 5 phones (which were only 3 years old, but can't upgrade to Android 7). Both the phone and the OS are pretty nifty, but the best thing about the Pixel is that you can use Project Fi, which of course we immediately signed up to do. (This is Google's phone service, which partners with multiple carriers such that it uses the fastest available service among wifi and three 4G LTE networks.) Not only is it less expensive than our old StraightTalk prepaid plan (if you use a LOT of cellular data it might not be, but we don't) it includes 135 countries for which there are unlimited international texts (either texts to numbers in those countries, or texts sent while in that country); fairly cheap phone calls to foreign numbers, and fixed $0.20/min while roaming in those countries, and data at the same rate as in the US ($10/GB prorated). If only we'd had this two years ago in Canada!
❄ I need to get back to doing the bullet journal thing. Inspired by several people in my DW circle, I started one in a partly-used blank book, and I kept it up until my Thanksgiving vacation, but since then I have let it slide. I had told myself that if I did it for the rest of the year I would let myself use my beautiful Hobbit-themed blank book (someone here gave it to me, right?) for next year. (Bullet journaling, if you don't know, is essentially making an on-the-fly planner with divisions and specific pages that are actually useful to you, rather than pre-printed things that might not be relevant.) I am much better with paper to-do lists than I am with online/phone ones, so this seemed to work pretty well for keeping my tasks organized and top-of-mind, but alas my motivation still sucks, so I look at my nicely-laid-out list of THINGS TO DO and immediately see the items that have been languishing for days...and then I ignore them. Oops?
❄ Finally, there is a trailer for Bon Cop Bad Cop 2!!!! Two versions: French subtitles for the English dialogue and English subtitles for the French dialogue. It brought back ALL THE FEELS. I loved that ridiculous movie so much. I even made a vid for it for Festivids 2010, and requested it for Yuletide 2007 and received a fabulous story, Plus ça change by
cjmarlowe.
And that brings me full circle back to Yuletide!
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth