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Bye
I have decided to turn crossposting off as of now. Back in 2017 when Livejournal was bought out by a Russian company and started cooperating with the Russian government to crack down on LGBTQ and dissident bloggers, there was a mass exodus to Dreamwidth. I had already moved my journal to DW, due to the whole Strikethrough business back in 2007, ( Read more... ) -
Ouch
So Churro got out today. We're not sure when or how, but when I went out into the back yard to take the laundry off the line, I saw Stripes, the stray who hangs out in the back yard, come trotting up for pets, which I dispensed... and then a big cream-colored cat snuck around the corner of the house, and holy shit that's Churro. Churro started ( Read more... ) -
A superfluity of information
A comment on a BtVS Facebook community I follow sent me off on a chase for a reference, and now I've just spent a couple of days fruitlessly plowing through old LJ entries, trying to find the one I was thinking of. It was a poll about whether people preferred Spuffy fic where Spike was souled or unsouled, and I cannot for the life of me remember ( Read more... ) -
Ho ho ho
Christmas has been accomplished. Kathy's mom flew in today; luckily her flight was not one of the many that got canceled. She'll be here tomorrow and leave Monday. I'm glad she was able to be here. It will be four years since Mom's death in a few days, and I've been feeling a little melancholy.
The pomegranates are ripe - at least, the ones on ( Read more... ) -
Christmas is barreling at us at the speed of an oncoming train
I don't recall if I mentioned it here, but last January we hired a contractor to build a porch on the south side of the house, the side that faces the street our address is on. Our house is one of those corner houses that is built on a diagonal, and for reasons beyond my ken, it was built so that the front door faces the cross street rather than ( Read more... ) -
Interesting times
Today at work we got the email expanding the company's vaccine mandate to all employees (the first phase had excluded retail and warehouse workers.) They'd strongly hinted that this would happen when they notified us of of the first phase, so it was not really a surprise. Despite all the screaming and posturing on the company intranet when phase ( Read more... ) -
Tired
I didn't mean to fall off the face of the earth, but, well, you know. Over Thanksgiving weekend we have 1) cooked a big dinner, 2) assembled 3/4ths of a shed (the remaining 1/4th is door assembly, which, judging by the illustrations in the manual, is as complicated as the entire rest of the shed put together.) 3) Moved all the tools and paint ( Read more... ) -
Back to the real world
So I logged in to work today after getting back from my vacation. I knew we were losing one of the people on my team, but while I was gone another person on a related team has decided to leave, my boss's boss is mostly incommunicado due to a family emergency, the Major Issue with one of our databases is still Major, I still can't log into one of ( Read more... ) -
Vacationing with the MIL
For the last week we've been in Florida, visiting Kathy's mom. She's 86 now, and starting to slow down a little -- she was a heavy smoker for many years; she quit thirty years ago, but her lungs are starting to give her trouble and she runs out of breath easily. She had surgery on one shoulder recently, and is going into physical therapy this ( Read more... ) -
The Last Graduate (spoilers)
Novik is an excellent storyteller in the the sense that she's got very decent pacing, dialogue, and characterization. Her major flaw as a writer is that she doesn't seem to think through the logical consequences of her Cool Idea, until someone points them out, and then she has to retcon. You can see this in the Temeraire series, where the Cool ( Read more... )