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Dec. 6th, 2025 04:46 am
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Oy what a day. Friday was a grocery shopping day of course, and though I got started ordering pretty early it still took close to four hours to get the job done. Safeway's web site was the worst I've ever seen it, and a computer crash didn't help. The chaos of the web site so discombobulated me that I forgot three items I really wanted to get, and was unable to find two others. Then there were two substitutions that had to be made by the store, and a final item was simply out of stock and unreplaceable.

I might get a nephew or niece to fetch a couple of the missing items, but hate to pester them about it already. But I also forgot to get my rent check into the mail, which I don't send from my bad mailbox here, so I'll have to have somebody take that soon too, so I can probably combine the errands. I may be stupid old guy, but I can still be clever enough to arrange some repairs on my mistakes.

Anyway, no sooner did I get the groceries put away when I had to take a nap, and the nap ended up lasting until almost midnight, after which I spent a weird remainder of the night being unfocused and confused. Now another overcast day has arrived, and I'm still unfocused and confused, and stull haven't fixed Friday dinner. A key ingredient is among the missing items, so I have to figure out an alternative meal, and the unfocused confusion has interfered. I should probably just bake a potato, as using the oven would help warm the place up.

Alternatively, I could just go get under the covers and go back to sleep. I've been up for about eleven hours now, and it's cold and I'm yawning. Again, old guy. There's so much stuff I should do but I probably won't. At least with the overcast the room will be dim, for decent daytime sleep. It's looking more appealing by the moment. The potato can bake anytime. It's not like the weather will turn warm.

Disadvent 6: an expensive mistake

Dec. 6th, 2025 12:44 pm
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I wore the same make and model of sneaker for something like 10 or 15 years and would happily have kept buying another pair every 15-18 months indefinitely, but my mom alerted me in late 2023 that the newest edition of them had been completely redesigned in a bad way, so I panic-bought two more pairs to put off the dread day of reckoning when I had to find a Different Shoe. I deployed the first of them in 2024 and attempted to deploy the second this past summer, at which point I discovered they were also Different, in that instead of the normal tongue-and-collar situation they had a sort of elastic ankle tourniquet that wasn't going to work for me at all. (One walk was enough to confirm that.) If I had taken a better look at them when I had gotten them, I would have tried to return them, but alas, at the time I had merely glanced in the boxes to see that they were the colors I had picked, and more than a year and a half later I was somewhat past the 90-day window for returns, oops. So that was an expensive mistake, but today I took them to Goodwill, and I like to think that someone who might struggle with the cost of nice running shoes will be pleased to find this practically-unused pair, as long as they don't mind having their ankles tourniqueted. (And I did successfully make it through the ordeal of finding a new brand and model of shoes that work, which I will now hopefully keep buying every 15-18 months until they also decide they're tired of having me as a repeat customer.)

Also I actually took last night's books to the library as a book sale donation.
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when she hasn't even started working on the first one she signed up for?

Yes she did.

College / University / Education The Early Hours before Dawn When I'm 64: Future Vignette Left Brain / Right Brain
Race Against Time Summertime (and the Livin' is Easy) Music Season of Mists (Autumn Colours, Sensations, Activities and Festivals) Hey, it's that guy: Minor characters
Speech-deprived Diaries and Journals Wild Card Nightwear Implacable
Water Introspection Canon Themes Trousers (Pants) Stream of Consciousness
Cooking Protectiveness Mistaken Identity Eclipses and other Astronomical Events Closets, caves and other tight spaces

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Dec. 6th, 2025 12:57 pm
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The evening must have been too exciting, because when I went to bed I couldn't get to sleep for a couple of hours. I did manage to get my feet warmed up before I went to bed, but it took an hour or so.

When I came upstairs this morning I found we'd had a light dusting of snow. The girls had already been outside to get up close and personal with it, but there wasn't really enough to be fun. After we'd all had breakfast I walked to the nearby lake (known as the pond) with Violet and Eden to see if it had frozen and found that most of it was indeed frozen. The girls had some fun throwing things into the ice, as well as getting daringly close to the edge and pressing on it with one foot. Luckily nobody fell in.

The temperature is now a few degrees above freezing so there's no snow left, but we're supposed to have several nights well below freezing so I'm guessing the lake will stay frozen for a while. Eden has been dying to see it frozen, so now she's satisfied. Violet was mildly interested and Aria doesn't like being cold so she didn't even beg to walk to the lake with us.

After I walked the girls back home I went out again for a walk by myself where I didn't have to be on guard against anybody falling into freezing water. The temperature was around freezing but it didn't feel horribly cold because there was almost no wind and the humidity was high.

YULETIDE YELLING HERE

Dec. 6th, 2025 09:30 am
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How are your Yuletide assignment/treats/etc going? Feel free to share in the comments. Capslock welcome.

I have very promising starts on two treats and zero words on my assignment. I might have an idea for my assignment? I'm going to start it and find out this weekend.

Sunday Online Chat

Dec. 6th, 2025 09:25 am
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I need to remember to mention these (rare) things in case one or two of you have free time at 9:00a.m. Pacific time Sunday the 7th. B Cubed Press Sunday Brunch, on Youtube, hosts a live chat. Tomorrow I'm to be included, for what will begin as a chat about preparing for readings, but might go in any direction.
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+ Oh no I've pretty much eaten all my fancy chocolate :( I got a bag of random leftovers when I ordered a box for my mom for Christmas (Jentene På Tunet, BEST chocolate I've had in my life), and now there's only four pieces left. Rip.

+ I did pick up a packet of gf gnocchi yesterday, guess it's time for a very carb dinner :D

+ Decided to shuffle the list so I don't run out of femslash recs; today have a gen offering!

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Rec-cember Day 6


Brooklyn Nine-Nine
by [archiveofourown.org profile] ryfkah (632 words). Happy dancing whenever I find a cute holiday themed rec for this ;D
Ensconced in the supply closet, Jake told Amy, grimly, “Nutcracker Ballet.”

Amy gasped, her hands flying to her mouth.

“I thought it was bad when I caught her standing for 20 minutes staring at the tree in the front office --” Jake grabbed for Amy’s hands. “Babe, you gotta help me here. I am wildly unqualified to salvage Rosa’s Christmas. I have one single Christmas card to play, and while I’m obviously always happy to play that card --”

Amy winced, and shook her head. “You know Rosa still hasn’t forgiven Bruce Willis for A Good Day to Die Hard. Giving her a very Die Hard Christmas is just going to fill her with additional rage.”

2561 / Fic - The Pitt

Dec. 6th, 2025 11:39 am
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Zoology and Other Specialities
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~6600 words | Thanks to [personal profile] sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

'I can't believe I'm saying this,' Robby said, 'but humans don't turn into dogs.' )

Deth of Siv, etc

Dec. 6th, 2025 03:57 pm
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What is this that this thing is, when, okay, one is aware of all the woozing and grumbling about the various delivery services, but here is the ROYAL MAIL being pretty bad.

Yesterday I had an email saying they had delivered a parcel.

There was no parcel.

I looked at the proof of delivery and behold, that was Not Our Front Door they were sticking it through, it was the wrong colour and one could see the corner of a glass panel (ours is solid wood).

So I went on to their site to try and delve a bit further and, my dears, it is HORRENDOUS, one suspects it is designed to make people Just Give Up.

For example, the 'contact us' link, that actually goes to a 'Help and Support' page that lists a whole range of possible contingencies that one has to sort through to discover one that matches the occasion.

And once I had come across the Advice relating to item (presumably) misdelivered to wrong address, advice was, to contact the sender.

I have no bloody idea who the sender was being as how I was not even expecting a Royal Mail delivery, have been back over my emails and texts and no, I did not receive any previous message involving that particular tracking code.

There is a passing allusion to possible scanning errors.

The only means of contacting them is by phone, and when I tried, and had made my way through the menu options, the wait to speak to a person was 50 minutes.

I am leaving all this pro tem in case a) it was misdelivered and gets put back into the system b) it never actually existed in the first place.

But, really.

And in other, perhaps more minor (?) annoyances of Modern Life, what is this thing that this thing is of 'Cooking Instructions on Back of Label'? that you then have to detach, in the hope that it will actually come off in one piece that one can actually decipher....

ETA Parcel has now turned up, either in today's post or popped through letter box by neighbour to whom it was delivered in error.... Is friend's book I was in anticipation of.