dragonlady7

I had my first raspberry today. Yum.
Bewilderbeast finally opened up today. I had the rhizomes planted in an area that they HATED. Too much clay and too much water. Some completely rotted away before I realized what was happening and moved them to a pot. Here is the strongest of the survivors. This iris is quite variable, with each bloom a little different. The second picture was taken several years ago in the Henry St garden. On the second picture note the huge white stripe on the upright standard, as opposed to today's flower that has very modest white on the standards.

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conuly

We owe nothing on this gas bill, no outstanding debt.

musesfool

Since I know you all enjoy my ridiculous grocery delivery stories, this week boneless pork country ribs were on sale for $3/lb so I ordered 2 lbs for approximately $6. I figured I'd put one package in a pot of sauce on Sunday, and freeze the other for some later date.

Instead, I received SIX POUNDS of baby back ribs for TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS. For those of you playing the home game, that made my grocery bill today $22 more than expected. That's just nuts. Also, since I was planning to put the boneless ribs in sauce, I did not purchase any bbq sauce, so now I guess I can try to make my own. I thought about doing Chinese bbq ribs instead, because I do have all the ingredients for that, but the racks are too big to put into a container to marinate. I might be able to cut them into smaller slabs and marinate that way, but that seems like a lot of extra work I was not planning on this weekend, since mostly I planned to test out a couple of new lemon cupcake recipes.

I think I mentioned that one of my co-workers requested vanilla cupcakes with strawberry frosting next time I'm in, and I thought I might also do lemon cupcakes with strawberry frosting since there will be a lot more frosting than cupcakes.

Anyway. I found a bbq sauce recipe that doesn't include ketchup - I tried one that did once and did not care much for it - so maybe I will do that. I also have a bag of cole slaw, so I'll make the dressing for that as well, and see how it all goes.

In better news, the Knicks just went up 3-0 on the Sixers in round 2 of the playoffs. Bing bong!

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Current Music: Mets vs Dbacks on tv

princessofgeeks

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lannamichaels

Can the person who keeps putting in AO3 password reset requests for me please knock it off?

They did this last year too but at least that was only a bunch in one day, these keep happening.

Ughhhh.

rmc28

I have had a migraine this afternoon and evening, which is the warning sign I'm pushing my sleep schedule too much, again
I read the new Murderbot book, very hard to put down, enjoyed it very much
earlier this week fanf and I joined 20th wedding anniversary celebrations for atreic and emperor, who remain lovely people who collect lovely people around them, yay
last weekend Kodiaks lost to Coventry Phoenix 1-8, but I got my first ever WNIHL point with an assist on that goal. And then the next day we turned a 2-1 lead over MK Falcons into a 4-2 loss in the last ten minutes of the game and that hurt quite a lot. But also it was lovely to see some Hull camp friends on the MK side, both on and off the ice
I started watching Ted Lasso, currently half way through season 1 and enjoying it very much. The episodes are short enough and the people / plot engaging enough I'm managing to stick with an entire episode at a time without getting distracted
next week I'm seeing a 40th anniversary screening of Top Gun in the local IMAX screen. I got teased about did I remember seeing it on original release, which no, not quite, but it's very nearly 37 years since I first saw it on a tiny coach TV screen on a school trip to Germany. I still know most of the lines by heart

petra

There are a thousand spots to sit at home:
Upon the couch, on laundry, not just laps.
But just as all the old roads lead to Rome,
The cat returns to sit on me. Perhaps
She smells the cortisol of stress, and knows
That I'm inclined to stroke her velvet fur --
Once void-black, now specked galaxy, it flows
Softer than kitten fluff. And so she purrs,
Then settles with her head upon my wrist
And tush on laptop keys, immune to shame.
Despite spring air, my little cat finds bliss
In cuddling up and acting nearly tame.
Nine pounds of feline is enough to pin
Me to the couch, and so her reign begins.

Current Mood: purr
Current Music: She is making the rattly noise

bookscorpion

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Current Location: Mr Ook's kitchen
Current Music: Ghost Song Soundtrack

siria

why not instead love
ER | Benton/Corday, Benton/Carter | ~4500 words | Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( Elizabeth Corday takes the path less travelled. (AU from S4) )

petra

I recently got a new TENS device intended to stop migraines. The zap cycle lasts 45 minutes and makes it extremely uncomfortable to move one arm. I will report back when I know more.

This morning, the cat jumped on my lap at minute 46, just as I was going to peel off the electrodes. I could've been petting her with the other arm, but nooooo.

She is generally the entity in the house accused of cat-like reflexes, but humans can do it too.

Current Mood: what would anakin skywalker do
Current Music: I'm goin' on a party ride

sabotabby

Another new-to-me podcast, Against the Grain, did an episode with not new-to-me Jordan S. Carroll, "Science Fiction and the Far-Right." It is very good. I mean, I would want Jordan to have his own podcast as he's a podcast creator's dream to interview, except that he is busy doing other things that are more important. At any rate, as someone rather deep into the SFFH community in a variety of ways, it bears repeating how closely entwined it is with our current dystopian hellscape, and Jordan is really an expert in explaining why and how.

rmc28

The last of the Varsity ice hockey games between Oxford and Cambridge universities is tomorrow evening, at Cambridge Ice Arena, at 5pm. I will be playing for Cambridge Huskies B against Oxford Vikings C.

Will it be high quality hockey? No
Will it be entertaining? Absolutely
Will I fall over? Obviously
Will I get in a fight? Maybe, if someone touches my goalie

My goalie is one of the Men's Blues, who put on goalie pads for the first time on Tuesday. Generally the squad is the people who couldn't play Varsity for Huskies or Women's Blues, plus the aforementioned novice in goal and an experienced goalie skating out. Our attempt at an entire forward line of goalies was regrettably thwarted by people having other commitments.

The results of the other Varsity games this year were:

Cambridge Narwhals v Oxford Vikings A: won by Cambridge
Cambridge Huskies v Oxford Vikings B: won by Oxford
Cambridge Women's Blues v Oxford Women's Blues: won by Oxford
Cambridge Men's Blues v Oxford Men's Blues: won by Cambridge

So this is both a not very serious game, and vitally important to win the best of five.

I'm still getting used to my new skates so I'll be playing this (and my other game for Kodiaks on Sunday) in the old ones.

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common_nature

A recent sunset seemed to be highlighting the dotted clouds in the area, which made the sky look more patterned than usual.

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petra

Time to update your AO3 password. It can now be 72 characters long.

Here, have a website that counts characters.

So far my favorite possible maximal password I won't use is:
Little pig little pig let me in! Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!

(Sorry about the lack of vocative commas, but 72 is a harsh mistress.)

If you like poetry, there's always:
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though

Bring me your favorite 72-character phrase that you Won't use as an AO3 password!

Current Mood: coded
Current Music: He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow

musesfool

Wednesday reading on a Thursday:

what I've just finished
Saint Death's Daughter and Saint Death's Herald by CSE Cooney, which I enjoyed. The first book is A Lot in terms of both worldbuilding and plot, but it's a fun ride and Lanie Stones is a fantastic character - a necromancer who has an allergy to violence. Her growth as a necromancer is really well done, especially when set against the various members of her family she tells you about over the course of the books. The second book is a lot more straightforward in terms of plot, which I found less enthralling, but the character work and worldbuilding remain fascinating. I couldn't find any info about whether there's going to be a third book, but I would read it if there were!

what I'm reading now
The Last Contract of Isako, the new book by Fonda Lee. I'm only 20 pages in so I can't say much about it one way or another yet, but Isako is a middle-aged lady contractor (possibly also an assassin?) in a far future world. I imagine this is going to be a "one last job" kind of thing? I don't remember the blurb, but I found Lee's Green Bone trilogy* excellent so I have high hopes for this.

*Second world East Asian-style mob story where the made men have what basically amount to Force powers. Very violent and most of the characters are morally gray at best, but I enjoyed it a lot.

what I'm reading next
Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8: Parade of Horribles. Tuesday! I AM EXCITE!

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Canes vs Flyers on tv

sabotabby

After having taken a wee break to watch some movies and the Great Pottery Throwdown (excellent telly btw), I am officially Back On My Bullshit.

Okay episode four of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, entitled "Forget Me Not," was...good? That's two decent episodes in a row. Granted I'm grading on a curve because, and I can't say this often enough, this is low-budget trashy copaganda, but I actually enjoyed this one as a story. And this is the first time that neither I nor Reddit have been able to determine what this is based on, so it's possible that the writers actually made up a story.

Also this deals with care homes and dementia, so if this is a sensitive topic for you, maybe skip it.

( Forget Me Not )

lmemsm

I was very interested to hear about a GTK 2 fork. I have enough programs and libraries to build a portable desktop environment. However, I really miss SciTE and that requires GTK to build on most systems. I had considered trying to revive a GTK 1.2 build just to get a minimal version of SciTE working. Amigo Linux had an updated version of GTK 1.2. However, when I heard about the GTK 2 fork, I decided to give building it a try and see how portable it would be and if it would work on the systems I'd want to run it on.

I ran a quick test build on Debian and it worked well. Then, I spent several days trying to get this working with my legacy MinGW compiler. It works. I'm not thrilled with the Perl or Python requirements in the build systems for GTK and its dependencies. I'm also not thrilled about the hard-coded paths for finding assets and files. If I decide to go any further with it, I'd introduce my path library so locations aren't necessarily hard-coded. I'd also like to find a way to remove the Perl or Python dependencies from the build. I'm using configure and make, so I may not bother to create my own CDetect configure and GNU makefiles. If I was using later versions of the dependency libraries that required meson and Python, I'd consider it.

I already have applications that build using SDL, FLTK, pdcurses, otk and Raylib/RayGUI. That's enough GUI support to provide a comprehensive list of desktop applications. They're also easy portable and don't require a great deal of dependencies to build. So, I can build and maintain programs I run on my system from source code and patch them as needed. That is one of the major points Free Software, to give people the ability to build and modify the programs they use. I'm not sure whether I'll be adding GTK 2 to the list of GUI, TUI and graphics libraries I work with, but it's nice to know that it can be built from source and that it works. It's now an option if I need it.

If anyone is interested in the source code, the gtk2-ng project is here:
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng
I built it with glib 2.42.2, atk 2.14.0, pango 1.36.8, gdb-pixbuf 2.31.7 source code straight from the gnome.org site.

I'll be sharing some of my build scripts here:
https://git.devuan.org/lmemsm/bldgtk

Also saw mention of this project to run some of the programs that require GTK 3 with GTK 2:
https://github.com/stefan11111/gtk3-to-gtk2

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Familect word: Cat-like reflexes / Cat-like timing

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FIC POST: WIP: Heated Rivalry: Jackie Pike

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