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Today is mostly sunny, muggy, and hot.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
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I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
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I'm covid-cautious, and for last five years I've been staying out of theatres. But there is a circus arts festival taking place this weekend and it's an artform I adore watching. I decided to mask up and roll the dice.
On Thursday I went to see a performance by House of Dust called HAUS of YOLO. It's bawdy and messy and the audience was there for it. I had such a good time - I had not realized how much I'd missed seeing this kind of show.
Here's a review of their Vancouver performance earlier this month
Tonight I have a ticket for Flo, by a Quebec troupe, where the stage set is a life-sized ship built inside the theatre. I'm looking forward to it a lot.
On Thursday I went to see a performance by House of Dust called HAUS of YOLO. It's bawdy and messy and the audience was there for it. I had such a good time - I had not realized how much I'd missed seeing this kind of show.
Here's a review of their Vancouver performance earlier this month
Tonight I have a ticket for Flo, by a Quebec troupe, where the stage set is a life-sized ship built inside the theatre. I'm looking forward to it a lot.
It's been a good, and busy, month.
I think the hypomania is starting to wear off, so I'd better find those overdue lab requisitions and book appointments, so future me can get her thyroid meds renewed.
- For the first time in four years, bought new glasses
- Attended Scintillation,
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bluejo's book gathering in Montreal - Went to my first SCA event since last winter, to see a friend made a premier member of the new Order of the Mark
I think the hypomania is starting to wear off, so I'd better find those overdue lab requisitions and book appointments, so future me can get her thyroid meds renewed.
Volleyball was excellent. We had 8 players, one new one who was excellent and the problem people were absent. A good time was had by the rest of us.
The poor Susan Dennis looking for a job, still has not figured out what her email address is. I guess the good news is that all these places responding to her are safe from hiring an idiot.
Today, after elbow coffee, there will be laundry. Somehow I missed a turn and there's so much I might need two loads! Scott and Julie have already said they need a load done when they get here so maybe I'll do most and toss in the rest with theirs.
For the first time this week, I do not have any items to take to UPS for return. Not only that, I do not have anything I've ordered yet to arrive. I'm all caught up!
I finished the pride robots/monsters. I ran out of the purple yarn after 50 of them so I figured that was a good place to stop. I used mini skeins that I bought at Hobby Lobby. While I hate shopping there because of their politics, I will if it's the only option for what I want which, in this case, it was. But it did tickle my fuck you bone to buy yarn to celebrate PRIDE there. $29 made 50 of them. Not too shabby.
Now it's back to dolls.
The menus for next week are good enough. Scott and Julie will be here for 3 dinners. And we have 3 dinner options - the buffet, the dining room and the cafe. We'll try them all. Breakfast is free with their guest room so we'll do that, too. And, lunch, if we need it. Tomorrow they will get here about 2ish and nothing will be open at Timber Ridge so we'll go out.
The first time Scott visited (long before he met Julie) it was 1995. I wanted to take him to an old fashioned small town 4th of July parade. So we went to Baimbridge Island on the ferry and saw their parade. It stuck on his brain like glue and he's talked about it ever since. We've thought of going back but just never worked it into one of their visits. Today, that gets fixed. He and Julie are headed over there today. No parade but they do have a farmers market and Julies LOVES American farmers markets. So excellent.
Time to get dressed. Ingrid often attends elbow coffee in her nightgown and robe but I, personally, think it's a little more respectful to get dressed before going.
The poor Susan Dennis looking for a job, still has not figured out what her email address is. I guess the good news is that all these places responding to her are safe from hiring an idiot.
Today, after elbow coffee, there will be laundry. Somehow I missed a turn and there's so much I might need two loads! Scott and Julie have already said they need a load done when they get here so maybe I'll do most and toss in the rest with theirs.
For the first time this week, I do not have any items to take to UPS for return. Not only that, I do not have anything I've ordered yet to arrive. I'm all caught up!
I finished the pride robots/monsters. I ran out of the purple yarn after 50 of them so I figured that was a good place to stop. I used mini skeins that I bought at Hobby Lobby. While I hate shopping there because of their politics, I will if it's the only option for what I want which, in this case, it was. But it did tickle my fuck you bone to buy yarn to celebrate PRIDE there. $29 made 50 of them. Not too shabby.
Now it's back to dolls.
The menus for next week are good enough. Scott and Julie will be here for 3 dinners. And we have 3 dinner options - the buffet, the dining room and the cafe. We'll try them all. Breakfast is free with their guest room so we'll do that, too. And, lunch, if we need it. Tomorrow they will get here about 2ish and nothing will be open at Timber Ridge so we'll go out.
The first time Scott visited (long before he met Julie) it was 1995. I wanted to take him to an old fashioned small town 4th of July parade. So we went to Baimbridge Island on the ferry and saw their parade. It stuck on his brain like glue and he's talked about it ever since. We've thought of going back but just never worked it into one of their visits. Today, that gets fixed. He and Julie are headed over there today. No parade but they do have a farmers market and Julies LOVES American farmers markets. So excellent.
Time to get dressed. Ingrid often attends elbow coffee in her nightgown and robe but I, personally, think it's a little more respectful to get dressed before going.
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Title: Ruin
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Finch/Reese, Finch & Reese
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Post-Canon Fix-It
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: How many times can you come back from the dead and still expect to live?
Author notes: Prompt = the title.
Ruin on AO3
( Ruin )
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Title: Ruin
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Finch/Reese, Finch & Reese
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Post-Canon Fix-It
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: How many times can you come back from the dead and still expect to live?
Author notes: Prompt = the title.
Ruin on AO3
( Ruin )
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have a bless day!
This was Friday's entry.... which... again... I forgot to hit 'post'!
Today's menus are of greater importance than usual. There's the looming meal allowance. This week, they have a pork chop at dinner that is soooooo good. Ordinarily, I'd order a couple of extras for the freezer. BUT if next week's menu looks very good, then maybe not. Scott and Julie will arrive Sunday and stay until Thursday so we will be using up the meal allowance that way if the menu is good. If it sucks, then I might pile on the pork chops and the three of us will go out.
Of course, it does not matter one bit if I go over and (did I mention this last week) they now have a new thing where you can donate any spare meal money you have left over to the Issaquah Food Bank.
But, still, to me, menus matter and I want to see next week's. They put it out (in the mail room cubbies) about now so I can go get mine any time. They also put the menus online but, frustratingly, not until Sunday or next week.
Hazel came over last night to chat. When John is down or cabby about something, she really wants/needs conversation with other people. I know Joan always wants company so I'm not sure why I get picked. She's a lovely sweet person, Hazel but not at all interesting. 95% of the stuff she says, I have heard before and didn't care about them either. Anyway John did come home from the hospital Wednesday and now he has a back issue and they are going to the doctor tomorrow.
I listen politely and offer nothing, I learned my lesson on Myrna. I am not their care giver and they are not my responsibility.
I treated myself to a nice set of covered bowls last week. When they arrived, I loved them! Yesterday, I used several to make pickles and another salad. And then I popped them into the dishwasher. Now they are not so much bowls as sculptures. I went back to Amazon to carefully read the web page. It says nothing about dishwasher. Nothing - not in the reviews, not in the questions, not in the texts. Fuck. So. I found another set of nice, covered bowls which were clearly labeled safe for dishwasher. And now, it's back to UPS for the 4th time this week. Sigh.
But it is a lovely cloudy day so no fighting the sun and an easy trip.
I have yarn for about 4 more Pride monsters/robots and then it will be back to dolls. If the inventory holds up a bit, I might work up some Halloween prototypes. Martha is all over Halloween so she's agreed to judge. I'm aiming for one - like the bunnies - that I'll make a bunch of. But then for sure back to the dolls. I do have enough inventory to hold me over for the days Scott and Julie are here.
Ok, time to get dressed and get on with the day.
Today's menus are of greater importance than usual. There's the looming meal allowance. This week, they have a pork chop at dinner that is soooooo good. Ordinarily, I'd order a couple of extras for the freezer. BUT if next week's menu looks very good, then maybe not. Scott and Julie will arrive Sunday and stay until Thursday so we will be using up the meal allowance that way if the menu is good. If it sucks, then I might pile on the pork chops and the three of us will go out.
Of course, it does not matter one bit if I go over and (did I mention this last week) they now have a new thing where you can donate any spare meal money you have left over to the Issaquah Food Bank.
But, still, to me, menus matter and I want to see next week's. They put it out (in the mail room cubbies) about now so I can go get mine any time. They also put the menus online but, frustratingly, not until Sunday or next week.
Hazel came over last night to chat. When John is down or cabby about something, she really wants/needs conversation with other people. I know Joan always wants company so I'm not sure why I get picked. She's a lovely sweet person, Hazel but not at all interesting. 95% of the stuff she says, I have heard before and didn't care about them either. Anyway John did come home from the hospital Wednesday and now he has a back issue and they are going to the doctor tomorrow.
I listen politely and offer nothing, I learned my lesson on Myrna. I am not their care giver and they are not my responsibility.
I treated myself to a nice set of covered bowls last week. When they arrived, I loved them! Yesterday, I used several to make pickles and another salad. And then I popped them into the dishwasher. Now they are not so much bowls as sculptures. I went back to Amazon to carefully read the web page. It says nothing about dishwasher. Nothing - not in the reviews, not in the questions, not in the texts. Fuck. So. I found another set of nice, covered bowls which were clearly labeled safe for dishwasher. And now, it's back to UPS for the 4th time this week. Sigh.
But it is a lovely cloudy day so no fighting the sun and an easy trip.
I have yarn for about 4 more Pride monsters/robots and then it will be back to dolls. If the inventory holds up a bit, I might work up some Halloween prototypes. Martha is all over Halloween so she's agreed to judge. I'm aiming for one - like the bunnies - that I'll make a bunch of. But then for sure back to the dolls. I do have enough inventory to hold me over for the days Scott and Julie are here.
Ok, time to get dressed and get on with the day.
The 11th task: "Draw a pony who is dressed to kill // Draw a pony in a fashion crisis". Hockey masks and long knives.
As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy and Imgur apparently works too. I use Flickr. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 22nd. KG has stopped trying to make bespoke URLs so I'll paste the gallery URL when it appears.
So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). The grace period should give you at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. KG can and does change the close date on the submitter and keeps just two active at any given moment. I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.
Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. Calpain's prompts today are pony shooting for the stars / pony seizing the day. Well, if it ain't knives, it's guns.
As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy and Imgur apparently works too. I use Flickr. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 22nd. KG has stopped trying to make bespoke URLs so I'll paste the gallery URL when it appears.
So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). The grace period should give you at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. KG can and does change the close date on the submitter and keeps just two active at any given moment. I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.
Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. Calpain's prompts today are pony shooting for the stars / pony seizing the day. Well, if it ain't knives, it's guns.
These pictures are from Thursday. I went foraging at the Charleston Food Forest. It's across the parking lot from the Coles County Community Garden.
( Walk with me ... )
( Walk with me ... )
✓ kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Non-Human POV
Mirror Lake is the third book in the Shady Hollow series by Juneau Black. The series' titular town is occupied by a cast of anthropomorphic woodland animals who keep getting embroiled in crimes. In this one, a picturesque autumn is disrupted when a rat from neighbouring Mirror Lake suddenly declares that her husband has gone missing and has been replaced by an imposter.
...okay, is it weird that I wanted the story about a fox named Vera Vixen solving playing sleuth to be more twee?
I think when I heard "cozy" and "anthropomorphic animals" and saw the book cover, my mind went to things like The Wind in the Willows and Frog and Toad Are Friends, and the addition of a mystery made me think of the Dimension 20 campaign Mice & Murder. Which was to say, I went into this expecting something a lot more stylized, with the animal conceit either adding a lot of whimsy or providing the counterweight to a darker or more satirical story.
Then again, maybe I would have also found The Wind in the Willows disappointingly contemporary if I'd read it in 1908? I definitely think it's true that imaginary Edwardian!me would bounce off the country squire stuff as hard as present!me bounces off the idealized generic upstate New York type village vibe going on here. (And the thing where the only character with a non-WASP name is a panda named Sun Li, which felt like it should have been in the early 20th century book and not the 2020 one.)
All in all, the mystery ended up being what kept me reading this one, since it had an additional twist beyond just a murder whodunnit. It's a short book, but it still dragged a little for me—I think because of the presence of a lot of conversations and very basic/straightforward descriptions that are probably intended to be the thick icing on a cupcake if you're someone who's going to fall in love with the setting. I also didn't really click with the protagonist, but I recognize that I'm coming into this series on the third book and there might have been developments in the first two instalments that would have given me a better sense of her.
But if you are someone this setting appeals to, or if you devour a lot of cozy mysteries and are always up for a new gimmick, or you're someone for whom anthros are an automatic bonus, this might be your thing.
(Also, now I really want fic where Frog and Toad have to solve a mystery. Or where Mole is framed for murder and Rat has to prove his innocence.)
( An Excerpt )
kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Non-Human POVMirror Lake is the third book in the Shady Hollow series by Juneau Black. The series' titular town is occupied by a cast of anthropomorphic woodland animals who keep getting embroiled in crimes. In this one, a picturesque autumn is disrupted when a rat from neighbouring Mirror Lake suddenly declares that her husband has gone missing and has been replaced by an imposter.
...okay, is it weird that I wanted the story about a fox named Vera Vixen solving playing sleuth to be more twee?
I think when I heard "cozy" and "anthropomorphic animals" and saw the book cover, my mind went to things like The Wind in the Willows and Frog and Toad Are Friends, and the addition of a mystery made me think of the Dimension 20 campaign Mice & Murder. Which was to say, I went into this expecting something a lot more stylized, with the animal conceit either adding a lot of whimsy or providing the counterweight to a darker or more satirical story.
Then again, maybe I would have also found The Wind in the Willows disappointingly contemporary if I'd read it in 1908? I definitely think it's true that imaginary Edwardian!me would bounce off the country squire stuff as hard as present!me bounces off the idealized generic upstate New York type village vibe going on here. (And the thing where the only character with a non-WASP name is a panda named Sun Li, which felt like it should have been in the early 20th century book and not the 2020 one.)
All in all, the mystery ended up being what kept me reading this one, since it had an additional twist beyond just a murder whodunnit. It's a short book, but it still dragged a little for me—I think because of the presence of a lot of conversations and very basic/straightforward descriptions that are probably intended to be the thick icing on a cupcake if you're someone who's going to fall in love with the setting. I also didn't really click with the protagonist, but I recognize that I'm coming into this series on the third book and there might have been developments in the first two instalments that would have given me a better sense of her.
But if you are someone this setting appeals to, or if you devour a lot of cozy mysteries and are always up for a new gimmick, or you're someone for whom anthros are an automatic bonus, this might be your thing.
(Also, now I really want fic where Frog and Toad have to solve a mystery. Or where Mole is framed for murder and Rat has to prove his innocence.)
( An Excerpt )
The Coles County Community Garden is across the parking lot from the Charleston Food Forest. It's not the kind where you rent a bed and grow what you want. It's tended by the community and anyone can come pick things to try.
( Walk with me ... )
( Walk with me ... )
We made this tonight. It was delicious! We used some of the pretzel bread that we got at the Marshall Farmer's Market.
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This combines "learning a new skill" with the alt-NATG "beach" prompt. Blucifer is a gigantic statue outside of Denver airport in Colorado. Blucifer is anatomically correct where it counts, so naturally a My Little Blucifer is hilarious. I was going to have Princess Celestia (with Princess Luna) as the pony admiring the view, but I couldn't get her drawn right. I decided to give Blucifer dreads, but perhaps spikes held up with gel would have been more apropos.
Today is cloudy and muggy.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. I also saw a male cardinal and a squirrel up in the trees.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/20/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 6/20/25 -- I watered the new picnic table garden. I picked the first 'Chocolate Sprinkles' tomato and several 'Toscana' strawberries. I love the Toscanas and will definitely buy more if I see them next spring.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. I also saw a male cardinal and a squirrel up in the trees.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 6/20/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 6/20/25 -- I watered the new picnic table garden. I picked the first 'Chocolate Sprinkles' tomato and several 'Toscana' strawberries. I love the Toscanas and will definitely buy more if I see them next spring.
I'm finally happy with what I wanted to write, so it's posted. Here's your link, and I'd love it if you read it, and love it even more if you enjoy it enough to vote for me.
https://erulissedances.dreamwidth.org/1118554.html
I'm not sure how long I'll be able to do Idol this time, as I had mentioned in my blog earlier, but I'm going to try my damndest to keep in the mix for as long as possible. I love writing to a theme. It always makes me think outside the box.
- Erulisse (one L)
https://erulissedances.dreamwidth.org/1118554.html
I'm not sure how long I'll be able to do Idol this time, as I had mentioned in my blog earlier, but I'm going to try my damndest to keep in the mix for as long as possible. I love writing to a theme. It always makes me think outside the box.
- Erulisse (one L)
