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Today is cloudy and cool. It stormed last night.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/5/26 -- It's raining again.

I've seen a male rose-breasted grosbeak! :D 3q3q3q!!! I've also seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a female cardinal, a brown thrasher, and a starling.

EDIT 5/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It's still raining, so I am done for the night.

EDIT 5/5/26 -- I saw the rose-breasted grosbeak again, along with a mourning dove.

Current Mood: busy

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Saturday Dave, Ray, John, Grant and Mark all came up to help. We went over, cut up the huge oak limbs that had fallen into their camp area, split the wood and they hauled it back and stacked it at the house. We also harvested some dead madrone. I like to burn madrone, it burns hot and leaves little ash. The next day I hosted a tack sale. Well attended by sellers we had few buyers, so not a terribly successful day.
Yesterday I mostly just slept.
A trip to San Francisco was planned for today, but thankfully I don't have to go. My goal today is to clear Room 2 Bed 3, which is grown up to dozens of leeks which I cannot eat. Any that are still useful I'll chop up and freeze for Donald and M. Then amend the bed and plant. I'm down to the last few peppers, and winter squash. Possibly one or two more cucumbers. Need to unload the last of the wood compost from the truck so I can go back and get wood chips to spread on the paths. The grass is growing back - again. Raw wood chips should suppress grass and weed growth.

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Paperwork for last weekend's event is done, including paying the State for the absurd drug fee. I haven't ordered the regular ribbons yet. We were short some of the ribbons for the Novice group. I need to count up what we need for this spring plus this coming fall. I did order the big ribbons for the "tournament" winners (my tournament is the spring show plus the fall show.)
Most of this week was taken up by planting.

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I got a text last night from Steve. Steve is the leader of our volleyball group. He's not elected or official but he's the one who takes responsibility for making sure it all works. He and I set up all the equipment every game. And he's the adult of the group. He's never snarky or mean about the assholes, like the rest of us and he keeps everyone nice and polite. And he's tons of fun. He fell off the curb yesterday and sprained his foot and maybe broke it.

So volleyball this morning was a mess. And one of the other good players is having a cist removed from her head tomorrow so she's out for two weeks. Another is going away for four days. The whole thing is crumbling like a dry cupcake. I kind of wonder if it will ever recover.

I got a very cheery text from Bonny yesterday mid afternoon. She was done and had already had PT and was happy as she could be. Then about 2 hours later, I got another saying they were giving her a roommate. This morning I got one saying she was hoping to spring out of there about noon and her roommate was the roommate from hell. At least she's got a new hip.

The maintenance guys are putting the cushions on the chairs out on the patio. I called that one!

Today will be more crochet. I'm working on a vest with a gradient yarn that is just fun to work with. The center back is the light part and it gets darker under the arms and then lighter again. You can see the center seam in this photo. The waffle pattern is very satisfying to work on.

I have a load of laundry ready to go in. The Mariners play tonight and there's my day! I'm on call for Bonny early afternoon. My job is to retrieve the walker from her apartment and take it down to the loading dock when she and her son get here. I think I can handle that.

poliphilo

Are people more than usually edgy these days?

The opinion makers say so.

And I'm noticing a lot of falling out and digging up of old resentments and sudden explosions of temper among the people around me.

I feel a bit edgy myself- and I don't think it's entirely personal.

I reckon the world is tensing up in anticipation of something going "Boom!"

thewayne

It released Tuesday at midnight, the title is Platform Decay. One thing that's nice about buying mostly ebooks is instant access. :-) The author, Martha Wells, recently announced that the next book may be the last in the series, especially since she only has one more under contract. She said that she's happy where SecUnit is and she doesn't want the series to go on indefinitely, plus she's happily at work on a new fantasy series, of which she has two books out right now.

She also has the Murderbot Apple TV show to work with, we shall see how long that series continues.

This book is clocking in at 170-180 pages.

https://www.polygon.com/murderbot-diaries-series-finale-martha-wells-interview/

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Today Dad called me to find out the phone number of an auto repair place so he can get the car breaks looked at. He said that the breaks were grinding when he took his secret ride. I said no. He wanted to take the car to the place and then walk home. It's a 2 mile walk. He wants to drop the car off and then walk back to get it...and pay with a credit card because he is not working. I dont think an 83 year old with an electric heart should be walking 4 miles. He also can't ask for someone to pick him up because he is not supposed to drive. He can't wait for me as the place is closed by the time I get home.

I'm trying not to blow up at him because I know he is still hurt about the shitty people at work, but he is stressing me out. I want to strangle him with his extension cord.

Tomorrow is another dr appointment. A cousin is going to bring him in. He is supposed to get the special equipment that will allow him to shower. I have a dream of them telling him he can drive...but I am not holding my breath. I will ask if they think he is safe on the trains, because he just can't stay home and do nothing. We need his pay and if he stays home he is going to get into trouble or do something stupid. That and if he can't drive I need to cancel the cardiac rehab on May 27th.

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AO3 Link | Do It Again? (100 words) by Merfilly
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Leia asks a question.

"Would you follow him again?" Leia asked as she watched Luke working on a servo for Artoo. Luke paused, looking up at the woman he'd been infatuated with by a clip of a recording, one that he now knew was his very own twin.

He thought about all the ups and downs they had seen, the fall of the Emperor, the more shadowy war against Thrawn's Imperial Remnant, and he smiled brightly.

"Over and over again, Leia. That little adventure might have had a lot of tragedy for all of us, but… we're here, we're family, and we are together."

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A pretty ordinary day, despite it being Bank Holiday Monday. The weather was dry but mostly cloudy, and I didn't do anything interesting. I did watch a documentary on the making of Life on Earth, which was interesting, and after all it's hard to find anything David Attenborough does boring. Quite a different world in those days: once you'd set off to the other side of the planet, you could literally go weeks between contacts with your employers back home. Not even satellite phones back then (late 1970s) let alone the internet!

Current Mood: okay

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Today is cloudy, mild, and damp. It rained a little earlier.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- I planted the surviving squashes. I am dubious if any will survive, but maybe some of the cushaws will. They all sprouted and grew vigorously at first, but quickly started to die. Forget gaining 2-3 months by starting seeds indoors. However, if I had started them in April instead of March, that might have worked. Fortunately I still have more seeds, so I can also try direct sowing.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- I planted a northern red maple at the edge of the savanna.

I saw a male Baltimore oriole in the forest garden! :D 3q3q3q!!! I cut an orange in half and put it out for him. I've also seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, and a fox squirrel.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- I planted a 'Prairie Fire' dogwood in the west hedge of the savanna and put mulch around it.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- We broke up the big walnut branch in the savanna and hauled the bits to the firepit.

EDIT 5/4/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

heleninwales

Yesterday (Sunday) was Quaker meeting in the morning. I made sure I got there early because an American chap had emailed to say he was going to attend. Being in a tourist area, we do get visitors from time to time, especially in the spring and summer. As it wasn't raining, I drove half way, parked the car in the layby on the old road (now a dead end for cars) and walked the rest of the way.

The wild garlic is flowering profusely. My walk didn't take me up this path, but it always looks so inviting when the wild garlic is in flower. As I was passing, I took a quick photo.

Close up of the wild garlic flowers. The May blossom was out too, but I couldn't get a photo of that on my walk.

After meeting, S (who has just returned from holiday in Corfu) had brought treats. Fresh kumquats and (very delicious) kumquats covered in dark chocolate. I'd never eaten a kumquat before or even seen one, but they are tiny citrus fruits about the size of a large grape. S explained that you just eat them whole. Biting into the fruit there is a burst of tangy citrus taste, then chewing the peel releases sweetness. The chocolate covered ones seemed to have been cooked or preserved in some way and the whole thing was sweeter and very delicious. I'm sure they will never be available to buy locally, but I will certainly look out for them again.

Dreamwidth just ate the entry that I was in the middle of creating. That rarely happens but is very annoying when it does.

Oh well.

I got up at 4:30 and picked up a very stressed Bonny in the elbow and off we went to the hospital in Bellevue. Except... the garage door was locked. I knew they locked it down at night and should have figured out that it might be locked in the morning and then moved my car to the street last night. But, I did not. It took two calls to Security to get the door opened. (Yes, at 4:45 in the morning, we are not out for a leisurely drive but, in fact, are on a timeline that does not allow for us to idle in garage.)

Anyway, there was, wonderfully, no traffic at all. It was sure different. We got there with 10 minutes to spare. She just wanted a drop off so that's what she got and I was home by 6. And the door opened.

Today I'll pop into the security office and get the exact garage door hours.

I had an early and long, lovely swim.

Now I'm dressed and breakfasted and ready for the day and it's not even 9 am yet!

I am signed up now to go to the alpaca farm on Thursday. I marked today as the day I would decide to bail or not. I am not wildly enthusiastic about going but I think that's just laziness. None of the others signed up are particularly annoying. The weather is supposed to be dry and cooler (it's been way too hot for a couple of days). There is no reason for me not to go so I guess I will just do it.

Biggie and Julio have just joined forces to request Breakfast Number Two. So I guess I'll go do that.

pauraque

Happy Star Wars Day! I had high hopes this year of finally getting around to playing Knights of the Old Republic (2003) which is considered one of the best Star Wars games ever made. But sometime in mid-April I had to concede that I did not have time to do that, so instead I decided to replay Rebel Assault, a rail shooter from 1993 that I played a lot as a kid. It is, uh... not considered one of the best Star Wars games ever made.

gruff man in flight suit informs the player that he doesn't like hotshots — *You might be in the wrong galaxy, then*

In Star Wars: Rebel Assault, you play as a humble moisture farmer from Tattooine who becomes a pilot fighting for the Rebellion and eventually blows up the Death Star. But you're not Luke Skywalker because of... reasons. I guess it's like a self-insert AU where YOU get to vanquish the Empire instead of Luke? But there's no character customization except that you can choose whether your character, "Rookie One", is male or female. I always picked female because even at age eleven I found the male voice acting unbearably hammy.

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A great deal of what I have just said is based on my childhood memories of the game and not on my recent attempt to revisit it, which was largely stymied by not really being able to get it to work. I mean, it runs! But on modern hardware the controls are somehow both barely responsive and wildly oversensitive—you try to steer and it's like nothing, nothing, nothing, BAM into the wall—and none of my troubleshooting efforts made much of a difference. I see from reviews I am not the only one who has this problem. The game probably needs a patch, and quite possibly nobody who has the skills cares enough to put in the effort. Oh well.

I got the game in a bundle with the sequel, 1995's verbosely named Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire, so I figured I might as well try that one even though I never played it at the time. Surprise—this one actually works well enough to play it!!

first person POV of space battle above a planet where TIE fighters are targeted — *Gameplay achieved!*

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Friends House- described in the literature as "The Home of British Quakerism"- is grand- in a style I think of, perhaps unfairly, as Mussolini classical. It is by no means the grandest building on Euston Road- but it fits in. Compared to Gilbert Scott's vainglorious St Pancras Hotel a few blocks to the west it's a modest little thing- but Quakers shouldn't fit in. Historically they were always the grit in the corner of the eye that made society blink. I look at that facade, I walk those long corridors, I admire the huge circular Meeting Room and think "This is how and where we went wrong".

Friends House makes it's money by hiring itself out for corporate events. No, no, no, no, no!

I am a bad Quaker. I refer to the table in the centre of the Meeting Room as "the altar", and call Advices and Queries "The little red book".

But then G.K. Chesterton once said that a religion that can't laugh at itself isn't worth having.....

David and Jane- who fell out with us for giving shelf room to secular media (we were storing it for Terry in Thailand)- including art books with nudes in them (O God how awful) and the CD of a movie they reckoned was "pornography" (it isn't)- are still very hot against the Eastbourne Meeting. They encountered John the other day and informed him we were "toxic". I was upset when I heard this but now I'm thinking I should embrace it.

Eastbourne Quakers- spreading toxicity for over seventy years- how's that for a slogan?

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This is pretty cool. A startup founded by a former NASA engineer has created a device for extinguishing fire with infrasound: super low frequency sound waves that literally push the oxygen away from the fire, denying the fire of one of the things that it needs for combustion!

It's safe to be around when it's in operation as it doesn't destroy or deplete the oxygen in the area, i.e. you won't asphyxiate, and being low frequency it won't damage the hearing of people or pets. In the video there's a demonstration of the device in use on a simulated oil pan kitchen fire, which it extinguishes in under 30 seconds.

There are a lot of unanswered questions, such as will it activate again if the fire reignites, what are long-term maintenance requirements, what about furniture, mattress, or electrical fires, crosswinds, etc. So far, the company hasn't released any specifics as to how its testing is being conducted, nor have any units been released for third parties to verify testing conditions or parameters.

The company also hopes that the unit could be used to fight wildfires, such as mounted on the front of bulldozers. It's working with one California wildfire agency to see if such testing can be done.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/startup-says-sound-waves-can-replace-fire-sprinklers-experts-arent-so-sure/

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Today is partly sunny, windy, and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/3/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 5/3/26 -- I planted the lantana in a pot and the lady's mantle in the strip herb garden.

EDIT 5/3/26 -- I planted the ice plant in the mauve pot and put it on the old picnic table.

The weather has turned cloudy with howling wind. >_<

EDIT 5/3/26 -- I planted the hoary vervain in the wildflower garden.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 5/3/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

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Tawny Pipit (1944)
Comedy | Letterboxd 3.1/5 | IMDb 6.6/10 | BBFC U

Directed by and starring Bernard Miles, this is a gently satirical wartime comedy, one which is redolent of a vanished age both of British society and of British film-making. The 1944 production date intrudes awkwardly occasionally, notably in a scene involving a visiting Soviet servicewoman, but for the most part this concentrates on the need to preserve the eponymous rare birds that have been discovered nesting in the village. It's all rather cosy and simplistic, but if you're in the mood for that then this should do the trick. ★★½

Current Mood: relaxed

Sometime yesterday the crew arranged the outside terrace furniture. It was all kind of piled together from when they did a big landscaping a month or so ago. Now it's all back the way it is for the Summer. Next they will bring out the cushions. I'm guessing they are shooting for this week. It's supposed to be very warm today so they will have complaints.

Old people LOOOOVE to complain - especially about stuff they used to control and now no longer do. When they had their own homes, they did it this way... When they hired their own services, they made sure...

Bonny and Joan both get newspapers delivered. The security staff does the door deliveries. And, according to Joan and Bonny, they NEVER get it right. Sometimes they leave it on the floor. Now, in fairness, neither Joan nor Bonny can pick up shit from the floor easily. So I made them signs taped to their shelves in English and Spanish asking that the newspapers be left on the shelves. This has worked flawlessly.

HOWEVER, yesterday at Elbow Coffee they were both bitching because they leave the paper vertically when they should leave it horizontally. WTF??? I give up. I'm going to train myself to ignore all complaints except mine which, of course, are always valid.

This is NOT a complaint. I weigh myself on my Wyze scale every morning. It sends the data to Fitbit and the weight then goes to Trendweight.Com where I can easily see progress and trend. The Wyze to Fitbit transition is true but nearly every single day, a 10th of a pound is lost between Fitbit and Trendweight. It amuses the heck out of me and I appreciate the gesture. If it added a 10th of a pound, I'd be using the pant off of both of them for false data manipulation. If that is not a thing I'd make it one. ha!

The Mariner game started late thanks to The Big Eunuch celebration and so ran late. They played great until the end of the game when they made not one but two stupid and, turns out, fatal, errors and lost it in the 10th. They deserved to lose. And, honestly, I blame The Big Eunuch. And just love using that nickname.

Today's game starts at 1. And, at least my favorite announcer is doing the color.

Our pool has 4 lanes and today there were swimmers in 3 of them! That's as crowded as I've ever seen it.

Tomorrow is the Bonny to the hospital at 0 dark 30. Should be fun.

Oh, I finally got into the new MyChart. I had to verify with a text about fiftybigillion times but I finally got it done, got my brother access, set up my notifications - never call me and never send me snail mail. My money says within the next week, I'll get a letter in the mail and at least one robo call welcoming me to the system. MyChart is now Epic and Epic says 'come link all your accounts at this umbrella site!!!' I got the one linked but, of course, the new one is listed as a non-linker. Thanks for that help.

Also the software now offers up no way to change your password. At one point I was allowed to set a passkey but, there does not appear to be any way to use it. And two factor authentication goes to both my email and my phone number with no way to change it.

They have some details to work out but the funniest one is this...

Those are ALL the options. Seems like they might want to think about adding at least one more.

Now I think I'll go brush my teeth and then watch my Sunday morning Tia Watson YouTube update.

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poliphilo

Ailz attended the morning session at Friends House. I didn't think I'd enjoy it so I went for a walk instead. By lunchtime we'd both had enough. I find central London a bit much- the people, the noise, the traffic- and to be honest I think I always have done. As a kid I used to take myself up to the West End and it always gave me a bad headache. Anyway, we ate our packed lunch in the garden of Friends House, said "Hi" to a few people we knew and came home. So it wasn't a long day after all....

I wanted to see St Pancras old church, which is tucked in alongside the railway lines leading in and out of St Pancras station. It claims to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in Europe- and it may be- though most of the fabric of the present building is newer than that of St Pancras New Church on the Euston Rd- and both are 19th century. It's not a particularly attractive building....

....But the churchyard is one of the largest green spaces in this part of London and contains some interesting monuments.....

.....The most famous of which stands over the family vault of the great architect Sir John Soane- and, a generation or two later, is said to have inspired the design of the iconic red telephone box. Well, maybe....

Thomas Hardy- yes, the great Thomas Hardy, but before he became a famous writer- had the job of clearing the deaders out of a part of the grounds the railway company wanted to build over - nasty, thirsty work- and he lightened it by creating a whimsical artwork (as we'd think of it now) by stacking the redundant headstones in a radiating circle like so....

There used to be a tree at the hub of the wheel- and the construction was known as "Hardy's Tree" but the tree fell over in 2022 and the authorities haven't replaced it yet; they absolutely should....

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I went into Boston today to go to a curiosity and oddity market place. I expected creepy and spooky things mixed with a bit of steampunk. There were some interesting things, but nothing caught my eye. That's good considering the finances with only 1 pay check in a 2 family home. I was hoping to find a small metal victorian bird cage for a crystal skull that I have. I did find out that while I like creepy and spooky, and skeletons and such, I do not really like taxidermy. Perhaps it's the eyes in the beasts.

Then I went to Eataly...a high end Italian market place. There were so many nice things that I would have liked. I settled for a lovely hunk of focaccia bread and som prosciutto. I then did a bit of food shopping at Trader Joes.

Once home my attention was drawn to Dad's car. It wasn't quite where it was when I left. Or, was I imagining it? I walked in the house and asked "Where did you go today"? He said nowhere, that the car is in the same place. I said "Is it"? He went out to the store. He isn't cleared to drive yet. Technically his check is heeled and I feel he should have been driving last week, but still. I told him that this means I can't trust him...at all. That and I was mad.

While I am not happy that he won't do what he is told, I am not as angry as I thought I would be. We were told he could drive as soon as the sternum healed. It is. Usually people are driving 6 to 8 weeks after. Dad is at 10. We are feeling financially unstable and he feels that if he doesn't go back to work soon, even for half days, Tim boss may hire someone to replace him. Dad would have never done this if he thought he would loose his job. I wasn't keen on him having this because I just don't know how much more responsibility I can deal with. I'm doing all I can.

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...is "Poor Ginger", and it is devastating. I sometimes wonder how many parents buy Black Beauty for their kids under the impression that it's a "cute fluffy animal" story, only to find those children traumatised by details of Beauty rediscovering her former friend suffering a slow and painful death doing the lowest rung of cab work. Anna Sewell was of course writing mainly for adults, and with the intention of her book being a campaign for more humane treatment of horses. Pulling her punches would not have done that job.

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We took a trip to Perth to visit an old friend, Lesley, who was at university at St Andrews with the Scot and was also my maid of honour when we got wed.

The museum is where the stone of destiny is now kept and also has some very fine Pictish symbol stones:

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Taken at 22:25 Eastern US Daylight Time over the parking lot joining Winn-Dixie and a local hotel, the latter outlined by its lights.

Once again, the photo doesn’t reflect what my corrective-lensed eyes actually saw—a serenely luminous disc the pale yellow of Muenster cheese—but the image is stark and dramatic. The lens flare on my cheap-ass burner phone made it resemble a black star sapphire (or, to read the image as suitably floral and local, a spider lily):

(I wasn’t the only one prowling this clear moonlit tropical night in search of food; two of the Burrowing Owls at my apartment complex were out hunting on the side lawn, as a third stood perched at the nest; this represents a full year of continuous occupancy and breeding, reflecting how safe they must feel here. They squawked at my approach, but did not hiss.)

Current Music: “Witches’ Song”.

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Waiting for launch on May 21 feels like someone circled the least useful date on the calendar and said, “Yes, that one.” The Victoria Day weekend lands before it, naturally — a whole stretch of prime sailing weather I can only admire from land. And today? 7‑knot NE breeze, sunshine, 16°C. Practically a love letter from the sea.

Meanwhile, I’m here, boat still high and dry, typing like a man resisting the urge to scream into the void.
At least next spring’s new marina launches on April 15. A radical concept: sailing in spring.

Volleyball is done. Elbow Coffee is done. Lunch will be ready for pickup in 30 minutes. And that's it for today's commitments.

Today is the day to sign up for the new MyChart from my doctors' office. Earlier the URL would not work. Now it works but not for me. Verification Denied. Try again or call ... 3rd try, same results. NFW am I going to call any time soon. I'll wait.

Today is also the day they retire The Big Eunich's number. Last night's game was an Apple TV game so not a lot of discussion. I thought the ceremonies were going to be last night but they are tonight. S'ok. My mute button still works fine.

I think Julio has a tooth problem. He keeps trying to chew on things like the metal door handles on the kitchen cabinet. He's too old for teething but maybe they are kitty wisdom teeth. Julio will never allow himself to be caught to be put into a carrier so he will never go the vet. If he has a tooth problem, he's going to have to figure out how to fix it himself. Or maybe he's trying to get into the cabinet.

Lots of good TV to watch and a good book to listen to. My day is set.

marthawells

A week ago I got back from Japan where I was a guest at HALCon, an annual SF/F convention held in the Kawasaki International Center, and it was awesome. (Though right now I am still dead from jet-lag.) The convention itself was great, I walked to so many cool people, and was treated to so much good food. The Japanese edition of System Collapse translated by Naoya Nakamura had won the Seiun Award, and they presented me with that, which was also awesome.

Afterward we went down to Kamakura, which was the seat of the first Shogunate, and saw the Great Buddha https://www.kotoku-in.jp/en/ and two other Buddhist temples, one in a bamboo grove, and a huge Shinto Shrine. It was an incredible trip and I'm so glad I went.

Tour dates for Platform Decay, the next Murderbot novel:

https://us.macmillan.com/tours/martha-wells-platform-decay/

heleninwales

I had intended to write in the morning, but the weather was dry so I did a couple of outdoor jobs. The first task was to sweep all the gravel out of the car's foot-well. It gets carried in on our shoes because the parking area in front of our house has loose gravel. We also park on unsurfaced car parks when we go out on walks. Once that was done I ventured to the bottom of the garden to clear a space for a bonfire. However, The brambles I'd cut were too wet after all the rain yesterday, so I didn't try to start a fire today. I'm hoping that by Monday things will be dry enough.

Then I made scones and, after lunch, backed up all my photos and other things I've been working on onto the mobile hard drives. I back up my writing daily onto Dropbox, but there are other things that are less vital so get backed up monthly.

And finally I wrote some words to add to the WIP. I'm hoping I'll finish the first draft of Book 3 of the trilogy this month. That will be quite a milestone.

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Today is sunny and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, and a fox squirrel.

EDIT 5/2/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 5/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

puddleshark

On Thursday it was blowing a hoolie, the wind still in the east, and I thought that if I did the walk from Sheep-pen car park to Swyre, then at least the wind would be propelling me up the hill. ( Read more... )

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