spacefem

The original person from the moving company who I talked with about what I'll be having moved told me someone would be calling me about three days before the move to finalise the inventory, so I was expecting the call to be tomorrow or maybe even Monday. However, this afternoon a call came from a number unknown to me and I decided I'd better answer it just in case it was that call. It was, and the guy went through my original list to check numbers, and I was able to add more boxes and a couple of other things, as well as confirming that they will be taking the stuff to storage for at least a month. This call has been one of the things causing me a lot of anxiety - I was worried about being able to add to the number of boxes, I was worried about whether they would think they should deliver the stuff to my daughter's, and I was worried about just when the call would come - so having it happen earlier than I was expecting, and at a time when I was quietly at home, was a relief. They did charge me extra for having more boxes than I had originally estimated, but I was expecting that.

Now I will be waiting for one more call in a couple of days, to tell me what time to expect the movers on Wednesday. Then I'll just squeeze all that's left into my car and be out of here.

senmut

oooh let's see what I've wandered over recently in this wondrous world of ours:

Doll's Eyes - I have never seen it in the wild, but I have recognized its use in some creepy movies where the plants seemingly watch people. Honestly, I was glad I stumbled over it in reading things before I ever had a chance to see it in the wild. It's nice and spooky.

The Black Bat Flower is less creepy to me, and more o.O at how it developed. Plants that mimic animal shapes fascinate me. (There's a carrion plant that resembles a sea-star / star fish, for instance).

Bleeding Heart - the first "creepy" flower I ever read about, I think. I think they look fascinating, actually.

and critters:

Dragon Headed Caterpillar - it evolves, as all catties do, but the larval stage is just so CUTE to me.

Flying Snakes - My uncle's worst nightmare, given his deep-seated phobia once led him to sink the boat he was in due to a snake flopping into it with him. I love the idea of these guys just LAUNCHING themselves through the air.

Fossa - the jokes about cats running on dog software (hyena) and dogs running on cat software (foxes), have NOTHING on this critter that is a mongoose-type running on cat software. Very predator, very fierce.

Markhor - but it's just a goat, right? CHECK OUT THOSE HORNS! I had to give my tiefling OC those horns because they are TOO COOL.

Tufted Deer - cute name, right? When's the last time you saw a deer with FANGS?! Seriously, I saw these and started trying to figure out WHY they evolved those.

I hope you enjoyed these!

xinas_island

Alrighty then. 😄

Our Flu and covid shots are all done for another year now🥳.

We got our invites Wednesday, and Thursday morning was available as an appointment, so we snagged 9:30am. Funny thing was that the system was a bit wonked, so there were five or six of us booked in at the 9:30am slot. 😂 Didn't really matter too much, as the pharmacy we go to for the shots just whipped through each person at a good pace, so no one was waiting too long.
Once we got our shots we stopped off at a nearby (next door to the pharmacy 😄) restaurant and had a nice breakfast before heading home. ❤️

It's been pretty normal on the shots front so far. Yay!

Getting the usual side effects we tend to get every time, aches and fatigue for us both. And for me, a mean ole sore ichy and hot welt on my arm on the site.

Today the welt is better on me, and I don't notice the shot site as much anymore, so it's getting there. Usually is fine after a week or so.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: Vancouver Island

summersgate

Just now - portrait of the Entity Outside My Window - helios lens.

The sun shone for a while this morning. I wish I had gotten out there then and taken Rainy for a walk. Now it's become overcast and looks cold. Upcoming: house cleaning. And I need to get my printer to work so I can do an amazon return. Getting the printer going is always fun (not).

maju

I was tempted to skip parkrun this morning because the temperature was only around 41°F/5°C when it was time to go, but I put on several layers of clothes and wore a headband and went, and I wasn't sorry, and I ended up without the headband and with only a thin long sleeved shirt over my t-shirt. I'd forgotten that when the temperature is around 40°F to 50°F (4°C to 10°C) it's basically perfect running weather. I guess I'm still feeling cautious about venturing out in those temperatures because of the problems I had with my nose bleeding last winter, but my nose was fine this morning and conditions were great for a run, and in fact I managed my fastest time this year. I'm still very slow at a bit over 37 minutes for 5 km/3.1 miles, but apparently that's 66.09% of my age grade so not too bad. There were three of us "back of the packers" battling it out (one a few years older and one a few years younger than me) which is always fun.

There were some fun Halloween costumes at parkrun, including a very impressive turkey costume featuring lots of white feathery bits and huge yellow "feet" over the person's running shoes, although come to think of it, I'm not sure why it would be a turkey for Halloween.

On the way home I stopped off at Safeway for a couple of food items to see me through until moving day. I'm going to have to do more shopping either on moving day or the next day for food for the week in the AirBnB, but I'm not going to think about that yet.

maju

This set of questions feels like it's aimed at someone quite a bit younger than I am.

21. What do you like most about your job? What do you dislike most about your job? I don't have a job, but if you consider "being retired" as work, what I like about it is that my time is my own and what I don't like about it is that sometimes it's hard to motivate myself to do something.

22. What’s something new you recently learned about yourself? Nothing comes to mind.

23. In one sentence, how would you describe your relationship with your mother? She died some years ago, but before that it was nonexistent because I had cut off contact with her.

24. What was the most defining moment in your life during this past year? I can't think of anything in the past twelve months that would count as a defining moment. If you go back a few months further than that, it's a different story.

25. What’s the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months? I'm in the process of making it - moving to Connecticut.

susandennis

So apparently, my fancy assed GE combo washer/drier which I really love, needs hand holding by a representative of the mother ship every six months. Yesterday, after 5 hours, the clothes were still wet. Really wet. So I hung them up all over the apartment and logged into my extended warranty and set up an appointment. Tuesday afternoon. I just cleaned all the filters but I'll do it again and then do a test run in hopes that it was just a one time glitch. I really do love the machine but fuck me, I'd love it better if it weren't so needy.

I had just finished watching something Oh the new Boston Blue (I think one episode is enough of that one), when I got a text from my nephew. "What do you think of this?" hmmmmm It was a head scratcher. I try to keep up with the kids these days but I failed... so I responded "What this?"

Turns out he meant the world series game which I had ignored so successfully, I forgot it was even on. I popped over to Fox and OMG. The score was Blue Jays 11 and Dodgers 2 in the 7th. NOT what I expected. I actually watched a little but those broadcasters chased me into mute and then I gave up entirely. I'm glad they won one.

Steve reminded me this morning that it's time to start working on Christmas dolls. He thinks, since the bunnies of last Easter and the pumpkin people/ghosts, that I'll be doing every season. Nope. BUT I might make up a bunch of snow men. I don't have a pattern perfected but I have some ideas. I need some brown pipe cleaner and orange fimo clay. After elbow coffee.

I have this weird patch of dry skin on the palm of my right hand. I've actually had it before and now it's back. I think it's from the pool. While doing laps, I push off the side with the palm of my right hand. I need to not do that and see if the dry patch clears up. It's itchy and uncomfortable.

I need to get dressed and put away all the now dry clothes hanging around before I head out to the elbow.

senmut

[Podfic of] Stake-Out? (38 words) by kbirb pods
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Faith Lehane, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder
Additional Tags: Drabble, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download
Series: Part 55 of graveyard smash, Part 72 of vending machine of podfic snacks [under 5 min pods, 2025 edition]
Summary:

Length: 1 minute
Summary:

She knows better than to follow him on the weird cases.

Podfic of Stake-Out? by Merfilly.

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

andrewducker

One of these children won at Ticket To Ride: First Journey, the other...did not.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

summersgate

I'm thinking it will be fun when I finish to write a title for each one on the back. I used to enjoy coming up with names to stamp onto the backs of my jewelry back in the day. A word or two, or more. A tiny phrase. I could name these ones:
Springtime Walk
Sharp Infatuation
Stars and Stripes in Gold
All the Ways of Plum
Easy Steps
Ancient Love
Finding the Way to Love
Blue Sky Reveries

Later today will be OA, more mirror painting and house cleaning.

elusivek

The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
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When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.

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I’m starting to feel really impressed by my local library having all these Libby books and audiobooks available - with no waiting time. Or I’m just lucky, and the service is still new so not many people use it, but yeah.

I find there are many unbelievable parts in this book.

Barbara goes missing, and (spoilers) it ended up she went into hiding. Conceptually it’s all fine, but how believable is that? She’s described as being a goth (hair dyed black, black eyeliner) but also skillful in the ways of camping? To me, it feels a bit far fetched.

I got particularly miffed at the Louise’s parts. Well yeah, I really hate it when reading about some innocent being accused, but then honestly Louise wasn’t helping herself either, what with her lying as well.

Overall not a bad read, but I think there were quite a few unnecessary POVs (Tracy’s, for one). Also, the author seemed to be writing all these elaborate scenes, giving lengthy explanations, but then at the end of it… wrapped up pretty quickly. I was like “huh?” And it ended.

lovelyangel

Boxes of Manga, Staged for Sorting and Shelving
iPhone 13 mini photo

Two Weeks Ago I did not have any functional bookshelves and was waiting for delivery of replacements. I expected a long wait, but, surprisingly, the bookshelves were delivered and installed one week later, on Friday, October 17. I could finally start sorting and loading books into the bookwall.

( Meticulous Chaos, Below the Cut )

I’ve had to cut a lot of books. *snif* But it’s pretty clear (to me) that all the books that are now visible in the bookwall are books that I really love. I want to revisit them all (and I’ll be hard-pressed for time to do just that).

dustbunny105

We made it in good time to Chicago, even though we took a little longer than expected for lunch. Did I mention/confirm that my niece-- sister's oldest-- came with us? Well, she did. The two of us got our tickets registered tonight, so we'll be able to go right in when we get there tomorrow morning.

Gonna try and sleep immediately after posting this-- it's already a little later than I wanted, tbh. We need to get up early if we're gonna have breakfast before catching the shuttle!

senmut

And on to 2009. Totally working for the Evol Empire and I think picking up security shifts to try and make ends meet. Doubt I had much time for movies.

Hmm, four films. Saw a couple others, but they were less memorable.

Fast & Furious - The point when I knew for fact the franchise didn't actually aim for the direction I had seen. Fun, but not my cuppa in the end.

Star Trek - I'd been on the fence, Stuart talked me into it, and the first few minutes were RAD as FUCK! My introduction to Chris Hemsworth. A fun movie, Urban fucking nailed it.

Up - another film where the first few minutes were just phenomenal. Shortest, best love story ever. And then the film kept me loving it.

Where the Wild Things Are - I was never on the fence. I knew I was going to see it. I had no idea how much it was going to tear into my childhood trauma and issues, but it did it the best way possible.

paperghost

I was browsing Melonland forums, and someone brought up an alternative free host besides Neocities and Nekoweb:

https://web1.0hosting.net/

Web 1.0 Hosting - is an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices such as retro computers, old operating systems, palmtops, and cellular phones as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement. Hosting of modern websites and the use of modern technologies are also permitted. There is also a search engine, web mail and web chat, working on both modern and legacy systems.

Advantages:

As simple as possible
No ads at your website
3rd level domain name for free: .w10.site, short .w0.am, .narod.ws and .oldcities.org
You can link your own domain name, see FAQ
100 Mb of space for free, 500 Mb for community users, extra space for donation
Web-mail accessible from the old devices *
NEW!!! You can host website at your home and connect to the server using L2TP/ipsec, your webserver will be accessible by the login.w10.site/~/, this way you can host at your computer or server without real static IP any dynamic scripts using PHP, Python, whatever, any blog engines, forums, etc **
Overlay intranet between the users connected to the L2TP/ipsec server where you can host any services, such as gameservers, domain name in the intranet is your login.intra
Possibility to access website by IP http://135.181.118.12/~yourwebsite or http://[2a01:4f9:4b:1e30::3]/~yourwebsite without DNS
Unlimited traffic
Hotlinking is allowed: you can publish your static content such as photos, videos, scripts, etc, and include them at other websites hosted apart from the Web1.0 Hosting
No limits for file types
All the content accessible by HTTP and HTTPS using IPv4 and IPv6
Web file listing: autoindex is on, any directory without index.html file shows the list of the contained files and directories like it is a web FTP
Custom error 404 pages
FTP and FTPS for the file upload
Web file uploader, code, and WYSIWYG editors for modern web browsers
SSI (Server Side Includes) allows you to reuse your code and makes working on a static website as convenient as possible: edit the headers and footers just once and include them into other pages of your website (see FAQ)
Predefined scripts to have feedback from your website visitors, such as contact form, guestbook, photogallery, audio catalog, chat, blog, visitors counter, and likes which are supported by old browsers as well as in modern
Ability to order hosting using very old devices that support Internet connection and HTML
Suitable for WAP site hosting for mobile devices
Suitable for keeping digital assets proved by NFT
Website builder for creating websites from custom or ready-made templates using HamsterCMS
Your website is also published within the Yggdrasil network - a free worldwide decentralized overlay peer-to-peer network accessible as YourSite.ws.ygg ALFIS blockchain DNS), YourSite.ws.ygg.at using clearnet DNS, or using Yggdrasil IP without DNS as http://[300:a056:404a:1329::80]/~yourwebsite that allows to avoid any local internet access restrictions in the country without VPN and publish your content wherever you are. This (main) page of the webhosting is accessible by wh.ygg (wh.ygg.at using clearnet DNS ALFIS) or http://[300:a056:404a:1329::80]
WAP gateway for old mobile phones: 135.181.118.15:9201
Daily backups to two different locations
Excluded bus factor - several interchangeable people work on hosting, and not just one person
Furries friendly hosting

Sounds pretty great, if you ask me. I'm not moving from Neocities, but this looks like a good alternative for anyone tired of Kyle Drake's tech bro antics or Nekoweb's customer service done over Discord.

senmut

Squeaky or read at SquidgeWorld (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

After the Zygons, Jack has a conundrum

Escaping the latest Zygon impersonation had been hard enough, Jack decided, but now he had a conundrum.

It looked at him with its tail sticking up like the antenna of a bumper car and meowed at him with the most pitiful squeak ever.

"I saved you this time. What if you're a Zygon in disguise? Hmm? Or just if you wander into my life all the time, you're going to get hurt, or worse!" Jack admonished.

Another squeaky meow, and Jack tucked the kitten in his coat pocket again, adding a stop at the local shop to his must do.

johncomic

My 62^nd acrylic is a further exploration of a limited palette I discovered while working on a previous abstract. I got quite excited working with those colours (and their respective values). I really like how they look and work together, so I have stocked up on those paints and hope to do a lot of different things with them in future.

Current Mood: conten
Current Music: Joona Toivanen Trio - At My Side

greghousesgf

Woken up at six in the morning by the goddamned fucking phone scammers. I needed sleep far more than usual because of everything that happened yesterday. I don't even pick up the phone that early. Interestingly enough they NEVER call my cell, only my home phone. My old home phone used to have a setting on it where the voice mail would take messages but the phone wouldn't ring which was perfect for when I wanted to sleep or was really busy or something. I was seriously considering having the home phone taken out and just using the cell but the way my apt bldg is wired the home computer goes through the phone lines. At least it's not like it was in the 90's where you couldn't use the phone and the computer at the same time.
I'm not going out today at all if I can avoid it, my leg is killing me. I didn't mention the facts that yesterday I had to stand up while waiting for a lot of buses because some of the benches at the bus stops had water all over them, or the fact that I had to walk up and down a lot of stairs while trying unsuccessfully to get ahold of the maintenance guys to fix my stove.

Current Music: Thievery Corporation

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