Just one thing: 3 February 2026

Feb. 3rd, 2026 07:15 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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!

Daily Happiness

Feb. 2nd, 2026 07:53 pm
torachan: scott pilgrim pouting (scott pilgrim - pout)
[personal profile] torachan
1. I stopped at the car wash on the way to work this morning and it looks much better now. Thankfully the trees on our street have stopped shedding berries the way they were a couple weeks ago, but there's still a ton of dust from the construction site at the end of the street, so it was very dusty even though I have been getting it washed like every week. D:

2. Looking at my work tasks and meetings and I think I will be able to work from home most or all of the rest of the week.

3. Look at those toes!

Satire Site Makes Me Giggle

Feb. 2nd, 2026 06:33 pm
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k

BugsAppleLoves.com summarizes 17 long-standing bugs in the Apple computing ecosystem, and calculates entirely bogus yet entertaining cost estimates for the time we Apple users waste -- while trying to select text on an iPhone or trying to maintain window sizing in macOS' Finder.

(At least it confirmed the iPhone text selection issues was not just me).

I FORGOT TO MENTION

Feb. 2nd, 2026 09:43 pm
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[personal profile] rydra_wong
Artorias is a DLC boss.

Beating the final boss of Dark Souls puts you straight into New Game Plus, so you need to do the DLC first, but yeah. I have in fact completed the base game up until you enter the last area. And there is a general consensus that the final boss is not the hardest in the game.

The DLC bosses are all substantially harder than the base game ones, and I have two more left, so it remains to be seen whether I can beat them, but at this point the odds look decent that I will at least be able to finish the base game.

I would like to remind you all that my initial goal was to see if I could beat the tutorial.
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[personal profile] merridia
Work is crazy, but life goes on! Also various wrestling companies keep announcing additional Canadian dates that line up with my vacation time so I keep having to move things around??? TJPW tickets (two dates during Dynasty weekend) on sale tomorrow, Mystery Wrestling 23 in Edmonton on Thursday. AND THEN THAT'S IT. I gotta start booking the actual travel! Gonna be a crazy couple of weeks!

Theatre still closed. Trying to be optimistic about it this month!

Got a new pair of open earbuds for work so I can wear two instead of just one and have been catching up on KEXP live sessions while I deal with the insane neverending onslaught of sold units and ridiculous sales requests and warranty nonsense. Which I should get back to now!

Album #516/1001: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children )

Just one thing: 2 February 2026

Feb. 2nd, 2026 06:55 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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!

Daily Happiness

Feb. 1st, 2026 05:27 pm
torachan: arale from dr slump dressed in a penguin suit and smiling (arale penguin)
[personal profile] torachan
1. Final sales total for the new store yesterday was off the charts and today looks like it will be just as high.

2. The other day we were browsing GrubHub for something to eat and saw a burger place that looked really good, but decided it would be better to go in person as one of the big draws was their loaded fries, which would just be soggy on arrival. We went over there today for lunch and it was so good!



Karaage chicken sandwich with jalapeño yuzu slaw and sweet potato fries on the side.



Yakiniku steak fries, which were supposed to be with tater tots but they were out of tots so just regular fries, but still super tasty.

It was so much food but so good. Brought half the sweet potato fries and half the loaded fries home and Alex ate them this afternoon when she came over.

3. For some reason Chloe was so into exploring this Disney bag yesterday when we got home from the park lol. Nothing inside it but she had to investigate.

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Feb. 1st, 2026 06:27 pm
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[personal profile] aurumcalendula
I manage to drop my iPod classic and break the plastic bezel around the charging port :(

I'm hoping that won't become a problem (it still charges and transfers data fine so far). It looks like the part itself is easily found, but I don't want to open my iPod and risk breaking something else in the process. I'm wondering if getting a cover for the port might be a good idea (it seems the main point of the bezel was to keep dust out).

Festivids!

Feb. 1st, 2026 06:17 pm
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[personal profile] aurumcalendula
I got a lovely Shetland vid for Festivids!

(I'm still working my way through the rest of the collection)
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[personal profile] umadoshi
One link, which hopefully won't be paywalled: "Rachel Reid's wild Heated Rivalry ride" at The Globe and Mail. The whole "local girl makes good" element of the HR show taking over the world is a very nice cherry on top of the whole thing, and I really liked this profile.

Reading: I'm maybe 30% into Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl and wavering about continuing. I've gotten better about DNFing things, and this time I actually have the book out of the library, so the good old financial sunk-cost fallacy isn't in play. But I still don't like DNFing.

I've also read some more of Braiding Sweetgrass and reread vol. 2 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Watching: Crunchyroll wasn't in the mood to work when we attempted to watch last week's ep. of Frieren, so we're two episodes behind on that. (Annoyingly, Netflix keeps saying it thinks we'd love the show, but only has season 1.) Hopefully we'll get caught up on the most recent ep. of The Pitt tonight.

On top of those currently-running things, we're now one episode into Midnight Mass.

Playing: Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven continues to delight me.

Weathering: There's another storm heading in, due to arrive tonight, but it looks like it's veered enough that our local forecast is now for a somewhat more reasonable amount of snow than I'd been hearing before yesterday evening or so. Apparently it's also bringing fairly high winds, so there's the usual "will the power stay on?" worry. (Our neighborhood has been really lucky on that front this season, and [personal profile] scruloose and I are pretty well prepared, so it's not a huge worry.)

Working: I turned in the final volume (!) of Pet Shop of Horrors on Friday and immediately tried to switch to the next volume of Now That We Draw, since that's due mid-week, but my brain was Not Having It; I suspect it was the sheer tonal dissonance as much as anything. But then yesterday, what with the storm warning and all, I basically did the last four-fifths of the book in one sitting to make sure I at least had a workable draft, and now my brain is pretty crisped. (It's not a very text-heavy or tricky rewrite, and the translators make it pretty painless, so four-fifths is a lot at once but not the feat it would be with some series.)

So now I have a draft with just a couple tweaks still to be made and a final read-through to be done, and I'm tempting fate a bit by not trying to get that all off my plate today, but I think letting it rest for a day before reviewing it is extra important given that I did the draft so fast. So I'm gambling a bit, but also have something I can submit with caveats if need be, if we do lose power for three days or something.

Sleeping: Sleep has been distinctly Not Great for the last few (?) nights. I've been doing decently at getting to bed in a timely fashion and mostly not taking forever to fall asleep, but I've been having even weirder and more stressful dreams than usual and it's all been very restless.

Just one thing: February 1, 2026

Feb. 1st, 2026 06:58 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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!

[community profile] fandomocweekly and [community profile] fanmix_monthly

Feb. 1st, 2026 04:20 pm
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[community profile] fandomocweekly is a low commitment challenge community for sharing your fandom-based original characters. Every week, there is a gen prompt and a relationship prompt. You can post fills in any format/medium (fic, icons, art, etc.). OC x canon, yume, self-shipping, Mary Sues, etc. all welcome! ✨ This week's prompts are ideal & consideration.


Despite the name, [community profile] fanmix_monthly is not only for fanmixes and the monthly prompts are optional. You're invited to share any mixtapes you've made any time! This month's theme is relationships.

Daily Happiness

Jan. 31st, 2026 08:48 pm
torachan: cats looking at a crow out the screen door (cats and crow)
[personal profile] torachan
1. It looks like the weather's supposed to get a little cooler for the next few days, though it'll be up in the 80s again mid week. D: But there's a possibility of rain by the end of the week after, so hopefully things'll cool off a little. Not a fan of this weather!

2. Despite the heat, we had a really nice lunch at Disneyland today. Low crowds and delicious food.

3. I started playing this browser-based matching game that [personal profile] aethel linked to yesterday and it's fun but also addictive lol. You have to group a bunch of random words/phrases/names and some of the groupings are very similar to each other and also sometimes what you think the grouping is turns out to not exactly be right.

4. I normally don't check my work phone much during the weekend, but I have been keeping an eye on the sales figures coming in from the grand opening. As of 8pm they've already blown past the sales for the Irvine grand opening, which was a huge success. Closing is officially 9pm but there were still lines outside last I heard, so I think they're going to try and let as many people in as possible, even if they have to stay late.

5. Such a judgy Gemma.

2026 Disneyland Trip #7 (1/31/26)

Jan. 31st, 2026 05:16 pm
torachan: a chibi drawing of sawko, kazehaya, and maru from kimi ni todoke (sawako/kazehaya)
[personal profile] torachan
We said we were going to go to Disneyland less frequently this year and it feels like we've kept to that, and yet we still somehow went seven times this month lol. But it's mostly down to the way the days landed, since there were five weekends. We only had two weeks where we went more than once a week.

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Just One Thing (31 January 2026)

Jan. 31st, 2026 12:03 pm
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[personal profile] nanila posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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!

Newcomers

Jan. 31st, 2026 03:58 am
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[community profile] newcomers is a community for people who are just getting started on Dreamwidth, in the tradition of [community profile] twitter_refugees and [community profile] reddit_refugees. This community supports former users of other platforms who are moving to Dreamwidth because their previous platform has become untenable or has closed. As such, it will increase activity with each wave of new users, in hopes of helping them get settled in Dreamwidth so they want to stick around. It also serves previous users returning after a long hiatus, people who want to do more with a Dreamwidth blog that was only intermittent, or anyone else who wants help connecting and figuring out how to use this venue.

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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [site community profile] dw_community_promo
[community profile] goals_on_dw is a community for people who like goals and goal setting. A key focus is New Year's resolutions, that being among the most popular contexts for such activities. Although the most common time is January 1, "new year" can also refer to other calendars or cultures, whatever works for you. Alternatively, just pick a time that works for you and go for it. You can introduce yourself or make new friends here.

We talk about different goal systems, pros and cons of resolutions, arts and crafts for tracking goals, human psychology, and more. You can share your resolutions or other goals. There are weekly check-in posts in January, and monthly ones in the rest of the year, for folks to talk about their accomplishments. December-January is the most active period, and it starts ramping up in November as lots of people begin thinking about their goals for the next year.

2026 Free Printable Calendars, Planners, and More is the guide post for this years goal-setting activities. For more details on relevant topics, see "Things You Can Talk About Here."

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Daily Happiness

Jan. 30th, 2026 06:35 pm
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[personal profile] torachan
1. Yesterday was the first day of soft open for our new store in the SF Bay area (tomorrow is the grand opening). They were only open from 10am to 4pm (same hours today) and no advertising of the soft open, so we weren't sure what to expect, but they did really well, if not as good as the Irvine soft open in July. But word of mouth must have spread fast because today's sales were sky-high, even higher than for Irvine and that was such a hectic day. Since I'm not directly involved in the store side of things anymore, I didn't go up there to help and just got reports on Teams. Honestly, the best way to experience it lol. I've had enough of grand openings for a while.

2. I finished another puzzle today. Decided to do an easy one as a palate cleanser after that long one I just finished up. Not only is this one only 500 pieces, but because each cat is in its own square with really different colors, it went super fast. Still very cute and fun to work on.



3. So far no tattoo itchiness today. Fingers crossed we're over that part of the healing process!

4. Since I was working from home today again, we walked up to the fancy bagel shop for breakfast and while Carla did get a bagel, I opted for a slice of lemon loaf and it was soooooo good. They also had a couple new drinks on their menu, including a passionfruit matcha latte, which I couldn't resist. Definitely getting that again at some point. It did not disappoint.

5. Look at this handsome man!

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