Daily Happiness
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torachan1. I had a nice morning at Disneyland today, but I am definitely glad I have two more days off to rest up! Tomorrow I am not going anywhere further than the farmers market.
2. Chloe!
2. Chloe!
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2025 Disneyland Trip #74 (11/28/25)
Nov. 28th, 2025 09:22 pmtorachanDespite having spent all day yesterday at Universal Studios, I was up bright and early this morning to go to Disneyland.
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Definitely More of an Autumn vibe
Nov. 28th, 2025 07:23 pmglindaSo, yes, I am in fact writing these out of order, but writing the last one made me think about this album and as it was also gig related I thought it was a natural companion piece to follow up with. So this album choice was a result of two different gigs. As noted previously I went to see the Scottish Ensemble and Anna Meredith doing their collaborative album Anno at the Barbican at the end of September, and then at the end of October I went to see the Scottish Ensemble here in the Inverness again. To my intense amusement, working with Anna Meredith again had clearly reminded the ensemble how much they enjoy playing her work, because the whole second half of the Inverness gig was pieces by Anna Meredith re-arranged for string ensemble. Mostly from her first electronic album Varmints - the lead violin noted with clear irony before they played Nautilus that that piece had been intended as a clear break from her previous orchestral work - and having experienced it as something akin to a transcendental experience - I virtually floated home afterwards - obviously I had to go and actually listen to the album in question.
I didn’t initially love this album, despite it being much more what I was expecting from Anna Meredith - before I encountered Anno I knew her mostly from her film scoring work - but as I’ve continued to listen to it across the last month, I’ve come to the conclusion that I like it more the further away from the gig I get. For example, I can now listen to Blackfriars and feel it’s glorious rhythms combine happily with my memories of my recent holiday in London, of standing outside Blackfriars station at rush hour, hearing bells and clocks striking all over the place, feeling the ebb and flow of traffic around me and the rumble of the tube below - I have a whole bunch of field recordings I made in and around that tube station - and think, yes, that part of London does indeed feel like that. I also feel like I’ve been able to fall in love with Nautilus and Scrimshaw all over again in their own right, without constantly comparing them negatively with their reimagined versions. (Honestly I want to hear Nautilus re-arranged for brass a la that Hannah Peel album I wrote about earlier this year.) I do think I need to go see Anna Meredith live in her own right next time she’s touring, because I think her work really lends itself to live performance, to variations on a theme and interacting with visuals and graphics, a proper multimedia experience. However, now that I’ve got enough distance from the gig, I can happily also enjoy it, lying on the sofa with low winter light and just the fairy lights on, through big headphones and let it transport me to other places.
I didn’t initially love this album, despite it being much more what I was expecting from Anna Meredith - before I encountered Anno I knew her mostly from her film scoring work - but as I’ve continued to listen to it across the last month, I’ve come to the conclusion that I like it more the further away from the gig I get. For example, I can now listen to Blackfriars and feel it’s glorious rhythms combine happily with my memories of my recent holiday in London, of standing outside Blackfriars station at rush hour, hearing bells and clocks striking all over the place, feeling the ebb and flow of traffic around me and the rumble of the tube below - I have a whole bunch of field recordings I made in and around that tube station - and think, yes, that part of London does indeed feel like that. I also feel like I’ve been able to fall in love with Nautilus and Scrimshaw all over again in their own right, without constantly comparing them negatively with their reimagined versions. (Honestly I want to hear Nautilus re-arranged for brass a la that Hannah Peel album I wrote about earlier this year.) I do think I need to go see Anna Meredith live in her own right next time she’s touring, because I think her work really lends itself to live performance, to variations on a theme and interacting with visuals and graphics, a proper multimedia experience. However, now that I’ve got enough distance from the gig, I can happily also enjoy it, lying on the sofa with low winter light and just the fairy lights on, through big headphones and let it transport me to other places.
[498] you can keep me company as long as you don't care
Nov. 28th, 2025 08:46 ammerridiaToday I learned that referring to things as gong shows is largely a Canadian thing, and it has rocked me to the core. TGIF!
It's almost December and I still don't think the temperature has dipped below -20 degrees yet. There's snow on the ground, but very little of it, mostly compacted into uneven layers of ice. There's still grass visible all over the place. It's honestly kind of insane? But at least it gives me something to focus on other than the current span of ~3 months in which I basically never see the sun, because I both arrive at and leave work in pitch darkness, and I no longer have every other week off. Things should start to get better towards the end of February. God I hate winter, even unseasonably mild ones.
Finished season 7 of Black Mirror, and not that anyone cares, but my ranking of the episodes goes Eulogy > Common People > USS Callister: Into Infinity > Bête Noire >>> Plaything >>>>> Hotel Reverie.
Saw Wake Up Dead Man, the first of the Knives Out mysteries to play in a theatre here, and absolutely loved it.
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Okay, I should probably try to do some work. It's (dare I say???) a bit of a gong show!!!
It's almost December and I still don't think the temperature has dipped below -20 degrees yet. There's snow on the ground, but very little of it, mostly compacted into uneven layers of ice. There's still grass visible all over the place. It's honestly kind of insane? But at least it gives me something to focus on other than the current span of ~3 months in which I basically never see the sun, because I both arrive at and leave work in pitch darkness, and I no longer have every other week off. Things should start to get better towards the end of February. God I hate winter, even unseasonably mild ones.
Finished season 7 of Black Mirror, and not that anyone cares, but my ranking of the episodes goes Eulogy > Common People > USS Callister: Into Infinity > Bête Noire >>> Plaything >>>>> Hotel Reverie.
Saw Wake Up Dead Man, the first of the Knives Out mysteries to play in a theatre here, and absolutely loved it.
( Album #498/1001: Garbage - Garbage )
Okay, I should probably try to do some work. It's (dare I say???) a bit of a gong show!!!
umadoshiA day off without sleeping in at all feels so expansive! (scruloose had to be out a bit early all this week, so I've been getting up a bit earlier too to do my supervision part of the clowder's breakfast routine.) But I took the day off mainly to try to get some manga work done, so going back to bed after that seemed counterproductive. Somehow it's not even 10 AM yet? Incredible. (Could I have used the sleep, though? Oh yes.)
Happy day-after-Thanksgiving to the USians* observing this emotionally-complex holiday. I enjoy the food chatter from afar. Someone on a cooking feed on Bluesky posted about doing a stuffing flight, and now I really want a stuffing flight, although the specific types they'd made didn't sing to me. ^^;
*I've been seeing the edges of Discourse about this term on Bluesky, and several people complained about the pronunciation/having no good pronunciation options, which made me realize that to me it's strictly a term for writing, not saying. It works fine visually. *shrugs*
First Yule scent of the year: But Men Loved Darkness Better Than Light (2009 vintage). I'd forgotten how much I love this one.
Last year I had a pretty good streak of wearing Weenie scents, and then in Novemberscruloose's breathing was a bit rough, and we didn't think it was the BPAL, but I didn't wear any through the Christmas season. (It turned out not to be what was causing the problem, which has been IDed and dealt with.) So maybe this year. (As always, the Weenie and Yule updates tempted me dreadfully, but the added horror of current crossborder shipping gave me extra armor against getting in on a decant circle.)
I'm finally listening to the new Florence + The Machine album; listening to new music takes even longer now than it used to, and I've never been quick about listening or bonding. Given the season, after this album I'll probably switch to Christmas music while working. As long as it's good (wholly subjective, obviously, along with if you're a Christmas person and if seasonal music doesn't hit all the wrong buttons in general), Christmas music is kind of ideal for when I'm trying to just get some work done--it doesn't require the attention that beloved favorite music or new-to-me music does, even if it's not a recording I'm familiar with. Handy!
(Yesterday I deployed some for the first time this year. I didn't know Carole King had a holiday album, although it's never a surprise when a western musician does. *eyes Tori Amos holiday album* [Which I do listen to.] And now I've heard it once and never need to hear it again.)
Also on the music front, I finally cut off my Spotify subscription, and I'm trying out Qobuz after waffling between it and Deezer. Neither of them has native Linux desktop support or a Roku app, either of which would've weighted my decision significantly, and Qobuz allows you to actually buy music--apparently DRM-free, no less!--so I'm starting here.
Package-delivery updates cover such a bizarre spectrum. I currently have in my inbox: a) an update from a courier saying they've got my package and will deliver it this afternoon, with no indication of the sender, and I do not have a ship notification from anywhere that makes it obvious, so...I guess we'll see soon, and b) a Canada Post "Ship Notification for Item" (not to be confused with a "your item is out for delivery" notification) that didn't arrive in my inbox until a couple of hours after the CP person had already theoretically been by and attempted delivery. (Canada Post folks are better than others about actually attempting delivery, so I have to assume I just didn't hear the doorbell somehow, but the email timing remains bizarre.)
scruloose had to be out a bit early all this week, so I've been getting up a bit earlier too to do my supervision part of the clowder's breakfast routine.) But I took the day off mainly to try to get some manga work done, so going back to bed after that seemed counterproductive. Somehow it's not even 10 AM yet? Incredible. (Could I have used the sleep, though? Oh yes.)Happy day-after-Thanksgiving to the USians* observing this emotionally-complex holiday. I enjoy the food chatter from afar. Someone on a cooking feed on Bluesky posted about doing a stuffing flight, and now I really want a stuffing flight, although the specific types they'd made didn't sing to me. ^^;
*I've been seeing the edges of Discourse about this term on Bluesky, and several people complained about the pronunciation/having no good pronunciation options, which made me realize that to me it's strictly a term for writing, not saying. It works fine visually. *shrugs*
First Yule scent of the year: But Men Loved Darkness Better Than Light (2009 vintage). I'd forgotten how much I love this one.
Last year I had a pretty good streak of wearing Weenie scents, and then in November
scruloose's breathing was a bit rough, and we didn't think it was the BPAL, but I didn't wear any through the Christmas season. (It turned out not to be what was causing the problem, which has been IDed and dealt with.) So maybe this year. (As always, the Weenie and Yule updates tempted me dreadfully, but the added horror of current crossborder shipping gave me extra armor against getting in on a decant circle.)I'm finally listening to the new Florence + The Machine album; listening to new music takes even longer now than it used to, and I've never been quick about listening or bonding. Given the season, after this album I'll probably switch to Christmas music while working. As long as it's good (wholly subjective, obviously, along with if you're a Christmas person and if seasonal music doesn't hit all the wrong buttons in general), Christmas music is kind of ideal for when I'm trying to just get some work done--it doesn't require the attention that beloved favorite music or new-to-me music does, even if it's not a recording I'm familiar with. Handy!
(Yesterday I deployed some for the first time this year. I didn't know Carole King had a holiday album, although it's never a surprise when a western musician does. *eyes Tori Amos holiday album* [Which I do listen to.] And now I've heard it once and never need to hear it again.)
Also on the music front, I finally cut off my Spotify subscription, and I'm trying out Qobuz after waffling between it and Deezer. Neither of them has native Linux desktop support or a Roku app, either of which would've weighted my decision significantly, and Qobuz allows you to actually buy music--apparently DRM-free, no less!--so I'm starting here.
Package-delivery updates cover such a bizarre spectrum. I currently have in my inbox: a) an update from a courier saying they've got my package and will deliver it this afternoon, with no indication of the sender, and I do not have a ship notification from anywhere that makes it obvious, so...I guess we'll see soon, and b) a Canada Post "Ship Notification for Item" (not to be confused with a "your item is out for delivery" notification) that didn't arrive in my inbox until a couple of hours after the CP person had already theoretically been by and attempted delivery. (Canada Post folks are better than others about actually attempting delivery, so I have to assume I just didn't hear the doorbell somehow, but the email timing remains bizarre.)
Just One Thing (28 November 2025)
Nov. 28th, 2025 08:08 amnanila posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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A Fable of Summertime...
Nov. 27th, 2025 08:04 pmglindaSometime this summer, I rediscovered my fic writing muse. Which has been great, but has unfortunately also meant that I’ve fallen quite behind on writing up my monthly albums - I have several months of backlog! Fortunately, I have still actually been listening to the albums and noting them down, so I’ve been able to look back at my list and write them up.
First up, we’re all the way back to the summer, for my August album, which was Fable by Ainsley Hamil. (I really thought I’d at least started this post, I definitely remember sitting down in the days after the gig with the album on and the intent to write about it. I suspect I probably started writing it into the ‘create entries’ page and lost the draft.) I mostly know Ainsley Hamil as a Gaelic singer - competed for the Gold Medal at the Mod a couple of time - and this album is split pretty evenly between songs in Gaelic and English, with a Burns number thrown in for good measure. Personally I think if we’re talking traditional Gaelic modes, she’s better suited to puirt-a-beul than the strictures of the Gold Medal - I’ve seen her do puirt live and she’s very good, it’s not easy to keep up that level of articulation at that speed especially not in the middle of a gig! She has such a rich, warm singing voice, it’s a pleasure to listen to her sing, and always so tempting when the album finishes, to just stick it on again for another play through!
Unusually, I was listening to this album extensively because I was going to a gig, rather than going to the gig because I’d been listening to the album a lot. My local art centre hosts a folk music festival in a tent on it’s lawn every summer. (Not in one intense weekend but two bands per session, two sessions a night, five nights a week across two months.) Living near by and being a regular gig go-er, I go to a lot of these sessions, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, sometimes pre-planned, others spur of the moment because I walked past and thought ‘oh they’re good’ and stayed. The Ainsley Hamil gig was planned fairly far in advance, as a friend texted me just after the programme came out and asked if I fancied it, and as I did and it was a day I was on a helpful shift, we booked it and went. As it was her idea, and I’d agreed on the basis that I remembered what I’d heard of Hamil’s latest album being good, I thought I better swat up beforehand.
(It’s a lovely album, but gosh, live really is her forte, she was such a compelling and warm presence on stage, making her music come alive. In both Gaelic and Scots, her delivery on the album is more precise and probably more technically correct, but live she was so much more natural and felt much less constrained.)
First up, we’re all the way back to the summer, for my August album, which was Fable by Ainsley Hamil. (I really thought I’d at least started this post, I definitely remember sitting down in the days after the gig with the album on and the intent to write about it. I suspect I probably started writing it into the ‘create entries’ page and lost the draft.) I mostly know Ainsley Hamil as a Gaelic singer - competed for the Gold Medal at the Mod a couple of time - and this album is split pretty evenly between songs in Gaelic and English, with a Burns number thrown in for good measure. Personally I think if we’re talking traditional Gaelic modes, she’s better suited to puirt-a-beul than the strictures of the Gold Medal - I’ve seen her do puirt live and she’s very good, it’s not easy to keep up that level of articulation at that speed especially not in the middle of a gig! She has such a rich, warm singing voice, it’s a pleasure to listen to her sing, and always so tempting when the album finishes, to just stick it on again for another play through!
Unusually, I was listening to this album extensively because I was going to a gig, rather than going to the gig because I’d been listening to the album a lot. My local art centre hosts a folk music festival in a tent on it’s lawn every summer. (Not in one intense weekend but two bands per session, two sessions a night, five nights a week across two months.) Living near by and being a regular gig go-er, I go to a lot of these sessions, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, sometimes pre-planned, others spur of the moment because I walked past and thought ‘oh they’re good’ and stayed. The Ainsley Hamil gig was planned fairly far in advance, as a friend texted me just after the programme came out and asked if I fancied it, and as I did and it was a day I was on a helpful shift, we booked it and went. As it was her idea, and I’d agreed on the basis that I remembered what I’d heard of Hamil’s latest album being good, I thought I better swat up beforehand.
(It’s a lovely album, but gosh, live really is her forte, she was such a compelling and warm presence on stage, making her music come alive. In both Gaelic and Scots, her delivery on the album is more precise and probably more technically correct, but live she was so much more natural and felt much less constrained.)
more Petrichor thoughts
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Daily Happiness
Nov. 26th, 2025 07:43 pmtorachan1. Carla is getting snow in Wisconsin and meanwhile we had a sunny eighty-degree day here. I prefer somewhere between the two! Thankfully the weather is supposed to be cooler tomorrow and then dropping down a lot for the weekend. Hope this is the last heat spell for the fall/winter but I kind of doubt it. At least at this time of year the heat is short lived since the sun goes down early. It was nice and cool when I went for my walk this evening.
2. I decided to stop at Handel's for ice cream on my walk and they have a peppermint bark flavor for the holidays! I love peppermint ice cream so this was a must have. It was very tasty. Carla likes peppermint, too, so we'll have to get it again once she's back in town.
3. We are planning to go to Universal Studios around Christmas (well, we decided to go on Christmas actually) because that's when we're blocked out from Disneyland. Neither of us have ever been before, but we want to go to Universal Japan next year on our trip, so I'd really like to be able to compare. Plus we're not renewing our Knott's Berry Farm annual pass for next year and instead considering getting a Universal Studios one, but want to check it out first to see if we would really use it that much (the price is much cheaper than Disneyland, but not as dirt cheap as Knott's). Anyway, while I was poking around on the website to read up for our Christmas trip, I started getting more and more excited about it and decided to do a solo trip myself tomorrow! They have two day passes that get you a deal over buying the dates separately, and you can use the second ticket within 90 days of the first, so I got one to use tomorrow and then will use the other half when we go on Christmas.
4. I finished up one of the big things I was working on at work! It feels so good to have that finally done! And a lot of progress has been made on the other, to the point where we can say we have enough data to move forward by our deadline at the end of next month. There are some things on the IT side that still need to be hammered out, but I think we might not have to delay the project? Fingers crossed!
5. I didn't use a filter for this photo but the lighting made it look like a filter. Gemma loves to hide away on Carla's desk chair when it's pushed under her desk, which of course it is all the time right now since she's not home.
2. I decided to stop at Handel's for ice cream on my walk and they have a peppermint bark flavor for the holidays! I love peppermint ice cream so this was a must have. It was very tasty. Carla likes peppermint, too, so we'll have to get it again once she's back in town.
3. We are planning to go to Universal Studios around Christmas (well, we decided to go on Christmas actually) because that's when we're blocked out from Disneyland. Neither of us have ever been before, but we want to go to Universal Japan next year on our trip, so I'd really like to be able to compare. Plus we're not renewing our Knott's Berry Farm annual pass for next year and instead considering getting a Universal Studios one, but want to check it out first to see if we would really use it that much (the price is much cheaper than Disneyland, but not as dirt cheap as Knott's). Anyway, while I was poking around on the website to read up for our Christmas trip, I started getting more and more excited about it and decided to do a solo trip myself tomorrow! They have two day passes that get you a deal over buying the dates separately, and you can use the second ticket within 90 days of the first, so I got one to use tomorrow and then will use the other half when we go on Christmas.
4. I finished up one of the big things I was working on at work! It feels so good to have that finally done! And a lot of progress has been made on the other, to the point where we can say we have enough data to move forward by our deadline at the end of next month. There are some things on the IT side that still need to be hammered out, but I think we might not have to delay the project? Fingers crossed!
5. I didn't use a filter for this photo but the lighting made it look like a filter. Gemma loves to hide away on Carla's desk chair when it's pushed under her desk, which of course it is all the time right now since she's not home.
Just One Thing (26 November 2025)
Nov. 26th, 2025 08:00 amnanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
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Daily Happiness
Nov. 25th, 2025 07:22 pmtorachan1. The AC in the newer of our cars (only a year old!) has crapped out for some reason, and with Carla being out of town, we've just decided to save taking it to the dealership until she gets back. It should be covered under warranty, though it's concerning that this is the second issue we've had within the past month that needed to be repaired. The seat cooling gets slightly cool, but the air from the vents doesn't seem to be much cooler than just if you had the air blowing without AC. I'm just glad it's cool enough weather that the AC isn't needed.
2. With Carla gone, Jasper and Ollie have been super snuggly. Look at this sweetie boy!
2. With Carla gone, Jasper and Ollie have been super snuggly. Look at this sweetie boy!
Just one thing: 25 November 2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 06:31 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
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Petrichor
Nov. 24th, 2025 11:26 pmaurumcalendulaI'm revisiting Petrichor (I'd gotten busy after the second episode and didn't get around to picking it back up until now).
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Daily Happiness
Nov. 24th, 2025 08:06 pmtorachan1. I got my hair cut this morning. Had to reschedule the appointment from last Monday because I had a work meeting conflict with it...and then the meeting was cancelled! Annoying, and my hair was definitely feeling longer than I usually like to let it get, but not the end of the world. Glad to have it cut again, though.
2. I got some tri-tip out of the freezer Saturday to have for dinner and it ended up being more than I thought it was once it was thawed and unwrapped, so I cut it into four small steaks and had one for dinner that day with rice and broccoli, made steak salad yesterday and today for lunch, and then had the final piece tonight in fried rice (which was very simple with only edamame in addition to the steak, and a fried egg on top). I'm glad I was able to make a variety of easy meals with it!
3. This window is one of Molly's favorite spots.
2. I got some tri-tip out of the freezer Saturday to have for dinner and it ended up being more than I thought it was once it was thawed and unwrapped, so I cut it into four small steaks and had one for dinner that day with rice and broccoli, made steak salad yesterday and today for lunch, and then had the final piece tonight in fried rice (which was very simple with only edamame in addition to the steak, and a fried egg on top). I'm glad I was able to make a variety of easy meals with it!
3. This window is one of Molly's favorite spots.
full gears, clear eyes, can't lose (except when you do)
Nov. 24th, 2025 02:38 pmmerridiaIt's Monday, and I'm back at work, but I've finished backing up all of Marvel Move before it slips into the ether AND I've finished all of my years' worth of mandatory online service advisor training before the deadline next week, so I am going to try to get back into updating on the daily again, at least at work.
My porter is on vacation for two weeks, and I'm struggling to get sales to approve enough work for my techs, and it is stressing me the fuck out! Answer my goddamn emails!!
Thankfully, there was wrestling this weekend, and it was very good. I have fallen off my PPV feelings posting since the glorious highs of being at All Out short-circuited my brain a bit, so let's get back on that bullshit!
( AEW Full Gear 2025 )
A bit of good news to end on: my emotional support fitness app just got bought back by one of the original creators, so it's going to live! And not just in a shambling, undead form as was the best-case scenario under its crumbling corporate crypto former overlords. I think I will hit the treadmill when I get home from work to celebrate~
My porter is on vacation for two weeks, and I'm struggling to get sales to approve enough work for my techs, and it is stressing me the fuck out! Answer my goddamn emails!!
Thankfully, there was wrestling this weekend, and it was very good. I have fallen off my PPV feelings posting since the glorious highs of being at All Out short-circuited my brain a bit, so let's get back on that bullshit!
( AEW Full Gear 2025 )
A bit of good news to end on: my emotional support fitness app just got bought back by one of the original creators, so it's going to live! And not just in a shambling, undead form as was the best-case scenario under its crumbling corporate crypto former overlords. I think I will hit the treadmill when I get home from work to celebrate~
Discombobulation and dreamstuff
Nov. 24th, 2025 02:58 pmumadoshiI complain sometimes about time and the surreality of the passage thereof and whatnot, but this morning I had several minutes of genuinely wondering if the way the year is barreling toward its end meant the first Sunday of Advent had already passed without my even noticing. I'm not sure if something about the timing of US Thanksgiving threw me off, or if it's as simple as my not having put "Advent begins" on my calendar, which I think I usually note in advance. (In practical terms it'd be fine; as it happens, I'm planning to use a "burn a bit every day of December" Advent candle, which probably means not breaking out the wreath for the four Sundays. But still.)
I often have weird dreams and don't usually remember much about them, but until today I'm not sure I'd ever before woken up from a dream where I was watching a movie? In the case of this dream, I was at the theatre watching what was officially a Newsflesh film adaptation, but in the sense that (from what I know of it, never having seen it) the World War Z movie is based on that book, which is to say, really not at all. ("Lead" characters who were supposed to be Georgia and Shaun, yes, but nothing to do with [*checks notes*] characters-as-people, zombies, viruses, or politics, and possibly not journalism, either. I think there was some sort of lab creating humanoid/animal mixes of some sort, possibly giving them guns.) It went on for quite some time.
My dream-self was appalled, of course, but at least glad to think Seanan had presumably gotten a decent chunk of money for the rights. She's got cats to feed!
I often have weird dreams and don't usually remember much about them, but until today I'm not sure I'd ever before woken up from a dream where I was watching a movie? In the case of this dream, I was at the theatre watching what was officially a Newsflesh film adaptation, but in the sense that (from what I know of it, never having seen it) the World War Z movie is based on that book, which is to say, really not at all. ("Lead" characters who were supposed to be Georgia and Shaun, yes, but nothing to do with [*checks notes*] characters-as-people, zombies, viruses, or politics, and possibly not journalism, either. I think there was some sort of lab creating humanoid/animal mixes of some sort, possibly giving them guns.) It went on for quite some time.
My dream-self was appalled, of course, but at least glad to think Seanan had presumably gotten a decent chunk of money for the rights. She's got cats to feed!
Just one thing: 24 November 2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 07:00 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt'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!
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
Nov. 23rd, 2025 08:01 pmtorachan1. Last week when I was reorganizing stuff in the shed, we went over some items and decided we no longer needed to keep them, but since it was still raining off and on, I didn't put them out at the time. Today I got them out on the curb, along with a box of ornaments we decided we no longer want, so hopefully those all get picked up soon.
2. I did some cleaning out of kitchen cupboards and fridge drawers yesterday and today. There were a lot of snacks that are expiring within the next week or so and Carla's out of town and I'm not going to eat them on my own, so I took them up to the Little Free Library that's been converted to a mini food pantry and they were already all gone the next time I took a walk.
3. Look at this sweet Chloe.
2. I did some cleaning out of kitchen cupboards and fridge drawers yesterday and today. There were a lot of snacks that are expiring within the next week or so and Carla's out of town and I'm not going to eat them on my own, so I took them up to the Little Free Library that's been converted to a mini food pantry and they were already all gone the next time I took a walk.
3. Look at this sweet Chloe.