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Now and Forever?

I certainly hope not. And yet, when I got up this morning and started to clean the kitchen, I found mouse droppings. Yay. We figure we have to pull out the stove's lower drawer to access the floor and the wall behind it, since we're pretty sure the mice are getting into our place from the outside somewhere in that area.

I'd bet Bob that we'll find no baseboards behind the stove, but it's too obviously a bad bet. We're going to keep an eye on the kitchen counters near the stove for a day or so to see how bold the little buggers are. If it's little to no action, then we'll wait. But if we spot their leavings, then it's time to do the inspection. Which, of course, I'm not looking forward to, especially since we can't really use the foam barrier spray near the stove. Oven heat could end up releasing toxic or potentially toxic fumes, and so we're going to have to buy a whole lot more steel wool. It's going to be a mess.

*wanders away, grumbling*

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: nothing, at the moment

hydrates posting in

bakerstreet

finish that... sentence!

Another meme about judging others.

This one is as easy as they come: someone top-levels by starting a sentence, and people tag in with how they'd finish it. Examples might look like:

Love is...
My day isn't complete without...
Every relationship needs...

Sentence starters can be silly or serious. Is there a better way to get to know someone than by seeing where their mind goes? I think not!

how to play

— top-level with a statement sans an ending.

— other characters tag in with how they'd finish it. judgement and questions follow.

— that's it, nice and simple.

lauradi7dw

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Same thing here with transcript.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

rebeccmeister

I only just learned about this paper (note, opens a PDF). It was apparently published in The Annals of Improbable Research, but my introduction was via a link to a talk the author gave, here: https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk?si=YyldHEMEdFnW2uY7

I wonder how long it took the author to compose the paper.

michaelboy

In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables... Jean Valjean steals the silver spoons and forks from Monseigneur Bienvenu - even after being shown a great hand of kindness. The gendarmes return Valjean promptly where, without reproachment, the bishop insists he had given Valjean the silver and furthers to mention that Valjean has forgotten the very valuable silver candlesticks. It is then, in a moment, that a new path begins to open for the man....

”No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle.

Even on his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and that was all. But what was his thought?
It would have been impossible to divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But what was the nature of this emotion?”

Ultimately this terrible rapscallion becomes a person of great character....all for a few candlesticks - or rather, for the gesture to which they are a symbol. (okay, just like a grade school book report - You’ll have to read the book to find out how it ends) I will say though, It amazes me how such small acts of kindness, understanding and generosity often have the power to affect a person’s life in very positive and substantial ways. Especially when they may seem undeserved.

* * *

For those who showed me kindness for all the times when even "I was a girl"...

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moon_custafer

Finally posted a new (short) chapter! https://archiveofourown.org/works/55953232/chapters/202134506

new_etymology

http://www.daniken.com/en/index.htm

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My posts in development of Eric's ideas and the hypothesis of 'paleo contact':

https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/tag/paleocontact%20hypotheis/

https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/tag/Гипотеза%20палеоконтакта/

https://new-etymology.dreamwidth.org/tag/гипотеза+палеоконтакта

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bakerstreet

the stargazing meme

oo1. comment with your characters
make sure to put names, series, & preferences somewhere!
you can use < ! > sans the spaces to make the comment "blank"
oo2. reply to others in character
oo3. use the rng and enter 1-10
oo4. play out what happens—anything goes!
oo5. profit? oh yeah!

prompts

one → meteor shower you just saw a falling star! and another! make a wish!
two → aliens what was that? was that really? omg no way a ufo!
three → lunar eclipse you've been sitting out for hours, waiting for this. it's so cool!
four → comet does it move fast or slow? either way, it's amazing.
five → full moon the moon is so huge! just don't look too long, it's really bright too.
six → star dust anything can happen in space. make up your own plot!
seven → solar eclipse this might be happening in the middle of the day!
eight → planet sighting is that a new star? nope, just a neighbor in the solar system!
nine → constellations do you know the stories behind these odd patterns?

taken from here

flemmings

A bright blowy day and sidewalks still dry, so off I went in shoes to have eggs benedict. Temps were just at freezing: I should have checked the wind chill, because it was -11C/ 12F. Needed mitts over my gloves, which I did not have. Anyway, eggs were reasonable, though no one ever gets them the way I like ie soft but not runny inside. Kind people helped the walker in and out of Pauper's and I headed back west. And almost immediately turned around in the opposite direction because wind gusts and Mirvish Village high rises make walking both unpleasant and nearly impossible. Walked to the next stoplight and then through Annex streets and laneways to home. 5000 steps is the best I can do these days, shoes or not, because cysts and neuromas are just not fun at all.

And Bateman's Bicycles have closed their Bathurst shop and moved up to Eglinton so if I ever buy a city bike it will not be from them.

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bakerstreet

[ give you a baby ]

We have the pregnancy and pregnant smut meme, but this meme is for the act of impregnation, which is a kink in and of itself, especially when lots of focus is given to in through narration and dialogue. And of course it's a versatile kink, lending itself well to consensual, vanilla, non-con, and many many other things. And there's mpreg, too!

Let's cut to the chase: this is a meme about impregnation, whether it's the doing or the getting. There are prompts for all tastes, even those who just enjoy the idea and not the reality.

HOW?

* Comment with your character, preferences, and anything else. Also include if you want your character to be doing the impregnating or want to be the one impregnated.
* Remember, this meme is focused on impregnation. Play the act itself up!
* Obviously this meme allows for mpreg and f/f preg too.
* Comment to others.
* Be respectful of others.

( prompts )

ccpro

как я уже ~~плакал~~ докладывал, в субаре, на 13м году жизни, смертью храбрых, сдох a/c компрессор. в течении суток я узнал ~~что у меня есть огромная...~~ как его менять, чем отличается оригинальный компрессор от 3rd party, как вставлять трубки и чем намазывать уплотнительные кольца. какие есть альтернативы r-134a и чем они лучше/хуже. как, буквально, на коленке, заправить a/c контур и многая прочая
н чем не vibe ремонтирование?!

x-posted from livejournal.com.

Current Mood: ппп

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bakerstreet

The Swear Myself to You Meme
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pinchhits

Event:

wintertime_woes_exchange, an exchange for unhappy endings
Requirements: 500 words, or a sketch on unlined paper
Pinch hit link: https://wintertime-woes-exchange.dreamwidth.org/5688.html
Due date:January 17, 11:59PM UTC

~~PH 5 - fic - Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Moon Knight (TV 2022), Dragon Age (Video Games)~~

PH 6 - fic - Deltarune (Video Game), Team Fortress 2, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison, Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), The Electric State (2025)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/wintertimewoes2025/user/Kaz3313

To claim, please comment at the pinch hit post linked above, or email wintertime.woes.exchange@gmail.com. Thank you very much!

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Posted by Earth_Sky_Sea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77529236

by Earth_Sky_Sea

So that you and your sons may live long.

Words: 508, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Hagiographa

Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Eda Clawthorne, Luz Noceda, Lilith Clawthorne, Philip Wittebane | Emperor Belos, Amity Blight
Relationships: Eda Clawthorne & Luz Noceda, Eda Clawthorne & Lilith Clawthorne, Amity Blight & Lilith Clawthorne
Additional Tags: Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions), Torah (Tanakh), Prayer: Shema (Abrahamic Religions), Eda Clawthorne is Luz Noceda's Parent, Eda Clawthorne Adopts Luz Noceda, Parent Lilith Clawthorne, Short One Shot

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77529236

loganberrybunny

Public

345/365: Holiday chalet lorry
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"Sore" mood setting as I've grazed my leg on something; I'm not even sure what. Nothing serious, just irritating. In the late afternoon I had to trudge down into town to get a couple of things. The weather was damp and gloomy, with a few bits of ice left in the darker corners. The only thing of any interest at all was this lorry delivering a chalet (okay, "holiday home") to a place along Dowles Road, which is a couple of miles away to the left of the Forest Dog Rescue charity shop. Always fun when there's some idiot in a souped-up Range Rover coming the other way, but nothing like that happened this time.

Current Mood: sore

neonvincent

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Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Star Wars: The Old Republic

kaberett

Celebrating. A's birthday!

Reading. ( Rogerson, Rundell, McGuire, Clarke, Duncan, Scalzi, Hermé )

I also: remain up to date with Dreamwidth; worked through a brief pain management course for Youth, as background reading.

Writing. The Document continues to be expanded a little every day. It is now over 4000 words.

Playing. A bit of The Bridge, "a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective", which sounded like it might be about the right speed for me given that we'd just enjoyed playing through the Monument Valley series, and which instead for the most part does not seem to fit into my brain terribly neatly and is also weirdly evocative/reminiscent of Braid (lonely dude in a suit) while also being kinda... gay? possibly? I can't tell yet? Anyway we've played through I think the first four levels and might or might not continue.

We have also engaged in some Spirits -- mostly A playing and me watching, because I am not feeling up to timing problems and having to keep pressing Esc also feels overwhelming, but I have been Providing Commentary and enjoying watching the process of TURNING MUSHROOMS INTO CLOUDS to HELP THE LEAVES GET HOME.

We have also been playing (independently) sudoku, & grousing about each other's incomprehensible approaches to solving things, and then I nerdsniped A with a specific puzzle & they went to look up Theory And Strategy Of Sudoku, and I may yet get around to uh actually looking up the approach named "jellyfish"...

Elsenet vass has introduced me to Squardle.

Cooking. One spice mix, and subsequently one recipe from East featuring a vegetable I think I have not previously consciously eaten (Jerusalem artichokes). Another batch of medlar sticky toffee pudding as A's birthday cake; I think that in fact one cannot tell the difference between medlar that has not been jellied and medlar residue from jellying, at least in this setting. Also, turns out you can successfully add beetroot to the red cabbage and cauliflower udon noodles thing. Oh, and pineapple fried rice, which A had somehow never previously encountered???

Eating. We were both, on Friday, quite tired and sad. The internet brought us Pizza Express. It was good.

Making & mending. I FINISHED A GLOVE. I WOVE IN THE ENDS. Now to cast on glove #2 of that pair...

Growing. Both orchids seem to be putting forth flower stems! And I have sown lemongrass, pineapple physalis, and (not expecting any of these to actually germinate) some lithops I was sent as a gift a while ago...