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The Tyrant Philosophers #1: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 2022. Incredibly hard to tell the characters apart. Hard to get into. Not sure if I'm going to give book 2 a try.
The Vampire Lestat
The new trailer is out! So much to look forward to!
yarning
Missed yarn group again. Made a new Rockstar Lestat, so slowly. Sold 2 bunnies, a catnip kiss, and a catnip heart where I had to order the yarn to make it in a hurry yesterday. And sold a made to order bunny that I'm working on now. Still haven't started the Easter carrots order. No progress on the bunny for the new kitten academy momcat, who gave birth last night. New commissions on 2 more kickbunnies for down the line.
healthcrap
Still feeling super crummy. Tongue hurts. No energy. Migraine yesterday. Vertigo is slightly better.
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury stations retrograde today (in Pisces) and stations direct March 20. Plus there's an eclipse in Mercury-ruled Virgo in a few days. That's a lot of communications trouble coming our way.
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
The Tyrant Philosophers #1: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 2022. Incredibly hard to tell the characters apart. Hard to get into. Not sure if I'm going to give book 2 a try.
The Vampire Lestat
The new trailer is out! So much to look forward to!
yarning
Missed yarn group again. Made a new Rockstar Lestat, so slowly. Sold 2 bunnies, a catnip kiss, and a catnip heart where I had to order the yarn to make it in a hurry yesterday. And sold a made to order bunny that I'm working on now. Still haven't started the Easter carrots order. No progress on the bunny for the new kitten academy momcat, who gave birth last night. New commissions on 2 more kickbunnies for down the line.
healthcrap
Still feeling super crummy. Tongue hurts. No energy. Migraine yesterday. Vertigo is slightly better.
Mercury Retrograde
Mercury stations retrograde today (in Pisces) and stations direct March 20. Plus there's an eclipse in Mercury-ruled Virgo in a few days. That's a lot of communications trouble coming our way.
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
“But I had an epiphany. You know what all this sycophancy constantly being told you’re right, that you’re brilliant, that every decision is flawless? That sounds an awful lot like being a billionaire.”
[sic - perhaps the grammatical error is to show the writer is not an AI]
"The Secret Tool AI Uses to Seduce You: Explained," by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
I use AI to get answers to simple questions and I hate when the bot addresses me personally. I hate it possibly to an irrational degree. (Even when someone else shares with me an AI convo they had, I get mad.) Do you use AI for anything and what do you think of this design choice?
[sic - perhaps the grammatical error is to show the writer is not an AI]
"The Secret Tool AI Uses to Seduce You: Explained," by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
I use AI to get answers to simple questions and I hate when the bot addresses me personally. I hate it possibly to an irrational degree. (Even when someone else shares with me an AI convo they had, I get mad.) Do you use AI for anything and what do you think of this design choice?
can, to some small degree, be simulated by a blindfolded person trying to push buttons while someone else shouts confused and panicked instructions at them:
(Except that these guys mastered jumping WAY faster than I did.)
It's hilarious and delightful to me to watch people having an experience of Dark Souls which is not wholly unlike mine. In a weird way I feel kind of #represented.
In later vids, they have (like me) discovered the joys of the halberd as adaptive technology for people who are bad at spacing and aiming.
(Except that these guys mastered jumping WAY faster than I did.)
It's hilarious and delightful to me to watch people having an experience of Dark Souls which is not wholly unlike mine. In a weird way I feel kind of #represented.
In later vids, they have (like me) discovered the joys of the halberd as adaptive technology for people who are bad at spacing and aiming.
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( books (Pratchett, Kingfisher) )
yarning
Finished a ninth balaclava. Soaked the five Icelandic wool ones in vinegar water, and then in fabric softener. Washed the 4 acrylic ones. Let them all dry. Found an extra hat for the children's shelter that I lost in my couch, oops. Finished the pink bunny. Didn't go to yarn group bc I felt rotten. Got everything in the mail. Started a new bunny for the new momcat at KA. Got a commission for 12 amigurumi carrots for someone's Easter tree and a commission for a new Rockstar Lestat art doll!
healthcrap
Still having TERRIBLE vertigo, sinusitis & a sore throat. My scalp is tingling to distraction. And my badly bitten tongue still hasn't healed. :(((
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
yarning
Finished a ninth balaclava. Soaked the five Icelandic wool ones in vinegar water, and then in fabric softener. Washed the 4 acrylic ones. Let them all dry. Found an extra hat for the children's shelter that I lost in my couch, oops. Finished the pink bunny. Didn't go to yarn group bc I felt rotten. Got everything in the mail. Started a new bunny for the new momcat at KA. Got a commission for 12 amigurumi carrots for someone's Easter tree and a commission for a new Rockstar Lestat art doll!
healthcrap
Still having TERRIBLE vertigo, sinusitis & a sore throat. My scalp is tingling to distraction. And my badly bitten tongue still hasn't healed. :(((
#resist
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3
I hope you're all doing well! <333
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One of the downsides of working from home (also not having a car but that's more about convenience in this particular case) is that getting to church for Ash Wednesday is more of a struggle for me. When I still went into my office, I could take a longer lunch and go up to the church closest to me for the noontime service. Last year, I was able to go since it was on the way home from a training and figured at the very least I could get ashes on the corner if I didn't make the service over at St. Paul's. As luck would have it, I made the service. I don't go to church regularly much anymore but St. Paul's is a good place to go when I do.
This year, my time is stacked because I've to to leave work early for something else and I didn't necessarily want to take the whole day off. I did do the readings for the day, which conveniently come in email (yay, technology). Also, I have chosen a saint for Lent Madness - this is new for me but hey, having saints duking it out in a March Madness style bracket cracks me up. I am pulling for Marina the Monk, who wanted to join a monastary rather than get married (her dad was going to marry her off and join a monastary himself and she said nope, let's be monks together) and dressed as a a young man to join up.I was previously unfamiliar with her story but the Episcopal Church added her to the liturgical calendar in 2022. She's been long venerated in Easter Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches.
This year, my time is stacked because I've to to leave work early for something else and I didn't necessarily want to take the whole day off. I did do the readings for the day, which conveniently come in email (yay, technology). Also, I have chosen a saint for Lent Madness - this is new for me but hey, having saints duking it out in a March Madness style bracket cracks me up. I am pulling for Marina the Monk, who wanted to join a monastary rather than get married (her dad was going to marry her off and join a monastary himself and she said nope, let's be monks together) and dressed as a a young man to join up.I was previously unfamiliar with her story but the Episcopal Church added her to the liturgical calendar in 2022. She's been long venerated in Easter Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches.
I love saint stories. They start out pretty tame but then you run into something like, "Oh, by the way, there was that thing with the snakes and it was pretty amazing."
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