Taxes!

Sep. 29th, 2025 05:06 pm
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I did a little dusting in the downstairs lav and picked out some stuff that we can get rid of.

The stuff parked under our deck for the renovation has been removed, and I have told them about the small number of remaining items (stepladder, stuff like that) that they have left behind probably by accident. Nearly done!

I put the last of the K-1s into turbo tax and ran error check. And then I went through and fixed a bunch of things, mostly related to foreign taxes, missing cost bases, and random other stuff associated with the K-1s. We are down to R. needing to enter the health insurance info for the state taxes, and I need to go over my charitables to make sure I entered at least most of them. Then it is file and pay the relatively nominal amount I underpaid. I had failed to enter the extension payments, or the state estimateds, so it looked a little dire when I first started working on things today, but once those were in it wasn’t too bad. For a while, it looked like I’d over shot on federal, but no. Once the k-1s were in, I was a little under, but not by much.

Tomorrow is drive out to construction site day, so that’ll be fun. I have to go early because in addition to meetings, there are additional meetings. Yay! Or something. It’ll be fun. I think I’ll make an apple crisp to bring with me.

I walked with M.

I’m almost done with Lego Tudor Corner, and then it’ll be time to figure out what I’m taking apart next. I’m waffling between taking apart the Razor Crest and Millenium Falcon or the Disney Castle and Railroad. I’m pretty sure I’m disassembling all of them in the next month or two; it’s merely a question of order. I could instead assemble the Halloween Wreath, which looks fun and is definitely small.

Sunday zooms

Sep. 28th, 2025 11:00 pm
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I briefly attended family zoom.

I had a delightful long zoom with I.

A. had a playdate with B.

It was a fairly quiet day. I’m still procrastinating on taxes, to the point where I actually did some vacuuming. Shocking!
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PH 2 (fic) - Teen Titans (Animated Series), 七つの大罪 - 鈴木央 | Nanatsu no Taizai | The Seven Deadly Sins - Suzuki Nakaba (Anime & Manga), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Depois do Universo | Beyond the Universe (2022) )

PH 4 (fic) - A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV), Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey )

PH 5 (fic, art) - Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken | Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Baten Kaitos Series (Video Games) )

PH 17 (fic) - Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Crossover Fandom (Vlad 2003/Vlad Tepes 1979), 15th Century CE RPF, Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )

PH 18 (fic) - Rune Factory (Video Games), Fallen London | Echo Bazaar, Disco Elysium (Video Game), Crossover Fandom (Star Trek ToS/Disco Elysium, Disco Elysium/Fallen London) )

PH 31 (fic, art) - 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games), 百英雄伝 | Eiyuden Chronicle (Video Games), Triangle Strategy (Video Game), Royal Blood | Gemfire, Dragon Force (Video Game), Star Ocean: The Second Story | Second Evolution, 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game), 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games) )

PH 32 (fic) - Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), The Conjuring (Movies), Crossover Fandom (Jujutsu Kaisen/Blood: The Last Vampire) )

PH 34 (fic, art, podfic) - Twisted-Wonderland (Video Game), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Parahumans Series - Wildbow )

PH 35 (fic) - Death Note (Anime & Manga), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )


Thank you!

Bundle of Holding: 5E Treasures

Sep. 29th, 2025 02:01 pm
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A magical hoard for Fifth Edition roleplaying

Bundle of Holding: 5E Treasures

Clarke Award Finalists 2016

Sep. 29th, 2025 12:15 pm
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2016: The Chilcot Inquiry illustrates the meticulous process by which the UK went to war in Iraq, Lord Lucan is declared dead, and the UK’s narrow vote to leave the EU is at worst the second stupidest collective decision made by a Western democracy in 2016.

Pretend I caught that the poll autofilled the wrong question and that it reads "which 2016 Clarke Award finalists did you read?"

Poll #33672 Clarke Award Finalists 2016
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29


Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
14 (48.3%)

Arcadia by Iain Pears
2 (6.9%)

Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
4 (13.8%)

The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
8 (27.6%)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
23 (79.3%)

Way Down Dark by James Smythe
0 (0.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2016 Clarke Award finalists did you read??
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arcadia by Iain Pears
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Way Down Dark by James Smythe
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- The State of the Me: v. tired. Nothing dreadful, merely too "geriatric" to support regular heavy menstruation. My family: dragging the average age of menopause waaay up since forever, lmao.

- Futuristic lolibobs: an attempt will soon be made on at least four islands in a week. Might be awol for a while. I haven't sent you to Coventry, and aten't ded (probably).

- Ghosts of lolibobs past: I can't stop thinking about these three wholly unrelated things...

1. Those British seaside food kiosks that hedge their weather-related bets with cheery signs for "ice cream" on one side of the window and "hot food" on the other. I'm now imagining a typical British holidaymaker emerging from the front of the queue with a whippy cone in one hand and boiling tea in the other, lol.

2. While changing trains in Cardiff with time to spare I wandered out of the station to see what I miss when I'm in a hurry and there's a wonderful statue of headmistress Betty Campbell, the first Black headteacher in Wales, which has been there since 2021. It's a realistic depiction, by sculptor Eve Shepherd, of Campbell literally larger than life, at 4m (13ft), and surrounded by equally well-sculpted local children, mostly reading. The inscription on the back quotes Campbell: "We were a good example to the rest of the world, how you can live together regardless of where you come from or the colour of your skin." - "Roedden ni'n esiampl dda i weddill y byd o sut y gallwn gyd-fyw beth bynnag yw eich gwreiddiau neu liw eich croen.". Campbell was chosen as the subject in a public vote, ahead of other women such as poet Cranogwen, suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas, Labour Party organiser Elizabeth Andrews, and anthropologist Elaine Morgan, so it was a significant sign of widespread respect in addition to the honour of a public statue in Central Square, next to one of the busiest pedestrian street crossings in Cardiff.

Images of the Betty Campbell statue (wikimedia).

3. There's gNo place like gnHome. Still thinking about the bare grass expanse hosting Llarge Llandudno LLandudgnomes around the base of supports for a street name sign rooted in the lawn of a suburban garden, and the way the gnomes weren't blocking the sign but enhancing it: displayed like a collection in an open air museum; prompting viewers to acknowledge the gnomes in a commentary on suburban culture, subverting passing glances like a Banksy, or like being Rick-rolled by traditional genii loci ("never gonna give you up"); or an accumulation of gifts after one or two were initially placed by the gnHome-owner.

Llarge Llandudno Gnomes

Surrounding a street sign on a suburban lawn,
huddled like a team playing capture the flag,
arrayed like an army of watchful guards,
clotted like antibodies against invasion,
aggregated like pebbles set in concrete,
clumped in a clod like earth elementals,
clustered like petals round the disc of a daisy,
a constellation of gnomic gods.
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I’m feeling curmudgeonly currently, so not many of these movies sound good to me. Even the descriptions of the movies I plan to watch with actors I like don’t wow me. Here are the movies I plan to check out (they’re listed in the order they’ll air):


“Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!” with Kimberley Sustad and Robert Buckley (iZombie).
Premieres: Saturday, October 25
Summary: After a rough year, a weatherman returns to his hometown for Christmas, but things start to look up for him once he crosses paths with a former mentor and a former crush.
Reason for watching: Kimberley Sustad


8 more back here )


This is where I got the list of movies from: Hallmark's 2025 Countdown to Christmas Schedule Is Finally Here (thepioneerwoman.com)
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I got a lot done this morning before I left to see mom. For the entire day, I did two loads of laundry (washed, dried, AND folded/hung up), hand-washed dishes (so many dishes!), went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, changed kitty litter, washed out the dogs’ bowls and cleaned the mat they sit on, swept the kitchen and dining room, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and showered. At Pip’s suggestion we had hot dogs and beans for supper.

I also placed an online order, which included another Christmas gift for Pip. (The reason it ‘included’ a gift for Pip is because, while getting him a Buffalo Bills sweatshirt was the main reason I placed the order, I decided to get two t-shirts (one short- and one long-sleeved) for myself. *g*) So far I've got three items for him, which is amazing, because while I often have some ideas, I procrastinate getting stuff for him until I'm like o_O and must rush.

I started the next Duncan Kincaid book today.

Temps started out at 61.2(F) and reached 85. That Pip saw. It was already 79 degrees by the time I left a little before 11am, so I would not be surprised if it got even hotter than that. Since the temps weren’t too bad when I got up, I started the day in shorts and a t-shirt so I didn’t even have to change.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. more back here )

Alien: Earth 1.08

Sep. 29th, 2025 11:38 am
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Darth Real Life hounds my every step these days, but I did manage to watch the Alien: Earth )

Menz B Weeerd

Sep. 29th, 2025 09:58 am
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I do not think these are healthy or useful ways to look at SEX. Notches on the bedpost was bad enough, or how many times per night they could Do It, but really, these are taking the whole thing to new levels.

My boyfriend sees sex as a competition he is losing. How can I change his mind?:

He feels like he doesn’t perform enough (he does) and worries he isn’t big enough (he is!). He grew up without a father – the father’s fault – and I wonder if this has something to do with it. How can I assist him to see sex as non-competitive?:
Response:I assume he doesn’t think he’s losing the competition with you, somehow, but with imagined manly foes, comparisons, symbols of everything he (imagines he) isn’t?

I suppose there isn't actually some scoreboard somewhere out there Rate My Manly Performance but I wouldn't entirely rule that out, alas.

Because of this: Sperm-racing investors blow $10 million on ‘seed round’ for sports venture:

Last weekend, Zhu flew to YouTuber David Dobrik’s slick white Los Angeles mansion, collected the sperm of three influencers, and injected it onto a small race track as a crowd gathered in the living room. The competitors — Harry Jowsey, Jason Nash, and Ilya Fedorovich — watched a video of their swimmers, overlaid with animated tadpoles, zoom to the finish line.

Apparently, 'Zhu insists he has a deeper, more profitable mission: to gamify health and build an empire around male fertility'.

Yeah, well, I'm over here going

a) tortoise and hare, and are those sprinters whooshing right past the ovum in their mad gallop?

b) bit of an assumption that they are actually, you know, viably fertile, which I don't think at all correlates with speed. Motility is one thing, having what it takes to fertilise that ovum is another (and haven't I read something somewhere about It Is The Ovum That Chooses? Heh.)

c) Mary Ellman's image in Thinking About Women: 'the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15.

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Sep. 29th, 2025 09:39 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] violsva!
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The following pinch hits are due at 11:59pm EST on Saturday January 24th 2026, and pinch hitters are also asked to check in in November 2025. To claim, please reply with your AO3 name, and let me know which recipient/PH number you want. You're also welcome to claim by emailing mod.modzilla@gmail.com. You can swap from your current assignment to a pinch hit; if so, please say that's what you're doing - otherwise I'll assume you're picking up an assignment on top of any current assignments.

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Pinch hit #2 - fic - Fright Night (2011), Our Flag Means Death (TV), Riptide (TV), Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix - Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, Strange Angel (TV), Evil (TV 2019) )

Pinch hit #4 - art, fic [varies by request] - 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV) )

Pinch hit #8 - fic - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Big Country (1958), Home Before Dark (1958) )

Canon promo post: Dial M for Murder

Pinch hit #13 - art, fic - World Wrestling Entertainment, The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game), はたらく細胞 | Hataraku Saibou | Cells at Work! (Anime), Original Work )

Pinch hit #18 - fic - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom x2 [Grimm TV/Guardian TV, Grimm TV/Christabel - Coleridge], 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), 绅探 | Detective L (TV) )

Pinch hit #20 - fic - Tales of Berseria, Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball, Bleach (Anime & Manga) )

Pinch hit #21 - art, fic [varies by request] - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles (Video Game), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) )

Pinch hit #22 - art, fic - 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV), The Pitt (TV), The Bear (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, KPop Demon Hunters (2025) )

Pinch hit #23 - art, fic [varies by request] - Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, LitenVerse - Nino Cipri, Stellar Harvest series - Eleanor Arnason, Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Queen's Gambit TV/Man Who Fell To Earth 1976], The Breakfast Club (1985) )

Pinch hit #24 - fic - Angel: the Series, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Crossover Fandom [various] x2, DCU (Comics), Gothika (2003), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Original Work, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025) )

Pinch hit #25 - art, fic [varies by request] - Original Work x2, Tenet (2020), Crossover Fandom [various], Murderbot (TV) x2 )

Pinch hit #26 - art, fic [varies by request] - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games), Watch Dogs (Video Games) )

Canon promo post: Watch Dogs


Thanks for your interest! Please also let me know if I've missed any canon promo posts.

Clay Fest

Sep. 28th, 2025 10:25 pm
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Denise and I spent all day unloading the van, inventorying all the pots, a restickering them with bar code price labels. Tomorrow I have to swap out the display hardware, load up lights, run down to our storage unit to get the carpet. Clay Fest is coming! This next weekend!


Thanks a heap

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:58 pm
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CenturyLink has just informed me that my email address will be changing next month. They're discontinuing the Q.com domain, and changing all of the old addressed to username@myctl.com. They'll automatically forward emails through the end of the year, as well as autorespond with a notice about the address  change. Of course, I'll have to track down all the online accounts that use my email address as login and figure out how to change them up. At least they gave detailed instructions on how to reconfigure my POP and SMTP mail settings.

This will hopefully fix an issue I've been having emailing yahoo.com and msn.com addresses. Apparently, Q.com had gotten riddled with spam accounts, so those domains just block any incoming mail, including, occasionally, mine.

And the 5000 business cards I just re-ordered have my @offcenter.biz address, so I'll just have to update my email forwarder at 9 Planets, rather than throw the whole box out and order more.

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Brush with fame

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:37 pm
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This actually happened the Saturday before last. Early in the morning, maybe just before 10, and Chere says to the guy walking past her booth, Does anyone ever tell you, you look like Kevin Smith?

All the time, he says. Do you want to take a picture?

Nah, I'm good, she says.

She gets home that night, sees a post on her friend's Facebook, Kevin Smith is at Saturday Market!

She thought he was a look-alike; now she's afraid he thinks she was being rude. So embarrassed.

Chill

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:10 pm
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It was 45° F. when I left for Market yesterday. I was all in flannel, wool socks and hat, heavy denim over-jacket. Fingerless gloves in my pockets, just in case. Wishing for a wooly coat, like a llama, or a mountain goat.

Of course, once the sun was properly up, I was too warm. Lost the coat and flannel half-way through set-up, though I kept the hat and socks until late afternoon. Fall weather, man, it's all over the place.

Students were back, which is always nice. Packs of incoming freshpersons, goggle-eyed at their first visit to Saturday Market. I have a lot of fun talking with them, even if they're mostly buying watercolor cards to frame as tiny art. A couple of groups stopped early to talk and look, then returned at the end of the afternoon to pick out a cup or stew mug. I also sold three pieces to a young couple who'd just moved into their first house. Got a hundred-dollar bill as a housewarming present, and used it to buy two stew mugs and a tall mug from me.

Mom and little girl came in for soup bowls; mom picked out a heron and salmon, asked daughter to pick the third. Daughter wanted the hen and chicks, adamant when mom asked if she'd rather have the rooster. No, this is perfect, I said, She (mom)'s the hen and you're the chick. No, she said, I'm the hen, she's the chick. Then we got silly, guessing how old she must be if her mother is her daughter. 80? 90? Much giggling, and a nice sale.

Lots of Wisconsin connections: a couple from Antioch, near Kenosha, was Chere's first sale of the day. Later spotted a girl with a University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse sweatshirt--I did my undergrad in LaCrosse, and in fact took a math class at UW-L. She'd never been, though she visited Lake Geneva last summer. And one of my last sales of the day was to a new student and amateur potter with most of her family in Madison.

I seem to have lost all ability to judge ages. All of the freshmen look like pre-teens to me; one new student I talked to turned out to be an incoming graduate student, and the very young-looking woman with the American Mathematics Society tote who I talked with about my undergraduate math major turned out to be on the math faculty.

I am so old.

Bullhorn evangelists were back after a blissfully long hiatus, because nothing will draw students to your cause like shouting at them on the street corner. Fortunately, the music mostly drowned them out from my booth, especially Kef, a Balkan dance band.

Had to hurry my takedown a little, they were closing 8th Street at 5:30 for the Light Parade. Was a bit of a scramble, everyone seemed to be parking in front of my booth, but I finally managed to back my van up and load out with 5 minutes to spare.



Lumber

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:20 pm
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After my ride I went to town and picked up several pieces of lumber. There are only a few cuts needed to put together three narrow bridges  that I'll use for an obstacle next month. 

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