Отчет
May. 23rd, 2025 04:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silent_glukВот очередная пятница, и с вами опять безмерно благодарная за помощь и поддержку жаба с очередным отчетом.
По медицинской части - "все сложно". Я наконец нашла день, когда интересное мероприятие будет вечером, т.е. мне в тот день все равно а) выползать, б) вечером, и совсем уже собралась было записаться к стоматологу на день, но тут ко мне пришел вирус. То ли тот самый, что пытался не пустить меня на Ночь Музеев (тогда мы его вывели, он подкопил сил и вернулся), то ли другой... В общем, результат один - а мы так хотели сегодня пойти на выставку наивного искусства... Думаю. Зато Ка-Мышь отпустили,ничего ей не сделав.
По бытовой части - сходили на Ночь Музеев (окучили два музея, пришли к выводу, что с экскурсиями не уживаемся, на второй музей еле хватило времени), вот хотели на выставку наивного искусства (она завтра закрывается)... В Аптекарский огород огари привели огарят. Туда мы тоже хотим. В Ботаническом саду МГУ цветет сирень. Сами понимаете.
Зато по финансовой части - без новостей. На карте - 16.000, долг - 58.000, до следующей пенсии недели 2...
Уже 4 года, как с нами нет Романа, но все равно спасибо вам всем! Я о вашей роли в той истории всегда буду помнить!
По медицинской части - "все сложно". Я наконец нашла день, когда интересное мероприятие будет вечером, т.е. мне в тот день все равно а) выползать, б) вечером, и совсем уже собралась было записаться к стоматологу на день, но тут ко мне пришел вирус. То ли тот самый, что пытался не пустить меня на Ночь Музеев (тогда мы его вывели, он подкопил сил и вернулся), то ли другой... В общем, результат один - а мы так хотели сегодня пойти на выставку наивного искусства... Думаю. Зато Ка-Мышь отпустили,ничего ей не сделав.
По бытовой части - сходили на Ночь Музеев (окучили два музея, пришли к выводу, что с экскурсиями не уживаемся, на второй музей еле хватило времени), вот хотели на выставку наивного искусства (она завтра закрывается)... В Аптекарский огород огари привели огарят. Туда мы тоже хотим. В Ботаническом саду МГУ цветет сирень. Сами понимаете.
Зато по финансовой части - без новостей. На карте - 16.000, долг - 58.000, до следующей пенсии недели 2...
Уже 4 года, как с нами нет Романа, но все равно спасибо вам всем! Я о вашей роли в той истории всегда буду помнить!
[food] ... :|
May. 22nd, 2025 11:14 pmkaberettWagamama have once again Done The Thing, by which I mean: the reliable Always Food For Alexes thing they've been doing for the last little while has rotated back off their menu.
The thing I tried instead today was sufficiently food for me to finish the rice but not sufficiently food for me to finish all of the toppings; I am suspicious of pho in "a clear yuzu broth" (which is not the same thing as "I won't try it").
(This is a Thing they have now done Twice, the first time about 15 years ago, and YES I AM HOLDING A GRUDGE.)
520 Day things, part one!
May. 22nd, 2025 11:13 pmtrobadoraSecond day of not-a-zombie-ness! And I do wonder if it's connected to the fact that I finally managedd to write (and finish!) a fic again ...
For this year's Guardian 520 Day exchange, I wrote for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
AVAAntares. Protective and possessive Shen Wei, yes! And not in the way you'd maybe expect. *g* This story owes a lot to my beta china_shop, who made me make it immeasurably better:
And I received fantastic artwork for another of my stories, A Thread as Red as Blood, which is a post-YOHE first time at the SID. Just look at whatfacethestrange made - it's so good, and captures both the scene in my fic and the canon aesthetic so well!
(This post is part one because once I've made my way through the collection I hope to post recs. Such a bounty in there!)
For this year's Guardian 520 Day exchange, I wrote for
china_shop, who made me make it immeasurably better:The Consultant (3,830 words)
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, Gao Jingfeng
Content Tags: Episode Related, Episode 13, Canon Divergence, Protective Shěn Wēi, Possessive Shen Wei, Shen Wei's secrets, Dancing Around an Envoy Reveal, Zhao Yunlan's Self-Worth Issues, Pre-Relationship
Summary:
Never mind the chaos of the ruined wedding all around them: this was a different trainwreck altogether. Shen Wei - Dixingren Shen Wei, Black-Cloaked Envoy Shen Wei who must have used his powers to break Zheng Yi's spell - had drawn Minister Gao's attention.
And I received fantastic artwork for another of my stories, A Thread as Red as Blood, which is a post-YOHE first time at the SID. Just look at what
facethestrange made - it's so good, and captures both the scene in my fic and the canon aesthetic so well!Attuned by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationship/Characters: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Content Tags: Implied Sexual Content, Post-Coital Cuddling, Tenderness, Forehead Touching, Inspired by Fanfiction, Fanart, Drawing
Summary:They leaned against each other, Shen Wei still straddling him, their foreheads touching, both breathing hard. Zhao Yunlan felt sweat cooling on his skin as his heart came down from its race.Illustration for A Thread as Red as Blood by Trobadora.
"Shen Wei," he murmured, just for the pleasure of saying his name.
"I'm sorry," Shen Wei said, sounding not at all sorry. "I suddenly found I couldn't wait a moment longer."
(This post is part one because once I've made my way through the collection I hope to post recs. Such a bounty in there!)
Getting the keys on Monday
May. 22nd, 2025 08:27 pmfeuervogelI got the contract Monday afternoon and signed it, and the version with their signatures came through today, so it's officially mine! I could theoretically have gotten the keys tomorrow at 8 am, but I'd have to leave at like 7:15 to get there on time, and I'm just not mentally prepared to be out of bed that early. (I'll be *awake* that early, but still farting around on phone games.) So I'm meeting her at 9:45 on Monday, at which point I'll have the apartment. I can order my fridge and measure for cabinets and get the actual locations of the doors and things. Then I can start looking on ebay for used cabinets and see if there's anything I like that fits and isn't too expensive (and has some matching bottom cabinets).
I also will be deciding if I want a dishwasher or not. They're very convenient, but I might rather have the storage, you know? You can get a half-size (30 cm) dishwasher here, which means I could put a 30 cm set of drawers beside it.
One huge weight off my chest, once the payment comes through, is that my money from the shares I bought was promised to me by the end of next week, so if that comes through early in the week, I can buy furniture and appliances. If it's later in the week (or if it doesn't come at all, at which point I'm getting a lawyer involved, yet another thing I can't afford), I'll have to wait.
It really sucks not to have a real credit card in Euros and that the USD-EUR rate sucks so bad right now, because it would be convenient to put this on my Delta AmEx and rack up some miles. (Honestly I keep thinking I should cancel it and just keep the one Visa I have, because there's an annual fee and I don't use it enough to be worth it, even if I get Delta miles on it.)
It also really sucks that my long-scheduled, long-awaited trip to the US for 4th St and seeing my family is right in the middle of this process. But since I'm getting the keys on Monday, I get a whole extra week I hadn't planned on, so that's really helpful.
Since I'm paying rent through June and into July, and most of my stuff is going to be here, I don't have to move Musya before I disappear for 3 weeks and find a cat sitter and stress her out with a new location and no me. She'll be here where she's familiar and happy. And then get disrupted right after I get back, but there's no avoiding that.
I'm probably going to take a small carload of things over (or a larger one, if I can get help) including Musya after I get back and basically settle in over there and come back here and box things up. I won't worry about her getting out or stepped on in the moving process (I've decided to hire movers) if she's already at the new place and I just lock her in the bathroom with her litter box and food. She'll yell and everything, but she'll get over it.
I'll also have to figure out how to get from my old place to the new place before the movers do, because transit takes 45 minutes if everything works out perfectly, and depending on traffic, it takes half an hour or more to drive. One derby friend said she had a friend waiting at the new place while she cycled over. Which could work, if I can find someone who's also flexibly employed or unemployed. Or find someone to bum a ride off of, whatever.
I also will be deciding if I want a dishwasher or not. They're very convenient, but I might rather have the storage, you know? You can get a half-size (30 cm) dishwasher here, which means I could put a 30 cm set of drawers beside it.
One huge weight off my chest, once the payment comes through, is that my money from the shares I bought was promised to me by the end of next week, so if that comes through early in the week, I can buy furniture and appliances. If it's later in the week (or if it doesn't come at all, at which point I'm getting a lawyer involved, yet another thing I can't afford), I'll have to wait.
It really sucks not to have a real credit card in Euros and that the USD-EUR rate sucks so bad right now, because it would be convenient to put this on my Delta AmEx and rack up some miles. (Honestly I keep thinking I should cancel it and just keep the one Visa I have, because there's an annual fee and I don't use it enough to be worth it, even if I get Delta miles on it.)
It also really sucks that my long-scheduled, long-awaited trip to the US for 4th St and seeing my family is right in the middle of this process. But since I'm getting the keys on Monday, I get a whole extra week I hadn't planned on, so that's really helpful.
Since I'm paying rent through June and into July, and most of my stuff is going to be here, I don't have to move Musya before I disappear for 3 weeks and find a cat sitter and stress her out with a new location and no me. She'll be here where she's familiar and happy. And then get disrupted right after I get back, but there's no avoiding that.
I'm probably going to take a small carload of things over (or a larger one, if I can get help) including Musya after I get back and basically settle in over there and come back here and box things up. I won't worry about her getting out or stepped on in the moving process (I've decided to hire movers) if she's already at the new place and I just lock her in the bathroom with her litter box and food. She'll yell and everything, but she'll get over it.
I'll also have to figure out how to get from my old place to the new place before the movers do, because transit takes 45 minutes if everything works out perfectly, and depending on traffic, it takes half an hour or more to drive. One derby friend said she had a friend waiting at the new place while she cycled over. Which could work, if I can find someone who's also flexibly employed or unemployed. Or find someone to bum a ride off of, whatever.
#2232 - Snooks
May. 22nd, 2025 12:30 amjethricHere is Thursday's Modem Problems from Matthew McAndrews:
( Matthew McAndrews' Modem Problems #2232 - Snooks - May 22nd, 2025 )Любопытно...
May. 22nd, 2025 05:10 amsilent_glukЗанесло нас с Ка-Мышью как-то в некий... скверик не скверик, потому что деревьев там было как-то мало да и те в отдалении, такую площадочку вокруг клумбы. Впрочем, на той площадке были скамейки, что нам и было надо.
Это была преамбула.
Теперь суть. Кроме клумбы и скамеек, на той площадке был информационный плакат (а когда это мы с Ка-Мышью проходили мимо печатного текста без его изучения?) - про историю микрорайона, какие там когда-то были деревни, сады, чем занимались местные жители и т.д. (мне особенно запомнилось, как в одном из местных прудов поймали осетра; наверное, сами же его туда когда-то и запустили, иначе откуда бы ему там взяться?). Ну так вот, занимались местные жители когда-то и золотным шитьем. И упоминалось, что память об этом сохраняется в оформлении какого-то парка (или не парка? В общем, чего-то рекреационно-природного) - в желтых и подобных тонах - и в названии детской площадки - "Канитель".
Я все понимаю, и про желание сохранить историческую память, и про то, что слова со временем меняют значение... Но лично я бы детскую площадку "Канителью" не называла. С другой стороны, кто знает названия детских площадок? Может, на это и расчет: и память вроде бы сохранена, и никто этого названия не знает, а потому оно никому и не мешает... С третьей стороны, а как еще назвать, чтобы было в честь золотного шитья?..
Это была преамбула.
Теперь суть. Кроме клумбы и скамеек, на той площадке был информационный плакат (а когда это мы с Ка-Мышью проходили мимо печатного текста без его изучения?) - про историю микрорайона, какие там когда-то были деревни, сады, чем занимались местные жители и т.д. (мне особенно запомнилось, как в одном из местных прудов поймали осетра; наверное, сами же его туда когда-то и запустили, иначе откуда бы ему там взяться?). Ну так вот, занимались местные жители когда-то и золотным шитьем. И упоминалось, что память об этом сохраняется в оформлении какого-то парка (или не парка? В общем, чего-то рекреационно-природного) - в желтых и подобных тонах - и в названии детской площадки - "Канитель".
Я все понимаю, и про желание сохранить историческую память, и про то, что слова со временем меняют значение... Но лично я бы детскую площадку "Канителью" не называла. С другой стороны, кто знает названия детских площадок? Может, на это и расчет: и память вроде бы сохранена, и никто этого названия не знает, а потому оно никому и не мешает... С третьей стороны, а как еще назвать, чтобы было в честь золотного шитья?..
Dept. of Not-White Noise
May. 21st, 2025 05:04 pmkaffy_rOverly Loud Music in Ear Buds: Threat or Menace?*
It's been a minute since I last posted. Not, like, a real long minute, but a metaphorical minute nonetheless. For the last few days, it's been dank and grey here in Chicago, and the stress levels at Casa kaffy_rbob continue to be somewhere between Defcon 3 and 2, for all the reasons previously recited at tedious length.
When that happens, or continues happening, my go-to stress reliever, the one that effectively cuts my ability to get things done, but possibly saves a sliver of my sanity, is to put my ear buds in, and blast SKZ or Ateez at skull-rattlingly unhealthy levels right into my brain. It's a good thing that's actually a very bad thing, but I don't really care. If my hearing wasn't damaged by standing on a stage between very loud amplifiers, then my rock and roll card needs to be revoked.
But my stress level is now closer to Defcon 3, which is a bit of a relief. We finally realized that the idea of trying to balance Bob's permanent residence application at the same time as getting the house ready to sell and finding someplace to live in N. S., and getting decent movers who understand getting things across the border was stupid.
We're going to tell the movers who keep bothering us (admittedly because we contacted them first) and our very patient real estate agent that everything will be put on hold until the application is completed, in, and Bob gets accepted for permanent residence. I'd originally fought the idea, thinking that we could actually handle everything at once. I'm very glad that Bob convinced me otherwise.
So perhaps I won't have to turn my ear buds up to 11 for the next couple of days.
* and if you get that reference, congratulations - you've joined the "older than dirt, and still hipper than the room" club.
It's been a minute since I last posted. Not, like, a real long minute, but a metaphorical minute nonetheless. For the last few days, it's been dank and grey here in Chicago, and the stress levels at Casa kaffy_rbob continue to be somewhere between Defcon 3 and 2, for all the reasons previously recited at tedious length.
When that happens, or continues happening, my go-to stress reliever, the one that effectively cuts my ability to get things done, but possibly saves a sliver of my sanity, is to put my ear buds in, and blast SKZ or Ateez at skull-rattlingly unhealthy levels right into my brain. It's a good thing that's actually a very bad thing, but I don't really care. If my hearing wasn't damaged by standing on a stage between very loud amplifiers, then my rock and roll card needs to be revoked.
But my stress level is now closer to Defcon 3, which is a bit of a relief. We finally realized that the idea of trying to balance Bob's permanent residence application at the same time as getting the house ready to sell and finding someplace to live in N. S., and getting decent movers who understand getting things across the border was stupid.
We're going to tell the movers who keep bothering us (admittedly because we contacted them first) and our very patient real estate agent that everything will be put on hold until the application is completed, in, and Bob gets accepted for permanent residence. I'd originally fought the idea, thinking that we could actually handle everything at once. I'm very glad that Bob convinced me otherwise.
So perhaps I won't have to turn my ear buds up to 11 for the next couple of days.
* and if you get that reference, congratulations - you've joined the "older than dirt, and still hipper than the room" club.
[stationery] ... twice so far this week...
May. 21st, 2025 11:46 pmkaberett... have I done the "oh no, why has my pen stopped working, did I break it :(" dance only to realise that in fact, no, THE PEN IS EMPTY. (Once because my first attempt at filling it was apparently fairly inept unless I have massively misjudged how much ink it lays down, which given that it's a Pelikan is not totally implausible, but would still be... surprising.)
On the upside I think I might have worked out why a different pen seems particularly prone to evaporation and drying out. I am not sure how fixable it is, but I do at least have a workaround! (I think the inner cap is a bit reluctant to settle into place; it shouldn't be, but wiggling the pen a bit once capped seems to be helping...)
(This is such a ridiculous hobby.)
Wednesday Reading Meme
May. 21st, 2025 05:31 pmsinealaWhat I Just Finished Reading
Nothing. My ability to finish reading books has declined a lot, I guess.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Fantastic Four #32, Iron Man #8, Superior Avengers #2, Thunderbolts Doomstrike #5, Ultimates #12, Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 )
What I'm Reading Next
Still very slowly reading a book about the World Series.
Nothing. My ability to finish reading books has declined a lot, I guess.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Fantastic Four #32, Iron Man #8, Superior Avengers #2, Thunderbolts Doomstrike #5, Ultimates #12, Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 )
What I'm Reading Next
Still very slowly reading a book about the World Series.
wait, what?
May. 21st, 2025 08:52 pmtrobadoraIt's been almost two months since I've posted here?!
In conclusion, hi, everyone! I hope to actually post more again now, and not fall into a slump again right away. (Fingers crossed!)
Coming soon (I HOPE): Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange reveals (preview: I wrote a fic! I got fantastic artwork for one of my fics! There's a delightful bounty of stuff in the collection that I need to sit down to properly enjoy and comment on!) and also other updates.
- That can't be right. But it is??
- I mean, I have been in a complete slump for nearly three months now, and today is the first day in ages that I don't feel like a zombie, but still. How did that happen?!
- It didn't and doesn't feel like I was away from here for that long at all!
- But I guess that's because I've actually been commenting a lot - I've been on DW! I've been reading my flist, and replying to posts and comments! And I've been part of the 60-billion-comment club over at
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sid_guardian, aka the excellent Guardian discussions happening in the comments of the novel readalong posts, and china_shop's delightful drama polls, where we can't shut up about our fandom. *g* - What I haven't done in all that time is any real writing, other than the one exchange fic that went live last night. Just a bunch of alibi sentences and false starts. Pretty sure that made the zombie issue worse; I always feel worse when I'm not writing. But in addition to the slump, time and energy have both been at a low ebb.
- So, uh, yeah. Two months! For reasons, but I'm glad to finally be breaking that streak.
In conclusion, hi, everyone! I hope to actually post more again now, and not fall into a slump again right away. (Fingers crossed!)
Coming soon (I HOPE): Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange reveals (preview: I wrote a fic! I got fantastic artwork for one of my fics! There's a delightful bounty of stuff in the collection that I need to sit down to properly enjoy and comment on!) and also other updates.
Another RPG Bundle - Awfully Cheerful Engine
May. 21st, 2025 06:23 pmffuturesThis is an offer of the Awfully Cheerful Engine RPG from EN Publishing, described as a cinematic pop-culture action-comedy RPG.
https://bundleofholding.com/p
This one is interesting - the rules system is deliberately kept simple and easy to understand, using mechanics seen previously in games like the Ghostbusters RPG, and the book contains eight fairly detailed settings with adventures. Inspiration for the settings/adventures includes big city ghost-chasing, archeological adventuring, a "high school with weird science" setting, teenage mutant thingies, and so forth. It's fun and cheap, and definitely well worth a look if you like its freewheeling style of play, and it should be easy to adapt the adventures to any RPG that isn't too rules-heavy, or import adventures for other system-light games to this one. Recommended!
https://bundleofholding.com/p
This one is interesting - the rules system is deliberately kept simple and easy to understand, using mechanics seen previously in games like the Ghostbusters RPG, and the book contains eight fairly detailed settings with adventures. Inspiration for the settings/adventures includes big city ghost-chasing, archeological adventuring, a "high school with weird science" setting, teenage mutant thingies, and so forth. It's fun and cheap, and definitely well worth a look if you like its freewheeling style of play, and it should be easy to adapt the adventures to any RPG that isn't too rules-heavy, or import adventures for other system-light games to this one. Recommended!
Around The World In 24 Hours
May. 21st, 2025 09:42 amfilkferengiYou know those books where one day takes hundreds of pages? I'm in a bestseller titled _From 101.3 to 97.8 in 24 Hours_. Side effects were bonus scenes nobody wanted.
Now I hear the siren call, "Hi ho, hi ho! It's back to bed I go."
Now I hear the siren call, "Hi ho, hi ho! It's back to bed I go."
The Incandescent (Tesh)
May. 20th, 2025 08:34 pmcahn4+/5. ( Cut for length and at least one random aside; no spoilers. )
( Not sure about that one minor spoilery thing. )
Anyway...hidden_variable and K, I spent this entire book thinking, you should absolutely and positively read this book!! (And many of the rest of you should too -- crystalpyramid, I think this is also directly relevant to your interests -- though I also don't think everyone who liked SDG will like it.)
( Not sure about that one minor spoilery thing. )
Anyway...
hidden_variable and K, I spent this entire book thinking, you should absolutely and positively read this book!! (And many of the rest of you should too -- crystalpyramid, I think this is also directly relevant to your interests -- though I also don't think everyone who liked SDG will like it.)Среда
May. 21st, 2025 05:46 amsilent_glukА сегодня среда, и с нами очередная старая фотография. Осень 2012 года, Москва, может быть, наш двор, а может быть, и нет. Кстати, как у вас осенью с краснолистными кленами? Мне они так редко попадаются! В основном у всех желтые листья. А когда-то встречались и красные, я помню (причем я не имею в виду красные клены, у которых листва даже летом красноватая).
