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Few days ago, the forecast for today was light rain all day, but luckily that didn't bear out in the end. It rained over night, but the rain had pretty much stopped by the time I was heading out for some parkrun tourism. And some light rain was falling just now when I was walking from Beverley Minster to the station for another night of waiting almost the maximum time between these two trains.

I went to today's afternoon concert, with 17th century Italian music for lute and voice. It was very enjoyable.

Afterwards, I faced a longish gap between concerts, so I ended up doing some very thorough browsing in the shops just to pass the time, and emerged with three books from the Oxfam bookshop, a pair of trousers, and some socks. At least the weather held and it didn't rain.

The evening concert was at the Minster, which is certainly an impressive building. The programme was mostly Palestrina, performed by Stile Antico, and they sounded wonderful.

marinarusalka

Mood: excited

Just a couple of hours left before The Boy and I get on the shuttle bus to LAX, and from there we're off to Costa Rica! I'm determined to spend the next two weeks communing with nature and Not Thinking About Things. See y'all later.

seraphina_snape

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conuly

But time moves on. What, exactly, do you call "realistic contemporary fiction" once it's no longer contemporary? It's not exactly historical fiction either, since writers of historical fiction generally make specific choices in bringing the past to life, ideally with few or no whoppers of mistakes.

I sometimes say "then-contemporary", but... well, it sounds a bit silly, doesn't it?

(On a related note, it looks like now people are less likely to say "issues book" and more likely to say "social issues book", is that accurate? I'm not loving a change that involves using more words to get to the same meaning, but okay.)

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conuly

She can put weight on her foot, but after she walks for a while she doesn't want to. Still, it's recovering pretty rapidly, that's the important thing.

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conuly

So no vet trip, I guess!

queen_ypolita

I was travelling from London to Hull on Hull Trains today, which meant a degree of uncertainty about if my train would actually run. Hull Trains train drivers have been striking on some dates from March, and today was one of them. My understanding is they've managed to run at least half of their trains using managers who are also qualified as train drivers. And so today my train ran, but not the one due to depart from Kings Cross two hours earlier. It seemed they had solved the problem of potentially carrying two trains' worth of passengers on one by running the train as a double unit, so instead of five carriages there were ten. So my journey went smoothly.

In the evening, made my way to Beverley for my concert of the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, with Florilegium. They had a programme with two Bach works and two Handel works. It was wonderful.

I had checked my return trains to Hull in advance and knew there was a high chance of missing the earlier post-concert option, and I did miss it by a couple of minutes in the end. So still waiting for the next one.

fred_mouse

hex plant growing game - quick game, simple mechanics, simple win condition. You have to infer those from your interaction with the page; if it isn't clear leave a comment and I'll explain.

found at creator's post

I couldn't get the sudoko land to work - not sure if that is a brower or an extensions issue, but I didn't care to work it out.

queen_ypolita

Today, I finished work at lunchtime and then headed out to London, where I'm staying overnight before I head out north for the weekend. In between, I went to see Hurts at O2 Academy Brixton, for their 15-year anniversary concert for the album Happiness. I booked my ticket when the pre-sale opened, but even so, when the day arrived today, I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy it. I feel so out of practice with going to gigs. I got there just before seven and the doors were already open. I found a spot close to the front, not a great view with taller people in front, but good enough. The opener was OK, but sounded a bit unbalanced. Hurts were really good and it was exciting to be a part of a crowd happy to hear them again. The first half was Happiness songs, and after a quick break for Theo, a selection from the later albums.

Feet feel tired now.

conuly

The comments rapidly go off the rails, but there are three links there to go through.

There's more linkage here.

I genuinely do not have the energy to read all of this. I will be sending out an email to my senators, I guess.

sporky_rat

Mood: sore
Location: Rat te Kāinga
Music: Cicadas

Muscles are annoying. I understand the biological method by which we develop our muscles after using them; they're still annoying when the delayed onset muscle soreness hits. Which it has, and now my hips and quads and hams are in misery.

I am working on pullups as well, and my deltoids hate me. That's fine, I can hate them back just as equally.

On the more cheerful side of working a body and being reasonably good at it, I have had several people ask me to teach them stretching so they don't do anything awkward to themselves during high impact activity.

unicornduke

I've been tired all week, I thought it was due to lingering tiredness from the wedding. But this morning I woke up, got up, sat and stared at my computer for ten minutes, then went back to bed for another hour and a half. Then I tried eating a little granola and promptly threw it up. My mom and dad both said they had stomach issues in the last few days but they thought it was something they ate. But now I think there's a little stomach bug going around.

I feel way better now even if I'm still really tired. Good news is that it's a rainy gross day, so I'm doing some computer work and can take a nap later.

conuly

but Paramount Plus won't cooperate at all. So I finally convinced E to watch some Prodigy with me!

Man, I really love that theme song. Also, I'm gonna just say, maybe it's because it's aimed at a younger audience but this show does the best technobabble - just enough to explain, not enough to confuse or bore.

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conuly

The clowns running the FDA have proposed restricting access to covid vaccines, to people over 65 or who have certain medical conditions. There's a public docket for comments on the proposal.

Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.

Possible talking points include:

Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.

Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.

My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.

Seriously, this is just exhausting.

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queen_ypolita

Finished since the last reading post
Finished Skott and found it wonderful. It was written in a rather pared-down simple style, which helped as I wasn't feeling very confident about reading in Swedish when I started it. But it was easier than I thought even if I did stop and look up some words here and there. It was fewer words than I was perhaps expecting, but looking up skott in the title certainly helped me to appreciate the ambiguity and how it fits with the book. Anyway, it's a continuation war novel with the young Tallgren being sent to the front. He expects to die, but he falls in love, but that's not a happy ending in a novel in wartime.

Currently reading
Still reading Heaven on Earth. Also started reading Family History by Vita Sackville-West, but I'm probably going to leave it at home when I go away for the weekend.

Reading next
Not entirely sure but I'll pick up something unread from my shelves.

unicornduke

I typed up a whole thing but deleted it because it became tedious to type, let alone read.

Highlights of the wedding weekend: delicious food, seeing many of my relatives, dancing, dog wrangling, the entire afterparty

Lowlights: staying up very late each night and waking up at 7am, a girlfriend of one of my brother's friends getting very drunk and being weirdly obsessed with my dad and then asking invasive questions about each of the family members

I'm still recovering from the absolute messing up of my sleep schedule. I was the only sober person at various points, so I drove S and L over to the hotel where we hung out after the wedding and then home, so sleep time that night was at 1am. They did ditch a lot of the traditional wedding nonsense like groomsmen and bridal party, the traditional dances, speeches, all that stuff, so the ceremony and reception were very streamlined and nice. Lots of socializing time plus the food was amazing. I got to take care of the dogs and walk one down the aisle and then take them home, which was a nice little break and I got back in time for the reception.

The afterparty was a lot more fun, some absolutely delicious BBQ and lots of sitting around chatting, then I played volleyball and then we all hung out by the bonfire. We cleaned up all the party stuff Sunday relatively quickly, which surprised me. My brother was up until 7am that morning and woke up extremely hungover around 2pm, which was about the time we had wrapped up cleaning up everything.

conuly

We're pretty clear on the cause, she got tangled up in some vines, and we've washed her foot carefully with soap and water. We'll wash all of her later and maybe soak her foot with some epsom salt, that should help. Well, I mean, the bath will just make her smell better, but the soak should help. I really, really don't want to go to the vet this week if I can avoid it, but if the swelling won't go down we may have to.

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missdiane

The moving estimate guy came yesterday afternoon. Really nice, down to earth and I felt comfortable with the company. As I suspected, the 27th really wasn't available but they did have the morning Friday the 30th available since they had a cancellation so I have paid my deposit and snagged it. They also rescheduled the junk haul to be the morning of the 31st which is handy. I'm not going to bother to change my Verizon appointment for the afternoon of the 29th since Emily will loan me her hotspot for that night. She's going to start sleeping at the house later this week since her bed is all set up and will work on bringing clothes and other stuff over gradually.

I'm glad that they're able to fit me in that day since the forecast looks like starting on the 31st, it's going to start getting hot again. I'm curious what the floors will look like once they're uncovered. Also, FYI, 3M velcro picture hangers come off far more cleanly than 3m hooks. I'm going to have a good amount of spackling to do in order to make sure I get the lion's share of my deposit back.

My "good" knee is not now so good and going up and down stairs truly sucks. Emily's niece offered to help so I'm going to book some time with her later this week/over the weekend to heft packed bags down my stairs and then we'll drive the couple blocks to the house. If I can get the surfaces all cleared off and most of the other small clutter moved before the movers come, all the better. I'll see if she wants cash or if she wants to go for sushi or dumplings for payment lol.

The house is slowly starting to look more like people are moving in though we still have plenty to do. Tomorrow hopefully the landscapers can come since the grass can used mowed and we're going to have a bigger bill this time since we're going to have them hack back bushes and stuff. Once the bushes are chopped back, I'll be able to get the hose stretched onto the back porch to see if I can get a few layers of green removed from the siding.

Ok, back to the work that pays for this move.

fred_mouse

I'm a little bemused that it is so far through the year already. I feel like I'm disappointing past me with how slowly things are progressing, but I'm also trying to keep in mind that the list of goals are aspirational, and motivational, in that they are a range of possible things.

craft - incremental progress on multiple projects; nothing new finished.

reading - adding a new goal: to have no more than 20 books total in my currently reading and paused lists. This is a long way from that, because I paused a lot, and I haven't looked at it. However, I've finished a few things recently, and I'm trying to do two off, one on, so that I'm allowing myself to start new books, but not as many. I've finished one book acquired this year (Finding Echoes, Foz Meadows). I'd forgotten my 'read some cookbooks' goal, so at least I've remembered that now!

house - everything that doesn't live in the library is now out; I've started using the open floor as storage for things leaving the house; I'm calling that task done, with caveats.

music with the Really Sore Shoulder, I have been doing minimal music. This is not optimal, and I'm going to have to revisit. Also, I don't think that my goals were the right ones, because I'm struggling with them. I might have to revisit this and write a better set.

learning - I've been experimenting with language learning. Nothing is sticking, but it is getting there. I was doing okay with the learn to draw from the various books, and then I put my visual diary somewhere stupid. I could use something else, but I wanted this as a record of the change. So I've been procrastinating.

physical - I may abandon the ParkRun goal. With the 'I'm about to have income' comes 'I can go back to skating lessons'; this is almost certainly going to be first thing Saturday morning. I'm ambivalent about this, because an excuse to abandon ParkRun is very tempting. The sleeping goal is slipping away from me at the moment, as my insomnia has come back, and I've seen 2am twice in the last few days. Both of those I've been in bed at least an hour at that point.

organisation moving slowly, but at least it is moving. mostly by finding things to declutter.

none of the other categories have significant progress in the last week. I suspect I'm going to have to change the day of the week I write these, if I'm going to be on campus on Tuesdays (likely. I'm enrolling full time; there is a 'it's fine to work from home' clause; I work better from an office more days than not. If I'm going to do one day at home the likely candidates are Wednesday or Friday).

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More music and some shopping

Away we go!

Jon Land of Art - now on Dreamwidth!

So, realistic contemporary fiction is written and set more or less in the present

Of course, she's not fully recovered

Moonpie's foot is no longer visibly swollen and she's putting weight on it

In East Riding for the weekend

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Up past my bedtime

The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that Makes Trump King

Self propulsion is a crock

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We've been trying to go back and watch the sad episode with the future drone

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Wednesday reading

Weekend was busy

Moonpie's foot is swollen

Adjustments made, deposit paid

NYR update - week 20

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