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August is supposed to be this winding-down/wound-down month, right?

Well, for reasons which I concede are not particularly seasonal, the last week or so has been a bit of a flurry.

Getting next volume of The Ongoing Saga ready for publication in near future.

My tech person having issues with the website: it transpired that they had been upgrading some software which had had knock-on effects, but this involved a lot of three-way emailing about what was going on.

And I decided, for Reasons, to start putting together my talk for conference at end of September (rather than leave it until later I'd rather at least rough it out now and leave it to percolate) and this has so been the thing where the writing is the process and I am now actually feeling that I might have something a bit more original than I thought, and it has more of a shape to it. But the thing with this was that I kept having Ideas and going and adding bits and moving bits around, and realising I needed to go and Look Stuff Up, rather than just collate bits from my notes, so it was more of a vortex than I'd anticipated, and still ongoing.

Plus, the new physio exercises for hip/lower back and incorporating them into the routine, and, er, something or other was causing flareup of the Old Trouble, so there was working around that.

(Also, flurry of spam/phishing emails claiming to be 'support tickets' with deeply implausible references and origins.)

muccamukk

Ben + Johnny + Sex Pollen = fic.

Which, surprisingly, I haven't seen in any version, though it's probably on LJ or something.

summersgate

You know how I always say Rainy looks crazy when she has her mouth is open and is panting. Yesterday morning one of the smoke alarms had a low battery in the basement and Rainy heard it. She is very afraid of high pitched sounds like that and was following me around panting and crazy looking. I did eventually find the problem and changed the battery but it took her an hour to get over it. It looks like she's about to explode.

Spending a lot of time outside in the goatshed/mosaic shed nowadays and I'm loving it. I listen to music and can lose myself, moving little pieces of glass around. Some pictures from yesterday:( Read more... )

scaramouche

I waffled for weeks on whether to get the Humble Bundle of James Tynion IV's stuff (as of posting, there's five days of the offer left), before finally getting it and forgetting how weird my brain gets when I binge on creepy media.

BASICALLY, I should not have read The Department of Truth before bedtime. Even when I got Nice House on the Lake, I don't read a whole volume in one go! There's such a thing as pacing things out! Plus I made the other mistake of reading Deviant first without processing the consequences of it only being volume 1, i.e. the story is not done.😢

Current Mood: drained

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

scifirenegade

Since Alamy deleted the Ida Lupino and Conrad Veidt having a time seperately either before or after their A Woman's Face radio recording, it's now on the Internet Archive :)

chiaroscuros on Pillowfort shouted out the Festival Internacional de Cine Recobrado de Valparaíso. Liebe macht blind has been uncovered, an almost-pristine copy even, and it's going to premiere there. Seems like a fun film. Connie is ridiculous.

During a convo with

liadt, I was reminded of something that apparently Connie told Paul Henreid, about only taking the role of Strasser for the money (to give to the Brits, probably). As I tried finding the source, we got this instead.

Conrad Veidt's [FBI] files manage to have their cake and eat it too. Veidt is accused of having pro-Axis leanings and of being associated with fervent anti-Fascists.
The day that Veidt finished work on Casablanca, July 20, 1942, he had plans for the evening. According to FBI file No. 100-3514, Veidt was to be a speaker at the Free Peoples' Dinner held at the Beverly Hills Hotel under the auspices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and the Council on African Affairs. Guests included the mayor of Los Angeles, the vice-consul of the USSR, Charles Laughton, Major William Wyler, and an FBI agent who detailed the pro-Russian sentiments of the guest of honor, Paul Robeson. Although Veidt's name was on the program, he never showed up. He may have gone out to celebrate the end of his role in Casablanca or simply gone home to bed. But the fact that he was expected to appear is on file forever.

- Round Up the Usual Suspects: the Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

Files, which are an absolute mess. Bet the "pro-Axis" thing is just plain xenophobia (ya know, ew German), and bet that, had he lived and stayed in America, he would be grey-or-blacklisted like many of his buddies. I'm now scared for Lili (she became an agent in the film industry).

Current Mood: blah

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

vriddy

First, a PSA for people who keep letting things slide until the last minute/sometimes too late: you only have until Wednesday to sign up as a creator the sunflower_auction! I finally did it.

Secondly, the main point of this entry! I want to share sunsalute's post for people just starting out with exchanges, with is information that I sure could have used that when I trying to figure things out. Here's the table of content, because Sun is cool like that:

Contacting Mods

Signups and DNWs

Posting and Fulfilling Assignments

Chatter and Discord

Unintuitive Systems Everyone Seems To Know How To Use Already (AO3 & DW)

Further Reading & Thanks

There's a little bit on the technical aspects, but mainly the post focuses on etiquette and things that are not necessarily spelled out. It's a great post!

Link: Help I'm New To Fandom And Need To Get A Good Grade by sunsalute.

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Current Mood: busy

days_unfolding

Hmm. There are some Music of the Baroque concerts On Demand for which I want to get tickets, so I'm going to skip the September concerts at Krannert. I want to get a ticket for the Brandenburg Concertos in October, and Handel's Messiah at the beginning of December. (I have never heard it.)

Overslept and woke up around 8 AM. Gracie threw up outside, so I need to keep an eye on her. My stomach is upset too.

I read an article in CNN about Northampton, MA, and I'd like to see it. But it's a bear to get to if you don't rent a car. You'd think that because of the college students there, there would be a more direct route. Oh! You can fly there.

I want to do the right thing and contribute my raise (such as it is) to my 403b, but Fidelity's site is having issues. I changed my contributions to account for all the raises that I've had since I started the job.

I'm trying to figure out how I'll get Bella, Gracie, and Oliver, and their food in the car for boarding. I might have to make two trips.

I'm trying to reschedule my COVID shot, but CVS's site keeps having errors. I was planning to return the stoneware tonight, but with my upset stomach, I’ll probably just lie down.

Talked to the garage guy. He had a good reason for the delay. We decided to delay the work until I get back. He asked me to decide between edging to keep the rock in the driveway or a concrete driveway per the city's requirements. I'm leaning towards a concrete driveway, but it's more expensive.

I’m trying leaving discretionary purchases in my Amazon cart to go back to later to see if I still want them.

I received a “values” workbook and cards. I’m going to work on it while I’m in Sardinia.

Took a nap and woke up at 3 AM. The dogs are wondering why I’m up at 3 AM. The cats are saying, "We missed a meal. Get with it!"

shallowness

Killjoys - 1.10 Escape Velocity

Not everything came to a head in this season finale, obviously, but plenty of strands were brought together, and that convincingly enough, even if some of the rationale was basically ‘It’s the season finale!’ ( Read more... )

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ruric

Work was busy Wednesday through Friday so not a huge amount of progress on #project65days.

It's now the weekend and day 12 of #project65days.

I'd planned to do half days on the allotment and half days cleaning the flat but due to weird sleep patterns (or lack of sleep) I'm going to do a full day on the flat today and tidy the tiny front garden. Then I plan to have an early night so I can do a full-ish day on the allotment tomorrow.

I've got a tip run around 9:30am today and at 10:30am tomorrow so I can get 2 hours of decluttering and sorting done before this morning's run.

Plan of action for Saturday:

* continue decluttering and load car
* tip run and garden centre
* pot up/sort out houseplants in bathroom
* wash and store empty plastic plant pots for use next year
* quick surface clean everywhere
* tidy & weed front garden
* prune roses
* empty and clean pots in front garden
* empty and clean pots on porch roof
* start tackling the chaos that is my bedroom (there's a whole 30 point bullet list for this)!

That will do for today. Onwards!

kalloway posting in

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Heya,

smallweb!

This is an open post to talk about what you're working on, what you'd like to show off, cool resources, things that maybe aren't working so well, etc.

Also please check out previous posts to see what people are up to or if you might be able to help someone out.

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250808.html

One of the all-time historic skyscapes occured in July 1054, when the

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250808.html

sholio

Check out this person's adorable manga-style art illustrating scenes from the first three Murderbot books. I love their art style!

I was thinking about how the adaptation for the next season might go.

( More about that )

beccaelizabeth

Today I did another load of laundry and played WotR on Core some more.

I am 100% certain I did the achievements again but they did not ping. Again.

Somewhere around midnight I decided to just have a go at the achievement boss fight in the secret bit.
... it is now 4am and I have a much better idea of what doesn't work.
*sigh*

I am going to have to try it again with different characters. And buy a lot of holy water in case I don't get any better ideas. The only ones doing damage are casting Pillar of Life or running right up to the jerk and slapping Heal on him. Funnily enough, not optimal. Someone should be able to lay a sword, club, arrow, bite or talon on it but noooooo.

I shall bring someone better at hitting things and hope it works better.

It is ridiculously difficult. Literally nothing else has been a challenge, and then suddenly this thing is impossible. Rubbish scaling there.

If this second try doesn't work I'm going to have to design a mercenary specifically just to hit this thing. Which would be very mathy and annoying.

Up until then I was having fun though.

Pretty okay day, just want the game to do what it says it will.

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