Steam Summer Sale

Jul. 6th, 2025 09:51 am
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BTW, since I posted about this to Tumblr, too, Turncoat Chronicle is 34% off on Steam until July 10th.

Overall reviews on Steam are positive! It's 180K thousand interactive novel where you play the heir to a usurper king, confronted with the grown heir of your father's old enemies. Choose between allying with the rightful heir (thus turning on your father), or forming a false friendship, then betraying them to your father. Or stab them both in the back and crown yourself.

In between, there's an aloof spymaster, a serene royal consort, a bratty younger brother, and, of course, the loyal guard who, with just a little bit of polish, can be passed off as a false-real-heir.

Today's Smoothie

Jul. 5th, 2025 10:39 pm
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Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup orange juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice

The result is bright pink and on the thin side. It tastes mostly of orange. It's okay, but not as good as the tropical version from earlier.

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Jul. 5th, 2025 08:33 pm
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Well, I was definitely wrong about getting all the plants done, lol. For as pumped as I was, I just could not focus. I'll probably still finish the two smaller pieces tomorrow but not the bigger two.

The lack of focus extended to my reorganization efforts but I've got a lot more done on that front. I have to keep reminding myself of that because I'm currently in the middle of that "dark before dawn" period of rearranging where everything is everywhere and it looks awful, lol. I got the furniture moved, I got the under-bed storage situation situated. The main issue now is getting everything squared so I can put it all up on my closet shelves tomorrow. Found more Goodwill stuff and some to-be-sold stuff I'd put up and forgotten about, which will just have to be put aside for now. Made some slight recalculations re: new storage furniture pieces I want, mostly to do with where I want to put it, which obviously affects how I want things arranged now. Little things like that have set me back more than they should've, due to the aforementioned lack of focus.

I know I can get done tomorrow but I'm no longer so certain about actually managing it. Trying to be kind to myself on that front but it's so frustrating... I'm not giving up, though!! I'm so close, I can feel it. I think I need to just shove aside the "deal with it later" items, whether it's donations or stuff to be sold or things that I don't have the storage pieces for yet, and refuse to think about any of it until I finish figuring out the things I plan to actually live with. I think that's a not insignificant part of what's tripping me up, when I actually can manage to pay attention to what's in front of me. Gonna bank on that, anyway, and see if putting it all out of sight helps.

Final stretch! Just gotta bring it home.

Aventuras de una Tarnished

Jul. 5th, 2025 03:14 pm
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Años tarde, como siempre, con estas cosas, pero ahora que tengo una computadora portátil mejor, ¡compré Elden Ring! Este juego esta.... muy, muy cerca de vencer a Skyrim como favorito... diablos ya lo considero mi juego favorito de soulsborne (lo siento Bloodborne pero no tengo PS4 qq)

Jugué un poco con la creación del personaje e hice la familia! 

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Early Humans

Jul. 5th, 2025 05:19 pm
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125,000-year-old ‘fat factory’ run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany

Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory” to boil bones on a vast scale, according to new research.


Note that another thing you can make with animal fat is pemmican: a stable, high-energy trail food made with fat, powdered meat, and a carbohydrate such as berries.  Since it's not something you'd make in a hot climate like Africa (where humans evolved) but rather in a cold climate (such as northern Europe), I'm suddenly wondering if it is in fact a Neanderthal or Denisovan recipe.

Birdfeeding

Jul. 5th, 2025 03:12 pm
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Today is partly sunny and hot.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus some brown birds that might be female blackbirds.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I refilled the thistle feeder.

I picked up the concrete paver that we used for fireworks last night, along with scraps of paper and cardboard left behind.

Volunteer sunflowers are blooming under the fly-through feeder.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I picked a handful of blackberries in the prairie garden.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and some of the savanna seedlings.  A sunflower in the telephone pole garden is close to blooming.  :D

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I pulled some weeds from the septic garden.

Fireflies are out.  Cicadas are singing.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
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Sunshine Revival Challenge 2: Tunnel of Love

Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

See "Poem: Legs of Grass, Feet of Flowers."

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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Random Doctor Who Picture

Jul. 5th, 2025 08:42 am
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Book cover for Doctor Who The Shadow in the Glass by Justing Richards and Stephen Cole.  A blue cover with the faces of the sixth Doctor and Hitler behind a transparent globe.  Blue streaks emanate out from the globe.

I've no memory of reading this at all. The back makes it sound both interesting and memorable - a retired brigadier stumbling upon shenanigans from WW2 recruiting the sixth Doctor for help. Richards and Cole are both solid Doctor Who authors who I rate but none of it stirs a memory.

Philosophical Questions: Government

Jul. 5th, 2025 12:14 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What should the role of a government be, what boundaries and limitations should it have?

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Ridiculous weekend plans

Jul. 5th, 2025 02:06 pm
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I need some down time this weekend. I have any number of things I want to have done, but I'm restricting myself to things that can be done sitting on the bed, minimal movement. To whit:

  1. Finish reading The Dictionary of Lost Words - DONE! Highly recommended fictional account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
  2. Read Attached - book on romantic relationships. in progress (started Saturday)
  3. Finish Creating a Second Brain - collected from the library yesterday, read a chapter on the bus
  4. Finish Library of the Dead - this one is due back on Monday, and being Libby, will get autoreturned.

Which, not actually outside the bounds, as long as I am actually doing those.

stretch goals, of which I'm hoping to achieve at least one

  1. close tabs (current: 526, goal: <500) in safari
  2. finish reading the fic I'm part way through (there might be more than one of these.
  3. progress Eldest's quilt (this is not an 'on the bed' activity; it is added so that if I need to get up and move around, I have a task)
  4. write up my goals for the next 6 months
  5. blog post about how the study is going.

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Jul. 4th, 2025 09:02 pm
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Not quite the day I planned for but I still feel good about getting stuff done this weekend. Gonna get some furniture moved around tomorrow and do the heavy reorganizing. Then probably Sunday will be dedicated to figuring out the smaller details and to collection weeding. I also think I can finish the crochet plants tomorrow aside from finishing touches, which can also be handled on Sunday in between organizing tasks.

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