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Last week's bread held out pretty well.

Grocery delivery came early enough that I had time to get going dough + tomato topping for a sardegnera for Friday night supper, with Salame Milano added before baking.

Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls recipe, 4:1 white spelt/dark rye flour, dried blueberries.

As I was going to an afternoon gathering chez coughingbear and hano, and time did not permit of making foccaccia, I made cornbread (plain white flour + baking powder, half and half with mixture of fine/coarse cornmeal, since sourcing medium cornmeal remains impossible) to take instead.

Today's lunch: had seabass fillets, and for the wild variety, cooked them thus, which worked quite well, served with baby Jersey Royal potatoes roasted in goosefat and asparagus steamed and splashed with lime butter.

rekishi

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Poll #34603 round 187 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 41

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Just Like Canon
15 (36.6%)

Power Dynamics
18 (43.9%)

Whump
8 (19.5%)

conuly

Person A: You know you're supposed to finish the laundry if you start it during your shift!

Me, silently: Don't think of it as my three loads of laundry that I didn't finish during my shift, think of it as your three loads of laundry that I got started for you. Though really, if Person B had done her laundry during her shift like she should have then neither of us would be having this conversation today.

(There was no reason for all four of the women to have their hampers literally overflowing with clothes. Somebody, or more like several somebodies, clearly has been falling down on the job here.)

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vilakins

Day 17: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did

I suppose this means romance or sex, in which case my answer is "nope, none of them".

If it's an encounter or a meeting, then I'd like to see Jenna take Tarrant down a peg or two. She so could.

All the questions are on Tumblr.

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I spent the past week driving through Germany and visiting friends. I walked around medieval cities and went hiking in the Black Forest during the day, and then at night I played Tears of the Kingdom. I won’t lie, it was magical. I feel like I’ve finally returned to full HP. Yesterday I flew back to the States, and now I suppose it’s time to get to work on my summer writing.

sovay

The trees were ghost-green in the water with the hard white shine of the LEDs, but

spatch photographed me in the stoplight.

WERS came out with the menacingly catchy drive of the Clash's "London Calling" (1979) while I was running an errand and it felt just a little unnecessarily Ballardian. Nothing else has happened to me particularly, but reading any kind of news feels like choking on the future. I can remember not being this sick, this poor, this pressed, which differentiates me not at all from most of the people I know. The exhaustion feels unreal and the last ten years like a sociological demonstration in the capacity of things always to be worse.

Current Music: The Clash, "London Calling"

conuly

The trick is that the top arm needs to be firmly clipped to the drawer - not jammed to the back wall. Time will tell if my fix lasts.

Edit: No, X*, not thank god, thank me. I'm the one who fixed it! God had nothing to do with any of it!

* Not the real initial.

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: sleepy

which_chick

There are 28 squares. I need to make some yarn now, there is not enough yarn to make another square. I've cast on a mostly-brown square, but I definitely don't have enough yarn to finish it so... yarn making is a priority.

torachan

1. I got my new bike set up today and took it out for a ride. It does seem to be really intuitive. I used it without assist for most of the ride, and turned the assist on for a grade that lead into a medium hill, and then later on a straight section that just had a lot of wind blowing at me, and it was very easy to just switch it on and off. Then I decided to try the big hill that I'd had to walk my bike up yesterday, and was able to get up it just fine, though I had to use the boost mode, which is specifically for hills. I went out again later with Carla, and she wasn't able to get up the hill at all, even with boost mode and had to walk the bike up. I'm not sure if it's just not possible at all because she's out of shape and even with the assist it was too much effort, or if there's some things we can tweak to make it work better.

2. It's been two weeks since Jasper had any pee incidents!

3. The granola bar guy at the farmers market had a new flavor, strawberry, and they're really good. I bought two after trying a sample.

4. We had set this blanket up on the sofa so that Chloe could get under it if she wanted to, and Ollie ended up going in there instead! He actually did this a couple times, even though he usually doesn't like to be under a blanket (unlike Chloe, who would like to spend her whole life under a blanket).

chanter1944

Means stripping the flannel sheets off the bed and swapping them for summer weight cotton ones, washing the winter coat, and counting down the days until it's overwhelmingly likely that frost overnight is no longer a danger so plants can go outside. That benchmark is generally Memorial Day around here.

New life list catches over the last two days: Tennessee warbler (heard while cycling all over the near west side, and now Merlin is IDing them all over the place, so they must be passing through the area), blue-gray gnatcatcher, Cape May warbler, and Blackburnian warbler. I'd never heard of three of those four before! The latter three were heard while chasing DX at Lake Farm Park early this morning. The radio conditions may not have been great, but the dawn chorus certainly was! We were far from the only ones out with bird watching in mind, judging by the packed parking lot and the lady who came through swatting mosquitoes, explaining how she'd been chasing after a bird and later reappeared from a swampy area, though I'm pretty sure we were the only radio ops afoot. Yesterday's adventures on bike trails and residential roads had fellow cyclists, walkers, and joggers everywhere, and both sailboats and rowing crews were taking advantage of the weather on Lake Mendota. The lilacs are making this entire neighborhood smell divine. :)

All in all, it's been a great weekend so far. :) Just nobody spoil me for Eurovision, please? I want to find a youtube upload of the jury voting and watch it unspoiled if I possibly can. Come on, Croatia...

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Brewers vs Twins radio call

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conuly

Honestly have never heard of this person before, but what an apropos sentiment!

Ah. It seems he was "the real Doctor Strangelove", "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Well, there you have it!

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conuly

Trying not to think of you
yet your face colors
every contour
of my mind.
And every way I turn
inside of a minute
I collide
with your laughter.
I am wind,
and you
are chimes.

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chestnut_pod.

There are so many posts I want to write, but this one is easy and also about books, so! I think everyone should do it so I can spy on your bookshelves.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

(I pulled everything from my physical TBR bookcase, in hopes that it will encourage me to read it.)

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them."

(Already ambiguities: I skipped the preface because this line is better.)

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book."

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in!"

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence?)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' "

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog plus action as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: "Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm."

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them. However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book. What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in! 'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm.

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: Friendly City by Sofia Samatar
Book #2: The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, ed. Claire Harman
Book #3: Ready or Not by Mary Stolz
Book #4: The Room Opposite and Other Stories by F.M. Mayor
Book #5: Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale by J.J. Phillips

hamsterwoman

Oh right! I completely forgot to post about the FIRST thing I consumed specifically for Hugo homework, which was actually KPop Demon Hunters. I was home alone when the Hugo shortlist came out, and it’s on Netflix, so that seemed like a good way to pass the time. I feel like all my friends have watched KPop Demon Hunters already, but I’ve been low-key avoiding it because, a) I have no interest in KPop and b) anime is basically one of my anti-genres/mediums, where even if it’s about something I like, the anime style makes it more difficult for me to enjoy the story (I know this isn’t anime per se, but it was indeed too anime for me, as friends who know my anime opinions warned me), and that seemed like a bad combination to subject myself to for no reason. But Hugo homework is a reason, and I’ve subjected myself to way worse for its sake.

Honestly, I enjoyed it more than I expected, although to be fair my expectations were quite low. ( More,with spoilers )

I’m sure there were deeper things and also inside jokes I was missing, but I enjoyed it on my level anyway. I haven’t (yet, but I’m not sure if I will, either) watched any of the other nominees, so I have nothing to compare it to, but on its own merits, I wouldn’t be mad if it won.

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Back to Elis & John. And in my “Retro Oner” journey, I’m working through the Radio X episodes ( May - December 2016 )

And, outside the cut for easy finding: Radio X episode 117, 9:56 – Elis singing in Welsh, which I don’t think I’ve ever heard before, and it is incredibly charming! Not just the singing, but the tiny stumble as he translates it into English for them, including having to switch the noun-adjective order. I mean, I love hearing Elis sing and I love hearing Elis speak Welsh, so it figures I’d love it when he was doing both at once, so no surprise there, but I just really, really love it, out of all proportion to the length of the clip and inanity of the song. (I’ve listened to it so many times XD)

which_chick

The nephew wants a raft. So, brother the elder and nephew and I built a raft this weekend.

( It's not a typo in the title. It's wordplay. )

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Susan

Culinary

TSN3 is airing Hudson Williams' Peleton ad during Worlds, good choice

Round 187 Theme Poll

It really is all laundry all the time

Post-Reveals Pinch Hit

30 Days of Blake's 7 - day 17

2026 Writing Log, Part Nineteen

And I live by the river

I may have fixed the dishwasher at work!

TV

Afghan Accountability part the unending

Daily Happiness

late spring in Wisconsin

The Post Has Arrived

Fandom Empire Prompt Tables 2026

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Thread by Essex Hemphill

3W4DW book meme

KPop Demon Hunters, more Elis & John

Arts and cRafts with the nephew!

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