t-rex in: an art form most deer

Dec. 12th, 2025 12:00 am
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t-rex in: a bloody good time

Dec. 10th, 2025 12:00 am
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to be fair I imagine most people who read this comic will forget its details on their death bed. or

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Crafting, HVAC, circus, books, planning (life is good)

Dec. 7th, 2025 10:15 pm
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  • Sewing? I looked into using a serger at the local library, but then [personal profile] coraline had a spare serger to lend me (whoa) and we had a good time talking about clothing construction. I got as far as making sure the serger works, and figuring out how it cuts the fabric as it goes, before getting utterly derailed by the next few things. However, I have the machine and my other machine, and have ordered a few accessories to Get Going Soon. Let the mending and alteration begin.

  • Death of a Table: during the above, with two sewing machines and a laptop and part of a friend on my dining room table, the table decided to disintegrate into its five component pieces. Amazingly, nothing and nobody else was hurt, but every single screw came out of the extension mechanism. It's time for a new table. The one we had was "mid-century" style, solid pine, and probably from about the 1920s -- we got it used, nearly 15 years ago, from a peer who got it from his grandmother. I just want another extensible oval, but the bug wants really nice wood, so we might eventually be headed for something like this. I've never paid a lot for a table before, but I guess it's up there with couches and mattresses in size and importance.

  • New place: I had to lean pretty hard on the contractor to get someone to come over and fix a small issue with the HVAC. Wasted a couple of hours there, and more hours getting quotes on snow removal that none of the other unit owners wanted. But I also spent a couple of gratifying hours fixing a door so it doesn't scrape on the floor anymore, thanks to [personal profile] heisenbug coming over and helping. A door is really a two-person lift. Then there were tenants who wanted the place and then stopped wanting the place, but in between those two events I went through my last lease and identified all the little places to change wording for a new lease at this place. It's really so, so nice now. Someone is going to have a lovely time living there.

  • Blue-Green place: the same unit that had a ton of trouble with AC this summer had their heat cut out on them, including for one very cold night that we felt guilty about (they had a space heater, yes, but they also have a baby). But eventually we got a really nice HVAC guy who walked me through the whole heating system, taught me a bunch of things I later took notes on in a Google doc, and found/fixed the problem with the boiler. Which stemmed partly from nobody realizing it needed water added to it manually every now and then, sigh. The boiler is also super old, so in the spring we'll drain a lot of our reserve fund and replace it. This all involved some running around on my part, over two days, but I do enjoy learning about the system.

  • Social: cookie swap at my acro base's apartment (oh, yes, I baked cookies) and tree trimming over at Blue-Green Street. Things are getting kind of intense and stressful again for Helios and Perse, as one of them seems to attract job offers even when not looking and the other seems to attract surgeries even when definitely not looking.

  • Circus: I guess doing 60lb TGUs is just normal now, but I did do that again, and also possibly did my best middle splits ever? I got down to two of the thinner yoga blocks, which means a height of just under six inches.



I haven't been playing any video games; real life has been compelling enough. I'm reading some books though (just started The Left Hand of Darkness on Audible), and poking at a knitting project, and curating gifts for Xmas. It's been fun.

I am also making the world's slowest progress on planning a trip to my birth state next spring. I hate it there, but I'll go. And Birdie will go, which is going to absolutely make my dad's whole year as well as introducing her to her genetic granddad. The bug will go, which always helps a ton, and it's starting to look like the squirrel, curious about my origin story, might go too.
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YOU get a home, and YOU get a home...!

Dec. 6th, 2025 10:12 am
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Two pieces of good news, one expected and one not:

  • I have tenants for the new condo! Nothing's signed yet but everyone wants to sign. I had two options, and I picked the pair of people who had a) lived together before and b) had owned a home before. Ex-homeowners make the best tenants. It's also the case that the ones I chose are the ones who're definitely going to use the back yard (for their small, middle-aged dog), and there's some petty pleasure in that, given how hard I pushed for a commonly-owned yard. Oh and one of them is a mechanical engineer who likes to learn how things work, but there was actually a mechanical engineer in each of my possible pairs of tenants so that wasn't a decider. (ETA: these folks flew home, measured their furniture and got a whole lot less excited. So oops, and maybe there'll be better news later.)

  • I have tenants in my SQUIRREL NESTING BOX, omg, squeeeee! I saw one go into it yesterday morning, carrying leaves, and immediately got very excited and ran off to get wool and alpaca roving from [personal profile] apfelsingail. This morning, more activity between about 9AM and 10AM, with the one Very Responsible Grownup continuing to carry up batches of leaves. Then, incredibly, a juvenile reappeared, one that we'd seen a few days ago but not since, and it went into the box too, and we got pictures of all this. Then a third squirrel went in there at 10 and so they have remained. (Or actually -- the young'un just poked its nose out -- but mostly.) The warm fuzzies could not get any more literal! I've been hoping for this ever since installing the box in spring, and I guess it appeals more when the temperature drops, because there they are now. Curled up inside, with straw and leaves.


Creating environments and then watching them get used is absolutely and 100% my jam. Even when it involves talking to HVAC people more than I'd usually choose to, but that's for another post.
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sherlock holmes and the case of the problem of communication

Dec. 5th, 2025 12:00 am
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dinosaur comics now starring TREE-rex

Dec. 3rd, 2025 12:00 am
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in German you can ask the time by saying "Wie viel Uhr ist es?", which literally translates as "how

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December 1st, 2025: December! It's a new month, filled with new experience too, but also, FAMILIAR experiences (like comics that are new but use the same pictures but also have been using the same pictures for a few decades at this point)!!!

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Holiday week is different week

Nov. 30th, 2025 08:35 pm
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... "what day is it" week, "my diet has been weird" week. Also, a week with actual rest days in it. Heck yeah.

The actual day of Thanksgiving we just had Birdie over for a lot of the day; she played pretty music with [personal profile] heisenbug, and I guess they're similar enough level to have fun doing that with neither one annoying the other too much. It was hand-flappingly cute. On the same day, I was doing backbends at home and decided to replicate my "best ever" tight bridge photo from November 2020 -- why not? I still have the same outfit and the same yoga mat.

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So that's amusingly similar. I'm excited to be back around my "best ever", with backbands, and still feel like I'm making progress. Anyway, fairly chill. A pie was made. The day after that was the big gathering over at Blue-Green Street, and that was really nice and I had multiple conversations that I'm following up on for later. I used the whole thing as a motivator to again cast on for my double-knit hat, which maybe I'll make progress on this time.

What else?

  • Got a bottle of multi-chrome nail polish from Mooncat so good that I shared, and four people are wearing it right now. It's not merely green/purple -- it can also flash blue or pink and even get a bit of amber in just the right lighting conditions. Wearing it is distracting, like having abalone or iridescent beetles on my fingertips.

  • Had an extra-great date with the squirrel, in which an early Christmas present was bought for me and then I was fed an extremely good dinner at Scampo. And he paid, the rotten thing! I'm not generally much of a foodie, but they had squid ink spaghetti with cod confit and crab meat... and yeah, maybe a glass of Pinot Grigio. So that was amazing, and then there was curling up and sleeping which is my favorite hobby these days. I felt thoroughly spoiled (and complained that I will soon become all vinegary if such things continue).

  • One of my besties is basically fighting a war with a roommate, and this week locksmiths were nearly summoned. It's tough. Really makes me think about the switch-flip that happens when person A entirely stops trusting person B, in all domains at once -- which, well, haven't I been there?

  • Random social time included lunch with an ex-coworker, a kitten, and a virtual reunion of the people I once book-clubbed Designing Your Life with. So interesting to see all the paths people have taken over the last three years. One of them had just read Moral Ambition and therefore had a whole lot of ideas for what good I could be doing in the world now that I'm not working for The Man. And, well, maybe tomorrow, Satan, but right now I'm resting.

  • Nobody has bitten on renting the new condo for a start date of Dec 1, but showings are starting to happen. Someone will bite. I've failed to get an HVAC person to look at the one issue I've found, so... I'll get back on that tomorrow morning.

  • Finished up a crossword puzzle. This is my fourth to be submitted to the NYT, and I still have my fingers super crossed for the third one but this one's also a fair effort. Same collaborator as my first one.



With the new month starting, it feels like tomorrow is going to be busy. Goodnight, sweet readers.
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Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Nov. 30th, 2025 02:42 am
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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

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