I did not bake bread yesterday. I kind of have to do that today. I may be doing so at a rate slower than an arthritic snail.
But there will be bread. "Twice proofed" since it spent 24hours in the fridge rather than 8-12.
The first loaf is incubating while the oven preheats and the Dutch Oven gets heat sunk into it. I have everything lined up for the inevitable bake.
I'm keeping up my fluids and planning a lot of rest.
For now, I attempt to focus on my offerings.
Why do you keep insisting on picking on these havenworlders? Do my students need to kick your tail a second time? -- Anon Guest
Master Twii tended to keep their dojos in the Edge Territories. It was where they were needed most. It was where one could easily find cogniscents 'proving' their strength by beating up smaller and weaker ones.
To Master Twii, it only proved that they wasted their strength on bullying. To Master Twii, people like that needed some kharmic
Read more »I was doing all right until about 2PM yesterday. That's when my nose started running like a tap and my throat started hurting like I'd been gargling thorns.
I am not a happy camper.
Mayhem's making a sorta-chicken soup with available materials when I wanted to venture out and get things. It's probably a good idea to stay in and keep up on my fluids.
I'm either overheating or freezing. My head's full of fog, and I am currently in terror of
Read more »I asked them to bless my newborn. Their reply was "I bless thee with great richness of spirit, abundance of life, and a beautiful heart."
That was the most wonderful blessing I could ever imagine. -- Anon Guest
Blessings can be curses, and vice versa. It's all about the heart and intention involved. And whether or not some malicious entities want to take things literally. Fortunately, there are those whose intent trumps malice in all its forms.
Well. At least one.
The
Read more »It's wet as heck out in our destination, Kedron is flooded, and the great Brisbane River is rising.
...which may or may not mean a soaked and waterlogged Crimbo at a later date.
Yay.
Not.
So now I'm attempting to focus on my offerings du jour whilst also getting a head start on the bread I needed to make this weekend anyway.
And because it's raining, I have no idea if the game I'm planning to do early tomorrow is going to
Read more »The ones seeking to be kings wanted to outlaw schools. The people educated themselves. The ones seeking to be kings vilified those who had intelligence and compassion. The lands taught these would-be kings that it was this intelligence and compassion was the only reason they survived. -- Anon Guest
Of all the universal truths, the one most forgotten is: Those who actively seek power should never have it. Those sorts of people never seek power to do good for others. Especially beware
Read more »I have to drop off Mayhem early this AM so I can do the shrink zoom meeting happening today.
Which means hoping he remembers to launch early.
I did finally get to signal for help at the GameMaker community. Yay. I've yet to make a start on my weekly rant.
Ugh.
I'm just so tired and the day hasn't even begun.
Maybe I'll get everything done today. Including cleaning the Catio.
I need all the luck I can get.
Read more »She was alone in the ramshackle hut having a difficult birth, the last survivor of a caravan. Fortunately for her, the family of Brauniin heard her cries, and came to this woman in her hour of need. -- Anon Guest
The house barely had a roof left, more weeds and leaf litter than true thatch, nevertheless, it counted as a house. The Hidden Ones lingered there. A house wants its Faekindred. Brauniin or Nisse, some waited for the ruin to be a
Read more »New script in hand, I shall be wending my way to getting more of what it takes to stay stable. Well. Relatively stable. But that can wait until the road trip to drop off Mayhem. More of a chapter will happen thanks to that wait. Yay.
Since I don't have to be anywhere else, I may actually have a chance to work on Pseuducku. Huzzah.
Miss Chaos now has two game creation programs and is in the midst of messing around and
Read more »An archivaas finds a large box from before the Shattering. In the large box are several diaries, records, and a hand-crank, antique, player. The children of the family had buried their dairies in the time capsule. The parents had added to it a player and records. Music not heard in millennia now graced ears once more, words of children still of school age, seen on the pages happily. -- Anon Guest
Time capsules were an absolute joy to the Archivaas. They were
Read more »I have a divided day because experts in the middle of the afternoon. I know what's going to wind up in my extended rant for today, but I do not know when I'll be able to finish and publish that thing.
I know I'll get at least a couple of sentences into my novel because waiting room. Yay.
Meanwhile, I'm doing what I can whilst I can. Including my stretchies.
Moving on to an attempt at my Instant Story.
Read more »I feel utterly worthless.
"You're a weed waving among the brick and stone."
See? Worthless.
"You ability to thrive truly has shown."
What .. do you mean?
"Your strength, my dear, I'm so proud you've grown!"
There among the bare gravel, where there's very little that's green, a lone dandelion is visited by a butterfly. -- Anon Guest
It's easy to devalue yourself when nobody else finds you worthy. It's easy to not wish to be part of a world that hates you
Read more »It's MeMum's birthday so she got free tech support - which included making her mouse pointer way more visible, showing her how to navigate her smart TV, and figuring out how to make DVD's work with that same setup.
Mission accomplished there.
Now I'm back home, I needs must focus on my offerings for the day. For tomorrow, I am back on the bullshit.
Looking forward to free time to work on other things, but I also need a lot of sleep.
Read more »Even the smallest photo can bring back so many memories, especially when you're trying so hard to smile again. -- Anon Guest
"We've restored it to its original condition. Honestly, it was a miracle such fragile ephemera made it to this century. A miracle find, considering where it was found." The Archivaas went on and on and on about anaerobic bacteria and all the varied things that ate cellulose and assorted photographic chemicals in a landfill.
Shayde had stopped listening, staring at
Read more »Today, I have Physio. Tomorrow, I'm off to see MeMum for tech nonsense. Wednesday, I'm seeing different experts and so on.
I will attempt to get my offerings out in good time, but... Time is not on my side.
And I have to get at least eggs at some point.
I also have a phone with an expanding battery [Not my current phone, my old one] that I need to take to a safe disposal point. There's expired meds I need to
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