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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12513 posts

Tuesday, Very Good Sleep

My love and I briefly woke in the usual early morning. I got my stretchies in, but then my Beloved started snoring, and I decided to just rest my eyes for a minute.

It's now almost 10:30 AM and I still haven't tormented my feet, fed the cats, nor got going on my daily offerings.

We're also planning to wander off for lunch at some point.

Expect my offerings later this evening. If they don't happen to happen, then there'll be two tomorrow plus the rant. Of which I have NO idea what I'm doing.

Honestly, taking a day in order to take it easy feels like a plan for today. If I happen to rest my eyes for another pace of hours, I won't mind.

As long as I'm okay, I'll keep going okay. Like most people watching Dungeon Meshi, I now have an internal greek chorus telling me how to look after myself.

Not doing so great on the good eating yet. My inspiration to cook is... low. I did manage a low-effort steak and mushroom soup last night. The reviews are good.

If you're interested:

  • ~250g diced steak
  • Small punnet sliced mushrooms
  • ~4 cups diced veg [I used a mix of broccoli, carrot, and cauliflower]
  • 2 liters mushroom stock

Bung it all in the slow cooker and set to automatic. Eat when all the mushrooms turn greyish.

Let's see what happens.

Challenge #04166-K148: Unfair Competition

A discord-made prompted from Tergon

A wizard whose long, thin staff has a silvery, ephemeral thread wound around it. In the pockets of his robe are moths, butterflies, glowbugs, collected from across the land. He tells all who will listen that he is the greatest caster alive.

He is in fact a terrible wizard, he's just really into fishing. -- DaniAndShali

[AN: My Discord link is in the menu section of my hub site if you're interested in joining the shenanigans]

Words

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Monday, No Backups and Shenanigans

The backup reads are not happening this week, so I want to go out shopping for essential things. Including my new specs. I'll be getting those first.

But before that, I have to finish my stretchies and torment my falling arches. And feed the cats in the process. The most important thing I do every day. Just ask the cats.

I remember thinking once that I had some economic freedom at long last. That I could just go and get whatever I

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Challenge #04165-K147: Faerie Goodmother

"This spell will make you human."

I refuse.

"But as a Hellkin you're mistreated."

I don't care.

"I don't understand."

You never did. I am who I am.

"But......"

Come, meet my TRUE family. -- Anon Guest

Once upon a time, a Hellkin did a Faerie a favour. He had no knowledge of the act, nor expected a reward. He had simply wandered unknowing into Nanogh, helped a living creature in need, and wandered back out again.

The Faekindred do not forget

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Sunday, Stream Shenanigans and Budget Cycles

The cats are going to need food. And kitty litter. The household is going to need a few things by this Tuesday. I have the money for that, so all is allegedly fine.

I also have the money to get my new glasses.

All I need is the time and the energy to get all those ducks in a row. Not happening today. Not happening tomorrow.

I might be able to get to that on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

Today, we already had

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Challenge #04164-K146: A Very Simple Lesson

B'Nari medic learns the secret of how some sea creatures eternally renew their genetic telomeres without any harm to themselves. And begin to splice this coding into new bodies which now stop aging after becoming adults because the telomeres never degrade. -- The New Guy

[AN: Pretty sure the B'Nari would be looking into that before they hared off with their gengineering colony]

Immortality can be either a blessing or a curse. It all depends on how the immortal views it. It

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Saturday, Tummy Bug and Catching Up

Props to the poor sods who were literally working through the night to restore the NBN to my particular nook of Australia. Apparently, all of Caboolture was incommunicado for a good portion of yesterday.

When I went to bed at 10PM, there was a notice that boiled down to "We're doing our best, further bulletins as news warrants."

This morning, there was a notice to reboot your routers if you were still disconnected.

Champions, the lot of them.

I can't do parkrun

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Challenge #04163-K145: Wicked Gleaming Glee

An entire room of wanted CEO's. A bounty hunter who revealed herself to be Pax Humanis. Fortunately for them? They were all wanted alive. Well, most of them.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04036-k018-stay-sharp#@bkf/re-internutter-s7hn7w -- DaniAndShali

It was amazing to watch. Not a single one of the executives present realised that Bear was outnumbered. They were all focussed on her knife and the gleam of sharpness of her blade. It would only take five of them to take her down

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Thursday, Feeling Gravity

I'm still going through my daily doses at the moment. I've got to put myself on Max, my nebuliser because a decent part of the problem is Sneezin' and Wheezin' Season.

No doubt I will feel better about my ability to move based on my grasp on oxygen.

I'll be moving some blogs from Wordpress to my alternate today. Possibly recording a chapter from Adapting tomorrow. Beloved is self-isolating because ANOTHER Lurgi has hit Adorable's this week.

Public service equals public exposure

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Wednesday, Leyland's Tour and Associated Nonsense

My PLNs to help Mum with a dodgy door have imploded. Mum's anxious about getting professionals to do that thing. Plus Mayhem somehow picked up the tummy bug I had to deal with last week. Fun times.

My PLN is still similar. Go out there, bring along caffeine tubes, help with the nonsense, go home and finish off whatever has been left undone before I crawl into bed.

I'm also taking my lappy along and doing my ultimate best to get something

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Friday, Internet Fail

The LAN is broken and our best efforts to fix it in-house have failed. Dang.

Currently, I have no idea when it's going to be fixed. If it's going to be fixed.

Add to that a tummy bug gifted unto me by Mayhem and things are not looking bright for this nerd. I have remedies to hand and hope in my heart, but... I might be sleeping off a lot in the very near future.

I'll be making my offerings, securing a

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Challenge #04162-K144: Help to All in Need

The human had helped nurse the very, very sick dragon back to health. The dragon'd had trouble laying her eggs and it'd taken a toll on her. They stayed to help the dragon, as did their family, and when the eggs hatched, the human and hir family helped the dragon raise their brood, so that all children, human and dragon, knew the love and warmth of a big family. -- Anon Guest

If you believe that all life is precious, truly and

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Challenge #04161-K143: Checking In

Bibrid, Gikka, and Lilbit meet Wraithvine's new associate, Zygorguk. Lilbit is actually the one that is least hesitant about the first meeting. Cats can just tell.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04028-k010-orphaned-plotline-adoption -- Anon Guest

[AN: Continuity wise, Zygorguk pre-dates Gikka and Lilbit... But I can make it work]

On the side of a mountain is an old, gnarled tree. It's so tall that clouds catch in its upper branches. Advanced students weave them into treats for the novices. The hollows are

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Challenge #04160-K142: Delivery Completed

A: you salvaged a high priority package? In this desolate place? There’s barely any colony in 500 lights years. Surely you must be mistaken.

B: A, this is a human thing don’t worry about it.

A: I will, because this “high priority package” destination is tangentially 1200 LY of our original drop off point!

B: Look we’ll restock when we get there and you’ll listen to what I say, captain’s order.

Later in the ship A slip

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Tuesday, PLNs in Motion

I have a couple of Leyland's Tours in the barrel. Today, after I finish my daily doses, I take off and get shopping done.

I also have to ring the people who service our sullage system and let them know that they can actually reach the machine.

Making phone calls. My kryptonite.

Still, I braved up and did it. Yay me.

Tomorrow, I am taking Mayhem with me to help MeMum with assorted shenanigans that also involve heavy lifting. Huzzah. Part of

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