Friday, May 1st, 2026 15:22


This month features Trieste, Venice, Durham, and ice cream, as well as the usual dosages of children and cats.

On another note, I have just sent an e-mail to the wrong person with the same name *three* times. I think I need to step away from the keyboard for a bit.
Friday, May 1st, 2026 11:17

Books on pre-order:

  1. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May)
  2. Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May)
  3. Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
  4. Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

Books acquired in April:

  • and unread:
    1. Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy 2) by Timothy Zahn
  • and previously read:
    1. Warhorse by Timothy Zahn

Borrowed books read in April:

  1. Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey
  2. Like You've Nothing Left to Prove by E.L. Massey
  3. Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

Rereads in April:

  1. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

April had a lot of ice hockey and a lot of driving (including two separate Nationals tournaments), and thus relatively little reading. One day I will actually read the Thrawn books, honest ...

Friday, May 1st, 2026 08:02
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
Thursday, April 30th, 2026 22:20

Went into town this afternoon to post some things, and observed Several Creatures. The blue butterfly around the lilac near the top of the hill was very welcome; the Egyptian goslings are starting to look almost grown up, with eye markings and a general reduction in fluff and increase in sleek!

(Elsewise today: SLEEP, post-gym Spatzen, more free electrons and therefore more laundry; both social and solitary wiggles; good therapy; and some Tentatively Positive Communication re Admin: the LRP.)

Thursday, April 30th, 2026 13:12


We had some severe storms come through our area this week, and had tornado sirens going off both in the morning and evening. Luckily the first set of storms had a mild tornado farther south of us. The second set had a potential formation going over us but luckily nothing actually came together and we only got a bit of hail.

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Thursday, April 30th, 2026 12:38
Don Giovanni might be an ironic choice for a fund raiser for a women's shelter but....

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/04/30/a-special-shout-out/
Thursday, April 30th, 2026 08:12
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 22:56
  1. DID make it to the post office and get A Parcel into the post!
  2. DID make it to THE GYM, and was Charmed to notice that one of the other regulars was wearing unexpected-by-me nail varnish.
  3. We brought home many Field Treets and I am continuing to merrily vacuum them up with my horrid little mouth!
  4. Saw the bat! Hello bat. What a good bat you are.
  5. Very much enjoyed the Graun on a photographer who spent a year following the ZSL veterinary team (NB multiple images of post mortems in there).
  6. Negative electricity prices for a while in there today meant: Much More Laundry (most of which is dry), surprise and delight at A running the underfloor heating in the bathroom (WOM FEET); b r e a d; experimental autopyrolitic oven cleaning.