All I can assume is that printer drivers are so arcane that even the LLMs won't touch them lol.

We will also be posting a link later where anyone who missed out on @clairewillett.bsky.social's Haters Book Club or @courtneymilan.com's Pissbaby Rant can sign up for a second chance at them!

Okay I've had some disappointing kcup coffee, but Horn & Hardart's are almost as good as their bagged coffee.

All this talk of stutter-stepping is throwing me back I don't know how many WoW expansions when moving affected hunters' autoshot and you had to move accordingly to minimize dps loss.

Our official 32 auctions total!

The site is maybe up again and PLEASE do not go there unless you absolutely need to for bidding reasons

My feed is all world cup and schism and @romancingthevote.com and it's a pretty wild ride, lol

$200k!!!! $200k!!!! WE HAVE $200k!!!!!!

I was going to make two kinds of dal today to freeze for lunches, but I tripled the first one to use up the can of tomatoes and it, uh, made 14 containers, so. Just one kind, lol.

WE HAVE ARRIVED!!! All 1,000 items are now visible at auction.romancingthevote.com the time for waiting is over. you know what your choices are. make your final strategy. I'll be over here making sure the streaming software is on this laptop.

lol almost lost my corn on the cob to the cat

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by getting a bunch of my novels, with a big chunk of your purchase price going to World Central Kitchen, my selected charity for this bundle. Pay what you like (the more you pay, the more you get), and help feed people in need all over the world.

People saying "well it looks a little like AI" about any of the staff art - nah fam. AI looks a little like OUR art because it's nothing but a mishmash of stolen material. I understand guarding against it, but remember what it is: mass theft certain interests are trying to legitimize.

Inventorying my stationery stock, I somehow have 18 Thanksgiving cards (I send non-Christmas holiday cards to my parents & siblings). They're not even all the same card, which means more than once I've forgotten I have enough. But just for Thanksgiving - all the others are depleted.

The cat is fishing empty plastic Easter eggs out of their storage basket. It's after midnight here. >.<

If anyone wants to read this full account for themselves, it's available on Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33121

Oh also WICKHILLS got a STARRED REVIEW from @libraryjournal.bsky.social which I am pretty sure is my first star from them ever! 🤩 "This gas-lamp urban fantasy combines an exciting adventure, a walk through dangerous, secret places, and one man’s crisis." www.libraryjournal.com/review/wickh...

I snagged one of these as soon as the auction launched to help with my haphazard pollinator garden efforts - I've got abundant milkweed, but everything else is kind of guessing. (The milkweed showed up on its own and I probably couldn't get rid of it if I wanted to at this point.)

lol I was about to get up and leave my desk for a while and happened to refresh the auction I think *right* as the bees went live

Pulled out my Old Gods deck for a play 3 games as priest Hearthstone quest, and Yogg actually *saved* me with the random spells. I'm so confused.

3/4" of rain, thunder, lightning, pea-sized hail. This 2-thunderstorms-in-a-week thing is because I wrote a poem complaining about a thunderstorm that didn't show up last month, isn't it?

Okay that copy of Widdershins is over $2k in the auction and the closest library copy is in Ohio (10+ hour drive), so I guess I'm spending some of my Facebook settlement money! (I put all the money from class action suits into Google Pay, which I can use for Kobo.)

lol I went to bid on the @romancingthevote.com Courtney Milan e-ARC & bowl and by the time I refreshed the page, it was already past my budget cap.

For me, someone who collects craft hobbies, an additional hazard to browsing the @romancingthevote.com auction listings is I'm like, I want to learn how to make that! (I do not need more hobbies. Please do not teach me additional crafts.)

Saw a monarch butterfly on the milkweed!!

If you're not used to the heat and you've been drinking water make sure to remember to get some salt in you too! (Electrolytes or salty food.) You're sweating it out faster than your body is used to and it can cause brain fog and a bunch of other things.

The bathroom mirror in this hotel room has lights embedded in it in such a way to perfectly halo one's pupils with a ring of bright light, and the effect on one's reflection is kind of freaky.

I haven't heard back from the doctor yet, but based on the labs, it looks like I'm going to be getting to play the game of "Is it Hashimoto's or perimenopause?"

Not spilled, per se... we had cut up a watermelon and put the ring in a plastic bag hanging on the side of the island to put in the compost, but then just... forgot about the bag. A couple weeks later, I'm trying to figure out why the kitchen smells like alcohol, when neither of us drinks.

I've got a hat started with sock weight yarn on size 2 (US) needles, and this was a terrible idea, lol. I think I started it about 4 or 5 years ago, got like 3 inches in, and put it aside for other projects. I took it with me to a conference this week and only got another inch done.

I entered the giveaway when I got the email from Goodreads earlier this week, and now it occurs to me that I've already preordered it, whoops. (I never win Goodreads giveaways so I'm keeping the preorder.)

As I see more friends fall victim to this discord hack, I remind people that if someone asks you to download their new game out of the blue, right now, because it will only take a couple minutes, after "catching up" for a minute It's a hack, and they will take over once you download that file.

Ugh, no, brain, we do *not* need to do a philosophical rumination that requires us to actually read Milton.

Oh, right, I didn't make the good coffee today. Now I'm really glad I ordered myself some for when this bag runs out Friday.

Getting a bonafide thunderstorm. We needed this rain so badly. Cats are less enthused.

Really glad I keep the lid of the piano closed, since the cat threw up a hairball on it this morning. >.<

Dreamt about picking/shucking glass gem corn just before I woke up, which is a great mood boost.

Okay I have a couple 2+ hour drives coming up for work trips - do I use an existing playlist or make a new one?

Soccer is one of the sports I can follow along and understand via radio broadcast (the other is baseball), but bluesky is a whole 'nother sports experience.

Weight routine once again validated by moving half the serials collection in ~3 hours. 10 lb. weights seems to be a good match for bound volumes.

Still need a "sorry, cat" emote for Hearthstone, lol

HERE WE GOOOOOOO! The donation form is open for 2026! Give us your arts & crafts, your signed books & special editions. We want your consultations and your expertise. Help us raise money for Vote Riders & The Southern Coalition for Social Justice! Submit by June 28th! form.romancingthevote.com

Cat is acting like the ice cream container is still in the garbage, when that bag is out at the curb already. >.<

Ah, yes, spider-in-the-shower Monday. Of course.

PSA to animal accounts: if you want to acknowledge Pride please make it clear you didn’t cross the rainbow bridge

Cat sitting over here fantasizing about the USB cable I won't let him play with.

Moderately concerned that it may take me another twenty years to decide on a name for the country in this story.

Wrote 2k words tonight, pulled out the unabridged dictionary at least 3 times. I either need a better spot to put it, or I just need to build it into my strength training routine.

lol I startled the cat closing the unabridged dictionary

Was not expecting to need Cthulhuian basalt map assets, but here we are.