Genius. My new favorite thing.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

Oh, so we turned off the certificate generation in the trainings because the completion data is going to be captured on the backend, great--wait, what do you mean, he's still tinkering with the code to capture the completion data?

New project.

In the department of Absolutely The Fuck Not, I just borrowed a library book and the due date is December 4th. What the actual fuck, that isn't okay, who authorized it to be that close to fricking December, I need to speak to their manager.

I'm up, showered, dressed, and ready to get back to it... and no guidance yet received that we are to report to work. Because why would there be.

A new finished object!

You have got to be shitting me.

Well, winter seems to have rolled in overnight.

Hail, OC, and farewell. (My parents’ cat, not mine, but he was a pretty good old man and will be missed.)

Strive to live your life such that when you die, people don't celebrate with dancing CGI crabs.

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Peas: not even once.

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

That is some expert-level trolling right there.

Rage bait and affiliate marketing. Most of the items are either specialist or cuisine/culture-specific tools and the rest are high-end versions of ordinary kitchen tools. If I made tortillas regularly, I'd own a tortilla press too. Let's go back to talking about the history of women in SFF.

Ista, babycat, darling child, I will happily share my warms with you but you must settle down and stop roaming back and forth across my tits first.

you get actors like Alec Guinness despising their genre work, or like Jeremy Brett being massively screwed up by it, and then you get Christopher Lee calling his cat Renfield.

Embroidery update with some finished objects! The window one was aggravating because the kit didn’t have quiiiite enough of the light tan floss for the wallpaper so I had to order more before I could finish it. Now I will have DMC 742 to last me decades.

Can't rewatch NiF and embroider at the same time (subtitles, alas, since my Mandarin is at the level of understanding the dramatic 不知道 moments and not much else) so drinking tea and watching Monty Don putter it is.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Episode 2: in which we meet the Grand Empress Dowager and there are just. So many feelings.

My Brain: *sidles up* Hey. Me: Oh no. Brain: You know what we could do while we're at loose ends for the foreseeable future. Me: Oh no. Brain: We could rewatch Nirvana in Fire. Me: Brain: It'll be fun! Me: But I'll have all the Feelings. Brain: Think of the cheekbones! Me: ...fuck it, ok.

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!) youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

What the alpha in the relationship says before going into rut.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "So, I was thinking..."

Toasted everything bagel with generous cream cheese and then more everything bagel seasoning sprinkled on top. Fortunately I have active antipathy to the idea of running for office in NYC, so I will enjoy my bagel order in peace the way god intended.

Today's culinary adventure: I am trying sardines on toast for the first time. Verdict: Acceptable enough, but the amount of fighting I'm doing to keep the cats out of my face is mitigating that somewhat 😂

*dusts hands* There, the annual autumn update of the wishlist is done, and hopefully the family types will find it useful. Nice thing about picking up a new hobby is that accumulating all the gadgets and gizmos makes wishlisting easy.

There is no spectator sport more satisfying than watching a work colleague lay out the receipts with utter devastating precision to shut the person with impossible demands up.

The way we are all sitting around right now, comparing the tea leaves in our cups and trying to divine the future with them, I tell you what.

It never fails to amuse me how much shit I can get done when I’m avoiding working on some other less pleasant task.

There are aspects of my job for which I am supremely fitted, and spending an hour hunting down a current link to replace one that has rotted is absolutely one of them.

It’s not even noon yet, why isn’t it noon yet?

I love the CPSC.

Nothing, his truck doesn't have a radio. He's singing to us instead.

I have been betrayed by one of my favorite teas and may never recover from the shock. *sorrow*

I've been listening to Provenance this evening while working on embroidery, and I adore the character of Captain Uisine beyond words. He's the same kind of fun that Dlique.

Flu and covid vaccinations acquired, and I had a nice little kvetch session with the tech doing the shots about how awesome vaccines are.

Oh jaysus, someone did an all staff email about That Dead Guy and now people are replying all to it.

I would dearly like to see this week's sales graph of spells sold by Etsy witches.

Hm. Looks like it's a good evening to get off the internet and do some embroidery.

Clinging to my tea rather desperately this morning. Also the sooner I stop seeing that fucking drawing that’s all over the news right now, the happier I’ll be. It makes me wanna barf every time.

Without saying Voltron, what is your favorite giant robot? We've already called dibs on Deathscythe and Gypsy Danger, so let's go for Something Kinda Different. Paging the Fire Valkyrie to the green room.

Fun fact: I think I was one of the first people to start slapping the “Unfinished and Discontinued” tag on my works as I started uploading a fic catalog that stretches back to 2000.

Idle morning thought: a fic-writing fest with prompts pulled from Melville at his most buck wild would be fun as hell.

A Supreme Court justice or maybe a couple senators.

All right, you sonsabitches, I’ve had enough of your shit and there are other pharmacies in this town.