Now I'm too tired to stay up. Proper winter is tiring.

The gelato place had a huge sale since they won’t be open again until spring starts. I got banana/chocolate and lime. I hope it won’t melt too much on the train.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

me to the greenhouse glass: you better not be pulling that rococo shit the greenhouse glass:

The first sleeve start looks good. I was so happy when I understood that I don’t have to pick up stitches right at the edge. (Second picture shows the inside.)

Yay, new colleague who will work with me on our routines collection starts in February! So glad I don’t have to wait very long for her - she will be doing most of that work. Ordered her computer right now. :)

Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

Work friend.

Working from home today. I was supposed to have today off because I work the weekend, but it’s the end of the economic year and I have to be able to handle anything that comes up through the day. I’ll get Monday off instead.

My price in the New Year lottery arrived. I really did need a third litterbox.

When I got home Fiona got past me in the door. I live at the ground floor, so of course she ran all the way up to the fifth. We took the elevator down.

Today I’m explaining to a systems salesperson why we don’t want to buy his extra library system modules. Then the first local project group meeting for the systems change. Then two rounds of reference desk.

So grateful. The bike shop changed the batteries in my front light (bicycle) even though I came three minutes before closing. ❤️🚲

Half price off at local work!town yarn store is dangerous.

Finally, the body of my Lanark sweater is done! It’s so cozy! 🧶

When the knitting project is out of the project bag, a cat might try it out.

I didn’t rinse the pan properly and Zevran is licking bacon grease with abandon. Ah well, have your treat.

sometimes I want to think about the things in my life that make me really really happy for example, I have this incredible artist's Some Desperate Glory art set as my desktop background www.tumblr.com/lhoandbehold...

make something. literally anything. something to eat. something to wear. something to hang on the wall. maybe it *is* the wall if you're into that. it will fix absolutely none of your problems but when you're done you will have the same problems *plus* a cool thing you made.

Started some bread. Later I will make a tomato and bean thing I got ingredients for the other day.

one time on Twitter someone adopted a cat named miette but they renamed her and someone said YOU RENAME MIETTE?? YOU RENAME HER LIKE THE FOOTBALL STADIUM mwah, mwah, incredible.

Want some slow tv? Buster sits 1 hour in a box. <3 youtu.be/sSvSIaMSQOE?...

Tomorrow is the last of the Christmas related days off, which feels like an extra treat.

Biking home in -17C 🎶 I’m so happy for my not so pretty but oh so functional lined mittens.

Zevran and I are watching sheep herding training.

I pushed 180 kg on the sled (and did the other seven stations of the HIIT) and I am fucking DONE. Except now I have to buy groceries and bike back home in the snow, because it didn’t stop snowing.

3 cm left…

It’s supposed to stop snowing sometime tomorrow, so I’m going to try and go for HIIT and groceries then. I’d get them delivered but there’s no time slot that works with when I’m home.

#40recs 5. glitter and gold by voordeel, hannibal. blood/violence/gore, flashing cw www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rspf... voordeel has a great sense of musicality/movement in vids (and i think you can see their impact on tiktok to this day). check out their yt for more, esp if you like avengers/star wars

My poor 97 year old neighbor was out in the deep snow with her walker and I saw her having trouble with the door to the laundry building. I went outside to help her and made sure that she got safely back inside again. She was putting her name down for a laundry slot on Wednesday.

It’s a good purring Zevran!

Alright I did it! Please share this link with anyone you think may be into me: forms.gle/6k7jNydbv1uP...

There, logging out of work. I have too many hours as it is.

Zevran was bored, so he came up to Fiona napping on my lap and did the ”I will bite across your jugular and hold you there” thing.

Yay, something to do! I got to call the sorting machine hotline. :)

Very pleasant working conditions today!

Yeah, work is shutting down the branches and telling branch people to go work at main today if they can, because so many people can’t get to work.

Took a nice hot shower. I am guessing I'll be able to get to work tomorrow, but I'll have to check when I wake up to see if anything is cancelled. If not, I think I can trust I'll be able to get back home tomorrow night.

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

Yay, I saw a picture of Bedelia! Sadly it was because she’s very very afraid of fireworks, but I’m happy she’s safe and thriving with my friend. <3

My read books of 2025 (collage from Storygraph).

We are watching birds.

Fiona is upset that Zevran and Opal have hidden away somewhere and can’t be found (they’re in the dryer, on the clean clothes). She’s complaining and comes for company.

I’ve been marathoning GBB season 16 all day. I’m at the chocolate episode.

Hmm, there will be a lot of snow in the coming days. The forecast gives the highest warning they have very close to work!town for Friday, when I work. Guess I’ll watch how things develop, if the warning changes.

I'm so excited to see if the rice will work.

Cooking lemongrass and onion in oil to start an interesting peanut sauce!

See why do we have to have like bigots and Nazis and hating other people for stupid ass reasons when I just looked at my planet from the surface of another planet and I don't even have shoes on. I'm in Soft House Clothes and slippers looking at my planet on my phone. What.

So I am officially asking for help. I tried pulling my thoughts together at my DW, which I dusted off for just this occasion. It’s the most recent entry here: perclexed.dreamwidth.org My goal is $350. I’m at $265 right now. Stretch goal is $500. Relief goal is $750. Deadline is Jan 3.

Time for bed.