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mdlbear ([personal profile] mdlbear) wrote2025-07-06 02:51 pm
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Done Since 2025-06-29

It doesn't feel like a very productive week, but I have gotten a few things done. Five (short) walks, four (short) guitar practice sessions, some patio furniture assembled (one Adirondack chair fully assembled, the other partly assembled, table unboxed).

The Adirondak chairs each have a curved, removable leg-rest. It's not exactly an ottoman, so I've decided it needs to be called a nottaman -- hence this post's music.

The weather has gone from unpleasantly hot to pleasantly cool (with a reverse or two) over the course of the week; we are now enjoying a light rain. Or at least I am -- I'm the one who sits closest to the sliding door in the living room. It opens to half the width of the house, and fortunately has a screen behind it. Because cats.

Between ADT and anemia, my body's temperature sensing has become very wonky; I feel like I'm freezing at temperatures that the rest of the household thinks are too hot, but if I put on something warm I quickly become overheated. It is not conducive to sleeping well. I don't so much mind having the cats wake me in the middle of the night, because my bladder is also wonky, but it would be nice to be able to get to (or back to) sleep in a reasonable amount of time. On the flip side, if all goes well I won't have to talk to a urologist until November.

Not much to say about what's going on in the US. But One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings looks like something you can do.

And go watch The FIRST images from the RUBIN observatory! - YouTube

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-07-06 06:43 am

Well, that was unexpected and unpleasant

Though, upon reflection, it's surprising that this hasn't happened before in 30+ years of menstruation )

I'd say that was the worst thing to happen this weekend, but then I glanced at the news, and how do things keep getting worse? I thought we might at least get a reprieve over the holiday weekend, Congress would all go on vacation and not pass any terrible bills in the interim, but I guess not.

I'm not linking to it, not today. I know how to take a break, even if they don't. Take this article on amenorrhea instead.
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the_sheryl ([personal profile] the_sheryl) wrote2025-07-03 05:59 pm
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Books read, June 2025

Here's what I read last month:

Vanishing Treasures - Katherine Randell (non-fiction)
Mystery Most Humorous - John Betancourt, Michael Bracken & Carla Coupe, eds.(anthology)
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge - Andrea Penrose
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mdlbear ([personal profile] mdlbear) wrote2025-07-03 05:51 pm
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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for...

  • Rain, and a change in the weather. Hot weather is part of why I'm glad I left San Jose. But there are still a lot of things I miss.
  • Spreadable blue cheese. Gazpacho in hot weather. A fridge with a working ice maker.
  • Pipes (in the Unix sense), bash, and grep. Honorable mentions to locate, column, and units.
  • Cuddly cats.

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-07-05 07:29 pm

Weather's cooled down a bit, that's nice

Moonpie's foot looks better, we didn't end up having to take her for an x-ray at all.

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magid ([personal profile] magid) wrote2025-07-02 05:41 pm
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Farm share, week 4

Things are getting heavier now…
  • 2 bunches of mixed beets with greens
  • 2 heads of cabbage (I chose medium-small green cabbage over Napa or the frilly cabbage)
  • 10 summer squashes/zucchinis (I chose a mix)
  • 12 pickling cucumbers (I chose smaller ones; I think the big ones get a bit bitter, and the seeds too large for my preference)
  • 2 bunches of dill
  • 1 pound of basil
  • 8 heads of young (uncured) garlic
  • 2 pounds of mixed young lettuce leaves (gorgeous, but 2 pounds is more than I’ll get through, so I swapped 1 pound for another 4 heads of garlic)
  • 8 baby bok choy (I think they’re Shanghai bok choy, because the stems are light green; I chose small ones because really, 8 is plenty)

First thoughts: stir-fried bok choy with garlic, scapes, scallions, some type of mushroom, and tofu. All the green salads. Dilly cucumber salad. Sauted beet greens with lemons and walnuts. Asian-ish cabbage slaw with lime-miso-sesame oil dressing, plus cashews/peanuts, scallions. Roasted beets. Roasted summer squash. Dilly pickles. Pureed basil stored in the fridge under olive oil for later use.
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-07-04 05:02 pm

Bleeding

Ugh

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-07-03 05:00 pm

A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

Warsaw, 1944


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