Daily Happiness
10 Mar 2026 19:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torachan1. I fried up some frozen croquettes to go with the leftover curry tonight and they were so good. Nothing like a crispy croquette fresh from the frying oil!
2. I was worried that daylight savings might throw me off my morning schedule, since I did wake up an hour late on Sunday, but yesterday and today I've woken up at my usual time, despite it technically being an hour earlier now, so fingers crossed that it continues. I like the time I wake up now because it gives me plenty of time to take a long morning walk, do all my morning chores, and have breakfast without even feeling the least bit rushed about starting work, and I really don't want to have to be waking up with an alarm in order to do that.
3. The annoying lady at work who recently moved into my office and was at the desk next to mine messaged me Friday that she is leaving the company and Monday would be her last day and she was sorry she wouldn't see me to tell me in person. I don't like, hate her or anything, but she is just low level annoying, and as seen by her text, for some reason thinks that we are closer friends than we are, so I am glad that she will no longer be at the desk next to mine.
4. I haven't seen Tuxie around today, but hopefully he will come around tomorrow like nothing happened and lounge on his cardboard scratcher again.
2. I was worried that daylight savings might throw me off my morning schedule, since I did wake up an hour late on Sunday, but yesterday and today I've woken up at my usual time, despite it technically being an hour earlier now, so fingers crossed that it continues. I like the time I wake up now because it gives me plenty of time to take a long morning walk, do all my morning chores, and have breakfast without even feeling the least bit rushed about starting work, and I really don't want to have to be waking up with an alarm in order to do that.
3. The annoying lady at work who recently moved into my office and was at the desk next to mine messaged me Friday that she is leaving the company and Monday would be her last day and she was sorry she wouldn't see me to tell me in person. I don't like, hate her or anything, but she is just low level annoying, and as seen by her text, for some reason thinks that we are closer friends than we are, so I am glad that she will no longer be at the desk next to mine.
4. I haven't seen Tuxie around today, but hopefully he will come around tomorrow like nothing happened and lounge on his cardboard scratcher again.
another big swing from a young hitter
10 Mar 2026 22:08musesfoolI don't love that Nolan McLean gave up 2 home runs in the same inning in this game, but I do love that Team Italia celebrates with an Armani blazer and an espresso (they literally have an espresso machine in the dugout and if someone hits a homer, he gets a shot) and then the team captain kisses the guy while everyone else does this: 🤌
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Couldn't've liked it more.
10 Mar 2026 21:24hannahI got invited to my dad's book group meeting tonight in the capacity of caterer. I brought the cake and I helped the host's wife in the kitchen, where she and I ate while the book group sat around the larger table in the dining room. There's no hard feelings - they're friends that wanted to see each other, and I liked catching up with her. We talked about daytime talk shows, MASH and its laugh track, women by themselves, bad books recently read, and a little bit of poetry. She said that the skin on my chest - the dress I wore was modestly low cut and still well below my neck - was an amazing white, pale, smooth, like something in an old poem about describing beautiful women.
She also suggested I'd be good as a special education teacher, and when I said I didn't have the patience for more than one kid, she said I could do one-on-one. I know how hard that work is, and found it deeply touching she thinks so highly of me. It's not something I think I'll actively pursue, and it's still quite touching.
Everyone loved the cake I brought. Two people asked for slices to take home and share, one person asked for a second slice to eat right there, and two more asked for slices for their breakfasts. I was told it was sublime and that I outdid myself; I replied that next time I'd simply have to do myself, which got a chuckle. One of the other members drove there instead of walking or using public transit, so my dad and I got a lift back to our place. A gentle end to a nice night.
She also suggested I'd be good as a special education teacher, and when I said I didn't have the patience for more than one kid, she said I could do one-on-one. I know how hard that work is, and found it deeply touching she thinks so highly of me. It's not something I think I'll actively pursue, and it's still quite touching.
Everyone loved the cake I brought. Two people asked for slices to take home and share, one person asked for a second slice to eat right there, and two more asked for slices for their breakfasts. I was told it was sublime and that I outdid myself; I replied that next time I'd simply have to do myself, which got a chuckle. One of the other members drove there instead of walking or using public transit, so my dad and I got a lift back to our place. A gentle end to a nice night.
In which my daughter invents science
11 Mar 2026 01:39![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
quomodocumque_feedWhile we ate our pizza I was talking with AB about differential equations, which they’re about to start doing in calculus. We talked about y’=y. “This is why populations grow exponentially,” I explained, “because their growth is proportional to the existing population, so they satisfy y’ = cy and we can see that a differential equation like that has an exponential as its solution.”
This was met with skepticism. “Why couldn’t you just say we know populations grow exponentially and that’s how you know they have that differential equation?”
My first reaction was to say, “no, it goes the other way,” but then I realized that what AB had asked me was in fact very deep. This two-way traffic sign she was gesturing at is really at the heart of science! Sometimes you have a mechanism and you use mathematics to work out its consequences, including consequences you can’t observe directly. Sometimes you have observations and no mechanism, and then you cherchez la differential equation. In a world where we had no idea how flies were spawned, you could count the number of flies over time and reason that maybe, just maybe, y’ = cy was the governing law, and so somehow each existing fly was emitting new flies at a constant rate.
Once I realized this, I launched into a whole spiel about Newton and his inference of the gravitational differential equation from planetary motion, probably getting most of it slightly wrong, or maybe even totally wrong, but that is a dad’s prerogative sometimes.
Exchanges and Crafting and Recs and Whatnot, Take Two
10 Mar 2026 20:06donutsweeperAnother exchange, Battleship, announced it won't be running this year :( It's totally understandable since even before it had so many signups it was so intensive to run but with the #s it had and all the chaos from last year it makes sense they'd want a break but I'm still sad it's skipping this year, I really only do three exchanges a year (h/c ex, battleship and yuletide) with two not running it's such a change for me and leaving me frustrated and wrong footed.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
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recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs:
A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
I did stick with the nalbinding long enough to figure out a lot of the stitches. It is an interesting craft but I mostly wanted to learn it for making socks and while I liked the coptic stitch (which was how Romans and Egyptians made their socks) I could *not* get the increases to lie flat (apparently this is common according to the vids I watched) and while I could get the york stitch ones to do so, in general working it (and all nalbinding actually) just took so much attention I couldn't really do anything else while crafting and there also was quite a bit of eyestrain. Glad I gave it a serious try, might pick it back up some day, but for the moment it's a done and dusted thing for me.
After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
Very happy finally figured out how to make a circle rug; I don't think it'll be something I make often due to lack of place to put it and also the amount of space needed to make it but still. Yay, rug!After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
Here's a few weeks of
recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs: A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
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Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
10 Mar 2026 20:55sovayNot only is 42 °N a lousy latitude for radio astronomy, it does jack most of the year for the photosynthesis of vitamin D, but I was inspired by the summerlike spike in temperatures to walk out for groceries in a T-shirt and whatever it may or may not have done for my metabolism, it was worth the pitching over onto the couch when I got home.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
10 Mar 2026 19:50renay posting in ladybusinessA collection of thoughts about Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman: ( Read more... )
snopes_feedTrump made the comment in a joking tone, suggesting he may not have intended it to be taken literally.
Write every day! - March 2026 - Day 10
11 Mar 2026 00:40zwei_hexenTally:
Welcome post
Day 1::badly_knitted, brithistorian, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 2:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 3:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 4:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 5:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 6:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 7:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 8:badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 9:badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme
Day 10:china_shop
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ysilme here: 529 words for a new drawer fic.
sylvanwitch here: 202 words on "Dixon and the Detective."
Welcome post
Day 1::
badly_knitted, brithistorian, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 2:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, garonne, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 3:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 4:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 5:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 6:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 7:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 8:
badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 9:
badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeDay 10:
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ysilme here: 529 words for a new drawer fic.sylvanwitch here: 202 words on "Dixon and the Detective."Spring forward. Blah.
10 Mar 2026 15:47rogueslayer452++ As always, even though I know it'll soon pass, daylight savings has me all fucked up.
++ Seven Seas Entertainment has been acquired by Media Do, which not only it seems the employees of Seven Seas weren't aware of this acquisition until it was announced but it seems that Media Do is going to be using their own AI translations, specifically for manga, as a means of pushing out more product at a faster rate. Although both Media Do and Seven Seas have made notices regarding the concerns, people are, rightfully, upset by this news. Seven Seas wasn't perfect by any means in regards to translations at times, but at least there were human translators. I don't know what will happen, honestly. Even if there are reassurances by Seven Seas claiming that they will still be hiring human translators there is no guarantee this will remain true further down the line. The best one can do at this point is to keep an eye on the situation. I know I will especially in regards to the upcoming volumes of danmei series that I'm assuming will not be altered since they've had translators already in place. Nevertheless, it just really fucking sucks that AI has taken over a lot of places, particularly in publishing and translations.
++ Seven Seas Entertainment has been acquired by Media Do, which not only it seems the employees of Seven Seas weren't aware of this acquisition until it was announced but it seems that Media Do is going to be using their own AI translations, specifically for manga, as a means of pushing out more product at a faster rate. Although both Media Do and Seven Seas have made notices regarding the concerns, people are, rightfully, upset by this news. Seven Seas wasn't perfect by any means in regards to translations at times, but at least there were human translators. I don't know what will happen, honestly. Even if there are reassurances by Seven Seas claiming that they will still be hiring human translators there is no guarantee this will remain true further down the line. The best one can do at this point is to keep an eye on the situation. I know I will especially in regards to the upcoming volumes of danmei series that I'm assuming will not be altered since they've had translators already in place. Nevertheless, it just really fucking sucks that AI has taken over a lot of places, particularly in publishing and translations.
snopes_feedThe alleged post spread on social media after the White House answered a question that mentioned the potential for a draft.
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10 Mar 2026 18:36toothpastepancakeHi Dreamwidth!
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第五年第五十九天
11 Mar 2026 07:49nnozomi posting in guardian_learning部首
手 part 41
摊, to spread out; 摔, to fall down; 摘, to pick (flowers, etc.), to take off ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64
词汇
点名, rollcall; 晚点, late ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
把你的面具摘下来, take off your mask
有什么事晚点说吧, talk about it later
Me:
我们去那些摊位吃饭吧。
点名的时候你怎么不在？
手 part 41
摊, to spread out; 摔, to fall down; 摘, to pick (flowers, etc.), to take off ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64
词汇
点名, rollcall; 晚点, late ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
把你的面具摘下来, take off your mask
有什么事晚点说吧, talk about it later
Me:
我们去那些摊位吃饭吧。
点名的时候你怎么不在？
snopes_feedTrump was discussing his plan for a national voter ID law when he made the comments. The intent behind his remarks and what prompted them was unclear.