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Wednesday, Day Zero, Last Day of School

SIX gorram cases, all from overseas. The Yule Flood probably won't end until half-past january, Twenty-one active cases. I am very nervous about this.

Today's agenda includes going through the chest freezer for everything inedible, unwanted, and just plain old. We need more room in there for the party stuff.

In the news:

  • China's plan to punish Australia by not buying Aussie stuff backfires
  • Murder victim Allecha Boyd finally found
  • Ghislaine Maxwell suffering in prison, boo hoo
  • Muppet press secretary goes after fellow Repugnicans for ignoring Muppet demands
  • Cops raid COVID Whistleblower for publishing actual statistics on the plague. She's back at it inside 24 hours
  • Kmart and Target set to change after a kid nearly lost her eye WTF?
  • Anthony Fauci warns of horrendous consequences resulting from the Muppet ignoring the plague
  • More Muppet lawyers test positive for the plague
  • Some countries trying to corner the vaccine market. Surprise, they're the ones with the most money
  • "Quality" parenting is hanging your baby in a babybjorn on the back of a chair while you get drunk and hit on randos at the bar. Charming
  • Shabby chic decorators make a crimbolio star out of $2 hangers, zip ties, and fairy lights that happen to be lying around
  • Keyhole wasps endanger planes by making nests in airspeed indicator tubes
  • Now that there's less plague in Aus, the borders are opening up some details here
  • Israeli ex-head of security says aliens are real and have a deal with the USA, including having an underground bunker on Mars1
  • Maccas releases nutella-filled hotcakes, expected to sell like... youknow...
  • Etsy seller contributes to paedophilia by creating sex dolls modelled after a 14YO instagram star... among others if the buyer happens to have photos. Gross. Seller claims the market demands the supply. Double gross. At least arrests have been made thanks to the client list

BLAUGH. I need to take a break from the news again. I want to wash my brain out. Give me fluffy romance and two people being goofs together with consenting adults as chief players. PLEASE.

  1. Which is rubbish. We all know they have an outpost in the Tsiolkovsky crater /sarcasm ↩

Challenge #02890-G333: With Double-edged Blade

People call them the Judge. There are other nicknames for this being, of course. Justice. Equalizer. Balance. Redemption. All of these and more their names are through all eternity. A being who watches the world feeling no pain nor pleasure at what is seen. A being who feels no love, nor do they feel hate. They can feel respect, and honor. Kindness and compassion. But also can they feel disappointment and anger. Their job, from the time of their creation, was to

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Monday, Day Zero, Doubts

Though someone has had a definite go at the extant "fudge like" I have been told that it's not fudge, it's not nice, it's not great... et cetera.

I'm wondering if I should stop here. It might be smarter.

...but I'm not always smart.

In the "day zero" part of today's blog title, we have two new cases putting the total up to thirteen active cases. Miss Chaos is going to be wearing her mask on the bus for her last week

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Monday, Day Zero, PLNs

One of the two cases today was acquired in quarantine. Both are in quarantine, but there's still thirteen cases and acquisition from quarantine is possible.

There's cases coming in from South Australia and into other areas. People are determined to be able to travel for Christmas, but seemingly unwilling to do the things necessary to make SURE they can travel for Christmas.

In the headlines:

  • Conspiracists attempting to prove Covid hospitals are fake end up showing empty wards in non-emergency areas
  • Muppet
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Tuesday, Day Zero, Dentistry

I'm seeing the dentist later on this morrow, so I'm certain to be lightly toasted before sunset. Gonna remember to brush my teeth more often, I swear.

Not in my favour that I swear that regularly, and keep breaking that vow through pure absent-mindedness. I have more delightful things to do than smear my mouth with mint.

At least I don't have a lot of plaque...

I finished the smol tale in which I made myself cry. Watch for it on my

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Challenge #02889-G332: Not Approved Progress

Now we are all sons of bitches - Kenneth Bainbridge, after testing the first nuclear bomb -- Anon Guest

[AN: I've been made aware of the Shiva quote, but that happened after the detonation in war as far as I recall]

Destruction. Devastation. Brutal elimination of the enemy, their buildings, their society. That has always been the ultimate goal of war. Winning, however, has gone further than razing the enemy castle and salting the ground so that they can no longer prosper.

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Challenge #02888-G331: Unconscionable Prevention

Imagine a world where people are required to get vaccinated, required to wear masks and take precautions if there's an outbreak, and are given universal healthcare and a basic universal income. Now imagine that these rules are enforced by law. If people refuse, they are required to be placed in quarantine areas away from the general population due to the risk they pose to the population. Now imagine "pure lifers" coming in. Knowing full well the polity they were trying to move

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Sunday, Day Zero, FUDGE!

Two more cases taking the total count up to eleven. Darnit. Still imports, still detected in quarantine. Still having the risk of One Karen to Ruin it All. Sigh.

I messed up two batches of fudge by getting the order wrong. You're supposed to heat up the condensed milk with the butter and then add the shredded chocolate. Doing it the other way around made it turn gritty and look unappealing, but it's still eatable fudge at the end of the day.

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Challenge #02887-G330: Conflict Resolution Protocol

153: Pod 153 to Pod 042. How is it going?

042: I am embarrassed.

153: Why is that?

042: I launched a suicide attack, and yet here I am. Still alive. I must look very silly.

153: Do not feel bad about it. We are alive after all. And being alive is just a constant stream of embarrassment.

042: that concept is a bit too abstract for me to understand at this time. I will save in my list of things to

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Saturday, Day Zero, Crimbolio Madness

Two cases from overseas, each detected in quarantine, but they do take the active case count up to ten. I dislike double figures in my active case count. One more week of school this year and it's not really worth giving up on the mask for that.

I feel Yulemas Mania approaching and this year... I want to make FUDGE.

I've fallen into a rabbit hole that started with an article about three-ingredient fudge. I've looked at the alternatives, found a recipe

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Challenge #02886-G329: Parallels in Babysitting

(My husband, talking about our children's habit of climbing on me before falling asleep)

"The little ones climb the big ones" -- Anon Guest

Even on Havenworlds, there is one rule followed by nature. If you want to keep your young safe, keep them close. Some prefer the strategy of over-breeding so that some survive to adulthood, but that's more of a Deathworlder thing. Given this fact, it is small surprise that the young of any species seek closeness with those who

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Friday, Day Zero, Bread Day

Another case from overseas, detected in quarantine. The system works. Huzzah. Eight active cases. So less opportunity for random Typhoid Karens. I feel better about my place in this world.

Not completely safe, but better. Better is good enough for me. I'm actually contemplating hanging up my mask. Just... not... yet. See how this weekend goes.

Turns out I've been having a bout of depression, that was way beyond overdue. So once more I'm not paying a lot of attention to the

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Challenge #02885-G328: A Jellyware Issue

99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, you take one down patch it around, 173 bugs in the code -- Anon Guest

[AN: I have lived that nightmare]

Picture if you will, a world divided in two. Strictly regimented by gender roles that only existed in a handful of halcyon days in certain areas of the united states. The people who made it wanted to return to those days of glory before realising that such glory was unsustainable.

Because

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Thursday - Day Zero - Can Has Relax?

Three new cases from overseas. Ten active cases in the system. Meanwhile, I've been hit squarely in the face by the Dunwannas, floparound version.

Symptoms:

  • Lack of energy
  • Lack of inclination
  • Lack of desire
  • INTENSE soporification [yes I know that's not a word, but I need it to be]

So I'm just going to focus on doing that which is necessary for my alleged business model and see if anything sparks my muse for the rest of the day.

No peeking at

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