Today in bullet points:
I may need to get Beloved's help with the last one. I have shot #5 in the can, shot #6 is barrelling along at Warp 10. And all that's hanging me up is shot farging #4 not firkin working.
Time to run.
It's not just one hammer - there's lots, and they're all different. -- Knitnan
"Okay," Carol sighed, "I'm gonna need a hammer for this."
"What kind?" asked Brilmoth.
"What do you mean what kind? Just a hammer."
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Read more »Much though I love the concept of Fortnite, this dying compy couldn't quite handle it and the game kept crashing. So I gave up on it.
Which meant that Beloved has been playing exclusively with their brother.
Which left me feeling out in the cold.
Which means that my depression has come back to fight with me.
In the sarcastic sense of course.
Hope has arisen in the form of a patch which might mean that I can play too.
In
Read more »An appellation for a person or group of people: They Who Defy Fate -- RecklessPrudence
On the day that the children become adults, be it their first blood or their first chest hair, they are told their fate. Most resign themselves to it. Some... fight.
Rare are the ones who are successful, and fewer still are the ones who go courting it.
Helen was told by the village seer, "You will die childless, and surrounded by Imps." She did not resign herself
Read more »“Please be patient. Reality.exe has crashed and needs to be rebooted.” -- RecklessPrudence
All things considered, there are better ways to discover that life is merely a simulation and reality is a figment of some mystery coder's imagination. Regardless of the methods of discovery, it is quite a momentous reveal. And more than open to chaos.
For all that potential, there was nothing. Not darkness. Not light. No shape or colour. Not even static. The people were not falling. They were
Read more »Good news: Beloved managed to fit that rusty old BBQ into the skip. They requested that we pick up the scrattle from a nasty patch in the yard in return.
Bad news:
"Oh, and if you have to ask yourself, is [Person] fucking with me? The answer is always yes,” he says, and ahead of them [Person] cackles and gives a little fistpump in the air. -- RecklessPrudence
Most humans, when elevated to the status of Ambassador, acquire an air of caution. A weight to their words as if they know that they hold the fate of their homeworld in their hands. Almost all of them approach becoming an Ambassador as cautiously as they
Read more »[AN: This was yesterday's slice of life that somehow didn't get published when I clicked "publish now". You can see why I didn't notice.]
Let's see now...
...and absolutely NO time for myself, today.
Did get Beloved to promise to sort out the boxes in the kitchen hallway. I have my sights firmly on
Read more »In the immortal words of Genghis Khan: "U Wot M8?" -- RecklessPrudence
The Doctor slowly turned their head to glare at their new companion.
"What?" said Kylie.
"All of time and space. All of existence. All of... everything... and you take the first opportunity to tell a historically inaccurate joke."
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Read more »There's just a few wood scraps waiting for their destiny in the skip. We got a majority of the sheer volumes of crap GONE.
Our yard no longer looks like a disaster zone. The patio concrete is firkin filthy, and that won't change any time soon. Sadly.
There's still mountains of Beloved's crap to deal with, but they're going to run out of excuses or get tired of my asking one day and just deal with it.
Or I could shove every
Read more »Lizards attract mates differently, no flowers etc. So, how do the Amalgam lizards court? One of the local species here climbs to a prominent spot, poses and nods. -- Anon Guest
They called it Crestflare Bridge, and it had an unparallelled view of the Free Table Vendor area below. Tradition held that the tables would never have shaded covers. Because the females of assorted lizard species liked looking on the displaying males as they cruised between vendors.
Even now, centuries after the
Read more »The double volume of the new, bigger skip has eaten the rubbish from the carport, the rubbish from the patio, and the dead trampoline that managed to break our reciprocating saw.
There's still a few specks of scrattle from the carport. Specks that are a meter by two meters of plate metal and weigh more than I can lift...
They're specks compared to the sheer, enormous volume of the other shit, okay?
In other news: I have a new game to occupy
Read more »Auto Condimenter. -- Knitnan
The habits of humans fascinated Zyrik. It was why she went into food services, so she could study them in an environment where she would be invisible. She made Time off her anthropology as well as bussing tables, but anthropology was her chief area of fascination.
This latest example was a freight trucker fresh off their rig, sitting down to a big plate of deep fried potato prisms. The plate was already loaded with the house gravy, but
Read more »It's the weekend, and despite our best-laid PLNs to finish tidying up the yard rubbish, it's almost 11AM and my Beloved has yet to get out of bed.
Not that I'm enamoured of heavy lifting, per se, but I'd rather get the onerous stuff over with, you know?
But I have done my Instant first and I plan to nudge Beloved after I'm done with the advertising cycle.
Beloved's doing a three-day fast, starting yesterday. That's their pln. For the uninitiated, fasting
Read more »What is it about pigmentation that automatically makes you a target? -- Knitnan
"Now. When you see a policeman, we...?"
"Take our hands out of our pockets," murmured Paul.
"Good, and...?"
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