This is hot for us

Jul. 16th, 2025 06:51 am
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Air temperature 68 F before 0700 hrs, dew point 66, wind near calm, partly cloudy. Supposed to reach 90 F or above this afternoon. AQI "moderate" and pollen high. Walk contraindicated. Hope my small friends with permanent fur coats are staying inside . . . .

[P5] Chicken Alfredo

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:36 pm
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Fandom: Persona 5 universe
Characters: Ren Amamiya (canon), Nagisa Kamishiro (canon)
Rating: Gen
Words: 100
Prompt: Work of Art from [community profile] 100words
Summary: Nagisa surprises Ren with a home cooked meal.
Notes: Am I back on my ReNagi BS in the middle of working on my longfic? OF COURSE I AM xD

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Original: Medium

Jul. 15th, 2025 08:28 pm
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[personal profile] liminalovertea posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: Medium
Original
Rating: PG
Word count: 100 words (Scrivener)
Warnings: Bullying between siblings, implied otherism

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They gave me a 3 pm - 7 pm delivery window for the dishwasher today, which meant waiting around and stewing in my anxiety until they showed up around 3:30. The whole process - removing the old dishwasher and setting up the new one - took about an hour. Now it's running through whatever the initial cycle the installation guys set it to, and then I should be able to use it. It did cost me an extra $125 to get the electrical connection set up, since the old one was hardwired and the new one required a plug, plus I gave both guys a $20 on the way out, so overall it cost almost $1800 for everything, which is more than my stove and fridge cost put together, iirc. It's the most expensive birthday present I've gotten myself since 2016, when I replaced my laptop, but totally necessary. And it is very snazzy looking! (it's the Bosch 300 series 18" dishwasher in stainless steel.)

Anyway, that has been my birthday! I put all thoughts of cooking on hold until tomorrow, when I might make pulled pork (or I might not) and some kind of fancy dessert (I am thinking about this coffee icebox cake but without a stabilizer in the whipped cream I don't know how it could hold its shape if you turn it out of the loaf pan; on the other hand, I'm not taking it anywhere so I can just scoop it out without removing it, so I guess that's not really an issue), but we'll see how I feel tomorrow - it will be cool to not have to wash up by hand afterwards!

Sunday at Dom's was lovely - Baby Miss L was a mermaid in the pool (she kept exclaiming, "Mermaid!" and kicking ferociously - she hasn't had swimming lessons yet but she seems like a natural at this point) - and once she warmed up after her nap she was her usual delightful self. She enjoyed the books I brought her, especially "Be Brave Like Batman" (to go with the Batman and Robin t-shirts), and she wore her Superman dress, so we are covering all superhero bases.

I made the KAF fudge brownies again to take with me, since I was assured that they'd loved them last time, and this time I got to taste them and they were good! Slightly overbaked, but still chocolatey.

Then yesterday on my ride home, the driver took Jericho Turnpike all the way to the Cross Island, which made the trip longer, but did avoid traffic and construction, so I guess the extra 10-15 minutes was worth it.

And I still have 6 more days off before I have to go back to work!

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Spooks (MI5): The Tie

Jul. 15th, 2025 10:09 pm
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Title: The Tie
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G

Prompt: #451 - Work of Art

Jul. 15th, 2025 01:42 pm
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This week's prompt is work of art.

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Be careful what you wish for?

Jul. 15th, 2025 01:01 pm
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I see that a Governor is asking for an investigation into the National Park Service over that Grand Canyon fire. I don't know the politics of said Governor. Are we looking for decades of mismanagement here, or short-staffing due to budget cuts that prevented adequate and timely response?

Squirrel avoids death

Jul. 15th, 2025 06:49 am
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Air temperature 66 F, wind near calm, fog. Visibility under a mile at the airport, about half a mile here. Air temperature up to 90 F this afternoon. Foraging day.

Watched one of our fancy rats climbing the utility pole out front, reach the top and contemplate reaching for the high voltage line, and then back off. We still have power . . .

Post-walk irritation

Jul. 14th, 2025 11:04 am
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Nice meet-up with Ms. Sasha, including an extended petting session on her front steps. Got home and cooled off and had a robot tell me that I have one prescription ready for pickup. At the pharmacy I had just walked past . . .

Game of fox and hounds

Jul. 14th, 2025 06:42 am
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Air temperature 61 F, wind south about 7 mph, fog at the airport. Visibility under half a mile there, far side of the park visible here. We remain under the boot-heel of the oppressor.

Sunday roadkill/floral report

Jul. 13th, 2025 12:58 pm
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Roadkill limited to another loser crow, a flat squirrel miles away from the crow, and numerous blood patches on the road without corpse for ID.

Mullein blooming, both common and "moth" varieties, possible butter-and-eggs, and the usual suspects. Honeysuckle berries turning red, likewise the sumac, and the seed heads of the curled dock have gone to the brown of ripeness.

Got on the bike, up to the country club and over to the road through the bog and thence home. Getting warm out there. Did not die.

15.34 miles, 1:25:45

Constant surveillance

Jul. 13th, 2025 07:24 am
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Emptied the thistle seed feeder yesterday and washed it, hung it out to dry. Brought the empty feeder in this morning and filled it and hung it out again. By the time I got back inside and started to mix up some frozen orange juice, a chickadee was collecting seeds . . .

Air temperature 61 F, wind south about 7 mph, cloudy. Will probably get out for a bike ride later. Rest of the week looks to be nasty hot.

get down, get down

Jul. 12th, 2025 09:52 pm
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As I may have mentioned, Baby Miss L loves potatoes, so when I saw a t-shirt on Etsy that said, "Potatoes gonna potate!" around a picture of a potato, I thought, I have to get it for her! Unfortunately, it was only available in neon green, which I did not like the look of. Luckily, many other vendors were also selling t-shirts with pictures of friendly potatoes on them, so I got her this one that says, "Tater tot!"

This morning, I received a series of glamour shots and a video of Baby Miss L thoroughly excited about wearing the t-shirt. It was so great!

I also learned that The Muppets covering Jungle Boogie is one of her current favorite videos. AMAZING!

On all counts, her vibes are immaculate.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday bbq at my brother's, and I'm bringing her the Batman and Robin t-shirts, plus some toddler books about Batman and the Justice League. Hopefully she enjoys them almost as much! (I also recently sent her a Captain America t-shirt, which I believe she wore for the 4th, and I also got pics of her in the Superman dress, with her arms up like she was flying. 😍😍😍)

In other news, I found this review of the new Superman movie really moving. Will I venture out to a theater to see it? Probably not, but I will be very excited to watch it when it makes its way onto HBO in a few months.

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Casual meanness

Jul. 12th, 2025 07:18 am
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Air temperature 63 F, south wind about 5 mph, fog at the airport. Our lower elevation seems to be below that particular cloud. Morning errand, then walk? Lethargy rules. The world can fix itself.
[personal profile] veronyxk84 posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: Evil Lightbulb
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set post-S11 (comics) in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Spike wants to fix a flickering light in the basement.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #047 Shadow + #283 Piece of Cake + #356 Double/Triple Drabbles [Amnesty XLV]

Crossposted: [community profile] sweetandshort, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


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the read on the speed-meter says

Jul. 11th, 2025 03:20 pm
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Two guys came and measured the space for my new dishwasher and it will apparently fit, but there are as always several - okay, 2 - unexpected wrinkles: 1. the current machine is hardwired into the electric, but the new dishwasher needs a plug, so the installers are going to have to build an outlet? These 2 guys didn't seem to think it was a big deal but it is another $75, which at this point is whatever, fine. Secondly, they were concerned that the installation might damage the drain pipe under my sink, and I was like, can we wrap it in something to protect it from being dinged? and they were like, "Eh, maybe, but if it breaks you're responsible for fixing it." Which, thanks. I suppose I can get under there and wrap a towel around it if necessary.

So we'll see how this goes on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't completely wreck my kitchen!

Speaking of wrecking my kitchen, my current HGTV viewing is "Help! I wrecked my house!" which I'm enjoying, but oh my god, the sheer hubris of some of these mediocre white men, who think they can demo a kitchen or a bathroom down to the studs and then figure out how to put in a new one, and then have to call Jasmine because of course they can't. I don't understand these people, tbh. There is nothing wrong with asking a trained professional to come in and do that kind of work, especially if you're not particularly handy. (And even you are handy in the "can change a washer in the faucet" variety, what makes you think you can install a shower from the ground up??? WTF?) On the other hand, I am really sympathetic to the folks who did hire a contractor who turned out to be shady and didn't do the work properly and stiffed them of their money to boot!

In other news, I am now on vacation and very excited about it! Except shit, I forgot to set up my out of office message. I will have to log back in and do that.

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Friday miscellany report

Jul. 11th, 2025 11:40 am
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Roadkill included a smeared mess on Main Street that I am calling a woodchuck based on fur color alone. Also, an intact crow by the roadside. First year bird miscalculated?

More chicory blooming, more bindweed, more milkweed, more water parsnip, more of the cursed purple loosestrife. Think I saw some mullein shoots, flowers not open yet.

USMC still defending our airport, both Ospreys and helicopters.

Got out on the bike, across town and back and that bridge is now open to traffic both ways, so no more detour! Did not die.

15.71m, 1:31:02

Another Friday

Jul. 11th, 2025 06:58 am
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Air temperature 63 F, southwest wind 4 mph, cloudy. Showers and a thundershower south and west of us, but fading and not really aimed here. Trash out. May get a bike ride in, if the Marines don't attack first.

Amnesty. Prompt 424, Dark

Jul. 11th, 2025 12:38 am
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[personal profile] tellshannon815 posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: Pick a Card
Fandom: Dark
Rating: G

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