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So, I'm still on the first leg of my return trip. It's almost certain that I'm going to miss my connection but since the possibility of making it is not quite zero, I can't get an updated ticket until I'm actually at the station and can confirm I've missed it. Kind of annoying but I guess I get it. It's possible I won't be getting home until Thursday, which is annoying. I guess there's not that much of a practical difference since I'd have been getting home so late but the difference still exists... Ah, well. No use borrowing tomorrow's worries. I hope I'll soon have a better update but don't count on it, lol.

dustbunny105

I'm on my way home but the bus is delayed by like two hours and I just wanna sleeep.

Mind you, I'm posting this a ways into the delay and so there isn't much longer to go. But I am so frikkin tired, omg. And I'm stressing about making my connection besides. Not something I'll have to worry about until tomorrow night, at least.

lannamichaels

Does anyone have or have access to the The Polychrome Historical Haggadah by Jacob Freedman? I'm curious as to what kind of hagadah text it has. I can find a write-up that lists the levels and one of them is Contemporary, defined as beginning in 1900. What's the contemporary stuff? Are there notable things this hagadah includes/doesn't include?

It having contemporary things/cup of Miriam/etc is not a downside, I just want to know what sort of thing is in this before I decide if I wanna get it for this year or not. My utmost value in a hagadah is "is this usable", not really "is this beautiful", and my "is this historically interesting" niche is already fulfilled by the hagadah shelaimah. So is this the sort of thing that would perfectly slot next to the hagadah shelaimah on the shelf, or is it more of a gimmick? The last hagadah I got because it was artistic, I ended up giving away, because it was pretty but not actually functional.

catness

My recent discovery via the Snowflake Challenge:

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It's a community where users are divided into 4 teams (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn) and complete various kinds of creative challenges like writing, art and even playing puzzle games. Despite the name "fandom", original works are allowed. It's super organized with lots of rules (I'm still trying to get the hang of it all) so it should appeal to fellow fans of spreadsheets, lists and similar obsessions ;) If you enjoy a bit of external nudging to stay creative, check it out! The sign up post

Current Mood: optimistic

dustbunny105

Last day of TFcon had some minor disappointments but was overall a good way to wrap up the weekend! I've got one more night in LA and then I'll be catching my bus home tomorrow afternoon. I think I'll try to write my wrap-up post in the morning before leaving but it may have to wait until I'm home on Wednesday. We'll see. Looking forward to sharing and showing off!

hanna_yuki

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Current Mood: contemplative

larissa

checking in, even though i haven't been very productive again...

websites: still nada. was hoping to get stuff done yesterday but then i got distracted by other things, woe. maybe sometime this week? i have less going on.
writing: has been middling. i mean i'm still writing my daily nonsense about my ocs, but not much in the way of new project stuff like i managed at the start of the month.
gaming: i think i'm 18-20 hours into trails from zero? i'm near the end of the second chapter. since i picked up a new raid commitment in ff14 i've had less time during the week to play, so i've been aiming for weekends. hopefully i can make more progress in the coming week.
- i did also get pokémon leafgreen for switch out of nostalgia. i keep forgetting when the rival battles are and have been woefully underprepared each time. this is just going to be a now-and-then game; it's nice to pick up when i have no brain for anything else.

that's all the updates for now... i really hate this time of year, i feel so blah.

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dustbunny105

I considered just skipping my curriculum post this week but I know that it would annoy me in the future, lol. Still, this is gonna be very short and I'm not gonna bother with the usual format.

Clarinet: Well, I was getting the hang of the longer practice times. I was not able to bring my clarinet with me to practice because the walls at my cousin's apartment are quite thin-- and, tbh, I didn't love the idea of traveling with it anyway. I did bring my clarinet book to read, though.

Korean: Phil isn't really in any condition to be downloading and running the 90 Day Korean app, so I only did the Duolingo course during the bus trip and I'm not super concerned with catching up with 90DK until I get home. I do wish there was something that functioned a little like both of them, ngl. The 90 Day course is clearly the better structure but the DL gamification method, especially in the highly repetitive early stages, is useful in its own right.

Coding: I'm treating my trip as a vacation from this course. It's only a few days and this one will be easy to jump back into, since I was about to move on to the next section anyway.

Algebra: Same for this one, more or less. I haven't had a lot of time to go over notes for the last lesson I did and didn't bother with any homework, so I don't think I'd get much out of taking my usual Saturday quiz. I'm not sure yet whether I'll wait until I get home to get caught up or if I'll just take some time to review and then find a quiz before leaving for the bus station on Monday.

A highly irregular week, to be sure! Having a break like this has its pros and cons. Like, I really don't love going a full week without clarinet practice, especially so close to the end of the quarter. On the other hand, it's been nice to have permission from myself to not stress about every class. And then again, maintaining even modified Korean studies throughout has made me feel very accomplished. I'll need to think further ahead for breaks taken during future curricula!

bemused_writer

Here are some quick reviews of the RE films, along with a few notes on which timeline I think they belong to, which is part of a larger piece I'm working on discussing why I think we should see the RE universe as two separate timelines in general (based mostly on characterization). Timeline references are from over here.

( Degeneration )

( Damnation )

( Vendetta )

Current Mood: artistic
Current Location: Raccoon City

bemused_writer

I wrapped up this game a few days ago, and I have since plummeted into a full-blown RE obsession, so it's safe to say I enjoyed it. Some of my critiques of the start remain the same, but once Grace was in Rhodes Hill proper things improved immensely.

I figure I'll go over some of my critiques and predictions from the last two entries, and see what holds up and what doesn't.

( Spoilers abound... )

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Raccoon City

dustbunny105

I am tiiired.

Suffice to say that I've arrived safely and the first day was good but now the time change and lack of sleep on the buses are really catching up to me, lol. Looking forward to catching you guys up on stuff!

lassarina

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dustbunny105

Currently on the penultimate bus of my trip out. Idk how many more spots there are but I'll be in Phoenix in the morning and I'll go from there to LA. My cousin is gonna pick me up at the station and then we'll head straight to the venue. It has been. an adventure, lol. Not one I'm gonna try to type up on my phone, though, so I'll catch you guys up later!

dustbunny105

Wip Wednesday! I didn't really think this through, tbh-- I'm between busses right now. I'm also on my phone, so apologies in advance if I didn't fix all the formatting when I copy-pasted.

I got prompted "monument" last week and wanted to write something new but what with getting ready for my trip, it just didn't happen. I did find a couple hits in my docs but one of them, I know I've clipped before. I don't live relying on this clip, tbh, as it reads very obviously as something written during NaNoWriMo and never edited. But, hey, "wip" is right there in the name of the game, so *shrug*

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lea_hazel

Everything is bad *jazz hands* but on Sunday I managed to replace my janky mouse with one that has a functional thumb-operated scroll button. One that doesn't periodically freeze, jump, uno reverse, or play other similar psy-ops on my cursor. Unbelievably irritating, especially when gaming.

Though I still intend to eventually get an ergonomic controller to attach to my PC, for gaming purposes. Eventually.

dustbunny105

So. I can't find my debit card ._.

I know it's not lost-lost, because I have a distinct memory of taking it out of my pocket to do laundry. The thing is that I thought I put it back in my pocket later. And I thought that because it's not where I normally would've set it down. Which most likely means that I used it at some point before the hypothetical point when I would've put it in my pocket; I would've grabbed it to double-check some info since it was recently replaced. But if that's the case, it should be right on my bed or on my desk, since those are the places I use Chad. Aaand it's not there.

This is so frikkin annoying, lol. If I can't find it after another sweep of the area tomorrow, I might have to try and stop by the bank for a replacement before leaving. I want to be able to use cash at the con.

dustbunny105

Still not quite where I'd like to be with getting stuff done before I go but, hey, I've got tomorrow and about half of Wednesday.

I texted my oldest niece-- my brother's first kid-- to see if she'd be interested in any of the books I'm getting rid of. Haven't heard back yet. I may be going over there tomorrow to drop off the Christmas gifts that've been taking up my space, though. If I do, I'll probably just bag up what I have and cart them over. Whatever she doesn't want can go to the Free Little Library downtown. That's not far from the station where I'll be catching my bus and it's also near a playground besides, so I might ask my sister about taking the kids out on Wednesday before I go. She was probably gonna give me a ride to the station anyway and I know they don't have any particular plans.

In the meantime, I've made a rough schedule for what I want to accomplish tomorrow. Gonna try the fifteen minute method. Of course, I'll possibly need to account for going over to my brother's place but I wasn't intending to stay long anyway. And it could be nice to have a sort of natural break.

Packing... I just realized I've not done any packing, lol. I need to double-check the baggage restrictions on the bus website, actually. I usually only take a backpack and maybe a purse or shoulder bag when I go to LA but that's just because I don't want to check a bag. If my suitcase isn't too big for the bus, I might just go ahead and take that. Not that I'm planning to buy much, come to think of it, but it'd sure be easier to keep any posters I get safe.

lannamichaels

I guess I cannot do the necessary suspension of disbelief/price of admission be in Workplace Fandoms anymore because what I've osmosised of The Pitt Season 2 is a lot of "should characters X, Y, and Z forgive Character A who was abusive and also stole patient medications and -- this part I'm unclear on but it sounds likely -- also practiced medicine in an ER while under the influence? It's very important question on if his apologies were good enough or if people should forgive him or be his friend again" and I'm like "that person should be fired from the hospital, this is not a buddy sitcom where they're all over at each other's apartments and dating each other and their warm opinions of each other matter, this is an emergency room, they are coworkers in a high-pressure high-stakes environment, not friends, he should be fired and they should never see him again and get to decide if they want to invite him to their bookclubs or poker nights or whatever, but the question of 'should they forgive him, has he done enough' is irrelevant because he should lose his medical license."

larissa

i'm a ways into chapter 2 of trails from zero, so here's some thoughts on the game so far.

( spoilers below )

right now i think my plan for the next couple months is as follows: trails from zero this month, trails to azure next month, and then a break to play clair obscur. i don't own the cold steel games yet (and i'm debating where i want to play them... i need to find out if there's save data carry-over) so i hope there's a sale by the time i get there. i really would like to focus on the trails series this year, because i've genuinely been having such a good time with it.

on a related note, i finally got my collector's edition box for trails in the sky 1st chapter (the remake of FC) and it's even lovelier than i expected. they even threw in an extra bracer emblem pin since it was so late. i'll definitely be looking out for the collector's edition of 2nd chapter when it releases later this year.

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