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disneydream06jesse_the_kA dozen days ago we brought home Shadow from Underdog Pet Rescue (where we found Bella ten years ago).
Shadow’s had a hard life: not only was he abandoned by his family to live in the street, he got heartworm. Underdog has been treating him, and we have to continue to enforce rest for another 5 weeks. We must walk him on leash even for quick potty trips in the back yard.
He's a skinny minnie — around 40 pounds. He's got super-sleek short shiny black fur — unlike our previous dogs, he's single-coated. He's got maybe 47 white hairs at various spots around his body. There’s a clumpy stripe of white on his chest, but he hasn’t felt comfortable enough to show us his belly yet. Between his ears he’s got the wide head of a pitty, but his nose is long and thin.
We're looking forward to buoying Shadow with the love he needs, and grateful that retirement offers the time. For the first few days his muscles were always tense, and when we moved a hand anywhere within ten feet he'd flinch. He's beginning to unclench, and we've even seen his tail wag a couple times. While we're all bored without romping and long walks, it's a good time to shower him with stinky treats for learning his name and beginning to trust us. He walks pretty well on lead and already knows leave it, ignoring a treat sitting in the middle of my flat palm 6 inches from his nose.
His triangular ears have floppy tips — the left one is always down. His back has two shaved bare squares where the vets injected the second and third doses of arsenic to kill the heartworm parasites. His soulful eyes were so tight in the first week we saw nothing but deep brown iris. Today when Shadow and I were hiding from The Evil Vacuum Cleaner in my bedroom, I finally saw some white in his gaze.
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jonwIt’s definitely Spring here now. There are full-on plants blooming and I’ve been able to sit outside for about 3 hours now and not get cold.
We arrived on the island in May last year and the weather has been amazing ever since. Now we’re getting into the preview to how it got that way. The first year in any new place is interesting because you have no background knowledge to pin your expectations on. But you can still compare; for perspective, my motorcycle would be in storage for another month on the east coast. Here I’ve ridden several times this year already.
Spring also brings the time switch to many regions. My province has decided to join those regions that don’t bother with it and today is the last time we’ll do it. We’ll be in “Pacific time” eternally.
It sounds like a small thing. Who really cares deep down inside if we do or do not do the time changes? Yes, there’s always some people wagging about evidence of this or that, but the recording of time is a human construct that has zero connection to the universe.
Where it does matter is where we don’t see it. Payroll systems, the unending plethora of time servers on the internet, stock transactions, and a shit ton of stuff I don’t even know exists rely very heavily on knowing the time very f*ing explicitly to not screw up.
Obviously we can deal with this on the tech front. Time and date math in programming has been a constant teaching example in college and university computer science courses since time immemorial (yes, I see it). But just because we can deal with it doesn’t make it any less interesting to me. That’s why I’m a geek.
On the Freemason side of things, I saw a brother do his “prove up” on the 2nd degree. That is what we call it when a brother proves to us that he has learned the lessons of the degree and is ready to progress to the next.
I’ve seen many prove ups in my time, but not in this jurisdiction. It was different and longer than I was used to, but still familiar. He did great which means he is going to proceed to the fabled Master Mason degree.
house_wrencosmolinguistThis afternoon, I watched the Nicaragua vs Dominicana in the World Baseball Classic.
It's so loud. I love it. I kept looking up because I heard the kind of crowd noise that my white ass expected to mean someone had just hit a home run or something, and instead it's, like, a check swing or what's almost certainly going to be an infield out or whatever.
Tonight, D and I are watching Japan vs. Korea, in the Tokyodome so I'm hearing more chants and drums and clapping than I've ever heard, even at West Indies cricket matches.
I love it, gotta soak this up as much as I can.
flemmingsduckprintspress
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and 32 authors have come together on itch.io to share this bundle of 32 books starring women, all for $32! Our title Moongatherer by Willa Blythe is part of the bundle, as are many other cool works.
andrewducker
About two months ago Gideon discovered Mario Odyssey. He played ¾ of
it with me, and then restarted and played the whole game by himself.
And then followed that up by playing all of Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
And then, this afternoon, discovered that we have a PS4. So now we're
playing The Last Guardian. He is delighted by his pet dog-dragon.
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duckprintspress[Video ID: a white person in glasses with short, dark hair talking while sitting in front of a bookshelf. /end ID]
Transcript: Have you thought about producing audiobooks for your anthologies?
Yes, we have. We have not only thought about it, we are working on it. I don’t have the audio rights to most of our anthologies. This is on purpose. I do not request rights in our contracts that I do not expect to use imminently. This protects our authors and gives them more options but it does also make it more challenging when we want to branch out, because then I need to request those rights separately.
Currently, the only book I have the audio rights for – only anthology I have the audio rights for – is Add Magic to taste, which is our first debut anthology with stories cozy stories set in magical tea shops and coffee shops featuring queer characters in relationships that are growing, developing, and changing.
I am contracted with a person to do the audiobook. It should be a work in progress, though we have been having some delays. I also have cards for two other people who have approached me and said, “I do voice recording.” Actually, no – three other people who have approached me and said, “I do voice recording. I would love to do an audiobook if that’s something you’d be interested in.” So, if we continue to have issues with the current set up, I do have options.
The plan is to try to do it on a shoestring. Obviously, the narrator still is gonna get paid. But, you know, to keep it on the less expensive end. Audiobooks are expensive to make, and don’t tend to have a huge audience. Most people who do listen to them get them through a library. And so they’re not money makers. Most people in indie publishing who I know who have done them have lost money, and so I’m trying to get us set up in a way that’s prepared for that, basically. Which is to say I expect to lose money on it, but I still wanna do it.
So, yeah. It’s in progress. Sometimes take way longer than I think they should, and this particular project has had several setbacks. The first narrator we spoke to ended up withdrawing, because they wanted to work on other projects. Like, it wasn’t a dispute, there was no animosity on either party, it was just like, eh, I’m not gonna do this after all. Okay, have a good one, thank you, you know? But, yeah, it’s – we’re working on it. I want it to happen.
Feel free to drop me any asks you might have. I own and operate an indie publisher and I’m here to help. Bye!
elainegreyThere is a little bitty spider on the ceiling of the front room where Bruno spends most of his time. It's so small even i am not distressed by it. He is FUSSING at it.
( The unexceptional litany of horrors )
Sorry, just it's so right there.I was up late last night, first experimenting with our new smart telescope, then reading. I awoke coughing at almost 5 am, and decided to get up since an accursed time change happens in the US tomorrow. It is a grey gloomy morning and my mind wanders agressively.
andrewducker
Last Sunday Sophia threw up.
She spent Monday and Tuesday with a fever, and then Wednesday clearly feeling better but not well enough to go to school.
She was mostly either asleep or watching videos. I worked at home on the Monday, when she mostly slept.
On Tuesday I had to work from the office, which is when Jane had to deal with a lot of...demands.
And then I worked at home on Wednesday, although I did drop-off and pick-up. She continued to have demands, and we split them as best we could, depending on who had meetings when.
And then by Thursday she was feeling much better, and made it in to
school for World Book Day, where she was Sophie from the BFG (pyjamas
and drawn-on glasses). And since then she's thankfully been fine.
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conradveidtranunculuscornerofmadnessspikesgirl58’s six words challenge. The words were Song, Finger, Unhealthy, Righteous, School, & Optimize and was inspired by Sarajayechan’s three sentence ficathon’s prompt of Hazbin Hotel, Niffty /& anyone, sometimes they forget that for all her chaotic murders she's the most organized housekeeper this side of the Pride Ring but I didn’t share it there because it was less Niffty than I think was wanted, gifting it here anyhow.
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