Settler words&music, (leanpub.com/upsun) living where privilege meets precarity in MST country. she/her/they———– Novels: Midnite Moving Co., Upsun; Sweep Off Those Waves coming in 2020, Hair Sinister after that. —Restore All Indigenous Lands!
Jeff’s staying back and I’m going. I have a veggie tray to purchase veggies for and prepare. Paul and probbly Keith are coming to get me around quarter after three. Sounds like Alexis made a MAONTING of food.
White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends
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this is 10K higher than any score I ever got on tetris before
background music for a computer game… written on garageband using a gated kaossilator ten years ago at least
TFW you want to boast on social media about a gaming accomplishment – but the real point is that it would be virtually impossible for someone with early onset dementia to do what you just did. I broke 5 minutes, I broke 5 minutes AND took 20 seconds off my most recent record. yay Sherlock, my favourite puzzle game for MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
I was supposed to write somebody a letter today…. I’m going to clutch the negligibly small sore spot on my flu shot arm and plead that all I want to do today is vote. Also, there are leftovers, I got mild peri sauce Barcelo chicken yesterday and I found it absolutely delicious.
Various physical signs in my body indicate that my liver is much happier with me eating less carbs and sugar. I still don’t have any way to check my blood sugar. A diabetic friend is really happy with her implant (she’s lost weight in a healthy way, she has needle-like accuracy on her sugars) but I’m hoping to turn the boat around still, so we’ll see.
I reviewed my schedule of habits to develop and I think for the next week I’m going to concentrate on drinking enough water. So every time the clock shows a multiple of three, I should drink a third of a litre of water at minimum, and make less than half my daily liquid consumption tea. Let’s see if I can get this habit established! I’m very well established with an evening routine, so I’m happy about that, and I’ve also stopped looking at the computer at bedtime, which means sleep starts faster and I’m not doomscrolling right before bed.
In the morning, the wifi doesn’t talk to my laptop from 4 am to 7 am. I get much more done in terms of writing, editing and letter writing now during that period since I’m not making myself unpleasant on twitter the entire time. That’s usually the time I mail the letter, if I leave the house for that purpose.
Murder hornet found in BC. How jolly.
Okay I’ll be thinking about this one for a while:
text accompanying a ‘Lower Decks’ graphic: Star Fleet Academy should not be in SF. There’s no canonical indication that the land was ever returned and military school on stolen land is a military occupation.
Photo credit Paul Caspell
Jesus Christ in mitten strings, at this point if a cis man tells me he’s into Warhammer I’m going to assume that glum darkness with misogyny is his emotional colour palette and may I also mention that I prefer it when people show, rather than threaten to show, their reasoning skills. I just read through one of the most ghastly misogynistic piece of shit threads ever, and now the whole game has a stench I must avoid.
Started playing it 28 years ago. It’s called Sherlock
It’s a logic puzzle game.
I just got 5 minutes and 5 seconds on an 8 x 8 frame in 100 moves. For me that’s incredible.
Paul and I were very moved by the service for David Hamilton, who in death seems even more quietly mythic than he was in life. A genuine, humble, intelligent, thoughtful, listening kind of man, with music in his very soul, the eulogies were funny and moving and real and the comments by his daughters-in-law particularly stood out as coming from two very different women, but uttering the same grateful praise.
We spent a lot of time catching up (I refused to look at my watch.)
So we were late to the restaurant, but it all came out okay.
Then back here. We played Cards Against Humanity and had so much fun. I haven’t heard Jeff laugh that hard in company since high school. Both of us laughed until we were leaking, and at the point when we thought our ribs couldn’t take it any more we’d start laughing again. Keith played games master. Also in attendance Cassidy, Mike (birthday lad), Joe and his gf, whom I’ve probably been introduced to four times but whose name I cannot remember, Brian and Chari, Paul of course. Paul had the advantage, with Keith, Mike and Cassidy, of having played it before, and he came up with some combos that were hilariously unprintable. I won a round with the best and simplest two card combo.
“For my next trick I will try to pull HOPE out of MY SEX LIFE.” Keith was the judge that round, ya shoulda seen his face.
I also won a round with “Dick Fingers”. Since there was also “Five Dollar Foot Longs” coming up as a card in that round the group immediately came up with a band name of Dick Fingers and his Five Dollar Foot Longs.
Yes, we had fun.
Jeff wore his Stargate “No Place Like Home” hoodie, squee.
I don’t even know who won and I don’t care. It wasn’t the point.
Keith noted that you aren’t supposed to play it with family members but we managed all that quite nicely. It’s an extremely rude game, and you may learn, as Jeff remarked, things you really didn’t want to.
Thank you to Jeff for getting the pinballs going – Joe and gf, who is apparently a pinball enthusiast from way back, went downstairs and made pinging noises for at least an hour and then dropped into the middle of the CaH game.
Around 9:30 I realized I could no longer stay upright so I went to bed. Also, darkness equals bugs.
Thank you to all the beautiful people, friends and Beaconites, who made it such a perfect, and perfectly exhausting day. Now I can’t sleep.
Falling and dying x 3 In Dark Souls II I've only ever kibitzed when my brother played this game The NPCs pee on his leg and call it gentle rain And soon enough the gravity will trigger this refrain Falling and dying x 3 In Dark Souls II He stepped into a box one day and he emerged a girl He thought he'd give the mincing walk they gave her a short whirl But really he would rather be an armoured flying squirrel! Falling and dying x 3 In Dark Souls II bridge: Typos in the weapons descriptions No way to pause it to pee Boss fights that come out of nowhere You'd better be ready to be... Falling and dying x 3 In Dark Souls II As fickle as the weather in Vancouver and as nice Merchants you need badly who will only show up twice They overseason everything but only use one spice Falling and dying x 3 In Dark Souls II Spoken... Man I'm sure glad I'm not the one who has to keep the torches lit in that place...
Some dudebro posting under a social justice moniker on twitter just told me that douchebag is not a gendered slur. Do you know what it feels like, protecting Stephen Harper from gendered slurs? I feel…. fucking weirded out, 0 humans!
Of course douchebag is a gendered slur. Men don’t douche. (Women shouldn’t either, but that is a bottle of cultural worms I’m not prepared to uncork at the moment cause then we get into the whole stinky hoo-ha thing… just, no.)
Anyway, Stephen Harper is a REAL man. Where REAL stands for Reliably Evangelistic Authoritarian Leader.
So after he (obliviously he) tells me that douchebag is not a gendered slur, I answered thusly,
Are you implying (along with coconuts migrating) that men douche? Cause, damn, dog, that’s some scary shit.
I think it’s time to turn off the social justice firehose for today.
Manuel Noriega – Ol’ Pineapple Face himself – is suing a gaming company for unauthorized use of his image.
In the words of John Caspell:
I just got a perfect game in Sherlock, 8 tiles by 8 tiles, with a time of 5:52. This means that in a logic puzzle of 64 tiles, with 111 clues, I solved it in 352 seconds. For me a good time is less than ten minutes, so I’m thrilled.
Sherlock does actually exercise the brain, so I am very happy about this.
Note from 2020 (5:15 in 116 moves) ha ha and you can buy the game here: (website was born a long time ago, be nice) https://www.kaser.com/sherwin.html
The NFL former players are not getting a big payout for the hits they took…
And here’s the documentary Jeff and I watched, shaking our heads almost the whole time. Tragic, and so stupid! The flower of American young men broken and discarded like trash….
We were supposed to go bowling, but we ate and drank and watched the Canucks instead. In attendance; Rob, Katie, Keith and Paul.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uog-sc032712.php YAYYYYY! Science brings some living to elm trees.
Jeff’s tenancy with me has consisted in part of him going away and thinking for a spell when I say things like “Why can’t we have the internet on the big screen?” and “We have to many fucking remotes; when you go out of town I can’t even reliably turn the TV on; can you fix that?” mostly to prevent himself from saying something mean to me about how I’m too dumb to understand the two page instruction set he laboriously wrote, AND updated at least twice. Jeff produces good documentation and I am dumb as a brick; these two facts are incontrovertable. With respect to the “Why can’t we have the internet on the big screen?” question he had to do a ton of stuff and set up another computer to make it happen. SO I get to go skipping through life asking why things don’t happen to my liking and he gets to spend hours of challenging labour AND money making it happen. I don’t know which is worse, that I keep thinking I can get away with it, or that he just quietly goes away and does it without presenting me with an itemized bill. On the other hand, I do cook around here.
His latest act of genius has been to bow to the inevitable. I am indeed TOO STUPID to handle more than one remote, but universal remotes almost universally suck. After lengthy study of the problem, he purchased a universal remote and then spent a goodly number of hours programming it to withstand the depredations not only of myself but of my son, who can be a complete ass when borrowing media. Sorry son, it’s true. Of course if you get hit by a car I’m going to regret this, just like I regretted my daily description of cleaning John’s apartment when he moved out immediately after he got killed in an accident, but I don’t go back and oubliette that shit because that’s just lame. I would rather be complicated, messy and inconsistent, because, er, that’s how I am…. But the truth keeps on being the truth even when you could have picked a better moment for the reveal.
Jeff has not only programmed the remote so I can do whatever I want to do with the tv and the Xbox and the monitor, he’s SET THE AVERAGE AUDIO LEVELS. So if you’re going back and forth between media you don’t get blown out of your seat if you land in the middle of a tv commercial. That, friends, is true genius. And he’s always finding new ways to tweak the remote. Go tech!
Today is Mother’s Day. I’m opening at church (and if I’m not, I’ll help….) and then assisting with a Mother’s Day tea. I decided I couldn’t deal with making soup so I baked a whole salmon and made cinnamon buns. Jeff doesn’t know I plan on making more, but I do; it’s mean to fill the house with the supercharged smell of home baking and then say oops, you can’t have any. (Actually I let him eat a couple: “I have good news and bad news. These are the best cinnamon buns I ever made, and the rest are going to church.”)
Yesterday I did laundry and played Buzz ALL DAY. I do not play Buzz every day, but I had four separate guitar playing sessions yesterday and I LOVE HOW THAT GUITAR SOUNDS OMG OMNOMNOM. Also yesterday watched chunks of Canucks game and laughed at Margot for watching Nascar again. She really likes Darlington, and why not. My shopping trip yesterday consisted of propane and guitar strings, because the g string ALWAYS breaks on a 12 string; I bought two whole sets and spares. I talked to Neil Douglas about effects pedals and he laughed and asked me why I’d bother. I s’pose.
I managed to cut the grass last weekend but I have no fucking clue when I’ll get to do it again because the sky continues to dump precip at an unholy and quite soggy-making rate.
After church, the Horde will descend and I am hoping to barbecue some MORE salmon.
Did I mention that I think my brother is a genius?
Equality is a chimera, but it must be encouraged to be real.
Bawled my eyes out this morning. I read of an encounter between a little autistic girl and a little Down’s syndrome girl in a restaurant. The two girls ended up hugging and sitting together to eat their meal while their moms got kinda teary. Honestly, if I didn’t personally know the woman who wrote it and could attest to her complete veracity, I would have sworn it was one of those darned feelgood stories that veer around the internet from time to time. As it is I feel marginally better about human beings.
Jeff’s going to write a post about Gizmo. It’s not much fun; Gizmo is not well.
ScaryClown went downtown with a buddy after the hockey game and he said that insane was the kindest way of putting it. He’s also never seen so many drunken hot women.
I was 45 minutes late getting home last night because some ffffing idiots had a fender bender and didn’t move the cars down a side street to swap info. Iggerunt putzes.
The weather is mild, mild, mild; I see forsythia everywhere, and there are already rhododendrons in bloom on the SFU hill.
I just gave more money to BCCLU, and they repaid me by defending the pro life group on the UBC campus. Oh how hard it is to have higher moral standards than the people we disagree with. In fact, I’m not sure it’s permanent. I’ll go back to being a jerk now.
How???? by mentioning the Correction, yet again.
But then again, we need all kinds of brains to make a world.
