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My wrist still had no mobility and was very sore outside the cast, add that to having a dog at home and the Orthopaedic surgeon recommended keeping a cast on two more weeks (which ended up being three due to a bank holiday).

I'm starting to try to take the dog walking and training classes more seriously and pick up more hours (and/or find a weekend job) as I really want to do a minimum 5% overpayment per month average on the mortgage (preferably 10%). I also want to rebuild savings after everything that happened and the house purchase. Unfortunately I've had zero luck finding a weekend job.

The bright side of this is that I didn't buy the house solo, and for now my partner in crime is chucking more in to match up my overpayments so far. So we do have savings (and insurance which includes emergency repairs). Just not as much as I like, especially because...

Patrick has had someone at work come to him and ask him to sign as guarantor. Oof. He's known the guy for four years and trusts him, but I am super wary and wanting to be prepared in case they flake out. Originally I was going to say no-can-do. I mean, we have not even been here a full six months. It's not like half the mortgage is paid and if the guy flakes out we can take a loan for a year's rent and only be a little in the hole, it's finding a way to pay rent a whole year for a house on top of our mortgage hole. And even if he trusts the guy, well, his trust-dar is not the best.

But in the end I told him ok.

First, the guy is here on a Visa and immigrants have a hard enough time here. I mean, there are literal progroms going on. Diversity is not a bad thing here.

Second, Patrick's worked with him four years.

Third, I feel like people helped us when we needed help - including Patrick's parents who signed as a guarantor for me because estate agents here wouldn't let anyone outside of Northern Ireland sign as a guarantor for me. Deborah housed us while we were looking for a house. So it's important to pay that forward, do unto others as you would want done unto you and all that.

He also said the guy is trying to get into cybersecurity and will hopefully be in a much higher paying job in a few months, but I take that with a grain of salt, same as I'm trying to become a nurse and project manager or Patrick's trying to become a regional manager. We all have aspirations, we don't all make them.

So as the other saying goes, hope for the best and expect the worst. I am trying to take earning more money much more seriously in case the worst should happen. Similarly I did tell Patrick that if he is signing as a guarantor for this guy he needs to be prepared that he might need to take up a second job up to a year to cover the lease until it completes.

And who knows, maybe paying it forward will bring karma back around to us. Maybe I'll get a job at the organisation just three minutes away by bicycle. If I did that £310/month I'd save would make it much easier for us to cover if the guy took off.

conuly

Eirenicon: A proposal to resolve disputes and reconcile differences in order to advance peace, strengthen or establish unity, or foster solidarity.

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fardell24

6th
Daniel 1
The young men.
Daniel understood the implications of what was happening. The training program was to influence them to follow the Babylonian culture.

vs 8
Daniel decided not to defile himself. His determination was based on some spiritual understanding.
The meat and the wine?
Daniel knew God.

God is calling people to repent. It was the same in Daniel's day as it is today.
Daniel's resolve to see what was happening around him through God's perspective.

Daniel didn't put his rights above God's call.

It is the same for us today.

Daniel spent the entire Exile in the Babylonian palace.

Change is a constant.
This isn't a surprise to God.

mekare

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conuly

Holy fuck that’s awful :(

conuly

( Though, upon reflection, it's surprising that this hasn't happened before in 30+ years of menstruation )

I'd say that was the worst thing to happen this weekend, but then I glanced at the news, and how do things keep getting worse? I thought we might at least get a reprieve over the holiday weekend, Congress would all go on vacation and not pass any terrible bills in the interim, but I guess not.

I'm not linking to it, not today. I know how to take a break, even if they don't. Take this article on amenorrhea instead.

mekare

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archersangel

i was looking at posts i had made about ncis: new orleans ~~to torture myself~~ for no good reason & realized that the final episode was in 2021. four freakin' years ago!

if it was not canceled this year would have been season number 11 for them. but despite my disappointment, 7 seasons is pretty good for a tv show. especially one staring scott bakula.

confession time; since the show filmed in new orleans* whenever there was a national weather report during the filming season (july to march, i think) i would look at the new orleans area to see what the weather was like. yes, i realize that i most likely do need professional help.

*other ncis shows filmed in a studio in los angeles & just did outdoor shots on location.

Current Mood: nostalgic

mekare

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conuly

Moonpie's foot looks better, we didn't end up having to take her for an x-ray at all.

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beatrice_otter

The hardest thing about writing Peter Wimsey fanfic is the quotes. Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane have an encyclopedic knowledge of the literature of their era (and the literature that was considered classic/important in that era), and quote it often.

Today I posted on the Gaud Squad Discord that it would be awesome if we had a searchable database of the literature and poetry that they knew or could reasonably be expected to know, searchable by keyword and theme, so that one could look things up easily. And that I would be willing to do the data entry, but had not the technical skills to set it up.
supertailz responded by setting up a Notion instance and is noodling around with the technical aspects of it, so it looks like this is happening!

The easy part is getting the literature that Peter and Harriet quote added--all I have to do is read through the books (no hardship there!) and source the quotations. Although I know there are some annotated versions floating around, and if anyone has a copy of the annotations, that would be lovely.

The hard part is getting the right mix of things that Peter and Harriet would have known. Because what is considered "classic literature" changes over time. Some things rise in acclaim, some things fall out of favor. What would be really handy is a curriculum for Eton ca. 1900 and for Oxford ca. 1910, but so far I haven't found anything. Does anybody know how to search "what literary works were considered classics in 1920"? Or have a good list of where to start?

archersangel

a follow-up to the previous post.

the case arrived a few days ago & the rubber-ish piece was removed. of course the cover over the charging port tore completely on one side as i was removing it.

it looks like this is a darker black than my brother's case. but then, his has about 2 /12 years of wear and exposure to the sun.

the back rubber-ish piece and the light gray hard inner piece look nice together. otterbox should offer it as a color choice. and i could get a cut of sales if they do for suggesting the idea.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: wednesday

conuly

Ugh

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conuly

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

Warsaw, 1944

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fardell24

Quinn Morgendorffer returns to Lawndale after travelling with the Doctor in the TARDIS. However, she is drawn into another adventure when the Doctor picks up a strange energy reading in town. Team Possible investigate a portal that has appeared in Middleton that leads to Lawndale several years in the past.

fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14486471/1/Convergence-on-Lawndale

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67097887/chapters/173246860

fardell24

The third of the previous applicants entered the bookstore.

“Let’s see. Dani Moreno, a sophomore at Lawndale State,” Quinn said.

“That’s right,” Dani said.

“I looked over your CV again. You said that you study visual arts and also are experienced with sound equipment.”

“Yes. But I may ask.”

“You can,” Quinn said.

“Is the person you actually hired responsible for Jane Lane’s disappearance.”

“Possibility.”

“I see,” Dani said with a frown.

“Do you know Jane?”

“Yes, my brother is in Mystik Spiral.”

“I guess that’s some of your experience in sound equipment comes from,” Quinn guessed.

Dani nodded.

“Right. I need to talk to more people, but I think you might be in.”

“I’ll wait in the café.”

“Thanks.”

Dani entered the café and saw that Scott Ashworth was there. ‘I didn’t think he was interested in Shakespeare,’ she thought. She then went up to the counter.

“How may I help you,” the pigtailed waitress asked.

“A white tea, thanks.”

“Coming right up.”

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echan

It is possible to use your entire forearm against one of those giant sloping holds where there's basically nothing to grab its just an awkward orb bigger than your head and you're praying to the gods of friction to keep you there. You do get a lot of friction, laying an entire forearm on it! So much that, after moving your feet up, you're in a terribly awkward position with no good way to move your forearm without losing a bunch of skin or falling off the wall.

I'm better at sloper holds than I think I am, but, confidence & lack thereof adds its own difficulty.