Sally's Journal

Today I am thankful for...

• Dried fruit.
• Blue cheese that's spreadable if kept at room temperature. Good bread.
• Compression gloves to go with the socks. Be nice if I'd remember to wear them at night, which is what I got them for.
• Exercise putty. Which is also an excellent fidget. Fidget gadgets in general.
• NSAIDs.

NO thanks for chronic pain and depression-or-whatever-the-frack-this-is.

Posted by Simon Tatham

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/

A detailed look at a still from a 16-year-old film, which I recently found to make a good educational exercise, with the bonus of being fun.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/

A young woman's bid to escape Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania is complicated by apocalypse.

The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe

Happy Birthday, _celebrian and sartorias! I hope it's a lovely day for you both.

Anyone who's interested in the UK moving towards PR might like to check this list to see whether their MP has backed an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill which would (ultimately, hopefully) lead to a review of the voting system. My MP has always been a supporter of PR and has signed it; if yours hasn't, you might like to write to them encouraging them to do so. (More details of the amendment wording at the link also.)

The railway station in Wrecsam is old and there was some information about its history:



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Wax's favorite aunt is here! She came for the triplets' graduation party Saturday. We love to have her.

However, I'm out of paracetamol (acetaminophen) because last time I was in a pharmacy I accidentally bought the small box of 10x 500mg instead of the normal one of 30. And I am completely exhausted after cleaning strenuously the last three days: vacuuming, tons of laundry, sweeping, scrubbing floors, dusting, shaking rugs and moving bunny furniture, and scrubbing two bathrooms yesterday (mirrors and glass, chrome and porcelain, and toilets). My hands, feet, shoulders, back, legs, and arms are all separately sore. It's also extremely windy and the wind is very cold. I do not want to walk to the store! However, I'm about to run out of Earl Grey as well as painkillers (we have plenty of ibuprofen, but I don't take it often because I don't want it to destroy my sensitive stomach).

I also had cause to search the web for tips for removing limescale from toilets and floors and glass shower walls and chrome fixtures. The glass got much better, and with magic eraser some of the scale came off the floor tiles where there's a drip that has made little white rings around their edges (they're cobalt blue Japanese glazed porcelain tile), but all my cleaning products and physical friction made no impression on the other named surfaces. I found insane stuff like people with hard water chipping the calcium out of the toilet bowl with a screwdriver or filling it up with hydrochloric acid. The post I found about limescale on glass was from a woman who has been trying to remove it for ten years and the only things that have worked for her were razors and steel wool. The internet wants me to fill a plastic bag with vinegar and rubber band it around the faucet, but it's a shower mixer that looks like this... do I even have a big enough bag?

I have mostly a pleasant feeling of accomplishment. But also... sore.

Happy birthday, genarti and green_knight!

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...


* Commented on "Just One Thing" in awesomeers.

* Commented on "Check-In Post - May 27th 2026" in get_knitted.

* Commented on "TV Tuesday: Waiting for the Break" in tv_talk.

Xenofiction tells a story from the perspective of a nonhuman character.  Some have humans only in the background; others have none at all.  Alien-only science fiction is a small branch of that genre, but animal fiction is a very large branch of children's and young adult literature.

I tried a new ice cream place this afternoon, on my way home from the dentist. The bus driver pulled over because he realized that the air conditioning wasn't working, fortuitously in front of an ice cream and frozen yogurt shop with a sign in the window that said "saffron rose." So, instead of getting on the next bus, I went into the store and got a dish of soft-serve saffron rose ice cream, which was very good. I had vaguely noticed the shop in passing, but been unimpressed, because the place is named "tutti fruitti" [sic]. While eating my ice cream, I mentioned to the bus driver that I'd been going to get ice cream in Harvard Square. He asked for the location, and said that his favorite ice cream is sold at a bowling alley in Hyde Park.

The dental visit itself went fine. He placed my new permanent crown, to replace the temporary one I got three weeks ago.

I noticed again that my risk of catching covid (or any other respiratory infection) there is very low: the dentist and his assistant were masked, and there was nobody in the waiting room when I arrived, and one person when I was done. The dentist mostly works out of a different office, and I don't know know the economics of keeping this office open one day a week work, but I'm glad they do.

Today we made Pico de Gallo Meatloaf using what we found at the Spring Vendor Market in Sullivan. The result is excellent. If you don't make your own or have a favorite brand, watch for something similar at a street fair. This time of year, people often see pico de gallo, salsa, and other condiments where you can sample several before choosing what you want.

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Posted by Frank

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I had a nice time this evening going to the park with cosmolinguist and P. We got ice creams and tossed a rugby ball around, and hung out with P's partner J and a friend they were there skating with. I'm still not great at either throwing or catching a rugby ball, but probably better than I was 35 years ago when I last played rugby. We didn't get there until 8pm, so it was starting to cool down after another sweltering day, and it was great to just hang out, mess around and chat nonsense.

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