My computer (who takes its coffee black, since some have asked) seems to have fallen into the "it could be worse," but not exactly 100% solved category. My laptop now has a resident gremlin whom I have named Apostrophe (although it sometimes manifests, not at ALL creepily, as 666). The gremlin's favorite thing to do is to pick a punctuation mark or a number and endlessly repeat it.
Sometimes.
Sometimes everything is fine.
So, I am currently limping along with what I have and making back-ups like mad.
booknook's Paid Account expires on 2026-06-05. It will then revert to the default, free account type. I received the notification via email and thought some people might appreciate the warning. I'm not the one that upgraded booknook. I also don't know who did (but am very grateful!). So this post is in case anybody is depending on booknook's Paid Account features. I hope this isn't too disruptive to anybody's use of booknook.
Anyway, I was dipping in again to the Violet Hunt Tales of the Uneasy and in 'The Operation' there is the backstory where a man's first wife -
had smoothed and made easy the path of divorce for the man she loved.... full of zeal to give him his freedom. It was hardly human, so the woman who had profited by her action thought, and certainly not very womanly. Florence could not imagine herself allowing a cold business-like lawyer to dictate her a letter bidding Joe come back to her herewith; a summons intended, of course, for ultimate publication. It disgusted Florence, this horrible business of sueing for restitution of conjugal rights!
Only a divorce-law nerd like moi would probably be able to decode this?
This was the cleanest way a woman could get quit of a husband pre 1923 - he had of course to be adulterous (or appear to have been) and refusing to restitute conjugal rights counted as desertion.
Otherwise she had to prove cruelty (which could include knowing infection with a loathsome disease) or that he was guilty of a sexual crime (rape, sodomy, incest....).
But in a situation where the man had, presumably, already run off with Another Woman, having to go through that legal rigmarole of asking him to come back so that he could refuse and be legally deserting does strike one as a very chagrining procedure.
The closer I get, the more I'm looking forward to this, fully online though it is. That aspect does take some of the shine off the con weekend - there's a limit to what can be managed as far as dealers' room, art room, etc go when you're working out of zoom rooms, Discord channels and the dreaded google whatevers - but still.
I'm three quarters of an hour, give or take, from my first panelist slot of the con and... asking myself the eternal question: Is that a worn spot in the fabric, or is that schmutz on my shirt? :P
Про це повідомив заступник командира 1 Корпусу Національної гвардії України "Азов" Святослав (Калина) Паламар.
"Крохмалюк Олександр Аркадійович долучився до "Азову" у 2016 році — військовий медик, начальник медичної служби на момент потрапляння в полон. Людина, яка рятувала життя. Гідний боєць та мій побратим. Олександр вийшов у полон із "Азовсталі", пройшов Оленівку та катівню Таганрога", - розповів він.
Останнє відоме місце утримання Крохмалюка - СІЗО-2, Камишин.
"У вересні 2025 року Олександра повернули в рамках чергового етапу репатріації тіл 1000 на 1000 — додому він повернувся мертвим. Судово-медична експертиза у Львові від 22 вересня 2025 року зафіксувала причину смерті: перелом ребер та тупа травма грудної клітини", - додав Паламар.
Він назвав це ще одним вироком системі міжнародного гуманітарного права, що не здатна захистити здоровʼя та життя українських військовополонених у російському полоні
Which leads me to the odd question: I checked to see if any of the other volumes of History of Middle Earth were currently on sale, and saw that Morgoth's Ring (Book 10) isn't currently available as a Kindle book in the US, which is just strange. If it was the last book in the series, I could see it — maybe they hadn't gotten around to formatting that one for Kindle yet — but 11 and 12 are available. It's just strange and random.
ETA: In case you were wondering about other volumes possibly being on sale: The Return of the Shadow (Book 6) is currently $5.99, everything else is full price.
ETA2: Apparently Morgoth's Ring is available on Kindle in the US, but the link from the History of Middle Earth series page takes you to a page for Morgoth's Ring that erroneously shows it as not being available. If you want it, you have to search for it manually rather than going to it from the series page. How dumb.
Yesterday was a L.'s 22nd birthday. We had a good celebration for her. She picked White Castle as her birthday dinner and a rewatch of the The Super Mario Brothers Movie as her birthday movie. She wanted a copy of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and I was able to find a copy at a local Gamestop for her, and she was thrilled with that. When we went to pick out her birthday cake, she found several other foods that she wanted, so we got those as well, which was really good — it's always been hard to find foods that she wants to eat, so it's hard to keep her weight in a healthy range, so it's always good to when she finds new foods that appeal to her.
But of course because yesterday was L.'s birthday, I had the worst mental health day I've had in quite a while. My depression has been gradually getting worse (it could just be my brain, could be the new antiseizure medicine, could be a combo of the two), but yesterday it really smacked me down. After a little while I was able to perk up some and put on a brave front for the rest of the day, but it's bad enough that I'm going to talk to my doctor about going back on antidepressants. Today is less bad, so at least that's something.
This elegant design not only looks beautiful, but is a cinch to make, too! In fact, here are a few tips to ensure your own cherry blossom cake looks as gorgeous as this.
First, always make sure your icing is niiiice and smooth.
It helps if you lick your fingers first, so they slide smoothly over the icing.
Next, mold or pipe your branches to gracefully scale the tiers of your cake in a natural, realistic fashion.
I know it's hard to believe but, yes, that's really just icing.
Remember, the flowers are the most important part!
[Crickets chirping]
It's usually best to leave off a wedding topper for this style, but if you do choose to have one, make sure it's simple, understated, and elegant.
Note the baker's restraint. Not a single balloon animal!
And finally, when all else fails, remember:
You can always jam a stick in it and charge $200.
(Yes, this was someone's actual wedding cake.)
(And they paid for it.)
(With money.)
Leanne W., Danielle L., Moxie, Holly J., and Robert V. did you know you can make a forty dollar cake look like a 500 dollar cake with just some cookies and sprinkles? Just imagine what you could charge if you jammed a stick in it!
A Gun For Godzilla, which is along the lines of de Camp's A Gun for Dinosaur or Drake's Time Safari, except the excessively optimistic rich people are hunting Kaiju.
The hunters have .600 Nitro Express rifles while their prey can melt steel with their body heat.
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.
Titre : Merveilleusement moi Auteures : Lu Fraser & Sarah Warburton Langue : traduction française de l'anglais Type : album jeunesse Genre : apprenons à compter et à poser nos limites
1ère parution : 2022 Édition : Little Urban Format : grand album carré
(trouvé à une braderie de qaurtier l'an passé je crois ? pris parce que la couverture est fabuleuse !)
Un dromadaire nommé Doug se sent un peu seul dans le désert. Jusqu'à trouver un copain, deux copains, trois, quatre oh il y en a trop on ne peut pas les compter ! D'abord la fête est très très amusante, et puis au bout d'un moment ça fait trop d'excitation pour lui...
Ok c'était sympa comme tout ♥
Very cute and ~fabulous~ kiddie book that teaches 1) how to count 2) that's it's ok to feel both lonely and overcrowded.
To clarify: what we did yesterday was the secular and bureaucratic equivalent of calling the banns.
This has to be done some while before the actual ceremony (although one has to present evidence that this is booked): presumably to allow time for the sibling of the mad previous partner one is keeping confined in the attic to travel from the Caribbean and burst in to interrupt it.
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