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1. Last night there was a massive leak in the boys' bedroom and I had every bucket, trash bin, baking sheet, and towel out. We called the emergency maintenance twice and got an AI voice telling us that it sounded like something that could be dealt with during business hour. Fuck you, you miserable pieces of shit.

So the drip-drip-drip all night drove me insane.

We even banged on the door upstairs but she wouldn't open the door!

I put the boys in my bed and I slept on the floor for about 2 hours. Then around 430, I got up, meditated, made the boys' lunches and packed a bag and went to the car. And slept for about an hour.

The ceiling crashed in about 7 am as the boys were getting ready for school. It's a mess. It's a complete and utter shite fest.

Then I fled and let the boys' father handle the maintenance and building management.

( tw: cutting )

We had put in maintenance requests about the leak but of course they ignored them.

I am getting sleepy so I may go back to the car and take a nap. I suppose I could take a nap in the library but...I feel like getting in the car and going to a hotel and starting fresh with a new name and a new identity.

2. The job hasn't called me back, but I think I submitted all the paperwork.

This is my new favorite YT Garron Noone, the Irishman.

Watch on YouTube

purplecat

Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.

( Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

dustbunny105

Fire safety inspection tomorrow. Aaand I've got stuff all over the place because of being partway into reorganizing-- not only my room either. And my mom is out of town, so it's on me.

I wish they would give more advance notice of these things. Be nice if they did them on the weekend, too, even though I get why they don't. S'just frustrating. I hate having to leave the front door unlocked, I hate having to lock Peppercorn up all day and I hate people being in here when I'm not here. Blergh. Might or might not be a good idea but I left the tidying up for the morning. My head was just not there tonight and I knew if I started, I was going to be so inefficient as to keep myself awake later than I should and probably still not get things done to my satisfaction. Even if getting things done mostly means piling the clutter into my closet. Some sleep and the urgency of the morning will help me power through it. Maybe I can convince my sister to hang out here with the kids until the inspectors come and go, so she can lock up and set Peppercorn free.

stonepicnicking_okapi

Title: I is for Innocent
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Notes: Angst, part 2 of Time Loop: Reichenbach, set during "The Final Problem, this is a linked series of ficlets in which Watson relives Reichenbach based on theories collated in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes about what happened on that day.
Warnings: Drug use, needles, Murder, Suicide, please don't read if the idea of Holmes killing an innocent person and himself during a cocaine binge will upset you.
Length: 500
Characters: Holmes & Watson
Prompt:

Summary: Watson wakes up (again) on 4 May 1891 in Switzerland with Holmes and discovers Holmes' mind is fatally addled by cocaine.

( Read more... )

stonepicnicking_okapi

Title: I is for Imaginary
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Notes: Angst, part 1 of Time Loop: Reichenbach, set during "The Final Problem, this is a linked series of ficlets in which Watson relives Reichenbach based on theories collated in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes about what happened on that day.
Length: 500
Characters: Holmes & Watson
Prompt:

Summary: Watson wakes up on 4 May 1891 in Switzerland with Holmes and discovers Moriarty is his own invention.

( Read more... )

purplecat

We went on holiday to Peru and walked the Inca Trail. More in due course but in the interim have a photo of Machu Picchu.

The ruined Inca city of Machu Pichu. Stone buildings and terraces framed by the Andean mountains.

The ruined Inca city of Machu Pichu. Stone buildings and terraces framed by the Andean mountains.

graycardinal

I will have extremely limited access to a full-sized keyboard this week (phone, yes; proper keyboard, no), but don't want to disappear without acknowledging two wonderful recently-written gifts:

From Unsent Letters 2025:
A Series of Notes Attached to A UNIT Requisition Form by astrogirl

Three and the Brigadier navigate the halls of bureaucracy (and the vastness of time and space) in pursuit of an electron microscope. A perfect replication of the reality of bureacuratic procurement channels...

From Holmestice, Summer 2024:
a study in violin by unrevealed

A full-fledged and dead-flat-brilliant novella (!) following Elementary's Sherlock Holmes through a lifetime spent with a Stradivarius (and a great many complicated relationships).

Current Mood: rushed
Current Location: donning jet-propelled roller skates
Current Music: the Muppet Show overture

stonepicnicking_okapi

I can't listen to any music with lyrics when I am writing so I search out these kinds of channels on YT.

Watch on YouTube

cimorene

Currently, Wax and I are the little old ladies who only drive once a week. We live in a tiny town whose downtown is only a few streets across, on a small island, and we typically drive to the supermarket to get groceries once a week, not because walking there takes more than ten minutes, but because bringing a week's worth of groceries home (without a sled and a bunch of snow, or a little red wagon that we don't have) is uncomfortable on foot. Several winters in a row we have caused problems for our poor car by not driving often enough or for long enough when it was cold.

On the other hand, we have to have the car now for when we do need to leave town (buses into Kaarina and Turku from here are a pain; the regional 24h veterinary ER is on the other side of Turku, so we definitely did drive there at like 3 am one time when Snookums had a seizure).

I used to kind of enjoy driving, and I drove frequently aged 16-21, but only automatic transmissions.

waxjism had an old car when I first moved here, but it was stick shift and I couldn't drive it and she couldn't teach me. We eventually got rid of it, and I never swapped my US driver's licence for a Finnish one (you can when it it hasn't expired yet).

Wax, who has never liked driving, has been urging me to learn to drive and get a license since we moved here and got the car.

Well, apparently, because I have at one time had a driver's licence from another country it's impossible to apply online for a learning-to-drive permit like everyone else can; I have to go in person to the office in Turku. I guess I'm doing that this week.

dustbunny105

The Madleen has been hijacked and the activists aboard, including a member of EU Parliment, have been kidnapped by the Israeli military. Their communications were jammed, they were attacked with chemical weapons and they were ordered to throw their phones into the sea. I have no doubt in my mind that the aid they were carrying will be destroyed, if it hasn't been already. I'm unclear whether this assault took place in Egyptian, Palestinian or international waters but the fact either way is that Israel has no right to divert this mission. Not that it frikkin matters.

We all saw something like this coming but it's still so disheartening to see it happen. These activists come from France, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands and Turkey. What we all can do now, what they've asked us to do, is to put pressure on their foreign ministries. The more eyes on them, the safer they'll be until their release.

French:
Email: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
FB: France Diplomatie & Jean-Noël Barot
IG:

francediplo &

jeannoelbarot
Twitter:

francediplo_en &

francediplo &

jnbarot

Brazilian
Email: portal@itamaraty.gov.br
FB: Ministerio das relacoes exteriroes
IG:

itamaratygovbr
Twitter: ItamaratyGovBr

Spanish
Bsky:

jmalbares & .bsky.social

exterioresgob
Email: consular@maec.es
IG : [Bad username or site: exteriores @ maec]
Twitter:

spainmfa &

maecgob &

jmalbares

Swedish
FB: SweMFA
IG:

swedishmfa
Twitter:

swemfa
Website: https://government.se/contacts/

Dutch
IG :

minbz
FB : ministeriebz
Twitter:

dutchmfa

Turkish
IG :

tcdisisleri
FB : T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı
Twitter:

mfaturkiye

German
IG:

auswaertigesamt
FB: Auswärtiges Amt
Twitter:

germanydiplo

buttonsbeadslace

Photos on Tumblr here.
My only regret... well ok I have two regrets. The socks don't perfectly match bc I forgot that I did an optional thing on the first sock and on the second I just followed the pattern as written. But whatever, they're done. My only actual regret is that I didn't get to find out that this yarn would've had cool pooling on a normal knit-in-the-round sock until I was almost finished with these, since the cuffs are the very last part.
I do have yarn left over though, which is especially nice since based on the pattern info I was worried about running out. Maybe I misunderstood and the estimated yarn was for the larger size.

I finished them yesterday and immediately started on the citrus slice pattern again. I wenr in thinking I was gonna have to give up completely on the concept I was working on, and I was thinking about moving on to a completely different idea, but I got it to work! I ran with it and I'm now 3/4 done with the lemon plush.

(What is the concept? OK so basically, for the first fruit slice plush, to make the segments of the grapefruit I knitted a bunch of separate triangles and then I had to sew them together. The new concept lets me knit the whole segments-and-white-bits-between-them part in one piece and I only have to sew one little seam at the end. Pictures and some more details here.)

After I finish this, I will probably push right on to Fruit Slice Concept number 3, where the middle part of the fruit is all one color and if you want the fruit to have segments / seeds / etc. you can embroider it on after you finish knitting.

stonepicnicking_okapi

The great thing about being a fan is unearthing canon you've never heard of. I never expected such a thing with the Sherlock Holmes fandom but here we are.

This is the full text of is a very short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Bazaar number of the Student on 20 November 1896. The Bazaar was held to raise money required to erect a pavilion and complete the equipment of a 13-acre field that had been recently purchased for the University of Edinburgh.

( Full text of The Field Bazaar )

dustbunny105

Okay, now that the lighthearted post is out of the way. I am legitimately a nervous wreck about the Freedom Flotilla and about the protests in LA. I had more to say about this but nothing seems like it's enough. My thoughts are with all those fighting for life and justice right now. Please keep your eyes on them if you can, if you can't do anything else.

dustbunny105

Farmers market trip was an overall success. It did rain and I did forget to bring an umbrella but it was never worse than a drizzle. I was more worried about the niblings than myself but no issues to speak of. My sister's littlest refused to keep the canopy of his stroller up and his siblings didn't seem to care at all.

Still no peppers but we got there early enough that we had a good pick of the other produce I was looking for. Got peaches, plums, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, lettuce, green onion and a handful of basil. I wanted cucumbers, too, but it was like they disappeared once I went back looking for them. Pretty sure what actually happened was that the couple of booths offering them were among the more popular and I overlooked them past the crowds that had gathered by then. I also saw two or three people with these big buckets of strawberries that I could not find anywhere and Idk what was up with that, lol. Ah, well, I can try again another week.

We had lunch and then I got dropped off at home. I was inexplicably exhausted-- granted, I got up earlier than usual-- and took what I wanted to be a short nap and ended up being a long nap. Go figure. After that, I got on to my reorganizing and... the results are mixed.

My focus today was my closet, since I'm eyeing some stuff on the shelves to be moved in there, and it took less time than I'd have expected, granted I hit a roadblock before I could be what I considered finished. It doesn't really look at a glance like I did as much as it feels like I did but the difference in how things are situated now feels significant. I put aside a lot of stuff for Goodwill, a few items for the local little free library and got some forgotten recycling out of my way. That'll be dealt with this coming week. I have more "to-sell" stuff taking up space than I remembered and I'm gonna sleep on what to do about that. Most of that is Transformers-related and I was planning to try to unload it at TFcon in October but, well, that's October. It's in my way now. I think I'll go ahead and list the bigger ticket items on eBay, take whatever doesn't sell there to TFcon, then just donate whatever doesn't sell there.

So! Tomorrow's goals are cleaning up my shelves and listing a few things on eBay. Not too many to start with. I tend to get it into my head that I have to list everything or nothing and, uh. As you may have guessed, I tend to pick nothing. I'd rather have something listed than nothing. I'll do some routine tidying up and dusting as I go. I should also fix up my yarn chest, tbh; I've barely crocheted at all this year and it's still gotten so chaotic that it makes me never want to crochet again, lol.

dustbunny105

I'm so glad to see the end of this week. It felt like it would never come!

Forecast for tomorrow, last I looked, is optimistic. The rain has been pushed back and so I think I can get to the farmer's market and pick up what I'm after without any problems. Then I can come home and get right to the chores and reorganizing I was planning. Gonna go back to the fifteen minute method, working clockwise, since that went well the last time I deep-cleaned my room. Some things are going to have to be left at "good enough" since I need to reconsider my storage system but that's fine. I think I'll do that for a set number of hours-- haven't decided them-- and then call it a day. Anything that still needs done, I'll get to on Sunday. I want to have some reading/hobby time too, after all.

stonepicnicking_okapi

This one in my planner.

cimorene

...to learn to drive stick shift, which I did not learn as a teenager. (Automatic transmission is rare here.)

Email received from the school: "Welcome! Your place is booked and here's your password for our website! We suggest that you proceed in the following order: 1. Apply for a learning permit from the government at [This Link]; 2. Start reading the theory lessons on our site; 3. Come in and book driving lessons at your local office once you receive the permit!"

I clicked on [This Link], thinking, "How nice - I didn't have to search the government website for the link myself!"

An hour and a half later, I have six browser tabs open in three languages from two different government-related sites and am waiting for my wife to get off work so she can read them and check my comprehension, or do I really have to book an appointment to visit a government-associated office to make the application in person?

it's good to have your application filled out in advance when you visit this office,🙂

but you can't get it anywhere else but this office. 🤔

They want you to make an appointment in advance when you visit this office,🙂

even though they want you to just drop off the papers when you're there,🙂

which they want you to have prepared in advance,🙃

even though they won't give them to you in advance?? I'm. 🫠

Current Mood: Doing Stuff Was a Mistake

dustbunny105

I want so badly for Trump and Musk to destroy each other. Like, I'm not ignorant of the damage they could do but they're already doing damage, you feel me? I'm also aware that there's a non-zero chance of this whole feud being a charade BUT-- and, yes, I know that none of us actually know these people-- I simply cannot wrap my head around the idea of either of their egos suffering this humiliation. Idk. It's a cold satisfaction I'm feeling but it's still satisfaction.

So help me, though, if the Dems don't shut their collective traps about opening the door for Musk... I am so tired of being roped into whatever weird humiliation kink these fools are indulging.

22degreehalo

Fandom events in 2025 be like:

>'Can I-?' Just have fun!! :) We're here to create! To enjoy ourselves! Or don't. I can't tell you what to do! :P As long as you make something vaguely completion-shaped, we'd love to see it! <3

>Use of AI, in any way, shape, or form, is strictly prohibited. If you are caught using AI on your works, you will be banned from this and any/all of our future events. This includes using AI to rephrase sentences.
RNG is perfectly fine, but AI is not allowed.

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Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 1

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My ficlet: I is for Innocent

My ficlet: I is for Imaginary

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Fly! All is known....

Music Monday: medieval ambient

This is the overall driving/car situation in our household:

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Knitting update- finished the Ziprelaxagon Socks!

Sherlock Sunday: The Field Bazaar

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Collage Journaling: Jupiter & Saturn

Signed up for driving school...

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