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Not long ago I changed my default search to Kagi which worked fine except then I hit the max searches before you have to pay and I didn't love it that much. Plus, I already have a Gemini Pro account. So I've been playing around with using it for my default search engine and so far... I like it. I really like it. It's fast. It's spot on and it's ad free.

Last week I googled 'tiny teddy bear knitting patterns' and I got a bunch of ads so I flipped to the 'images' tab and found mostly crochet patterns. Just now I 'googled' that again but this time it used gemini since that's now my default and I got a bunch of perfect options - images with links and links on their own. and zero crochet patterns.

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My knee is better if I get up and move around a little every hour or so. The first hour, I moved too much. But, now I think I've got the formula. Plus ice every hour. (The reason to get up!) If I twist it, it's excruciating. If I don't, it does not hurt at all. soooo no twisting.

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I just made the cutest mini monster. I love her. I like them all but this one is just making me smile.

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I put another two needles of gray thread into my cross stitch project, which, unfortunately, including frogging back 20 stitches and restitching, because I managed to not put in a row, even though I thought that I counted three times!

[ID: A cross stitch project in progress, in gray and turquoise thread so far. A head with round ears is taking shape. End ID]

Given this is the second big frogging that I have had to do, maybe I'm not quite ready to go back to my full cover, lots of confetti, very large project. :/

Current Mood: frustrated

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susandennis

Before elbow coffee, I remembered I had lidocaine patches and I slapped one of those bad boys onto my knee. When sitting still with my knee bent at 90 degrees, there is not one tiny little bit of pain. Moving the bottom half of my leg side to side is a killer. And a slight movement hurts a lot. But, while walking is not ideal it is tolerable. I won't be doing any unnecessary walking but, happily, I don't have to. I'm just hoping this thing heals fast. Like by this afternoon or tomorrow morning. It's not handy. And I have no skill at this kind of thing.

Back when Bonny gave me a box of Stove Top and then I made a batch of dressing adding onion and celery, I decided to get some turkey - which I did. I was going to have turkey and gravy and dressing and cranberry jelly one night but no night seemed good. Then I realized that what I really wanted was leftover turkey sandwich. so I baked up the dressing and scraped off the gravy and made a sandwich out of the rest with some mayo. I repeated that today for lunch. Excellent. I have enough for more but I might be done.

I have an Amazon return but my knee wants to wait at least a day and I said fine. So now I think I'll sit back and knit and catch up on TV.

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Sometimes necklaces come together quickly but very often it's a trial and error process. So I decided to share a recent evening trying to come up with a necklace for a pendant I've had for a while. It was one of a pair on clearance and they were intended for bracelets but I decided to try and use them anyway.

I decided to run this pendant horizontally and was first trying to find beads that might match it. It was a problem because none of my beads fit the blue exactly, many of them either verging into green or aqua blue shades. ( Read more... )

paperghost

Going out to Oak Lawn last night wasn't as fun as the first time. I tend to see people who don't like bars and clubbing as squares, but it's really hard to navigate when you don't have any IRLs. Some clubs have an attendance fee, others don't. They're kind of wild but I don't want to be around people vaping lol. The drag show was funny but I got really tired around 11:40PM and when I checked my phone I realized I work 5 days in a row after tomorrow. So that killed my mood a lot. The irony is I was approached by someone right as my Uber was coming...

I realize I prefer the speakeasy arcade and the coffee shop more, so I may go back during the day... Whenever that will be... Before I ordered an Uber home, I got a decaf coffee and it was really nice.

Took some photos of the rainbow crosswalks before Hot Wheels forces the city to remove them or else transport gets defunded. Why are Republicans like this lol? "We support free speech and private ownership... NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!"
Newsflash: the painted crosswalks were funded by private donations and charity.

Last time I went to the barcade (I guess), I played Puyo Puyo... The cabinet that was on didn't work, but I noticed one of them is basically a huge emulator with nearly every console? It has handheld, arcade, SNES, Mega Drive / Genesis, and even N64. That's something I'd love to have at home, since my modded Wii is stashed away. I should probably get back into emulating older console games and review them. I played Aero the Acrobat again for a hot minute, but I am SO bad at using a joystick. Same when I tried playing Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat, this shit feels rigged. Flashbacks to when I finally got to play Baraduke on an arcade, and the joystick made it 3x harder :(

And as soon as I come back online, I'm greeted to an incredibly rude comment from a complete stranger. Yay, internet!

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One of my friends left us in San Francisco, while the other one and I drove down to L.A. We passed a lot of nice sights during our crossing of the CA-152 West. Some were entertaining, such as all the garlic farms in Gilroy advertising things like garlic ice cream and garlic honey (also 10 avocados for $1!) Some were just pretty. One was the San Luis reservoir, which was huge.

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susandennis

The 15 inning Mariner game started at 5 and ended an hour after my bedtime. I woke up with a paper cut on my thumb. It was bleeding and sore like it was fresh. It's now 3 hours later and it's nearly healed. I twisted my knee putting on my swimsuit. I thought it was the kind of twist that rights itself right away. I was wrong. It hurts like a mofo. And playing volleyball was NOT fun. But, now I've had 30 minutes of ice and Voltaren and I'm thinking against amputation.

I forgot the bullets for the bullet points.

The game was exhausting. After 8 innings, I was ready for the end but we were tied. After 10 innings, I was ready for the end but we were tied. After 12 innings, I was ready for the end but we were tied. There were close calls. But, really, everyone just played really well. There was some drama but not much except in the broadcast booth. The 4 announcers had decent material for 5 innings. They punted for 3, And then it was a race to see who could repeat themselves more often. That ended in a tie - well, actually, I don't know because I switched to radio in the 13th inning.

Finally, in the 15th inning, the Mariners won. They won because they played better. It was a sweet win.

But, now, we have to do it all over again! I think I may have mentioned that post season is a little stressful. At least we don't have to face those snotty Yankees. We play the Blue Jays, in Tornonto, at 5 on Sunday. Best of 7. Hulu wins cause now I have to fork over another month of subscription fees.

Elbow coffee and then I'm going to ice my knee some more and decide what's next.

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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 5 by Grrr

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.

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This tax law stuff is hard.

Total immersion would be my style. Like throw yourself into it and do absolutely nothing else for 48 hours.

Except I think that's psychologically and physically unhealthy, so at a certain point in the afternoon—earlier & earlier now that the dark is creeping in earlier & earlier—I break to exercise.

And after I come back from exercising, it's extremely difficult to get my mind back into work mode.

Hence, I am behind schedule on the tax law stuff.

Not hopelessly behind. But enough behind so that it seems like my time is never my own.

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Apart from that.

Adrienne got snippy with me yesterday because apparently I am not updating the Shawangunk Dems website quickly enough. If you can't do it, I'll find someone else...

Good luck with that, girlfriend!

I only volunteered to do it because no one else would. The website is hosted on Squarespace, a GUI template site, which I didn't know at all and so had to teach myself. And the person who had been doing the site disappeared more than a year ago, so there was nobody to onboard me plus it hadn't been updated in over a year.

I did briefly contemplate telling Adrienne, Go fuck yourself, beyatch, but didn't. She's under stress. I think some part of her knows she's not gonna win this campaign she's invested so much time & energy into. I mean, maybe she will! I've been wrong before. But my gut is saying, No.

Plus basically, I like Adrienne.

So, I did a little shit & Shinola dance, remarking mildly, Well, Adrienne, it's a lot of work, and you can't see the backend where most of the work is going on.

I must be as kind to and tolerant of others as I would have them be kind to and tolerant of me-ee-eee!

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I've been quiet here, mostly because

communal_creators is still going on and I've been lurking/chatting there instead. But I figured I might as well check in here with an update:

A pivot table, showing I crafted nearly 12 hours during the first 10 days of October.

A pivot table, showing I crafted nearly 12 hours during the first 10 days of October.

[Image Description: A pivot table showing I crafted nearly 12 hours in October so far, just missing one day.]

I touched eight different projects. Some of those are LARGE projects - I'm making a Central Park Hoodie and a Motion Picture Mosaic Cardi. I do not expect to be done with either any time soon, but any progress is GOOD progress.

I play in a crafting game on Ravelry called Nerdopolis, where we get themes to craft to each month. One of the themes this month is "The Games We Played" - craft something inspired by a board game you played as a child. I immediately thought of Mousetrap and thus tried to make an Victorian Mouse but the start was more fiddly than I wanted to deal with at the time, so I gave that up. I considered other patterns inspired by Mousetrap, but eventually decided to make the pair to my In the Weeds Legwarmer that I made earlier this year. My inspiration will be Hungry Hungry Hippos which has a red playing board. I need a legwarmer more than another amigurumi, so this is a good decision on my part.

I don't have any finished items that I care to show off yet. I did freehand a Final Fantasy XIV Ascian Crystal in crochet for a Nerdopolis challenge, but it only came out so-so, alas. But I'm hoping to finish some small-to-medium projects this month.

nibblezz

It's official, my BMI is now 24.5 from 29.8, six month ago. My weight is now considered HEALTHY!!! HELL YEAH!!! I worked damn hard to get healthy again. I celebrated by eating two Milano cookies and about seven veggie chips.

Current Mood: awake

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We visited the Charleston Food Forest on Thursday, October 9. These pictures are from the front and right side. Continue with Part 2: Left Side, the Coles County Community Garden, and Seeds.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

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Scott Snyder revealed the following promo art for KO... and it has characters who you probably weren't expecting to see in a crossover event.

( Art under the cut... )

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I started late again today, as I was out all afternoon; I went to a bead shop among other places, but left buying only two strands of beads that were on sale! Since I was a bit low on energy, knitting is easiest. So, I completed the hat that I started yesterday. The purple came out much more strongly in this hat!

[ID: A knitted baby hat, in two colorways of variegated yarn. End ID]

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Saw this in the news…Megan Pierce has received the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest Joker collection; over 2000 items. Crazy to think there’s this much Joker stuff out there.

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This reversible pendant seemed to have some astrology symbols so I decided to match it with gold stars. Because that was very bright I wanted to tone it down a little with darker beads. This shell strand had rather a lot of variation of color so I also paired it with a single light brown strand.

prettygoodword

lagniappe (LAN-yap, lan-YAP) - n., (Mississippi delta) a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; an extra or unexpected gift or benefit.

So a thirteenth doughnut when you by a dozen, or some candies when you buy a bolt of cloth. The first sense is pretty tightly restricted to south Louisiana and southeast Texas, the region where Cajun French is spoken, but the second meaning spread thanks in part to Mark Twain using it in Life on the Mississippi. The Cajun got the word during the time that Spain controlled New Orleans, from la ñapa, the Creole form of la yapa, literally "the extra," from Peruvian Spanish, from Quechua yapa, addition/supplement -- giving a little extra to a buyer is still common in Andean marketplaces.

The deep root on this one was a surprise to me, which is always fun. Back next week with a second round of words from Quechua.

---L.

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