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📽️ The Old Guard 2 felt more like a generic action movie than its predecessor. Don't get me wrong! I love my action movies, generic or not. And the aforementioned action was certainly slicker and more visually appealing than the first movie. But there were too many moments where the plot points or dialogue choices took me out of the moment. This was in a weird spot between, "Not dumb enough for me to enjoy this mindlessly," and "What the hell are they doing?" All that said, I'd still watch a third installment to see Uma Thurman and Charlize Theron fighting to the death 😆

📚 Something about Makoto (the top/alpha) from Omega no Mukotori lit up all my neurons in the best way 👀 I guess I just have a soft spot for dark-haired burly dudes. I also very much enjoyed the fact that Yoshiharu (the bottom/omega) was the much more aggressive character and did most of the pursuing. I will gladly consume A/B/O content, even the non-traditional stuff.

tropicsbear

It seems that dropping off of Dreamwidth is unavoidable when I take a long-ish vacation somewhere because of the disruption to my routine. Yet another reason why I'm not fond of out-of-town trips.

I want to write about what I've been up to lately—because I want to be able to go through my entries in the future and not think, "What was I doing back in 20xx?"—but I also have a list of random things I want to post about while I work on that.

First up, "Llorando se fue" by Los Kjarkas:

Watch on YouTube

When I was younger, it seemed like all the trucks and jeepneys played the same exact snippet of music whenever they were backing up instead of a generic beeping sound. As I got older I realized that it sounded like it came from J. Lo's "On the Floor", which I personally think is highly improbable. I guess you could argue that there are truck and/or jeepney drivers into J. Lo's music but?? I had my doubts.

This year I finally decided to do some internet sleuthing and found out that "On the Floor" sampled "Llorando se fue" and that's where the snippet came from! You can listen to the sampled part here, at around the 12-second mark.

(I don't know why I have an easier time accepting that Filipino truck/jeepney drivers like Bolivian folk music vs. them liking J. Lo's music 😂 I don't have anything against J. Lo.)

Listening to the song on YouTube made me feel oddly nostalgic; I can't remember the last time I heard a truck/jeepney using the song as their replacement backing up sound.

harpers_child

"No this is my shirt. We cannot share the shirt. Stop hitting my face with your tail." <- conversation I am currently having with Radar (who does not know what she wants in this moment)

I fell over for a while recovering from Mardi Gras. Mostly physically, but also emotionally. It's also the season to swap from heat to AC every other day and then back again so my head has been hurting. Screen time has been limited. Klinger is happy about all the couch cuddles.

Three things make a post!

1. The BAFTAs racism thing. Jordan and Lindo shouldn't have had to hear it. I can't imagine how awful it was to hear that on a night that should have been about celebrating the cultural juggernaut Sinners is and the work that went into it.

Davidson had taken steps to limit his impact on the show. (Sat 41 rows back. Asked that his tics be edited out of the broadcast.) The BBC purposefully putting a mic on Davidson to make sure the presenters heard the slurs he couldn't help saying was shitty. (He left when he realized there was a microphone near him.) The show was recorded two hours in advance and several other slurs Davidson said were cut, leaving that one in was hurtful and harmful to many people.

This was handled in such a disrespectful way towards everyone involved. I think the theory that it was done on purpose to drum up views is right. The BBC knew Davidson was going to say horrible things (he can't help it) and chose the worst one to leave in.

2. Mom is sick and has "a cold" that has laid her out for a week. No she hasn't tested for anything. It's just "a cold". She hasn't sought medical help even though it's lasting longer than normal. She's arguing about taking OTC medication to help. This is some "offer it up" bullshit that's worse than usual because it's Lent. (Suffering will not make you holy. Take the fucking meds.)

3. I got some of the water activated eyeliners from HoloGrave. They all passed the allergy test (put on arm and wait for a few hours). I guess I'll paint on my face for enrichment some in the near future.

3b. My comfy pants from Lady Epi came in hours ago and are currently in the wash. Yay for comfy pants.

Radar has settled down for lap!cat! time and I'm out of words.

tima

Такое ощущение, что на бирже практически точно догадывались, что операция в Иране начнется сегодня, в субботу. Тка что вопреки моей системе, что в пятницы практически всегда рынок плюсовой, все индексы упали. Уверен, что и в понедельник начнется с нехилого минуса, так как в думы событий понять что-либо к понедельнику будет невозможно. Мы о возможных поражениях головки режима молчим, в то время как Израиль уже вовсю утверждает, что куча важных персон уничтожена. Хрен поймет - уничтожена или в бункеры сбежала. Ну, а нефть подпрыгнет, конечно, как же нефть без Ирана...

sparowe

GOING WITH JESUS

Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for Him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. (John 12:1-3)

Have you ever smelt pure nard? It has a strong, penetrating smell—the kind of smell that sticks to your skin for days afterward. No wonder the house was filled with the fragrance!

Mary’s hair must have smelled of it for quite a while. Jesus’ feet as well—maybe even to the cross. If so, then she was able to give Him one gift of love that would go with Him all the way to His death—where she herself could not go.

Because where Jesus was going, none of His disciples could go—not even those who loved Him most. John and Mary stood under His cross watching. But they could not help Him as He carried the burden of human sin and shame—as He faced temptations to come down from the cross, as His enemies dared Him—as He fought the powers of evil, and won. Jesus did that alone, because He loved us. And He rose from the dead three days later, to come back to us triumphant—sharing with us the gift of His own everlasting life.

WE PRAY: Lord, stay with me always. Amen.

Lenten Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.

Current Mood: thoughtful

bemused_writer

I didn't make a whole lot of progress yesterday thanks to being extremely stuck in the initial chase scene with The Girl (which is what the monster I referenced in my last post is called). I think I might have encountered some kind of glitch since the sequence of events didn't match up with what articles were describing, so I'll describe what I did in case it's helpful.

I was at the section where Grace needed to get the screwdriver. I will note, I was pretty low on health at this point, and things weren't going great. XD Now, I had already moved the cart in and been chased around by The Girl twice, and apparently that meant the little hideaway structure was supposed to have disappeared. It hadn't, though, so I think that's where things were getting confused.

( Instructions on the puzzle... )

( Level discussion and spoilers... )

( Grace theory, continued... )

Current Mood: tired

kaberett

Got libgourou working ~~(link to follow)~~, with thanks to simont for bringing it to my attention and me_and for making sympathetic and encouraging noises while I stared muzzily at the documentation this evening. Happy to report that I have successfully downloaded Adobe DRMed ebooks from my command line without any Windows install or emulators at all.
I am enjoying A Physical Education so much - SO much - that I have gone out and bought a book it recommends (Starting Strength; very wordy descriptions of which muscles one should be using for what, apparently, i.e. exactly my kind of thing). Acquiring my own copy once I've given the library's back is a definite possibility. It's really interesting in terms of both the pain Project (memoir about embodiment!) and in terms of my own movement-related special interests (e.g. the gulf between my experience of largely self-led Pilates vs the version available via mainstream contemporary classes embedded in diet culture). Lots of content notes but I'm really really liking it. Gratitude to buttonsbeadslace for posting about it ~~(... link to follow...)~~
Stupid Little Walk yielded both very cheap pistachio croissants (MORE BREAKFAST NONSENSE) and a very cheap "cinnamon danish with vanilla fondant icing" I've been vaguely eyeing up but was also very suspicious of. I am glad to have tried it and probably won't get it again, even if it is only 19p.
This evening's tofu was particularly cooperative with being cooked. (Thanks be to evilsusan for the specific combination of courgettes, tofu and garlic that I still make regularly lo these many years later )
I hit refresh on Oxfam Online and discovered that the rotating sale has migrated back around to "30% off 3+ books". Thus now on their way to me I have: the first edition of Explain Pain for an astonishingly reasonable price (I want to do the deeply nerdy thing of a side-by-side comparison with the second edition, and also to revisit its structure while the second edition is on loan to a physio friend...); a book entitled Science of Pilates, which I'd previously eyed up but that time it sold before I got around to it; a book about allotments and cooking; and a probably questionable out-of-print 1980s cookbook...

bemused_writer

I'm having so many conflicting emotions about this game, and I'm only an hour in. I am fascinated, irritated, confused, and I must finish it stat. So, I figured I would write up some of my thoughts as I make my way through it.

( Lots of thoughts and spoilers below... )

Current Mood: amused

tima

Как сами понимаете, речь пойдет об Олимпиаде во всех ее проявлениях.

1. Мы неслабо обосрались - Вонн, Шифрин, Малинин, Лав, Гленн и иже с ними. От всех этих спортсменов ожидалась как минимум медаль, а как максимум - золотая. Итог: одна медаль от всех этих "дутых" чемпионов.

2. Наши медали по видам спорта:

Alpine skiing - 2/4 (10 комплектов медалей) - две золотые / всего четыре
Biathlon - 0 (11 комплектов медалей)
Bobsleigh - 1/3 (4 комплекта медалей)
Cross-country skiing - 0/3 (12 комплектов медалей)
Curling - 0/1 (3 комплекта медалей)
Figure skating - 2/3 (5 комплектов медалей)
Freestyle skiing - 3/8 (15 комплектов медалей)
Ice hockey - 2/2 (2 комплекта медалей)
Luge - 0/1 (5 комплектов медалей)
Nordic combined - 0 (3 комплекта медалей)
Short track - 0/1 (9 комплектов медалей)
Skeleton - 0 (3 комплекта медалей)
Ski jumping - 0 (6 комплектов медалей)
Ski mountaineering - 0 (3 комплекта медалей)
Snowboarding - 0/2 (11 комплектов медалей)
Speed skating - 2/5 (14 комплектов медалей)

Неужели "министерство спорта" не видит какие виды зимнего спорта надо развивать, чтобы заработать побольше наград и сделать Америку великой страной снова (MAGA)?! Зато уже который год это прекрасно видят в Норвегии, которая на каждой олимпиаде гребет практически все медали на лыжне и на горных лыжах, попутно догребая в биатлоне, на трамплине и на конькобежном овале.

3. Вдогонку к предыдущему - какого хрена на Олимпиаду едут 40-летние пердуны?! У нас что - на скейтборде только 40-летние катаются теперь??? Где молодежь, вашу мать???

4. ЗАДОЛБАЛИ ВСЕ СПОРТСМЕНЫ, ПОКАЗЫВАЮЩИЕ "СЕРДЕЧКО"!!!!
И те, что пальцами рук, и те, что от головы. Вы бы лучше из жопы сердечко сделали (я попробовал - вполне узнаваемое сердечко получится, если сзаду смотреть), а то уже тошнит от ваших сердечек!!! Тиктокеры сраные. Придумайте уже что-то поновее, а то уже блевать хочется от ваших "сердечек".

5. Показ Игр и странички на интернете.
Если бы исполнилась моя воля, я бы оторвал яйца руководителям ТВ трансляции NBC, а также заодно и ваятелям олимпийских сайтов.

а) количество ТВ рекламы просто убивает. Например, приходят биатлонисты на стрельбище, готовятся к стрельбе, и тут нам включают рекламу на весь экран минуты на три.

б) придумали показывать рекламу и не на весь экран, а встроить в него два субэкрана. При этом экран с рекламой занимает две трети вашего телевизора, а спорт продолжается на мелком экране, на котором ни фамилий, ни времени, не очков, ни мест не видно. Чо, наоборот никак сделать было нельзя?!

в) задолбала реклама "новых" медикаментов. Причем в 30-сек ролике секунд 5 уделяется на волшебные свойства препарата (у вас больше не будут опухать суставы или у вас почти что пройдет псориаз и т.п.), а 25 сек уходит на перечисление side effects - суицидальные мысли, тошнота, рвота, диарея, высокое давление, головные боли, опасность инсульта, инфаркта и пр. и пр. Кто на хрен будет принимать такие препараты?! При этом я знаю откуда берутся деньги на рекламу - парочка brand name препаратов мне назначенных стоили в наших аптеках по $1,000 за 100 таблеток. В онлайн иностранных аптеках те же самые препараты, изготовленные на тех же фармзаводах, стоят от $130 до $160!!! А вчера мне пришел заказанный через аптеку антибиотик. Стоимость 52 таблеток - $3,113. Нет я не описался, 52 таблетки стоят более трех тысяч долларов. Кто там обещал нам цены на медикаменты понизить?!

г) в нескольких видах спорта (лыжи, биатлон) табло на трансляции гонки сделано правильно: каждый гонщик "ведется" по времени ближайшего соперника. Зато в фигурном катании, санях и бобслее - по лидеру. Да на хрена мне видеть результат лидера, когда по жолобу едет участник, занимающий 15-ое место?! Мне важно обгонит он 14-го или нет, причем тут лидер?!

д) по сайтам: начнем с хоккея. На "олимпийском" сайте невозможно найти хоккейные команды, их там просто нет! Чтобы их найти, надо пойти в расписание игр, нажать на какой-то матч с вашей командой, и тогда вы сможете увидеть составы. На сайте NBC команд тоже нет, зато удалось найти хоккеистов вот тут, но при этом, кликнув на хоккеиста вам не будет назван клуб, за который он играет. Потому что эти уроды сделали одну страничку - темплэйт - на всех атлетов Олимпиады! Тоже самое и на гугловской странице. Ума сделать разные формы для разных видов спорта у них не хватило. Ну, либо бабки попилили до создания сайтов и пришлось довольствоваться одной страницей на все виды спорта. Фильтры на страницах "кривые" - делаешь поиск по USA, в результате появляются спортсмены Японии, Италии, Австрии... В общем, будучи бывшим архитектором систем, смотреть на эти убожества просто невозможно.

е) попапы на гугловском сайте дают точно ту же информацию, что и на странице, откуда вы их кликаете. НА ХРЕНА ВЫ СДЕЛАЛИ ПОПАПЫ, НА КОТОРЫХ НЕТ НИКАКОЙ НОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ???!!! Absolutely useless. Уроды неспортивные.

Общий вывод: и ТВ трансляцию и сайты должны создавать IT архитекторы-болельщики, понимающие в конкретных видах спорта и знающие чего хочет и чего ожидает настоящий любитель этого конкретного вида спорта. А общий "шлагбаум", падающий сверху на все "головы" и делающий всех одного роста - это скотинизм.

6. Российские фигуристы (как и теннисисты) нашли путь попасть на олимпиады - оказывается, надо просто переехать в Казахстан, Латвию, Армению, Грузию, Эстонию, Польшу, Израиль, Австрию, Англию или какие прочие страны, и делу конец. Пора и нам "усыновить" парочку норвежцев-лыжников и парочку немцев-саночников.

7. Китай начал дрючить Голландию в беге на коньках!!! Это чо такое?!

8. Поздравляю Испанию с двумя медалями. Предыдущие медали, завоеванные Испанией в зимних играх, были получены 54 года назад.

9. Также поздравляю Бразилию с их первой в истории зимних игр медалью и сразу золотой. Хотя на самом деле Бразилия тут абсолютно не причем, так как завоевавший ее Пинейро Браатен проживает и тренируется в Норвегии.

10. Ну, и поздравления Казахстану с золотом в фигурном катании. В произвольной программе казах Михаил Шайдоров перепрыгнул с шестого места на первое! Молодца!!!

sparowe

THEREFORE

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. … So the sisters sent to Jesus, saying, “Lord, he whom You love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it He said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God …. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. [Therefore,] when He heard that Lazarus was ill, He stayed two days longer in the place where He was. (John 11:1, 3-4a, 5-6)

The Greek word in verse 6 is usually translated “therefore”—as in, “Jesus loved this family. Therefore, when He heard that they needed Him, Jesus deliberately stayed away till it was too late.”

What! That’s a strange way to love someone, isn’t it? You hear that their brother needs you desperately; therefore, you stay just where you are. Most people would call that hate, not love.

Jesus knows how it’s going to look and sound. The family will not understand until the end that God is doing this on purpose, to glorify Jesus. They will be hurt. Who can Jesus trust to bear that pain? Who loves Jesus enough to trust Him, even when He comes late with no excuse?

Mary and Martha love Jesus that way. And their trust is justified when He raises their brother from the dead.

We love Jesus because He died and rose to save us. And yet, we too have times when it looks like God has come to us “too late” for what we wanted or needed. What then?

WE PRAY: Lord, make me someone who loves and trusts You, even when I don’t understand Your ways. Amen.

Lenten Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.

Current Mood: thoughtful

magid

It was time for another blood donation, and I finally found time to do that today after work.

I got lucky: the intake person managed a finger stick that didn’t hurt (this is usually the worst part of donation, so it’s noticeable*, and the phlebotomist was also excellent. (Also, very attractive.) We were chatting for the 5 min or so it took to drain enough blood, and it turned out that his sister graduated from $MyEmployer, 19 years ago. Which surprised me enough that I used my outside-my-head voice to say that either his sister is much older, or he looks seriously younger than he is. Turns out he’s 20, and all his siblings (and half-siblings) are seriously older than him: his father is in his 70s, and could be his grandfather. Whoa. He mentioned that he would’ve liked the chance to be a kid with siblings closer in age to hang out together, but did have the advantage of many more adults invested in him (in a way that made me think of Clara Barton.**)

On the way out, I recognized the other phlebotomist who’s my birthday twin, and he said that {other woman in a donor chair} was also our birthday twin, so we had a birthday triplets moment :-)
(And I got to tell her that we also share our birthday with The Count, from Sesame Street.)

* apparently Children’s Hospital and possibly also the Red Cross have ditched the finger stick (to determine hemoglobin levels; too much or too little (much more likely) disqualifies the donor for the day) in favor of something non-invasive. I’d really like MGH to get with the program.

** also apparently, I keep thinking Clara Barton thoughts around when donating blood. I suppose it makes some sense.

kaberett

Ridiculous indulgent breakfast situation (though having now looked up Culinary Strata because A asked, I am extremely unconvinced that pistachio croissants with raspberries)... counts.
Therapy session, spent entirely talking about One Thing (with tendrils), has left me feeling distinctly more settled.
Today's primary Make Numbers Go Down project has been working my way through some of the short fiction I've had open in tabs since [mumble]. Highlight thus far is Naomi Kritzer's The Thing About Ghost Stories (cn parental death, dementia).
The other New Thing I started consuming today is A Physical Education, which is extremely and often graphically about diet culture and disordered eating, but which 11% of the way through the audio file I am Very Much Enjoying. Further updates to follow. (The library only has audio, I apparently put a hold on it seven weeks ago though I can't at this point remember where I came across it, and The First Headphones I Have Ever Tolerated remain excellent. Shokz OpenRun Pro.)
The Child liked the replacement mock cherries; spring flowers are excellent (we are firmly heading into daffodils now); Routine Dinner tonight DID work even though the app initially Frightened Me by claiming first available pickup was tomorrow morning.

tima

Если кто еще помнит, в ноябре 6 демократических сенаторов и конгрессменов (все служившие в тех или иных подразделениях армии США) выступили с 90-секундным видеообращением к армейцам, в котором они призывали всех не выполнять антиконституционные приказы командования. С того момента на них вызверился департамент юстиции США во главе с нашей генеральной прокуроршей, подстилкой VP (©), делающей все для его блага, но не для нашего.

В четверг, 12 февраля федеральный судья Ричард Леон (номинирован Джорджем Бушем-старшим) блокировал главу Пентагона и всех административных лиц министерства обороны США от попыток наказать сенатора Марка Келли (понизить его в звании, отобрать у него военную пенсию и т.п.) за упомянутый видеоролик. В своем 29-страничном объяснении судья посчитал, что сенатор пользовался своим гражданским правом на свободу слова.

"Rather than trying to shrink the First Amendment liberties of retired service members, Secretary Hegseth and his fellow Defendants might reflect and be grateful for the wisdom and expertise that retired service members have brought to public discussions and debate on military matters in our Nation over the past 250 years. If so, they will more fully appreciate why the Founding Fathers made free speech the first Amendment in the Bill of Rights! Senator Kelly was acting within his role as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, exercising oversight authority over the defense secretary, and that attempts to penalize him through military channels appeared to be a tactic to skirt review by the courts." - написал судья.

После неудачного наезда на сенатора Марка Келли, Пэм Бонди дала указание наброситься на, казалось бы, более легкую добычу - на сенаторшу от Мичигана Элису Слоткин. Ей было велено "добровольно явиться в ФБР для видео интервью." На это Слоткин показала Бонди средний палец и заявила, что ни на какое интервью она добровольно приезжать не собирается и вместо этого собирает все документы для возможного судебного разбирательства, а также требует немедленно прекратить все действия в отношении этих шести человек, которые призвали наших сограждан соблюдать нашу Конституцию.

Интересно также, что параллельно всему происходящему с этим делом очередная подстилка VP (©) - Джанин Пирро - глава прокурорского оффиса в Вашингтоне, распорядилась отправить своих гончих в Grand Jury, чтобы открыть дело на этих шестерых. Однако состоящее из простых граждан Grand Jury отмело такой наезд, упомянув, что названная шестерка не совершила ничего противозаконного.

Посмотрим, хватит ли яиц у департамента юстиции продолжать свои абсолютно нелегальные наскоки на сенаторов и конгрессменов, защищающих нашу Конституцию, или они, поджав хвост, замолкнут в тряпочку. Пока что молчат и не отвечают на просьбы прокомментировать ход дела.

sparowe

HOSANNA!

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. … And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise’?” (Matthew 21:12, 14-16)

It’s interesting that the one thing the religious leaders bring up to Jesus is the fact that the children are crying out, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” They don’t mention the merchants He drove out of the temple courts; they don’t mention the healings, though they saw them. Apparently they feel on safe grounds complaining about the children—who are recognizing Jesus as the promised Messiah of David’s family.

Jesus refers the leaders to Psalm 8:2b, which continues this way: “… because of Your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.” According to Jesus, the praise of the children comes directly from God; the complaints come from God’s enemies.

And no surprise, for what the children are saying is “Hosanna”—which translates, “Save us!” Jesus has indeed come to save them and all of us as well. Through His death He will break the power of God’s enemies, including the devil; and through His resurrection He will give life to all God’s children who trust in Him.

WE PRAY: Thank You for saving me, Lord. Amen.

Lenten Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.

Current Mood: thoughtful

cellio

My father had an ancient Macbook -- not sure what he used it for, since he had not one but two newer iMacs as well as a couple tablets, but my mother said he did use it. A few months ago she asked me to dispose of it safely. I was eventually able to guess the password so I could look around. I didn't find any recent data on it but I made a backup just in case, then tried to wipe it so I could recycle it.

This laptop was running one of the feline operating systems (Leopard, I think). When I tried to wipe it, it asked for the installation CDs. CDs! How quaint. Uh, I didn't get any of those. I sought wisdom on the Internet but the Internet can be fickle, so I set it aside for a while.

Today I took it to my local Apple store to see if they could help. I asked if they could either wipe the disk or remove it so that I could recycle the rest of the hardware. While the friendly tech who was helping me tried to wipe it, she commented that she hadn't seen a Blackbook in such good condition for a long time. (I had not previously heard the name "Blackbook". Cute.) She wasn't able to wipe it either and asked if she could take it in back to extract the drive. Apparently she attracted some onlookers who also hadn't seen a Blackbook in a while (or maybe ever, judging by the ages of some of the people I saw).

She came back a few minutes later with the now-separated laptop and hard drive, and told me that if I was getting rid of it anyway, the store could recycle it for me. I was happy to save myself a trip to the e-waste folks, and if doing it this way helps even a small bit of it be reused rather than dumped in a landfill, that's a nice bonus.

A sticker on the hard drive indicated that it was manufactured in 2007. (That tracks with what I got from the OS.) Aside from being old, slow, and unable to run a modern operating system, the machine worked fine, which is pretty good for hardware that's old enough to drink. I'm on my third Mac Mini, and each replacement has been due to obsolescence, not hardware failure -- unlike the string of PCs I had before switching from Windows. I wonder how long my father's iPad (which I now have) will last.

michifugu

I feel like I forgot you can just write short post in this site because I am so used making long form post in this site.
I should just treat DW as to write long tweet.
Anyway, I tried making blog for my IRL account for professional purpose and my copywriting portfolio, but the problem is, I don't know what to write.
I don't know good example to write!
On other hand, copywrite social media is hard. I am trying making new portfolio for my resume because I wanted to apply to new job maybe, next month.
Also, I feel like my english kinda of deteriorating kjghjksgew.

And I want to download king exist & demon roots because my mutual wanted to see my thought on it because they liked my writing. I am honestly not sure how to feel especially knowing people do read my DW, because I feel my writing is incomprehensible & just blabbering, even my grammar suck I needed proofreading tools to help edited it LMAO.

Current Mood: chipper

sparowe

IN A HURRY

And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, He began to tell them what was to happen to Him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over … and they will condemn Him to death … And they will mock Him and spit on Him, and flog Him and kill Him. And after three days He will rise.” (Mark 10:32-34)

I’m not surprised to hear that Jesus’ followers were afraid. I would be, too, if Jesus told me all about His suffering and death—and not for the first time, either (see Mark 8:31, 9:31).

But the really weird bit is that Jesus seems to be in a hurry to get there! He is walking ahead of them. Who hurries to their own execution?

Jesus does, apparently. He says while preaching, “I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how great is My distress until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:50). And He says to Judas when he goes to betray Him, “What you are going to do, do quickly” (John 13:27b).

It’s a very human thing, to want to get suffering over and done with. And Jesus is human, just as we are. But the hurry is probably more than that—because Jesus is on a mission to save us all, the people He loves, from the power of evil. He knows His own death and resurrection will set us free and give us life. No wonder He’s in a hurry!

WE PRAY: Lord, thank You for loving me so much. Amen.

Lenten Devotions were written by Dr. Kari Vo.

Current Mood: thoughtful

kaberett

Made it to the plot! Brought home more salad than we actually wanted to eat this evening! Mostly lamb's lettuce but some bonus baby beetroot and spinach leaves :)
Also, the broad beans are starting to emerge (well, the ones that didn't get partly dug up and then abandoned on the surface unmunched, anyway; those have now been reinterred).
In the course of Making An Effort to Close More Tabs I rediscovered Standard Ebooks, and downloaded a bunch of things I'd apparently been interested in for Some Time: Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.
I spent some of the evening doing minor crafts with supplies A acquired, to make replacement cherries for a children's board game, using red wooden beans and green cotton string. I am mildly concerned that the Child might disapprove of the string being green rather than red, but We Shall See...
Cleeeeeeeeeen hair.

tima

New York Times и Siena University провели очередной опрос населения на тему правления администрацией VP (©). По результатам их опроса менее трети опрошенных считают, что страна нынче в лучшем положении, чем до вступления в должность VP (©).

Подавляющее большинство думает ровно наоборот: они считают, что администрация кошмарно управляет такими делами, как экономика, иммиграция, война в Украине, нападение на Венесуэлу и еще в куче вещей. 51% опрошенных считает, что их жизнь нынче позволяет им меньшую доступность к товарам и сервисам, чем было до этого. 49% ответили, что положение страны в данный момент гораздо хуже, чем было год назад. Респондентов с обратным мнением 32%. (Судя по количеству, насколько я понимаю, это упертая и неизменяемая МАГА, так что удивляться тут не приходится).

42% опрошенных заявили, что VP (©) находится на пути к званию худшего президента страны за все времена. 19% зявили, что он - лучший. При этом 40% респондентов (на 3% меньше, чем в сентябре) считают работу лично самого президента хорошей. 56% опрошенных назвали его работу кошмарной.

Самый низкий процент поддержки от своей партии действий лично президента приходится на открытие файлов Эпштейна: всего лишь 53% республиканцев поддержали шаги VP (©) в этом деле.

P.S. несмотря на постоянную ложь VP (©) по поводу "его блестящей экономики", Федеральный Резерв сообщил, что в октябре прошлого года цены выросли на 2.7%, а в ноябре - на 2.8%. Как считает подавляющее большинство экономистов, высокая инфляция в стране является следствием введения тарифов VP (©).

P.P.S. Организация Gallop после 90 лет ведения данных о рейтинге президента, получаемого из опросов населения, объявила, что с этого года такой опрос проводиться больше не будет, хотя он велся с 1930-х годов, с президентства Франклина Рузвельта. Такое решение было объяснено изменением в корпоративной стратегии и тем, что организация теперь будет больше сосредотачиваться на проблемах и политических опросах. Ну-ну...

mellowtigger

Have you been able to order anything at all from the CVS.com or Walgreens.com websites recently?

I just checked my order history at Walgreens, and I haven't been able to order for 2 years. Generic error message, telling me to try again later. But later never works either.

I can't even login at CVS. Several weeks ago, I could login successfully, but their site was giving me exactly the same error as Walgreens.

Normally, capitalism has the "give us money" phase worked out smoothly. Is anyone else having trouble with those 2 companies?

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