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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

viridian5

After barely going anywhere or shooting anything for almost two months due to snow, severe cold, and feeling crappy, I started photographing again this week. I have some morning light cemetery shots and started putting up some daytime window display shots from when I was in the city for a doctor's appointment. The ones I just posted are all warm weather clothing while it was literally snowing and sleeting on me. (With the wind, I couldn't shoot and hold an umbrella simultaneously, so it was literally snowing and sleeting on me. It took hours for the fur ruff on my hood to dry out.) That was the day when the temperature started in the 60s F and ended up feeling like the 20s by nightfall. I'm visible in the reflection in some of those window shots.

You can see the 11 window display photos and 22 cemetery photos at my Flickr.

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"Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection"

The BBC has some nerve calling this guy's collection "ramshackle" when they personally deleted everything. At least he stored them, unlike you folks.

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I drove about 15 miles to grocery shop in Westbury only to have Whole Foods and Trader Joe's not have the things I came for, so I trekked a little further away to Jericho and Plainview. The Plainview Trader Joe's is so much nicer and has a better selection than the ones I usually go to. It also played Depeche Mode's "Behind the Wheel" and Howard Jones' "Life in One Day" while I was there, which gives it extra credit.

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House of Pain's "Jump Around" always gets me bouncing, but Pitbull and Lil John's "Jumpin'" takes the sample and adds a lot more party and booty shaking. Every time "Jumpin'" plays while I'm driving, I'm dancing in my seat.

Current Mood: sleepy

viridian5

Due to migraines and ridiculous allergies lately, I've been sleeping much more and haven't been online or writing as much. Pair that with how I wasn't going anywhere as much due to all the snow sticking around and making parking less reliable, I have less new stuff to talk about.

Even with higher temperatures and a lot of rain, we still have some mounds of the stuff, but parking is getting easier to find.

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It's Irish soda bread season in NY. The Stop & Shop version, heretically, didn't have caraway seeds, but Trader Joe's did, even if I cringe at them calling theirs the Blarney Scone.

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I had my annual eye exam last week, something especially important for someone with Chiari, which means they're very concerned with how my retinas are doing. For some reason, the pupil of my left eye stayed dilated hours longer than my right. They can't have put that much more dilating fluid in my left eye. My youngest niece saw it when I picked her up from college and was very concerned for me.

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I received a notice from Kia of a recall for my Forte. It said they first sent a notice for it to the original owner in 2021 but nothing was done. So, I got this voluntary emissions and transmission recall done as well as two anti-theft things for free. The Kia service people seemed decent and competent, unlike all of the Hyundai people I used to deal with.

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "Higher Love" by Depeche Mode

tropicsbear

Link nabbed from goodbyebird!

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways

More than a decade later, the situation is radically different. The lion population has rebounded. Cub survival rate is up. And cattle losses are dramatically down. It’s the result of years of hard work: restoring traditional herding practices, collaring and tracking lions, and, most recently, establishing a market for ‘wildlife-friendly beef.’ This serves as a model, wildlife advocates say, for other parts of southern Africa where modern grazing practices have collided with big cats’ appetites.

This bit about naming the lions also got a laugh from me which I know I shouldn't have 😅 but it's very in line with my spiteful tendencies: As conflict persisted, some people gave them rough names like Kufakuduze, which means, ‘If you come for my cattle, I will find you.’ I hope Kufakuduze is alive and well.

tropicsbear

The director's commentary for The VVitch is apparently a lot of Robert Eggers bashing his own movie for the most specific and/or tiniest period-inaccurate details. (For example, he actually considered having the holes of Anya Taylor-Joy's ear piercings CGI'ed out of the movie.)

I think my favorite line in this was, "Our goats are incorrect." 😂 Sir, one of the goats is Satan.

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tropicsbear

Right when I thought things were settling down and I could get back into my routine, my body decides it's a great time to get sick. Started with a dry/itchy throat around Sunday night, eventually built up to feeling feverish and lethargic yesterday, along with a sporadic cough and the sniffles. Took a sick leave yesterday afternoon and today. I think I can go back to work tomorrow, but I'm going to be working from home to be safe.

Getting sick this time is weird because I feel shitty enough to not want to go to work but not shitty enough to spend most of my day sleeping and/or whining. I mean, I did spend most of my time sleeping yesterday but I was actively trying not to sleep this afternoon because I woke up with the type of headache I only get when I oversleep and I didn't want to experience it again. I even have an appetite! So weird.

Whatever this is, it looks like it also hit Sister T. She didn't feel as bad as I did, but she decided to take today off to be safe. I think it might be due to the weather changing from cold-as-fuck in January to I'm-being-boiled this March.

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