FAKE Double Drabble: The Easy Way

Apr. 23rd, 2025 05:40 pm
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Title: The Easy Way
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
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Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dee and Ryo are going on a cycling vacation.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Cycle’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Double Drabble: Cramped

Apr. 23rd, 2025 05:31 pm
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Title: Cramped
Author: 
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Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 862: Small at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The first time Ianto spent the night with Jack, he found Jack’s cot rather too small for two.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Black Cherries by W. S. Merwin

Apr. 27th, 2025 04:13 am
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Late in May as the light lengthens
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows
of the garden beside the old house
after a cold spring with no rain
not a sound comes from the empty village
as I stand eating the black cherries
from the loaded branches above me
saying to myself Remember this


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There is a friending meme ongoing

Apr. 26th, 2025 04:05 am
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Clicky!

Also, I meant to say re: the utilities that you are all the best and I absolutely love you :)

(Still need to call National Grid and still don't wanna.)

World Book Day

Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:10 am
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The official theme for World Book Day 2025 is:

"Read Your Way: Diverse Books for Every Mind"

This theme emphasizes the importance of inclusion and diversity in reading. It encourages readers to explore different voices, perspectives, and cultures through literature, promoting empathy and global understanding
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Good News

Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:09 am
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Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

Today's Adventures

Apr. 22nd, 2025 11:08 pm
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Today we went out shopping.

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Insect Apocalypse

Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:29 pm
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Insects are disappearing due to agriculture -- and many other drivers, new research reveals

New paper highlights 500+ interconnected drivers behind global insect decline.
Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, according to new research
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Car stuff sorted...

Apr. 22nd, 2025 09:16 pm
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I mentioned that last night the truck very suddenly started sputtering and running extremely rough, and the check engine light came on.

We took the truck over to a local auto parts store to get a read on the code for the check engine light. They said the most likely culprit was an ignition coil, causing misfires in one of the cylinders. That was one of the potential things I'd seen on the list of possible causes for the rough idle. Pretty firmly on the lower end of the middle of "how fucked are we," so that was a relief. (So glad it wasn't "fuel pump" money.)

So we took it to the usual shop we use. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it tomorrow, and they would have to do their own diagnostic rather than relying on the code, which was fine. They'd give me a call tomorrow morning to let me know the results of their diagnostic and talk costs and recommendations and such.

Mom loaned us her second car, since Taylor doesn't typically go in to the office anymore, so we could get around until then.

-

Turned out Jaspurr was at the vet (same vet that we were at yesterday) for surgery. :( Poor boy had a lump on his abdomen, so they were removing and biopsying it.

Got the excellent news that it was just a fatty lump, and did not need to be biopsied!

-

I was just about to take a nap, when the auto place called. They were able to get it in today (initially I was told it was the main tech's day off, so couldn't get it looked at until tomorrow; apparently someone else was available today!)

They did not think it was the ignition coil, they thought it was the spark plugs. They wanted to replace the spark plugs plus do an injector system service. I misheard the initial quote and thought it was super high, like four figures; it was not, haha. It was within the general range I'd been expecting. (Which I wasn't *delighted* to pay, but when I balked at my misheard price, he offered a discount to bring it down slightly, ha.)

They got the work done by the end of the afternoon, but when he called back he said the spark plugs hadn't fixed the issue... because it turned out it was the ignition coil. *Facepalm* (They say that the coil was fine when they tested it earlier, because they swapped a good coil for the potentially bad one, and the problem persisted, which was why they'd ruled it out; maybe the coil and a spark plug both failed?)

They replaced the spark plugs and the ignition coil. He gave us the coil at-cost (which was cheaper than we could have gotten it if we'd bought it ourselves; we priced them at the auto parts place when we got the code read) and didn't charge any extra labor for it. He also completely comped the system service that they did, so the total wound up only being $14 over the original estimate. In exchange for the discount, he just asked that we leave a nice review, which I did.

The truck is now running fine! It might be even smoother than it was prior to the problem starting last night; it hadn't been having issues that made me want to take it in, but occasionally a little roughness that I wasn't noticing this evening. So perhaps that coil had been on the way out for a while.

Not the best timing in the world, and I spent a good part of last night and this morning fighting through the chest pain and horrible nausea and prickling scalp of massive fucking anxiety, but I'm glad it's sorted out, that it didn't happen at a *worse* time.

Birdfeeding

Apr. 22nd, 2025 02:17 pm
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Today is mostly sunny and warm with a light breeze, a beautiful spring day.  :D

I fed the birds.  I've seen several sparrows and house finches, two brown-headed cowbirds, a mourning dove, and two fox squirrels.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/22/25 -- We went out shopping.  I picked out roughly 5 flats of plants at DeBuhr's.  We found a garden hose, nozzle, and reel plus a gas can at Home Depot.  Also at Home Depot I spotted a modular garage storage system that looks very promising.  It has mounting rails for shelves and a wide variety of hooks.  That ought to combine well with a pegboard.

EDIT 4/22/25 -- I planted a 'Sugar Snack' cherry tomato and a 'Yellow Pear' tomato in the large pots by the septic garden, each with 4 marigolds around it.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

daily log for the day

Apr. 22nd, 2025 12:30 pm
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 alright been a bit since i made any updates. and im sorry abourt that. currently i just finished college as of last week so i was super focused and busy on that. now to do some housekeeping. currently now that i am out of college, ive been looking for jobs. so far not really a lot but ive been applying to most stuff i can find that is entry level. 
i bleached my hair once again, went back to blond. i also have been trying to keep fit and active by doing stuff daily. such as walking or using my eliptical. today it was the eliptical. 
today was mostly uneventful. went out to get some bloodwork done, then went to the thrift and just kinda milled about, found a neat gps for ten dollars so thats good. set it up too. also got a neat keyboard for my work computer, if only i had work and motivation to use it. 

been thinking a lot about what i want to do if i dont have a job by next month, might go off and live in the woods for a bit by myself. I have the land and cabin already i would just need to do some prepping of materials to bring. might start working on this seriously. bring my chickens with me too maybe, unsure i dont really eat eggs. 
i have of course my creature comforts at home, but i can make due without most of them anyways. i think one of the things that stops me from doing this is my partner. who still lives in town. it may be too much for him for me to just walk into the woods and not return til a month, tho i could just drive and see him at some points. but it would defeat the purpose if i can go back into town any time i wanted.

i think if i was to do this seriously i would be able to. just need to prepare the right things to live there for a month. in my head ive been calling it my month long exile (self imposed). might be good for my head just to be able to focus on my basic needs and not things that are in modern life. at most i would have to come in for supplies or possibly medications. 
the more i plan and think the more this plan seems like it could work. just unsure if i would be able to commit myself to something like that. thats the main issue. 
i just want to avoid becoming a drag or a neet or anything. cause i dont really have any reasons to go outside these days, i usually went outside for college reasons. now there really isnt much a point to leave my house besides maybe running errands. even then i could get other people to run my errands, i dont have money to spend on myself any more. 

if i am lucky next month i may have a job. may is when most of the stuff i applied to closes and jobs start running. so if i have no work by may, i really will have nothing to do besides rot away in my house. i always figured college would allow me to get work easier, or at least open doorways for me to do so. so far it really hassn't which kinda sucks. 
i havent been picky with jobs incase anyone is curious. i have been applying to meanial labour, as well as high school level jobs. its mostly trying to get work in my town that sucks. its dying and there isnt anyone hiring much these days. 
my best hope right now is a dishwashing job i applied to a couple days ago, before that my hopes was on a yard worker for a marina, and before that it was some other job i don't remember, something like a wildlife tech. 
regardless, i just want a job at this point. 

on a lighter note, most of everything else has been ok. been reading a bit, playing some games. getting back into animal crossing city folk. i also picked up some new shows to watch on netflix so i've been doing that when i have free time (which is most of the time anyways). 
im thinking of trying to read outside a bit more, or going to the library to read so that way i have an excuse to leave the house. my library is in walking distance which is good because i dont need to use or waste gas driving somewhere. 
honestly i need hobbies that make me do stuff that takes up large chunks of time, that are also not expesive. so far its just been reading, and walking. i want to take up gardening if i dont get a job i guess. 
told my parents i'd help them make theirs since they are old now and have a hard time bending down to dig at stuff. they said they'd be willing to pay me so at least its a small source of income. i can sell my eggs too. maybe i should get a rooster if i move out to the woodlot. sell my eggs to people later. 

honestly what do people do when they have too much free time? what do i do as the "unemployed friend" like? how do people fill their days. 

FAKE Quadruple Drabble: One Shot

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:36 pm
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Title: One Shot
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
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Characters: Ryo, Dee, OC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo waits for the order to fire.
Written For: Challenge 441: Amnesty 73 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks , using Challenge 152: Shot. Also for the dw100 prompt ‘Fire’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
 
 


Doctor Who Drabble: Desert Nights

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:26 pm
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Title: Desert Nights
Author: 
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Characters: Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, OCs.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 916: ‘Caravan’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack, Rose, and the Doctor spend some time on a desert planet.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 

Double Drabble: Dwarfed

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pm
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Title: Dwarfed
Author: 
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Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 862: Small at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Large as the Happy Wanderer is, right now it seems tiny and fragile.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
 


 
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Annual vet visit!

Apr. 21st, 2025 09:35 pm
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(Cy and Bella, sleeping.)

Today was annual vet visit day for both dogs. (It's a little hard to believe it's been more than a year since Cy's emergency vet health scare.)

They each got their physical exams and their leptospirosis shots.

Cy is only down about a half pound from last year, and while I'd *like* him to gain a pound or two, that's pretty good. Bella has dropped a couple pounds, which is odd, because she doesn't look like she's lost weight. But we'll try to get a couple more pounds on her. (She's close to the weight she was when we first brought her home, and she looked *terrible* then; she looks pretty good now.)

Both of them were very good for their exams. Cy of course always is, but even Bella handled it well. She is NOT a fan of getting her temperature taken, and jumped pretty hard when she got her lepto shot, but she did great. Cy was just happy to be getting so much attention and didn't react at all to his shot.

Cy appears to have a lingering mild ear infection. He had one a while back (started right before the handful of days I'd stayed at my mom's) but we thought it had cleared up. There wasn't any visible gunk and he'd stopped the head-shaking. It's not serious, but still there. The vet gave him a topical antibiotic (a nice tube of goop squirted into the ear). She also showed me how to clean out his ears and gave me an easy recipe to mix up to help with it. (I hadn't been going quite deep enough when I was cleaning them, turns out.) Can't clean it out for two weeks, as the antibiotic is supposed to stay in there, so he's gross and slimy with antibiotic ointment until then, haha.

He also had a little gum inflammation around his bad teeth, though not nearly as bad as it has been in the past. He's too old to want to do a full tooth-cleaning under anesthesia, but she did as much tartar removal as she could. He also got a short course of antibiotics for the gums + the ear.

We'll get the results of his bloodwork in a few days. He has a refill of his Rimadyl, but the results of the bloodwork will determine whether we can keep him on it. (I hope so - it seems to help him quite a bit.)

The tech said he was just so good for his blood draw and his teeth cleaning, ha. (I believe it for the blood draw; I am more skeptical that he was good about his teeth.)

-

Bella also then got to go on a long walk around a local lake (after Cy got dropped off at home), so she had a Very Big Day.

-

Of course, the very day that I had to drop several hundred dollars at the vet, the truck very suddenly started sputtering and running EXTREMELY rough and the check engine light came on. Fuuuuuuuck.

So we will have to take it in tomorrow and find out what the problem is. It could be anything from "replace the fuel filter" or "replace a spark plug" to "your fuel injector is fucked" or "your catalytic converter is fucked". So I'm really hoping it's on the simple end instead of the "we're fucked" end, but I am very afraid to find out which it is.
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Recently I bought a little fern, so I'm making a new terrarium. You can also see the previous Antique Jar Terrarium.

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