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Jan 11, 2025 10:52AM
Silenced Girls was popcorn good and I really liked my re-read of Black Company. The problem with the first time around was that I was reading Malazan at the same time and Black Company is a big influence on Malazan.
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I agree. Black Company was way better for me too this time around.
Dang birds poop bombed my back view windows on both main & top floor! Had to look up how to open windows to clean exterior side without a ladder or going outside.Yay internet!
Then I spent 40min cleaning windows.
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Cause I'm always taking shots of outside.
My area is totally newish development. I feel like anything under 15 years is new. Have all sorts of animals coming and going looking for food, etc. 2 kinds of deer herds, red foxes, rabbits, bunch of birds, super fat and loud (he was like a screeching cat-racoon) squirrels and etc.
Soo wrote: "My area is totally newish development. I feel like anything under 15 years is new. Have all sorts of animals coming and going looking for food, etc. 2 kinds of deer herds, red foxes, rabbits, bunch of birds, super fat and loud (he was like a screeching cat-racoon) squirrels and etc. "I wish I had that. I'd totally leave food out for everyone after looking up what's best for each :D
I used to leave out bird food for all the song birds and had to stop when a flock of pigeons made their home near by. Not because I object to them - they ate a whole bird feeder of food in like 10 minutes. It was just too expensive to keep full for everyone else.
My neighbors have a bird feeder and the smaller birds like to come around feom dawn to like 3pm to peck. It's not every day though. They definitely came by it more after snow.I'm happy to see them come and go as luck passes. It's too tricky to feed animals. Not necessarily a good thing for wild ones. And more than likely end up feeding squirrels. They need no help.
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I'm just surprised by the active scenes here cause there aren't large stretches of woodland here. Just small batches here and there. Enough for illusion of woody area in urban neighborhood.
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My notifications are working. No idea why yours have gone MIA.
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Signed out and back in, and new notifications are working... like your comment and someone's in the Firebrand #2 thread triggered notifications...
Seems to maybe be a wonky Goodreads thing that's manually fixable... so annoying that I've been doing without for 3 days...
GRs is buggy? You don't say lol At least that's an easy fix.
Oooh, so what fixed my notifications wasn't logging in a different device specifically, just a log out then back in probably would have worked. Huh.
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I don't even know anymore...
But... usually when GR breaks, I need to wait for GR to fix... this is the first time I can think of where literally logging out and back in was a legitimate fix...
Looks super yummy (also, cool plate)
Thanks! Had to replace practically everything. When I was shopping for new dish sets, I realized I don't have to buy a set of anything. So I bought 3 solo sets, loved them & got another set of each. The sets are different series of Lenox brand. Kinda mix well together. It would only be annoying if I was having large dinner parties. Which I'm not hosting for now, so I went with designs that make me happy when I use the plate, cup, etc.
Heh, I don't even have a dinning table at the moment. I either eat at my cool bar/counter or at my portable mini-table at my couch.I bought a few assorted plates when I moved in, but maybe I should do something similar (especially at the rate my clumsy ass goes through glasses...). My rare guests probably wouldn't mind mismatched dishes (hell, they would fight over the "coolest" plate xD).
Yay to having dish sets that make you happy :)
I'm in a furnished rental. A first, but it works more or less. The dining table has been turned into my work table. That's the only "table & seat" that's okay for my height. There's a tall table & 2 tall chairs in the kitchenette. When I sit on the chair/stool, the table comes to my chest. So, in an oddly mismatched way, food doesn't have to go far to reach my mouth, but I probably look like a kid sitting at the "grown up" table.
LOL Cracks me up every day when I use the kitchenette.
There's an office in the house, but the WiFi is the weakest in that room and the views aren't as nice. So, I'm always opting for better views whether eating or working. XD
Soo wrote: "There's a tall table & 2 tall chairs in the kitchenette. When I sit on the chair/stool, the table comes to my chest. So, in an oddly mismatched way, food doesn't have to go far to reach my mouth, but I probably look like a kid sitting at the "grown up" table."LOL
Prime position for efficient food vacuuming ;)
Soo wrote: "I'm in a furnished rental. A first, but it works more or less. The dining table has been turned into my work table. That's the only "table & seat" that's okay for my height. There's a tall table ..."
LOL I actually love it when my tables are just a tad too high. Makes eating less messy xD
It's SO GOOD for when you have soup and feel like crap! You just need to bend your head a little bit and there's soup in your mouth! LOL
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Half the time, these days, I sit down to do the dishes... less stress on my back, having to bend over nearly 90 degrees to reach sink/etc...
You must be pretty tall Iain to have to bend that far to reach the kitchen sink. Or your sink is lowered? Is that even a thing? lol
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And I AM 6'4ish...
lol Iain, you would love this place I'm in now. It was designed for tall people. XDPretty much everything was renovated & redone by the owners and it's distinctly done in a manner to be comfortable for someone 6'. Not my 5'2". LOL
The only thing that doesn't really fit that is the dining table set & couch in living room. But I feel like that had more to do with cheap & reliable than sticking with the height changes to all the counters in kitchen/bathroom, etc.
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It's generally custom-build places / renovated places, that cater to taller/even shorter people, since then it's about personal preference...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I exaggerate a bit... but also sinks are even lower than the countertop, by nature...And I AM 6'4ish..."
That's pretty tall!
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My idea is to badger me a bit at the beginning of each month, to stay on top of the previous month's reviews... I also added a checkbox/column to my sheet this year (more like made an existing column perform double duty), to easily track which books I've rated/reviewed on Goodreads...
As I told my team, just say something like "When you gonna write them January reviews, Iain?"
I keep meaning to spend an hour doing the last 2 weeks worth... I did one burst through the 7th, I think, then went heavily into reading mode right after and doubled my book count for the year to date...
LoL I try to do them within a few days of finishing. Best way for me to write a decent book note for myself. You should try to write reviews at least once per month but I bet weekly would be best for you. Pile ups are the worst! Cause going back to figure out what you read when is another time eater.
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That's another thing I fail to do after a few weeks each year, tho...
Timelord Iain wrote: "As I just mentioned in my competition team thread, I need people to remind me to write reviews, so maybe I don't fall 500 behind this year...My idea is to badger me a bit at the beginning of each..."
Ditto that--I was doing really well until June last year, still trying to catch up on reviews... Been doing well so far but we're only halfway through January... So I'm adding myself to the "hey, how are your reviews coming?" poke list... we can bug each other, Iain...
I used to be great at reviewing. Had some life stuff happen last year and I just can't review now other than a sentence or two. The words dont flow. I'm learning to be gentle with myself. It will come back eventually :) Not sure if you've encountered similar but it's really not a big deal and not a failure unless you want it to be. Otherwise...Hey Iain, you write those reviews yet??? ;)
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Dang, I miss talking to Amyiw. But yeah, the changes to book page and how info is shown kinda sucks.
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I finished Orlando People and enjoyed it more than I expected given it has a very police procedural start. I'll likely do book 2 in a month or so.I've switched over to Heretical Fishing 2. A little cozy fishing sounds good right now.
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I've switched over to [book:Heret..."
My favorite aspect of the books is the 1 chapter (per book), where Gretchen decides to fill in for the buttoned up government agent character POV :D
Oh yeah, that was pretty great :D
Here's what I believe is the first of 3 recordings from Dragonsteel Con where Brandon and Dan Wells are joined by Matt Dinnimann and Robin Hobb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBmk...Enjoy!
Glad you enjoyed OP, Narilka :)
Narilka wrote: "Here's what I believe is the first of 3 recordings from Dragonsteel Con where Brandon and Dan Wells are joined by Matt Dinnimann and Robin Hobb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBmk...Enjoy!"
Oh damn! That's a great lineup! I gotta check that out.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "All the talk, and I pulled the trigger and caught up on 34 reviews"WooHoo! Keep it up!
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Timelord Iain wrote: "All the talk, and I pulled the trigger and caught up on 34 reviews"Great job!
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I've switched over to..."
I think the next cozy-ish LitRPG/Cultivation series I'd recommend to you, and love to get some outside opinions on, is Terminate the Other World... there's 4 books now:
Arrival
A Glitch in the Protocols
Imperial Entanglements
Heart of the Machine
It's a Terminator LitRPG... MC glitches the system a bit and is a hero/dungeon hybrid, kinda like our favorite Cat Lady in Road Trip... she has fun animal/cyborg minions she recruits, which feels like all our cozy series... it's on the OP MC end of the spectrum, but the fun is in the creature plotting antics, miscommunications, and weird ways the system breaks down as the MC tries to understand the world and attain her goals (in my opinion)...
I'm planning to read book 4 soon, it only came out a month or so ago...
If you use Facebook, check your Meta Settings and Turn OFF EXTERNAL ACTIVITY TRACKING.
META default setting allows it to track everything on your phone/device and sell the info.
I found 2 years worth of apps & records. Had to manually check off to remove apps from tracking.
Then choose to Stop Tracking External Usage.
Dived into rabbit hole to check all other privacy and ad settings.
In Ad Audience lists, there's a bunch of entities that can add you to an ad list. Had to manually go into each one to click "Don't Allow".
Cautious upside, I have more friend posts showing up in my FB feed after spending 30min taking off permission to use my info and add my info to random ad lists.
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Crabliness is next to Godliness...
Godspawn creature skin in creature collector game Siralim Ultimate...
Reminds me of the crabs in Heretical Fishing, and questions about Carcinization Theory in relation to Roshar / Stormlight Archives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcini...
hahahaha That is awesome :DI'm about 25% in to Heretical Fishing 2 and it's been highly entertaining. (view spoiler)
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