[migraine] ... mrgh

May. 1st, 2026 11:41 pm
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)
[personal profile] kaberett

Today has been. the first time in A While that I have spent mostly horizontal and mostly asleep on account of migraine, despite drugs. I am Not A Fan.

Read more... )

(no subject)

May. 1st, 2026 01:41 pm
[personal profile] sphyg
Sigh, still waiting for my new bank card. Making a list of all the online payments I need to switch and things I want to buy (nothing urgent yet).

To-read pile, 2026, April

May. 1st, 2026 11:17 am
rmc28: (reading)
[personal profile] rmc28

Books on pre-order:

  1. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May)
  2. Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May)
  3. Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
  4. Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

Books acquired in April:

  • and unread:
    1. Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy 2) by Timothy Zahn
  • and previously read:
    1. Warhorse by Timothy Zahn

Borrowed books read in April:

  1. Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey
  2. Like You've Nothing Left to Prove by E.L. Massey
  3. Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

Rereads in April:

  1. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

April had a lot of ice hockey and a lot of driving (including two separate Nationals tournaments), and thus relatively little reading. One day I will actually read the Thrawn books, honest ...

(no subject)

May. 1st, 2026 05:15 am

creatures!

Apr. 30th, 2026 10:20 pm
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)
[personal profile] kaberett

Went into town this afternoon to post some things, and observed Several Creatures. The blue butterfly around the lilac near the top of the hill was very welcome; the Egyptian goslings are starting to look almost grown up, with eye markings and a general reduction in fluff and increase in sleek!

(Elsewise today: SLEEP, post-gym Spatzen, more free electrons and therefore more laundry; both social and solitary wiggles; good therapy; and some Tentatively Positive Communication re Admin: the LRP.)

Upcoming Don Giovanni at the Redwood

Apr. 30th, 2026 12:38 pm
chickenfeet: (resistance)
[personal profile] chickenfeet
Don Giovanni might be an ironic choice for a fund raiser for a women's shelter but....

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/04/30/a-special-shout-out/

(no subject)

Apr. 30th, 2026 05:37 am

some good things!

Apr. 29th, 2026 10:56 pm
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)
[personal profile] kaberett
  1. DID make it to the post office and get A Parcel into the post!
  2. DID make it to THE GYM, and was Charmed to notice that one of the other regulars was wearing unexpected-by-me nail varnish.
  3. We brought home many Field Treets and I am continuing to merrily vacuum them up with my horrid little mouth!
  4. Saw the bat! Hello bat. What a good bat you are.
  5. Very much enjoyed the Graun on a photographer who spent a year following the ZSL veterinary team (NB multiple images of post mortems in there).
  6. Negative electricity prices for a while in there today meant: Much More Laundry (most of which is dry), surprise and delight at A running the underfloor heating in the bathroom (WOM FEET); b r e a d; experimental autopyrolitic oven cleaning.
ailbhe: (books)
[personal profile] ailbhe
In print, generally as ebooks:

The Green Man's Foe by Juliet McKenna

I'm reading it very very slowly and in little bits, and I'm enjoying it a lot. I have a bunch of these lined up for if I ever, you know, get my mojo back.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

This is the Georgette Heyer Readalong gang's current Readalong book - we discuss it in a chat on Sunday evenings. I can safely say I would not be reading it otherwise; a slow, analytical read doesn't show it in its best light, and I'm too tired these days to read a book in a sitting overnight when I ought to be asleep but am actually eating cereal out of the bag and desperately trying to find out what happens to Hero McHeroface.

Unveiled by Courtney Milan

I finished this and fully intend to write about it sometime. But I liked it, anyway.

Audiobooks:

I started Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir but it was too dark for me in early January, so then I switched to re-listening to seven Murderbot books in a row, which was lovely, and A Civil Contract by Heyer which I find very reliable for going to sleep. I started re-listening to two Emma Orchards but got distracted and switched to Temeraire because the publisher had re-issued the 4th one with the missing audio restored. I first read a Temeraire book in June 2008 and I've been rereading every so often since, and they are just reliably great. I'm interspersing those with Kowal's "Lady Astronaut" books (which I CANNOT fall asleep to because they are too exciting and so is the narration / performance).

Also, I've listened to 3 chapters of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the Gutenberg Project and I was very impressed. I must see what else they have.

Meme from @muccamukk

Apr. 29th, 2026 09:22 am
rmc28: (silly)
[personal profile] rmc28

The Last...

Movie I watched:
in the cinema: Project Hail Mary (2026)
on (my friend's) TV: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
Series I finished: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 2 (2026)
Book I finished: Daughter of the Deep, by Rick Riordan (2021)
Book I bought:
bought outright: Warhorse, by Timothy Zahn (1990)
pre-ordered: Call Me Traitor, by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec 2026)
Book I received as a gift: Amsterdam, by Russell Shorto (2013) - given for Christmas 2023 according to my booklog, still languishing on the TBR
Food I ate: pressed nut+fruit snack bar to finish off my post-hockey-practice meal in the small hours this morning
Meal I cooked: porridge for Nico's breakfast this morning
Drink I had: pepsi max
Song I listened to: "Castle of Glass" by Linkin Park
Album I listened to: Hadestown OBCR
Playlist I listened to: "three-plus years in love (with hockey)" - which reminds me I need to figure out where Living on a Prayer fits into it, as we ended up belting it out as a team on the bench on Saturday, and yes it needs to go in (unless I start a new playlist for my fourth season ...)
Concert I went to: my friend and teammate's gig in Jesus College bar last month
Game I played: does ice hockey count? does Duolingo count? (though I gave up on it last year for being too gamified and no longer teaching me). I literally can't remember when I last played a board game and I don't really do computer games.
Person I talked to: Nico
Person I texted:
Individual: Charles
Groupchat: Kodiaks 2 leadership

(no subject)

Apr. 29th, 2026 04:42 am

vital functions (ish)

Apr. 28th, 2026 10:29 pm
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)
[personal profile] kaberett

Last week I:

  • finished weaving in the ends on A's gloves (before we hit site for the first event of the year)
  • read more She's A Beast
  • ate a bunch of food I didn't have to cook (current experiment: do Lichfield brownie bars only taste That Good in a field?)
  • explored Steeplechase LRP Centre when it had PEOPLE on it (and also when it didn't)
  • including seeing a green woodpecker!
  • and SO many birds of prey
  • made a bunch of unilateral decisions about where tents would go directly affecting two other departments in response to external constraints, and redesigned internal tent layout on the fly in response to different external constraints, and... it all worked???
  • rethought several steps in the lost property process and goodness that works way better and is much less stressful

and then today has been about half and half "sleep" and "endless lost property paperwork". And Now: To Bed.

tada

Apr. 27th, 2026 10:18 pm
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)
[personal profile] kaberett

Headline: hooooooome.

chickenfeet: (spear)
[personal profile] chickenfeet
 The Lepage 20th century double bill premiered in 1993 and still impresses

https://bachtrack.com/22/296/view/30662

@bachtrack

April 2026

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
12 13 1415161718
19202122232425
2627282930  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 2nd, 2026 05:15 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios