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scriggle) wrote2025-07-02 05:01 pm
scriggle) wrote2025-07-02 05:01 pmEntry tags:
Venting
A former co-worker called me last week. We were...work friends. We never socialized outside of work.
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.
She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.
This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.
She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.
I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.
She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.
This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.
She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.
I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting
chibifukurou (chibifukurou) wrote2025-07-01 12:12 am
chibifukurou) wrote2025-07-01 12:12 amEntry tags:
June Reading List
1. People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami (Translation)
2. The Clearing by Allison Adair (Poems)
3. Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodge (nfn)
4. Hell Phone by Benji Nate (Graphic)
5. Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis (Graphic)(Queer MC)
6. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Poetry)(Queer Author)
7. Grief is for Humans by Sloane Crosley (nfn)
8. We Called them Giants by Kieron Gillen (Graphic)
9. Home of the American Circus byAllison Larkin
10. Believe The Untold Story of Ted Lasso by Jeremy Egner (nfn)
11. Checked Out by Katie Fricas
12. Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Translation)
13. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (Trans MC)
14. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Translation)
15. So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis (nfn)
16. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (JR)
17. Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (Nfn)(Indigenous)
18. Grow a Novel in Verse by Juanita Kodman (JR)(Verse)
19. A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Queer Romance)
20. Blue Light Hour by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Brazilian)
21. Paranoia Cage by Coolkyousinnjya (Graphic)
22. She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (Translation)
23. Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Poetry)
24. The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Belc (nfn)(Queer Author)
25. It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
26. Bad Badger A Love Story by Maryrose Wood (Jr)
27. Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith
28. Defekt by Nino Cipri (Queer MC)
29. Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Translation)
30. The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
2. The Clearing by Allison Adair (Poems)
3. Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodge (nfn)
4. Hell Phone by Benji Nate (Graphic)
5. Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis (Graphic)(Queer MC)
6. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Poetry)(Queer Author)
7. Grief is for Humans by Sloane Crosley (nfn)
8. We Called them Giants by Kieron Gillen (Graphic)
9. Home of the American Circus byAllison Larkin
10. Believe The Untold Story of Ted Lasso by Jeremy Egner (nfn)
11. Checked Out by Katie Fricas
12. Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Translation)
13. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (Trans MC)
14. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Translation)
15. So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis (nfn)
16. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (JR)
17. Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (Nfn)(Indigenous)
18. Grow a Novel in Verse by Juanita Kodman (JR)(Verse)
19. A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Queer Romance)
20. Blue Light Hour by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Brazilian)
21. Paranoia Cage by Coolkyousinnjya (Graphic)
22. She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (Translation)
23. Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Poetry)
24. The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Belc (nfn)(Queer Author)
25. It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
26. Bad Badger A Love Story by Maryrose Wood (Jr)
27. Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith
28. Defekt by Nino Cipri (Queer MC)
29. Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Translation)
30. The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)
mergatrude (mergatrude) wrote2025-06-30 11:46 am
mergatrude) wrote2025-06-30 11:46 amEntry tags:
Update Time
Reading: Maybe it's a winter-based desire for comfort reads, but if it's not Murderbot or Rivers of London, it's not holding my attention right now. I have read the first chapter of The iron will of Genie Lo, which is now staring mournfully at me from the corner of my desk, after having had it's loan renewed for the second time. /o\ I did start listening to Robbery Under Arms - a classic Australian novel about bushranger Captain Starlight - and while it's fascinating it's very "If I'd just done the sensible thing at this point then I wouldn't be in jail waiting to hang", which gets a little repetitive. I'm still waiting on </>Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, the second book in the Edinburgh Nights series by T.L. Huchu, which my account tells me I requested as a purchase 12 months ago. The first book in the series was very good!
Watching: Dude has been making me watch Stranger Things. It's not usually my kind of thing, but I quite enjoyed season 2 when we watched it...over a year ago? We watched the first ep of season 3 a week ago and I said, "Who are these people and why are they like that?" so we skipped to the finale, which was satisfactory. The first couple of eps of season 4 are verging on too much horror for me, despite the arrival of Eddie.
Now he is making me watch ALL the Thor movies, including the bonus material. The first one is a fun romp. The second one wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe. The Thor/Loki moments were golden, and Stellan Skarsgård is great. I felt sorry for Christopher Eccleston, as I think they cut his best moments. The next two will be rewatches.
Gaming: I bought a copy of Rayman Origins on GOG and have been happily slogging my way through the Jibberish Jungle. I'm stalled out on my other games as I seem to keep making the same mistakes. I guess what I need is to put more of my limited time into them. :-/
Other stuff: I have five different knitting projects sitting around. I should maybe finish the baby cardigan before my grand-nephew outgrows it, which means my friend's shawl will probably be ready for next winter. I have done a tiny bit of spinning, just to test what my shoulder can handle, but it's a test project in some boring leftover fibre so I'm not strongly motivated to work on it. I'm about half way through a jigsaw of a village on Santorini, which is a lovely warm contrast to the weather.
Life stuff: Work is quieter, as exams are over and results for the semester have been approved. We can take a little bit of a breather before getting ready for next semester. At home, we're planning to replace our ducted gas heating with reverse cycle air conditioning. It also means decommissioning our evaporative cooling which I'm not really happy about, but we need to cut our gas usage and this seems to be the only option. We're hoping to get a bit of rain this week.
Watching: Dude has been making me watch Stranger Things. It's not usually my kind of thing, but I quite enjoyed season 2 when we watched it...over a year ago? We watched the first ep of season 3 a week ago and I said, "Who are these people and why are they like that?" so we skipped to the finale, which was satisfactory. The first couple of eps of season 4 are verging on too much horror for me, despite the arrival of Eddie.
Now he is making me watch ALL the Thor movies, including the bonus material. The first one is a fun romp. The second one wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe. The Thor/Loki moments were golden, and Stellan Skarsgård is great. I felt sorry for Christopher Eccleston, as I think they cut his best moments. The next two will be rewatches.
Gaming: I bought a copy of Rayman Origins on GOG and have been happily slogging my way through the Jibberish Jungle. I'm stalled out on my other games as I seem to keep making the same mistakes. I guess what I need is to put more of my limited time into them. :-/
Other stuff: I have five different knitting projects sitting around. I should maybe finish the baby cardigan before my grand-nephew outgrows it, which means my friend's shawl will probably be ready for next winter. I have done a tiny bit of spinning, just to test what my shoulder can handle, but it's a test project in some boring leftover fibre so I'm not strongly motivated to work on it. I'm about half way through a jigsaw of a village on Santorini, which is a lovely warm contrast to the weather.
Life stuff: Work is quieter, as exams are over and results for the semester have been approved. We can take a little bit of a breather before getting ready for next semester. At home, we're planning to replace our ducted gas heating with reverse cycle air conditioning. It also means decommissioning our evaporative cooling which I'm not really happy about, but we need to cut our gas usage and this seems to be the only option. We're hoping to get a bit of rain this week.
the cannibal next door (harpers_child) wrote2025-06-26 04:07 pm
harpers_child) wrote2025-06-26 04:07 pm(no subject)
1. I got a Surfans F20 for my birthday to replace my dying ipod touch. (It was last hooked up to a computer in 2012 and spent it's life in airplane mode. Battery no longer holds a charge for more than 20 mins and charging is unreliable.) I combed through all the backups on my external to find all my little stashes of music. Now to comb through it all and figure out what of the 263GB (+ because some of it's zipped/rar'd) I want to load.
1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.
1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.
2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.
3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.
edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.
edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.
1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.
1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.
2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.
3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.
edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.
edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.
mific (mific) wrote2025-06-26 02:54 pm
mific) wrote2025-06-26 02:54 pmAn update
I turned back on the AI functions for my iPad again so as to write a fic with minimal impediments (I have enough inbuilt impediments these days not to want more). So that's autocapitalisation, autocorrect, and predictive text. And JFC, but it's bossy! Constantly changing words from the way I wanted to write them to some AI bullshit of its own. I had to be super-vigilant with the betaing. Have since turned predictive text off again to see if that's better. I hate the AI aspect but it's such a tiresome slog correcting my own (numerous) typos with it all turned off.
Bum music, a bit of YT whimsy. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights panel there's a guy, face down, bum up, with sheet music stacked on his ass. So Amelia Hamrick transcribed it, James Spalink arranged it, and played it using period-type instruments. It's actually not bad.
I managed a short fic for into-a-bar. I've been using the challenge to add to my Losers in Pegasus series but was hoist with my own petard this time by being allocated an SGA character I'd killed off in the last fic! Finally figured out a solution (enter the clones!) but was unable to finish the longer fic (that gets Pooch to Atlantis) by the deadline, so that one will come later.
Still mostly doing art, and podficcing. And the podfics mean cover art so that's always fun. I now tend to beta-listen while working on the cover, although that makes it tricky to note down bits that I've flubbed.
My Mexican sunflower still has some flowers, which the bees will be grateful for. Pretty amazing, now we're past the shortest day of winter, but it's slowly winding up its flowering season. 10/10, will see how many years it can manage encores.
I have a few recs, but will do a separate post for those. Summer sounds a bit brutal up north (for many reasons). Hope you're all OK.
Bum music, a bit of YT whimsy. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights panel there's a guy, face down, bum up, with sheet music stacked on his ass. So Amelia Hamrick transcribed it, James Spalink arranged it, and played it using period-type instruments. It's actually not bad.
I managed a short fic for into-a-bar. I've been using the challenge to add to my Losers in Pegasus series but was hoist with my own petard this time by being allocated an SGA character I'd killed off in the last fic! Finally figured out a solution (enter the clones!) but was unable to finish the longer fic (that gets Pooch to Atlantis) by the deadline, so that one will come later.
Still mostly doing art, and podficcing. And the podfics mean cover art so that's always fun. I now tend to beta-listen while working on the cover, although that makes it tricky to note down bits that I've flubbed.
My Mexican sunflower still has some flowers, which the bees will be grateful for. Pretty amazing, now we're past the shortest day of winter, but it's slowly winding up its flowering season. 10/10, will see how many years it can manage encores.
I have a few recs, but will do a separate post for those. Summer sounds a bit brutal up north (for many reasons). Hope you're all OK.
mergatrude (mergatrude) wrote2025-06-24 12:03 pm
mergatrude) wrote2025-06-24 12:03 pm(no subject)
An Iranian Journey
Someone posted this on tumblr and I wanted to share it with you. We're all just people trying to live our lives despite the whims of our rulers.
Someone posted this on tumblr and I wanted to share it with you. We're all just people trying to live our lives despite the whims of our rulers.
scriggle (scriggle) wrote2025-06-23 06:14 pm
scriggle) wrote2025-06-23 06:14 pmEntry tags:
Materialists
I went to see Materialists this afternoon. Partly to get away from this hideous heat though I was planning on seeing it in any event. It got me thinking that the last time I actually went to the theater to see a movie it was Knives Out. Call it the Evans effect. 😀
I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a decent rom-com that definitely has something to say about dating and "checking all the boxes."
The acting was good but Dakota Johnson somehow managed to not have much chemistry with either Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans imho.
Chris Evans looks especially soft and huggable in it.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a decent rom-com that definitely has something to say about dating and "checking all the boxes."
The acting was good but Dakota Johnson somehow managed to not have much chemistry with either Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans imho.
Chris Evans looks especially soft and huggable in it.