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Things do persist in continuing to happen

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:40:41 GMT

And I cannot remember most of them.

I continue to tinker with the tablet, this time producing blaseball fanart because after the Large Events of last weekend it was sort of topical. Fortunately blaseball has settled down into the sort of quiet madness that has the statheads now tracking wins per win as opposed to Attacking And Dethroning God.

We have finally started work on implementing my family tradition for Halloween decorations, but being us have exploded it up to an order of magnitude larger complexity. The original tradition: produce headstones for a selection of notable deaths of the year, occasional bits of humor, and the World Series losers, and use them as yard decorations. Repaint or reuse as deemed appropriate. Our modifications: upgrade the materials quality of the stones, expand to include hero cultus (me) and actual ancestors (artan). This has produced a lot of stones, of which he did roughly half (all ancestors) and I did the other half (notable deaths, humor, hero cultus, also some beloved dead).

After some flailing we found a tall chest of drawers on craigslist that perfectly fits into the corner that needed a furniture item, which is progress on the setting up the room. I haven't gotten up to the point of actually putting anything in it because very tired, but it exists.

ER has an ear infection, which caused a lot of driving yesterday but has gotten her medication that she disapproves of.

Working on a story and finding that I can do interesting things with a Cinderella inversion as a template just by making all of the horrible people neurotypical.

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Continuing with this whole day in review thing I guess

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:53:49 GMT

We got an email informing us that we should pick up KJ's textbooks "outside the main office". This is all fine and dandy except for the part where KJ started 'at' a new school, which I have only been in to vote, and I have no freaking clue where the main office is. So I figured I'd park and blunder around and ask someone for directions, for lack of anything more clever. I parked, peered at the nearest entrance, and saw a couple of carts on the sidewalk in front of it; one of them was labelled for KJ's class and contained the list of books I had been told to obtain, so, welp, I guess I know which door to go in to find the main office now.

You know, in the event I want to. Which I assume will come someday. All knowledge is worth having?

In other child-related news ER is very, very angry that actions have consequences, including, for example, the action of locking her mama and her younger sister out of the house while she's having a snit about not getting what she was whining for. (She did let us in after a minute, and I could've gotten in with a house key, but nonetheless this behaviour is disapproved.)

Anyway.

I hear rumors, on the Dependency Hell front, that the mason will be here tomorrow to get the footing for the new stoop poured.

On bedroom-side updates Teine has installed much of his new closet furnishings which may mean that his stuff will get put away which means I can go back to putting my stuff away soon.

In the office branch of Dependency Hell, the computer is set up, there is now a keyboard tray, and I have found the remote for its silly color effects (I really rather like them but they are silly and now at least I can control them). Of the four bookcases that were in the office-that-was, one is nearly fully re-filled (the box containing the rest of shelf #2 is shared with another bookcase that is not refilled) and another has two shelves restored; I am missing roughly half a dozen boxes of books that go in them, including the two unfilled bottom shelves and shelf #5 of the bookcase labelled "door", all of which are stop points for my plan of restoring the shelves from bottom up. I dug out and extracted from the basement fifteen boxes of books today (only moving them to the first floor; artan conveyed them to the bedroom) so I am Done With Boxes for the nonce. Robin approves of box-related progress.

Plan is to reshelve everything and then when the shelves for the deeper units are done, figure out how I want to reshuffle things to put the extra-size books on shelves that can actually handle books that size. I am dithering about whether or not I want to bring up the bead boxes and stash them where they (eventually) go.

I would like to start reshelving the Abrahamic religion books (they go in the bookcase labelled "left"), maybe, because I have a religious education orientation meeting tomorrow and it would be nice to wave at my religions library. I have also installed MultiMC so I can get a Minecraft instance running for purposes of teaching religious education, because I am teaching religious education in Minecraft this year.

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Small Theology

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:43:55 GMT

Today FM led the junior monkeys in some sort of extended fantasy scenario (there was a The Floor Is Made Of Lava sequence, and a ... rope bridge timing challenge? and some other things) in costume (giraffe for FM, dragon for ER, and cat for AR). This was fabulous in many ways, not least because it occupied them entirely for I think about two hours.

Before they embarked upon this fabulous journey, I heard FM in the other room carefully herding her sisters with a "Before we begin, we need to make a prayer to the god of adventures, to keep us safe."

I do not know who the God of Adventures is but I can totally see her setting up a shrine to it.

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