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([personal profile] netbard Nov. 10th, 2025 09:11 pm)
Well, first snow has hit the ground and stuck. Hello, winter!
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This Outgunned Bundle presents Two Little Mice's Outgunned, the tabletop roleplaying game of cinematic action by Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano and Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini.

Bundle of Holding: Outgunned
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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 10th, 2025 09:15 am)
2021: Conservationists are aghast that influenza B/Yamagata lineage may face extinction, the selection of Alan Turing’s image for new £50 notes raises the question of whether other state torture victims will be so honoured, and the Johnson government proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that herd immunity does exist… but only to shame, and only amongst Tories.

Poll #33821 Clarke Award Finalists 2021
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


Which 2021 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
0 (0.0%)

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
9 (75.0%)

Edge of Heaven by Rachael Kelly
0 (0.0%)

The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
0 (0.0%)

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
5 (41.7%)

Vagabonds (translation of by Hao Jingfang
3 (25.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2021 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Edge of Heaven by Rachael Kelly
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Vagabonds (translation of by Hao Jingfang

(I thought I posted this last Monday...)
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([personal profile] jennaria Nov. 9th, 2025 02:20 pm)
Accomplished over the last, er... :checks the last time she updated: two months!

* Made a long skirt! Discovered that I'd made the waist too loose. Still working on fixing that part.

* Helped make Renaissance-style pantalons for wife (and cut out same for myself).

* Redyed a sad brown shirt to green. ...it came out kinda olive, but still, better than the sad brown it was before. (The reason for all the sewing: we've an SCA camping event coming up in a week or two, and need enough garb for it. Whee!)

Currently 12K into my Novel November, which is a good 3K behind where I 'should' be, but oh well. I'll do the best I can, and either way, it's more than I had before. (Original fic, cosy fantasy romance, taking the prompts 'shapeshifters' and 'protector/protected' and running with them.)
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([personal profile] netbard Nov. 9th, 2025 01:39 pm)
Final game(*) for this season of Epic D&D written. Now it just remains to be seen if my players will enjoy it. :) (*) Sort of. The last game is actually next week, but it’ll basically be a module I’m given.
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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 9th, 2025 09:07 am)
I'm working my way through Outgunned: Adventure. Pulp adventure. Indiana Jones stuff.

So I have an idea for an adventure, in which our brave action archaeologists try to locate and retrieve certain invaluable historical relics so they can be preserved and studied in proper museums.

Not only are the locals curiously reluctant to let the adventurers do this, even though they cannot possibly understand the artifacts on as many levels as civilized people, post-WWIII US is a dangerous place what with the unstable ruins, ancient unstable warheads, and radiation.

But if anyone can find the secret vaults containing the lost Smithsonian loot, dissuade the locals from objecting, get the goods across a hostile continent, and off to Kuching, it's the heroes.


Six books new to me: two fantasy, one science fiction, one that seems to be a mix of both, one horror, and one non-fiction.

Books Received, November 1 - November 7

How is it November already?


Poll #33815 Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45


Which of these (mostly upcoming) book look interesting?

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Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
6 (13.3%)

Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison (June 2026)
16 (35.6%)

Letters From an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss (November 2025)
22 (48.9%)

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale (October 2025)
8 (17.8%)

Fallen Gods by Rachel van Dyken (December 2025)
12 (26.7%)

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by Conevery Bolton Valencius (May 2024)
26 (57.8%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.2%)

Cats!
33 (73.3%)

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([personal profile] finch Nov. 7th, 2025 04:04 pm)

I ended up dropping one of my classes this term. It was a social media for business class that I added just because I thought I needed to be half time, but it ended up being an enormous time-suck. Everything had to be done in groups, but my group almost immediately fell to infighting. I got left out of email chains, the professor just told me to "trust my team leader" when I expressed concern that I'd gotten a 0 grade based on what my team leader finalized, and basically life is too short to put up with that.

It was a late drop so I've got to take the W on my paperwork but I am beyond caring.

Meanwhile Bug is getting bullied at school by some of her classmates, but the administration seems to be working hard to fix it so we're just doing our best to support her and give advice and in general like... ugh, tweens. But she also has really good days at school, and doesn't have a ton of friends but has some good ones. I'll probably make a longer post about family stuff behind a lock, if I can get my head straight long enough to put words together.

I just wanted to post something because I haven't in a bit.

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([personal profile] hrj Nov. 7th, 2025 09:19 am)
(No, not a political one.)

Because I've been having a number of different home projects going on lately, I've been answering the phone more often than usual. My normal routine is that if I don't recognize a caller ID, I let it go to voicemail. The fact that 99.99% of such calls don't bother to leave a voicemail tells me I haven't missed anything important.

But when I might be getting a call from my solar contractor, or city inspection, or the refrigerator repair, or that sort of thing, I loosen up to answering anything that doesn't explicitly say "probable spam." So I'm answering a lot of spam/sales calls.

There's this pattern. I say hello. There's a lengthy silence. The person on the other end says hello. Then another lengthy silence. Maybe eventually they say hello again or ask if I'm there.

To expend some of my frustration, I've taken to using the following script during the second lengthy silence.

"Proper phone etiquette is that you state your name, you state the organization you're calling for, you indicate the purpose of your call, then you confirm the identity of the party you're speaking to. Can you do that?"

Sometimes I get the start of their standard script (at which I break in and once again ask for the name of their organization and the purpose of the call). Sometimes they just hang up. Now that I'm not expecting any further business phone calls, I'll try to retrain my reflexes to hit "do not accept" and see if they leave voicemail. But in the mean time I get some small satisfaction in carrying the banner for old-fashioned phone etiquette. (And one of these days I'll spell "etiquette" correctly the first time.)


Discovering what she expected to be a lucrative new job is instead an internship, Ropa Moyo tries to pay her bill by resorting to her avocation of detective.

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu
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([personal profile] elisem Nov. 6th, 2025 04:14 pm)
 At our house, Opportunity Food is defined as what you can make when you can't stand up that long today.

Currently, is Bowl o' Cronch:

take bowl
spread some nut butter on bottom/sides of bowl (note: INsides, not OUTsides) - today is peanut butter
throw some dried fruit at nut butter if you got some - today is raisins and some crystallized ginger 
put in puffed brown rice (or whatever you got)
add milk, or if no milk, a couple really big spoonfuls plain yogurt
anything else you got that seems appetizing
get big spoon
eat
We are still getting through COVID.
We are still resting LIKE POTATOES.
(Still funny. Every time.)

A helpful person pointed out it is still open enrollment time for health insurance.
Well then.

Have inquired with health insurance broker. 
(It doesn't cost anything. If you are in Minnesota or Wisconsin, and need one, I have references.)
There are things that can be done, it looks like.

For right now, though, my tasks:

Wash a few dishes - DONE
Have brekkie - IN PROGRESS
Take meds - IN PROGRESS
Sit Up because it helps breathing - IN PROGRESS

OK. Onward.

P.S. Love all of y'all. You are still the best.
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([personal profile] redbird Nov. 6th, 2025 02:16 pm)
I had my twice-a-year appointment with the neurologist. All the low-tech neurology stuff was fine, with little change from the previous exam. We are reducing my dose of gabapentin, which we talked about last time, and I told him I want to give that a try.
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