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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-06 02:30 am

Graaaaah

So we FINALLY heard back from the window people. Our windows are currently scheduled for the 19th... OF JANUARY. :|

So we've got PLENTY of time to get things organised, but wow it would have been nice to not have to rush as much as I did! It is in fact a lot more annoying to go through things now that they're moved rather than as part of the moving process! SIGH.

Still, today I got rid of a bunch more old paperwork, so that's something! The sensitive information has been torn up and put in the chook coop, which is gonna destroy it WAY quicker than waiting for room in the compost bin. Pretty pleased I thought of that!

Tomorrow, I think, I'll pick up my knitting, and-or the jigglypuff. Weather's warm enough that I don't want to pick up the blanket again right now, I'mma need it soon. Probably. Though maybe I should start it, so that I can summon the nice weather... We'll see how it goes, anyway. Definitely need to take a break from sorting things, and coincidentally I'm done with the hanging files (at least for now), so yeah, making stuff!

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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-05 02:57 am

Sorting continues...

So, Mama and I worked on the chook shed thing this morning, until Mama Needed a break (she got lightheaded, I suspect because she'd also mown the lawn this morning and only had some toast), and it's... getting there? We attached the last pole and put the door hinges on! Maybe we'll finish some time this year!

I also went through more of my stuff and got rid of some more things! Lots of HS-era stuff. Also sorted some more stuff into art binders, so I'm able to get rid of two hanging files in my one hanging file drawer, which is nice! Not that they were big ones, but still. Progress! (The biggest one at the moment is manuals/warranties, which is uh. Well. I HAVE gone through it and done a cursory search, and I DID throw some stuff out, but... Probably need to do a more involved one at some point. A lot of it's manuals for stuff I still use though, so it's not a high priority.)

Anyway, probably back to the hanging files tomorrow, I just kinda ran out of brain. So many decisions!!! Did some colouring in after that, and then Terraria this evening, where I'm just building minecarts across the map and that kind of extremely simple work, which is good when out of cheese error. Yes.

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malurette ([personal profile] malurette) wrote2025-12-04 09:08 am

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oops teacher isn't here this morning
well it gives me time to look for a work placement (bleh)

now fingers crossed, i have an appointment this afternoon to get my eyebrow re-pierced?

do i have fun news other than that...
oh right last monday at the drawing session at least three other friends and i brought our new copies of the newest issue of a local magazine so the author could sign them
and i met a member of a Dumas aficionados club
he had a couple of fanzines with him so i asked about them
he said he could brought more next week for me to buy?
then improvised a manifesto about what adaptations of Les trois mousquetaires watch or not
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-12-03 07:43 pm
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Final Projects Progress Report

Intro to Human Services:
Interview with a Human Services professional: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Friday, Dec 5: Not started
Personal mission statement, due Friday, Dec 12: Not started

Social Problems:
Research a particular topic as a social problem: Done
Do a creative project based on your research: Mostly done, needs touch-ups
Write a paper about your research topic and your creative project: Not started (has a very detailed template I can probably just fill out as the paper)

Ceramics:
Interview with a living ceramicist: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Sunday, Dec 7: Mostly done Done!
PowerPoint Presentation on interviewed ceramicist, due Sunday, Dec 7: Not started

I'm going to try and get the one interview reflection done tonight, and then take a break. (I'd aim for both, but they're both minimum two pages, and I'm not sure I have enough juice for that.) I want to go ahead and make the Paid Time for Mood Themes announcement on [community profile] moodthemeinayear, but alas, I must use my brain power for this, instead đŸ˜©


Edit: First reflection paper is done! Time to dig out my notes from the other interview and contemplate at least starting the second one.

Edit 2: Intro to HS reflection paper started, basics of getting paid time for mood theme completion posted to [community profile] moodthemeinayear 👍
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malurette ([personal profile] malurette) wrote2025-12-03 05:54 pm
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[livre] Trois petits dragons

Titre : Trois petits dragons
Auteure : Yue Zhang
Langue : tranduction française du chinois
Type : album jeunesse
Genre : mimi

1Ăšre parution : 2023
Édition : LĂ©cole des loisirs
Format :

(croisé à la librairie de chez mes parents l'an passé ; ça avait l'air mimi)

Trois petits dragons qui vont Ă  l'Ă©cole de la mĂ©tĂ©o ne font que des bĂȘtises et se retrouvent sur Terre sous la pluie qu'ils ont causĂ©e. Ils vont devoir apprendre de leurs erreurs et les rĂ©parer...

Aww c'est tout mimi !!

Very cute children's books about three weather-making little dragons mucking it up and having to fix it.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] girlgenius_lair2025-12-03 11:18 am

Wednesday's Comic

GEET HIM!

Bang drew a reaction. But then she had a reaction of her own.
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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-04 02:37 am

Summer!!!

Today was actually nice and warm and summery! I mean it's only the third of December it's not like that's late, it's just been so cold for this time of year that it's really! Really! Really nice. :3 I've been in short sleeves and three-quarter pants all day and haven't even needed my blanket!

Today I attempted to sort through my old stamp collection so I can get rid of it, since I haven't looked at it for at least twenty five years, but Mama did some research and it looks like some of them might actually be worth something - not a lot, but enough that selling them wouldn't be a waste of time. Soooo gonna have to go through them again and actually do research this time nooooo it's gonna take FOREVER. Still, at least I did part of it, and most of the international ones (maybe all of them but I'm not gonna bet I didn't miss any) are separate, and... bleh. I'm gonna end up hyperfixating if I work on it too much I know myself it was already a struggle to not go through things and try and fill out the stamp album. SIGH.

I did get rid of some other stuff, too, so at least my tidying up project got somewhere today. A very slow process, but it's something.

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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-03 03:09 am

Terraria Day!

Yup, another multiplayer Terraria game today, was very fun! I died SO MANY TIMES, but in my defence exactly zero of them were from lava, and I was. You know. Submerged. I just think it's super unfair for enemies to drop down on you when you're already in lava. :/

Other than that... Sibling was over, helping my father with some stuff. Went for a walk with Mama. Did this month's jobsearch paperwork. We still haven't heard anything about the windows...

Anyway, somehow it got late, so now I'mma go nap yesss.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] girlgenius_lair2025-12-01 06:25 pm

Monday's Comic

Klaus, pay ATTENTION!

And Bang fulfills predictions gloriously.
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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-02 02:56 am

Sorting!!!

Went through a bunch of old high school stuff today. I got rid of some of it! That's something! Find it difficult to get rid of actual creative writing stuff, even if I also can't fucking read it because cringe factor. Let's just say there were a LOT of exclamation points in some of the stuff I skimmed and leave it at that... >>;;;

Still, I was able to shove stuff into one folder instead of the two it was inexplicably in - maybe it'd be too thick for everything that was in there? But it's fine now, so. :3

Many, MANY more things need to be gone through, of course; I'm going to try and continue to do them while we don't have word about the goddamn windows. This waiting in suspense thing is really annoying! But also it's December, somehow, so I need to start thinking about Christmas stuff, and if I'm going to make any presents. Probably not? Maybe something for A, but I can't think of what. I also can't think of what for like. Anyone but Mama, who told me she'd like a calendar. (I have checked the cool shop's online page and none of the calendars currently there are suitable for Mama. Alas.)

Anyway, that's all stuff to worry about tomorrow, right now is for going to bed. If. You know. I can make myself disturb the cat on my lap... (Tortilla is VERY cuddly tonight!)

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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-11-30 06:53 pm
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Incoherent keysmash goes here

Ah. So. Um.

I have just been officially gifted a whoooole bunch of Dreamwidth points to reward as I see fit to participants at [community profile] moodthemeinayear, just to encourage more creativity and participation and stuff. With instructions to ask for more if I run out, and also to encourage anyone who makes a qualifying mood theme to consider submitting it to be site-supported. (And also I'm maybe being informally recruited to be the/an official Dreamwidth mood theme uploader person???)

I need. To take some time to think about how I would award these points.

(Initial idea: One month of paid time for anyone who completes just the Minimum Track, three months for anyone who completes the Medium Track, and one year for anyone who completes the Maximum Track, but like. Given that the community is supposed to be low-stress and low-pressure and allow participants to drift in and out, maybe I should instead do "One month of paid time for each Part/eighteen moods completed"? And then throw in some bonus paid time for anyone who completes the Maximum Track and/or submits a mood theme to be site-supported? Hrrrmmmmm...)
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-11-30 12:20 pm
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Cloudy Daze Mood Theme

Dunno when I'll be able to submit it for consideration as an official mood theme, but in the mean time, here's a preview: 117 Cloud Moods )

Anyway, if you want to get a jump on things, here's a downloadable .zip of all of the above moods, plus a super secret alternate version of Quixotic!
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Tyger ([personal profile] tyger) wrote2025-12-01 04:10 am

Sorting is very brain draining...

Today I didn't move anything, really, but I DID go through a lot of flat-storage stuff! Moved a lot of prints around so they're better organised/protected, got rid of some things (mostly old calendars), and while I don't have anything really FIXED for some of the problem stuff at least it's neater. It's a start!

That did eat a LOT of brain, though, so I'm glad I didn't have any furniture moving I had to get done today. We still haven't heard from the window people, so still in limbo about that. :/ Tomorrow will involve moving things no matter what, though, just not my stuff - I'll need to help Mama out with putting things on the nature strip for hard rubbish collection. Zero chance of my father doing it, as he has a colonoscopy in the morning. (I'm glad to be on the moving things side of this equation, ngl...)

Other than that, played some multiplayer Terraria again! :D Which was very fun. And I also played a bunch on my solo world; lots of hell landscaping. Should really do more fishing down there, I still need an endless lava bucket... It would be easier to just use a lava sponge to get rid of lava pools in the lower caverns, rather than drain it down into hell, after all, even if it is a useful mapping activity as well... Will have to think about it.

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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2025-11-30 02:42 am

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-11-29 08:25 pm
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Social Problems Projects

For our final project in Social Problems, we have to pick something we think is a social problem, find research on it, then turn our findings into a creative project with accompanying one-page paper.

Luckily, the paper has a very thorough template where pretty much all I'll need to do is write one sentence per prompt and I'll be done; I think I've done okay with picking my problem and doing my research, so now what I need to do is to turn said problem into a creative project.

The problem I've chosen is infosec/(lack of) privacy in the age of Big AI; I think I'm going to make a board game about the dangers of not having secure information?

I'm planning to go very simple: A space-by-space game board (think Candyland), and movement by D6. Part of me really, really wants to go over-the-top and come up with a token system (when you land on a marked space, you draw a card, and based on that card you either pay or receive a Privacy Token; the goal would be to make it to the end of the path with the most tokens, and if you lose all of them, you're out of the game), but that's probably too ambitious for right now.

Honestly, I'll take something closer to a Snakes and Ladders approach, where landing on a marked card has you moving forward or backwards extra spaces depending on whether the space has good or bad infosec practices. I may still need to look up some game theory to figure out how often I should place which spaces, but it's much less than if I go with the cards-and-tokens route. Probably less fun as well, but this isn't exactly the only final project I have to do this semester...

Anyway! Time to come up with a list of good and bad infosec practices and think about where they'd need to appear on a board game!