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For my toddler, my mother is Grandma and my mother-in-law is Grammy. In theory, this will make things less confusing, but at the moment, she’s still working out which ending goes with which grandmother. Toddler, seeing Grammy: “Grandma!” Grammy: “No honey, I’m Grammy. Grandma is your mama’s mama.” Toddler, completely unbothered: “Grammy!” Me: “There you […]

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Episode 2715: The Time Travailer

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Episode 2715: The Time Travailer

Calendars can be pretty cool. Nominally, they're just ways of keeping track of days and seasons for planting crops and stuff. But you can add all sorts of weird and mystical things on top.

Months are named after animals. Not so strange... but in this calendar the animals aren't fixed! The month names are chosen differently each year based on what animals are spotted in sacred places.
Travel between specific places only occurs on auspicious days, creating never-ending bottlenecks and traffic jams on those days, while on other days the roads are entirely clear. But woe betide anyone trying to take advantage of the clear roads!
Week lengths are not fixed. A working week may be as short as 3 days or as many as 15, depending on celestial alignments or arbitrary pronouncements of the church (which nobody can figure out ahead of time).
Reverse periods, where time is considered to flow backwards, perhaps in alignment with retrograde motion of a planet in the sky. People are considered to be getting younger during these times. It may even "undo" a birthday that qualifies you for something, such as drinking or voting.
Non-overlapping work schedules for different professions. Farmers work 5 days on and rest 1 day, while merchants work 8 days then rest 2, and scholars and teachers stick to a cycle of 2 days work, a day of rest, 2 more work days, and then 2 days of rest.
Calendar stones or scrolls are traded, each one containing a number of days as its value. You can "use" the days on a scroll as recreation days whenever you wish, but then have to acquire more.
Certain days are treated as entirely blank. No events, no records, no history is allowed. All activity ceases so that nothing can happen. Even the gods obey this, so no disasters occur.

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Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Time shenanigans! And of course it's Galen Erso tech again; nobody else in this universe builds super weapons. Or is Mad enough to mess around with time on their own. And since the characters are standing on the Peace Moon again, we're likely going to have a much better set up than that weird cannon last Episode.

Those calendar counts. I recognize the number for the Great Cycle, but I bet each of those others have some sort of meaning as well. Seventeen different calendars seems a little odd however. Unless one of those includes an external source of measurement, they'd all be affected by any time shifts or stretches, wouldn't they?

Hm. Anyone want to also bet that this might still be the original Peace Moon? I mean, what's easier for a mad scientist; making another of the same thing, or just temporally displacing the original for someone who wants a second copy? It wouldn't be the first time we've had such a short cut taken after all, and shifting something in time probably takes a lot of energy that would violently explode if care isn't taken.

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No Escaping Bad Decisions

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A couple had started their day here not only by not completing the waivers that are legally required, but had us scrambling to find them since they somehow SNUCK INTO THE ESCAPE ROOM via a secondary entrance, which has a big and obvious sign to not use said entrance.

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2025 Disneyland Trip #78 (12/17/25)

Disneyland is still way more crowded than I was anticipating. We got over to the parks around 6:30pm and were planning to get dinner from the Festival of Holidays carts at DCA and assumed it would be less crowded there than at Disneyland, but the lines to get in were really long for some reason. Once we were actually inside it wasn't too bad (still crowded, though), so I guess it was just a case of a lot of people arriving for after work trips at the same time.

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and so the conversation turned, until the sun went down

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12 Days (til) Christmas Day 5

Back to Kirk and Spock again! Told you they’re almost half the list. Advent 2012. The Enterprise crew carry out their mission to investigate weird shit wherever they find it. Guided by a Christmas star (kind of) they stumble on an unexpected birth (kind of). One of my favourite things about writing Trek fic is how weird and unexplainable you can make things (this will come up again later).

Nativus (Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/Spock)
Rated G

‘By the time they reach the surface, it is no longer the barren wasteland the initial scans had indicated. They stand surrounded by vegetation, lush and thick and a shade of green so bright it's almost gold; by the sound of trickling streams and the growing thrum of insect life. The tricorders vibrate with each new discovery as lifesigns appear around them with increasing rapidity, and above them coloured clouds rush through the sky like a gymnastic rainbow.…’

Song: Silent Night (There are of course many versions; this is the absolutely haunting one by Sinead O'Connor.)

Fic rec: Feast of the Unwise Men by Drayton (Oxford Time Travel)
Rated G

Technically this is an Epiphany fic, but since I'm doing pre-Christmas days and not post-Christmas days, here we are. It's about those few days after Dunworthy and Colin retrieve Kivrin from the Black Death, and the fallout - while knowledge of the canon will definitely help here, it's also a fic for anyone who has had to deal with university administrations.

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Daily Happiness

1. Spent most of the work day cleaning up data and while I originally thought it was going to take me a couple days, I actually got the whole file done today, which was nice.

2. We went to Disneyland for dinner. Still way more crowded than I would have thought with so many passholders blocked out, but not quite as bad as last Monday. We did have some really delicious food, though. And we finally managed to get some more of those cranberry orange loaves from Jolly Holiday and brought them home for breakfast tomorrow.

3. Jasper's really loving the warming bed now that it has lost its sides and become a warming cushion. Not sure if it's because of the new shape or because it's on top of a chest rather than on the floor, but he's into it.

Current Mood: silly

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A poll about socks

I have a burning question (that came to me while putting my socks on), so I made a poll.

Feel free to wax poetically about the topic in the comments. What about your characters? Sonny Crockett famously does not wear them. Rico does, but to tell you the truth, I haven't paid them much attention (I'll have to fix that).

Poll #33968 Sock Habits

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Do you have left and right socks?

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Of course! Can't wear socks on the wrong feet!
3 (15.8%)

No, it doesn't matter
15 (78.9%)

I don't wear socks
0 (0.0%)

I refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me, but ticky boxes!
1 (5.3%)

Current Mood: sleepy

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d&d: aurendor

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 12/17 Game

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

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Everything I've previously read by M.T. Anderson emotionally devastated me, so I despite the fact that Nicked was billed as a comedy I went in bravely prepared to be emotionally devastated once again.

This did not happen .... although M.T. Anderson cannot stop himself from wielding a sharp knife on occasion, it it turns out the book is indeed mostly a comedy .....

Nicked is based on a Real Historical Medieval Heist: the city of Bari is plague-ridden, and due to various political pressures the City's powers have decided that the way to resolve this is to steal the bones of St. Nicholas from their home in Myra and bring them to Bari to heal the sick, revive the tourism trade, and generally boost the city's fortunes. The central figures on this quest are Nicephorus, a very nice young monk who had the dubious fortune of receiving a dream about St. Nicholas that might possibly serve as some sort of justification for this endeavor, and Tyun, a professional relic hunter (or con artist? Who Could Say) who is not at really very nice at all but is Very Charismatic And Sexy, which is A Problem for Nicephorus.

The two books that Nicked kept reminding me of, as I read it, were Pratchett's Small Gods and Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland. Both of those books are slightly better books than this, but as both of them are indeed exceptionally good books I don't think it takes too much away from Nicked to say that it's not quite on their level: it's still really very fun! And, unlike in those other somewhat better books, the unlikely companions do indeed get to make out!

I did end it, unsurprisingly, desperately wanting to know more about the sources on which it was based to know what we do know about this Real Historical Medieval Heist, but it turns out they are mostly not translated into English. Foiled again!

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The Secret of Us episode 10:

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What Are You Playing Wednesday

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Current Music: NCIS

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Things I did not need

1. To find out my insurance changed coverage and I owed money on a script (not much, just enough to be annoying AF)

2. That CVS doesn't have my insulin. Again. I know why. They have a fucking dorm fridge to store all insulins, GPL1s and vaccine (plus other meds surely that I don't know but need refrigerated)

3. taking a half hour to get thru the CVS line and the line to the car wash was even longer so I had to skip it (I had a thing I had to get to) which sucks because I was on the ground floor of the parking garage yesterday and the level above me is outside and they salted it and it dripped everywhere.

4. There was an 18 wheeler on its side and I was thinking that is going to take me forever to get home but they did something I've never seen before. About 5 miles north of the accident they put up 'accident head' signs and moved everyone over there and there was no back up.

5. My olive oil brined garlic leaked in the pantry bin. I was digging through to find the food part of my parents' holiday gift and it didn't just leak, it coated everything in at least an inch of oil. It took over an hour to clean off every can and bottle and toss out things in boxes. Ugh. Ruined my clothes in the process.

6. My vascular surgeon never called in my meds.

At least I got the car partially packed. I still have to clean the kitchen in the morning since the damn pantry issue took up too much time.

Still half ready to cry. But I had my writers zoom thingie and I'm 4K into a story.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Death at the Door - paranormal mystery wanted to bitch slap the protagonist

What I am Currently Reading:

To Die Once - a Maisie Dobbs mystery which I haven't read one of these in a while and this is...slow. It's way more about the effect of war on the English people (who were still recovering from WWI) than it's a mystery

Tell Tale Treat - another paranormal mystery with another protagonist ripe for being bitch slapped

What I Plan to Read Next: Poorly Made and Other Things

IDon’t Care

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Me: "Sir, let's just nip this in the bud. I know you're old enough to smoke. No offense, but you look like my grandpa's age, so don't assume I'm an idiot who can't tell that people are over sixty f****** years old. I have to scan IDs for every cigarette purchase, regardless of how old you look."

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DC K.O Round 4: Titans # 30 Swamp Thing Vs Cyborg

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8am and it already feels hot

IDK. I did go outside, checked the chickens food (bother, just realised I didn't check their water).

Temps are supposed to be 30+ today and the next few days, alas, before cooling down on Christmas Day. By which we mean "mid-20s".

CRIPES. It's a week to Christmas.

My mother wants us to go over on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day. *sigh* I just don't want to do "Christmas Day", and then "Christmas Day But With The Stepbro's Family".

I don't seem to have gotten COVID - still testing clear, just feeling generally tired.

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It's six hours later and it's crazy hot out there.

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Cloud Carpets

Last week while taking out the trash, I noticed that the clouds were low in the sky and really thick and ropey, like a plush carpet. Hurried home to grab the camera as sunset was coming soon and I wanted to be sure I caught the look.

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Coldplay tribute for Dick Van Dyke

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book: the expanse

If there's one thing I learned from finishing The Expanse novels

I was right to say I do not understand one goddamn thing that happens in Amos Burton's head when I asked for him for Yuletide.

I don't know that I have the Chrisjen Avasarala/Bobbie Draper series of my heart in my fingers, but I will be over here shippin' it like whoa.

Overall, they were a lovely ride. The audiobook reader learned to pronounce gimbals very late in the canon, and got the stress pattern wrong in Avasarala, but was quite good at voice distinction, and definitely didn't do the All Women are Falsetto crap.

Flirting With Disaster, Part 5

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harassment

I'm a young woman, working nights, stacking food onto a cart so I can stock. A guy comes up to me.
Customer: "What's your name?"
I told him since it's clearly visible on my name tag (and because I'm young and dumb at the time).
Customer: "Hi, [My Name]. Do you want me to be your man?"

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