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This week's questions were suggested by

silent_r_infork.

1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?

2. What disease are you afraid of getting?

3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?

4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?

5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?

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Current Location: College Park
Current Music: Considering Matthew Shepard

redbird

I went to the Brookline (Coolidge Corner) farmers market this afternoon. I bought the two things I was specifically looking for--lamb merguez sausages, from Stillman's, and raspberries. When I was buying the sausages, I told the vendor that I'd asked for this kind of sausage a couple of weeks ago, at a different farmers market, and thanked him (them) for making that specific flavor of sausage.

One small box of raspberries, because we've had bad luck this summer with over-buying berries, and not eating all of them before them spoiled. I also bought two small cucumbers, and a baguette, even though it's not good baguette weather, because we like Clear Flour bakery's "ancienne" baguettes.

I stopped at Burdick's and got a cup of dark hot chocolate to take out, because it's unseasonably cool and felt like good weather for sitting outside with a hot drink. I didn't buy anything else there, because the chocolate-covered citrus has suffered from shrinkflation: Burdicks is charging almost twice as much as they did a few years ago, for about half as much candy.

The Dean Road station on green line C station isn't far, but it's enough of a hill to be good exercise: I walk quickly on my way to the T unless I make an effort not to, and then the walk back is uphill all the way.

I realized, after posting this but before dinner, that I overdid things and was out of executive function.

liadethornegge

Last night I finished weaving the last bit of white wool for dye stuff.

from my 12 meter warp I got three lengths, 1m, 4m and 6.3m. The last piece, that I finished last night, starts off with 3.5m tabby and the remaining 2.8 m is twill.

These measurements are all under tension in the loom, I've not yet measured them up off the loom.

Tomorrow we are heading ott to my apprentice, Cristina Stolte, to dye these pieces of cloth. I already handed over the grey wool cloth I wove to her. I brought it with me for the event Cow Hunt, so she could mordant that in advance of our dyeing weekend - maybe save some time on the day.

Due to having to cut down and re-tension twice, I had exactly the right amount of yarn for this whole project as well. I put the last bobbin in my shuttle, was able to advance my warp once more, and when the last pick of weft went in, I could basically not get another good shed.

I am usually pretty good about leaving very short thrumms, and this was no different. The difference was, I have not even one extra bobbin of thread left over, the thrums are minimal, everything is used up in the fabric I produced, which is amazing.

I love being efficient with my resources, because it feels like I have gotten maximal use out of them. It also seems like a period appropriate way to use your resources. Everything that does not get used in an end product is many hours of wasted work.

Anyway - there's plenty of posts about this white cloth up on my instagram, up to and including rolling off the last piece from the cloth beam.

conuly

"Why work here?"

"Weekly pay!"

Yup, that's why I would like to apply for any and all jobs!

(On a side note, A has been sending me a lot of job links today. I'm a bit inundated, but I somehow don't think that "Great, please don't send them to me, just fill them out with my resume for me" is going to go over very well.)

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redbird

I talked to someone at Amalgamated Bank this morning, who told me what I would need to do to take my mother's name off a joint account, then suggested that I set up online banking and then transfer the money to my account at another bank. Setting up online banking on their website was straightforward, and then it popped up a verification step involving sending a text to a cell phone associated with the account. Entirely reasonable, but my phone number isn't on the account.

I called back, and talked to another helpful person. She told me how to add the number: send her an email with "attn: Cheryl" as the subject line, giving them my current phone number and attaching a copy of my ID. I did that, and got an "undeliverable" message from Postmaster@[bank], saying I wasn't authorized to relay messages through the server. So I called back, again, and spoke to someone who told me that oh, yes, it does that, but it does deliver the messages. I got her to check, and they had received my email, but Why?

This still feels like significantly less hassle than sending them a copy of my ID, and an original death certificate. That has to be done by paper mail, not email, because they want an "original" death certificate, which she promised they'd return. (At the moment, those originals are in either New Orleans or London, I'm in Boston, and my brother is on vacation in Ireland.)

conuly

Asked where I lived, was concerned that the answer is "Staten Island". FFS, it's not Siberia!

I need to start telling people I'm moving in with a friend in Tribeca. Just straight up lie.

loup_noir

After spending so much time on the floor for my back, I made a decision: it was time to get a gardener. Simple, right? However, finding someone to do any sort of work here is an exercise in frustration. It took time and a couple of false starts, but someone else is weed-whacking the road this year. I'm still doing a lot of the weeding and pruning, which is much easier work on cranky back.

Tomorrow is my last day of weeding for a week. We're running the bar at the local volunteer fire department's barbeque this weekend, which translates to moving both commercial and homebrew kegs around. While the WBH is puzzling together his various lines to the kegs and CO2 bottles, I get to move umpteen boxes of beer glasses and wine cups from the container to where we serve. After set-up, it'll be beer, beer, cider, and more beer for five hours. I'd much rather pour beer than deal with people. Our locals are nice, but I can only handle so much dithering and enforced chitchat.

Media consumption: the newest Longmire (gets a strong B grade) and Squid Games (gets a C-, mostly for the final episode).

madbaker

This week and last I have been missing the early bus by 30 seconds or less - I am up the street from the bus stop as it pulls away. Most of those times I might have made it had I jogged quickly or dashed, but I have not wanted to.

This morning I made a specific effort to get up 5 minutes early. I made sure I would get out the door a couple minutes earlier. Aaaaand... the early bus was 5 minutes late.

Current Mood: sleepy

conuly

Just went through the website and applied to everything I meet the minimum qualifications for, for what good it may do.

They could, in theory, save my information from one application to the next. They don't do that. They could also not require me to answer "where did you hear about this?" every time - but the joke's on them. "I went to your website and clicked on every job where I meet the minimum qualifications" is not an option, so I've just been lying and saying "hiring event" because that's the first choice. They will get no useful data from me, no thank you!

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conuly

( Cut for being perhaps a bit insensitive or factually wrong )

Also, two links where you can donate.

conuly

is the constant whiplash between panic and popcorn.

Right now I'm hovering over "popcorn" - new political parties? With added drama and infighting? LOL, okay, let's see how that works out for you!

(Look, I need a break from panic now and again, and I will take my fun where it appears.)

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unicornduke

Hey all, if you'd like to join the crafting hangout, it is tonight from 6-8pm ET!

Video encouraged but not required!

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unicornduke

when I was working at my previous job, I had been worried I had lost my work ethic, I didn't like working long hours and I didn't really feel motivated or like I was working that hard.

good news is that I was wrong. I do still have a work ethic and can work hard. bad news is that I'm working very hard.

today is technically my day off, we aren't open, we don't have groups out, we don't have workers so we can really be off work. I sprayed weeds in the blueberries all this morning with the backpack sprayer which is sweaty irritating work. I have to walk up and down each row of blueberries on both sides and carefully spot spray each weed (horsenettles were the big one to hit right now, but milkweed, knotweed, bindweed, ground elder are also big). the perennials are hard to get when we're open for customers because of re-entry intervals, so we're closed tomorrow too.

Then I went down to the creek, took some lunch and sat in the water for an hour. read a book. enjoyed the cool

We got a lot of stuff done this past week and had an enjoyable family party where I stayed up until midnight around the campfire chatting with my cousin, my gay cousin, gousin who is a delight and also a soil scientist. good stuff. also got some vegetables planted in extra plastic we laid for squash, so I'm pleased I'll have some stuff. I will plant some more things since there's still another 100 feet open.

I'm spending this afternoon goofing off and doing fun stuff, then groceries first thing tomorrow then back to work work. Thursday night, I have dinner planned with a friend.

Before we get wildly busy with fall stuff, I want to take a trip away, maybe late august when everyone will be getting back to school. I'm thinking somewhere cooler, like the adirondacks or maine or something. maybe see if my sister wants to come along. This needs to be planned between my parents hopefully going somewhere and the open house they're going to have with the event business. As I checked my calendar, it looks like there's an SCA event I wanted to go to late in August, so maybe I'll roll that in somehow. Might be the wrong direction but worth a look.

adrian_turtle

I will be in London next week, July 14 to July 20, with Redbird and Cattitude. Might any of you fine people be interested in getting together there? We are covid-cautious in the sense of masks or outdoors, and of course we'll mask outdoors if anyone else wants. We will have a garden in Finchley and I hear tell there are other pleasant outdoor spaces in London.

I'd also be delighted to hear of interesting places one might look at. Especially ones that don't require too much walking. I'd love to see Kew Gardens, but there are joint limitations to be considered.

madbaker

This week's Resolution Recipe: Rillettes... For Science!
I thought I had made this recipe before, but if so I can't find it. So I'm treating it as new.
"It gets right to the heart of what's good: pork, pork fat, salt, pepper, and time."
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Current Mood: artistic

conuly

Eirenicon: A proposal to resolve disputes and reconcile differences in order to advance peace, strengthen or establish unity, or foster solidarity.

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redbird

Sometime in the last couple of months, someone posted a link to a site that had interesting looking shirts made of linen, for lower prices than most places charge. I forgot to bookmark it. Can anyone point me to it? or to something else that fits that description, even if you didn't see it here?

Edited to add: A the shirts were less expensive than I expected, which is a large part of why I'm interested. Those may have been sale prices, I don't remember.

Also, the were made of either linen or a linen blend, not "line".

conuly

Holy fuck that’s awful :(

conuly

( Though, upon reflection, it's surprising that this hasn't happened before in 30+ years of menstruation )

I'd say that was the worst thing to happen this weekend, but then I glanced at the news, and how do things keep getting worse? I thought we might at least get a reprieve over the holiday weekend, Congress would all go on vacation and not pass any terrible bills in the interim, but I guess not.

I'm not linking to it, not today. I know how to take a break, even if they don't. Take this article on amenorrhea instead.

carrot_khan

Before the troop had shown me the door, I texted a co-worker at the shop about "so...who would I talk to about this?" and she pointed me to one of the guys in the back office. I talked to him yesterday and he was quite anxious and not sure how to help me. I get it. At the end of the day, they're corporate guys and their job is to protect the corporation.

Honestly, no matter how much Dennis tells me this is law suit material, what would I even sue for?

But, I gave him the specs. Gave him a copy of the letter I got - that was the only documentation that existed for this whole sordid affair and then brought up the lack of leadership that's causing the kids to suffer. That, I think, might be the only actionable thing that they might be able to do? I also told said co-worker, look, I already made the decision to leave before they called me, and I'm willing to take the leadership training again, but Sera deserves credit for her work. I think he was relieved we were going to stay in scouting and directed me at a troop out in Barrington. Why he didn't direct me at Cate's troop here in Elgin, I don't know, but Jimm says that's indicative of how little council is actually helping scouts in our area.

Imagine my surprise when I get a phone call and I only half-recognize the last name on the caller ID. Oh shit, its the council president. I mean, yeah, co-worker in a way - I just sewed all the patches on his new uniform shirt in time for a big Scout Corporate Presentation(tm), but not like we hob nob in the hallways or anything.

But I guess the report had gotten to him and he was calling to get more details and to make sure Sera was okay. That was touching - even if in a cynical moment you have to accept that maybe that was emotional staging. And, despite Cynical Husband reminding me that his first priority is to protect Scouts, not the troop and not me/Sera, I don't know that the Council President is normally calling parents of any scout that got sent home from camp, accusations of "self harm" or not. So I clarified that for him - "Wishing I was dead" might be splitting hairs on "I'm actively planning on hurting myself/others" - and the year long isolating and bullying that's been going on, the fact I've not been read into any of it or included in any sort of plan to help.

Then I detailed for him the lack of leadership and Lord of the Flies scenarios that were going on. Mr. President says he's well acquainted with the leadership of that troop and will talk to them - Anonymously of course - but not like they couldn't figure out who the fuck he's talking about. Some of that old guard are the same ones that dismissed my concerns with the kids floundering with "this troop is Scout Led". Scout led is all well and good, Mr. President, but when you have whole patrols who have been in three years and none of them are first class yet, they're not being mentored.

He assured me my training will be signed off on and so will Sera's badges and I told him we were thinking of going to Cate's troop - I've known her from way back and she was connected to Troop 2 where both my boys Eagled out of (I was very deliberate in mentioning that, letting him know I'm not just some flash in the pan parent, I've been Scouting for a while and am committed) and feel she probably runs a tighter ship. He agreed, also knowing Cate for forever (her dad founded Troop 2 and Cate's gotta be getting close to 90).

So, I don't think much will come of it - but I feel better knowing that Sera will get her badges signed off on and it was my big middle finger to Beverly to have her sign off on my training, so maybe I got at least that much. The biggest problem children in that troop are probably only there for four more years max, and it makes me wonder how bad it'll get if they fall into classic bullying where they'll just find a new target to pick on or if Sera was indeed the catalyst that created the storm. I wonder how many parents will be frustrated or just resignedly accept that its basically a social club and unless the kid is Driven Type A, they'll be lucky to age out at First Class. Part of me wants to watch it explode, horribly. But that would be unfair to the kids that are innocent bystanders to the drama.

I don't think this makes Sera feel any better - the way she described it, it sounds like that last fight you have with a significant other where you're sad its over, you miss them terribly, but at the same time there's a sense of relief that you don't have to do that any more. I think we'll take off the rest of July - part for her mental health, part for my mental health, part for scheduling - and see if Cate can give us a Scouting home.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: dining room table
Current Music: a/c humming

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The Friday Five for 11 July 2025

farmers market

Second dye stuff finished

Points for honesty in this job description....

new horizons in stupid error messages

Got a callback

(no subject)

Naturally

I've applied to a bunch of NYC government jobs today

I'm feeling slightly judgmental on the Texas flooding and I don't know if my judgment is merited

The absolute worst thing about the state of the world

ack, sorry I forgot to post

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Anyone in London?

Rillette, rhymes with Collette

Oh, I like this word!

looking for a link/website

When I made my previous post I hadn’t heard about the flooding

Well, that was unexpected and unpleasant

Throw it up the chain

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