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ravena_kade ([personal profile] ravena_kade) wrote2025-08-09 09:14 am

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New TV finally working like a charm. The sound is pretty good too. I found a a music streaming station and I cleaned up the plant mess and broken glass while singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody.. Im such a dork.
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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2025-08-08 11:05 pm

Checking In - 8 August 2025

No visitation today. Got some shopping done, and the map projects have slowed down a bit. One job application filed this afternoon with the feds.

I suppose that's enough for today, right?
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ravena_kade ([personal profile] ravena_kade) wrote2025-08-08 09:09 pm

and they are gone...

So we did go up to Maine to a nature reserve. As expected my sister and I hated for about 2 hours and SIL slept in the car. I suppose it's a nice way to be with my sister.

Thursday I went back to work. I only had 3 days off, but the back up was like I had been out 2 weeks. Very stressful. I started at 5 AM and worked until 4 PM.

We went top the diner place. I was amazed that SIL even ate anything. She is very picky and maybe only liked one meal all week.

For my Birthday Dad bought me a 50 inch streaming TV. I did want one, but not right NOW. He wanted SIL to set it up. The problem is that the old 34 inch tv weighs 218 pounds. I need to get rid of it. Well I was steam rolled over and they wanted to set up the TV last night. I said NO. I was tired and stressed and I had to move things to position the old one and the new. NOPE. They did it anyways...They took my comforter off the bed and laid it in the floor for the new TV. Then while trying to move the 218 point TV my sister fell back knocking over a potted plant/tree I have and kicking all the trinkets I have on the radiator on the floor, coving my bed comforter in wet dirt and broken glass. Grrrrrr...

The TV took a while to hook up to the internet. Not sure why. They left me with the huge cardboard box, styrofoam, dirt and broken glass to clean up.

They left tonight at 6:30. The minute they drove away the TV stopped working. It could not find my wifi even though the 2 lap tops, my phone, and iPad could all find it. It took me 2 hours to get it working. I have an internet booster, but the TV could not find it to connect. I ended up unplugging the booster and plugged it in in the living room...closer to the TV. So far it works. The booster has a red light on it, but it is still working. We shall see what happens tomorrow.

Tomorrow I need to try and get all the crap out of my living room and find homes for everything that is on dining table. Then it's pay all the bills. I also need to mow the lawn and plant the last 4 plants in the yard.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-08 06:21 pm

Sidewise Award Announcement

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee.

This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.

Apply here.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-08 10:22 am
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Five User-Friendly Rulesets for Tabletop Roleplaying Games



Not every gamer finds joy in wildly complicated, esoteric, hard-to-learn rules...

Five User-Friendly Rulesets for Tabletop Roleplaying Games
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-08 09:28 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-07 09:30 pm

The Old World Character Generation

More details later but it seems the group is essentially Don Quixote in the form of a Brettonian knight's bastard who has completely bought into chivalric ideals despite the fact no true knight considers him worthy to have such ideals, and an assortment of hangers-on who see him as a meal ticket.

Which is to say, the group is centred on someone who will seek out adventure.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-07 08:47 am

The Integral Trees (Integral Trees, volume 1) by Larry Niven



Climate change provides a tribal leader a pretext to dispatch his least favourite tribe members on an ill-fated expedition from which none will return.


The Integral Trees (Integral Trees, volume 1) by Larry Niven
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-06 07:02 pm
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-06 02:06 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Fight With Spirit



Fight With Spirit, the sports drama tabletop roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying (Good Society).

Bundle of Holding: Fight With Spirit
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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2025-08-06 01:03 pm

What To Do Next

Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...



I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-06 09:01 am

Blue Eye of Horus, volume 2 by Chie Inudou



With her brother/husband Seti off crushing Egypt's enemies, future Pharaoh Hatshepsut expands her power at home by freeing slaves, alienating priests, and inconveniencing a homicidal concubine. Results are mixed.

Blue Eye of Horus, volume 2 by Chie Inudou