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Apr 15 - experimented with photographing one of the oversized photo albums. Results unsatisfactory; problems with the shadow of my hands and phone, or glare from lights reflecting off the photos. Tried having album propped up at an angle to hopefully solve those and it's too unwieldy for that to work either. Need to find a location where it can lie flat better with indirect diffuse lighting or something. Cut day short and added some more ebooks to my library as a break from all the scanning.

Nephew made a chicken and spinach orzo with pesto dish for supper; tasty!

#Thing A Day #April 2024 #Apr 15

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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

#Polls #US States #Very few and only very briefly #I went to California several times for GDC #I've had plane layovers in Colorado (on the way to California) #And Florida (on the way to Jamaica) #Both of which are only 'visits' in the most technical sense #I went cross-border shopping down to New York once #And I know my parents once took us kids on a road trip that went briefly down into the states somewhere around the Great Lakes #Though I have no real memory of it nor could I say which state(s) #Sadly I've still been to more US states than Canadian provinces or territories #(I don't travel much and mostly just within Ontario)

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#Polls #Pillows #It depends on how you count them #Under my head? 2 #Plus two to the side since it's a queen width bed #Also a leg elevation pillow to reduce daily swelling of my bad foot #And since I am TALL an additional two pillows beyond that to support my calf and/or foot #Also sometimes decorative throw pillows are on the bed #So as many as 10 pillows are on the bed when I am sleeping

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Apr 13 - Yet More Scanning (of course). Just one album today, it was one of those fairly old ones fastened together with what was basically a shoelace and long interlocking grommets at one end, so I unfastened it to making scanning simpler, and then had to reassemble it afterwards. Nephew out again, I had a small pizza for supper.

Apr 14 - Another laced-up album to take apart and scan and reassemble. Then the loose photos from inside two albums that are both too large to fit in my scanner, so I'll need to photograph their pages another day. And then a small cardboard box of random photos, documents, negatives, and what turned out to be a small stack of handwritten recipes, probably from some time in the late 40s through early 60s as one of them was for a jellied salad. It was based on minced cooked beets, diced apple, celery, and green peas in lemon jello seasoned with salt, cayenne pepper, and vinegar, and with some of the water replaced with salad cream. *Shudders*

Nephew made a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and steamed mixed veg for supper.

#Thing A Day #April 2024 #Apr 13 #Apr 14

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I mean... I don't tend to count anything that isn't from the modern fandom traditions. But if we're stretching the point, then yes, it's based on an existing tale. I think almost all of Shakespeare's plays are.

From Wikipedia:

The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello and translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, in particular Mercutio and Paris.

#Writing #Fanfiction #Glossing #Copyright #Plagiarism

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remember when you could say stuff like “the earth is round” or “nazis are bad” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

#I wish all or any of the above had ever been true #But sadly not #The flat-earthers and the fascists and people who see other people as things instead of people and the anti-vaxxers #(Or their equivalents) #Have always been among us #People have always been people #Which includes being stupid and being cruel and being so fanatical about something #That they do stupid and cruel and horrifying things #There have always been people who disbelieved whatever current best evidence-based guesses said about the nature of reality #There have always been people who cared more about personal power profit and comfort than other people deserving to also live good lives #There have always been people who scorned medicine in favour of faith (in religion or nebulous forces or some terrible conspiracy) #There has NEVER been a time when you could say something sensible or obvious or logical or with great mounds of proof #Or say something boneheaded or obviously incorrect or illogical or with zero proof #And have anything even close to total agreement on which category the statement fell into #People have always been people and you have to live and work within that framework

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The spooky season has begun.

#The Untamed #Wei Ying

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#The Untamed #Jiang Cheng

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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

#Tumblr #Sounds about right

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Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!

#Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

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Happy Holidays to all who celebrate 🧡💛💚💙💜

#Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

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Happy April 13th.

#Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

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Neil banging out tunes time :)

#Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

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They’re banging out the tunes!!!

#Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!

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Apr 10 - started in on doing more photo scanning (which is what I'm down here for). Got a small album and two big binders gone through. Nephew made cheesy pork enchiladas for supper, which we had topped with salsa and sour cream.

Apr 11 - scanned a big scrapbook of a road trip the BIL took as a kid with his family down into Maine and Vermont. Had fun looking up some of the places they visited to see if they still existed, like Animal Forest Park, and the Rockmere B&B. Also scanned a wedding album that seems to be of the BIL's paternal grandparents, from just after the start of the 1900s, and included things like newspaper clippings about the marriages of their own eventual children, and the golden wedding anniversary of the groom's parents. So fairly valuable from a genealogical perspective.

Nephew made a big salad for supper, with haddock fillets and toasted almonds for protein.

Apr 12 - slow day, didn't get much done until late in the day, when I spent time removing photos from several foam core panels so that I could scan them. Nephew was out this evening so it was just me for supper. Had overdone snacking earlier in the day so just had a Jamaican beef pattie and later an ice cream bar (which I'm trying to convince myself is dairy and protein, but I'm not really buying it).

#Thing A Day #April 2024 #Apr 10 #Apr 11 #Apr 12

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I am glad that bee hummingbirds hatch nests of eggs each smaller than a pea. I am glad that there are oceans two miles deep where fishes unknown to science glow like fireflies.

I am glad that the crumbs taken from my bedroom are returned to tiny cities built by ants, and that the thunder of the storms rolling in from the north trembles in my chest when it is still a ways off. Hello, says the world, you are so little. Hello, says the world, you are so big.

#Always worth a reblog #Oh look there''s art now #That's lovely

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For reference mine was I was so mad at the canon ending for my favourite character in an otome game that I wrote fanfic to fix it

#Polls #Writing Fanfic #Other people on the forum I was on were doing it #And it sounded like it could be fun to try #(Cue over a decade of writing a couple million words)