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扶, to support; 批, to criticize; 找, to look for ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

词汇
抽, to pick out; 抽奖, lottery; 抽烟, smoking ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
我先扶你回去来, I'll help you get home
抽时间去看一下你的父亲, make some time to go and see your father

Me:
如果找不到的话，买新一个就好。
她讨厌抽烟的男人。

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362/365: Bewdley Medical Centre
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I had to go to the medical centre for a routine blood test and quick check-up today. Happily the weather was much better than yesterday, so I didn't get drenched on the walk into town. It was all very quick as there were only about three people in the waiting room. Still, it gave me something to take a photo of! This is the main entrance. I've almost never been upstairs, as all the services I need are provided on the ground floor. In a very civilised touch, there's an indoor passage from the waiting room through to the public library off to the right.

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soc_puppet

I don't seem to have made a list of my acquisitions this year for either my birthday or Xmas! ...Perhaps it's because I was so spectacularly underwhelmed 😓

One cool thing that I got was a gift card for a month's full membership at a local, uh. Fabrication place?

Right. So. You know how a bunch of crafts can require specific, really complicated and expensive machinery that a given person may not have the room or money to buy for themselves? Well, this facility is dedicated to housing a lot of that machinery for use by local crafters. Things like woodworking stuff, sewing machines, ceramics wheels and a kiln, a 3D printer, etc.

Anyway, I finally got around to activating my membership and signing up for classes, and my first class is tonight! I wanted to take the ceramics intro class (required to use the ceramics space), but those have been booked up for a while, so I've been out of luck. I did at least find some classes that interest me, and I look forward to learning more stuff for when I might extend my membership in the future.

First class: "Basic Jewelry Hand Tools"
Upcoming classes: "Basic 3D Printing", "Basic Cricut", "Basic Electronics", and "Basic Sewing Machines".

Current Mood: creative

ranunculus

Eating with allergies.

( Not very interesting details. )

sovay

In the midst of this week, we are in a block of doctor's appointments, but following this afternoon's I climbed up to the railings behind the Salem Street Burying Ground and hung over them with my camera, an operation which still put me in snow to mid-calf. Its winter-drifted gravestones date from the late seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries, with one modern interpolation for the unmarked, enslaved dead. I should go back for their slate-carved winged skulls in spring.

The current sunset is one of those violet riots, but at the time of this photo, the clouds above the fan of trees were just starting to flush gilt-grey. That attenuated stretch of the Mystic that always looks more like an industrial canal than a river was a glaucous freeze at its margins and flat-skimmed snow down its center. I cannot believe I never encountered Socalled's Ghettoblaster (2006) until its twentieth anniversary. Then again, only forty years after the fact did it occur to me that I would have accepted The Last Battle (1956) much more readily if Lewis had made it Ragnarök instead of Revelations.

Current Music: Mitski, "Where's My Phone?"

flemmings

Didn't want to get up this morning. Bed so warm, world so cold. Checked my phone in bed and saw 47 has taken to wearing a glove on his left hand to hide the bruising, like Cosmo Gilt. Yeah, could be because of aspirin use-- I used to get amazing bruises back in my aspirin and codeine days-- but someone cheerfully remarked that the Queen had a similar bruise on her hand when greeting Lettuce Liz, and two days later she was dead. Of course if he's taking aspirin he's less likely to have a stroke, which is unfortunate, but maybe the Big Macs will do for his heart.

Is still freezing out because wind chill. Went out and scraped packed snow off front walkway and a bit of the sidewalk, but there's ice underneath. It comes up if you hack at the right angle but that irritates my touchy neck vertebrae so I couldn't finish. Removed a bit of the snow mountain in front of the bins and the gas meter. Bins aren't going out any time soon and new company is making noises about not taking bagged recycling like the city used to, but the gas reader is coming next week. Mind, the gas co. should just do another estimate this month and cut their losses.

Reading is still Dr. Siri but I wanted a break and some easily understood classical English mystery, so I got a .99 special (and why doesn't this keyboard have a cents sign? I can have £ and € and ¥, but cents, no.) It was very silly and I deleted it from my account so I don't even know what it was called. Then had recourse to a Dr. Priestley, but Rhode has a verbal tick that increasingly grates. Whenever a witness is asked about an event, the answer begins with either 'I'll tell you how it was' or 'It was like this.' Ah well. Back to Dr. Siri.

Dead tree is Flora's Fury to get it off the shelf. I should read at least Flora's Dare to refresh the memory, but Libby doesn't have it and it's non-circulating at the library. Still, the world building is a lot of fun and I'm enjoying it.

ysabetwordsmith

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.

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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

https://xkcd.com/3200/

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and cold, but less frigid than yesterday.

I fed the birds. I refilled the suet feeder. I've seen a flock of sparrows, two starlings, a mourning dove, and a fox squirrel at the corncob.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/28/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/28/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I refilled the hopper feeder.

I've seen a male cardinal and a wren.

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twistedchick

We got 6-8 inches of snow, and a lot of cold, but we're still here. Power works, gas works, water works. I'm going out now to try to take down the plowed wall next to the cars. It only took 2 days to see a snowplow -- but the area is still closed down through tomorrow, so not surprising.

Not looking forward to more from next weekend.

ETA: Both cars have 2.5 feet of ice and snow along the side next to the lane. I couldn't budge it.
If the SU can't either, we may have to phone the incel across the street to dig it out for an exorbitant fee. If we didn't have the possibility of another storm, with wetter snow, this coming weekend I'd let it sit, but I will still have that doctor's appointment next week.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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yarning
no yarn group Sunday due to the ice storm, such as it was. We didn't get as much freezing rain as forecast, but we got enough to make it unsafe to drive here, where we utterly lack the infrastructure for it. I've been making more hats for the children's shelter. A ridic number of hats. Like, twenty.

healthcrap
after the shingles shot, I didn't feel right until *Sunday*. Thanks for the sympathetic words on my last post. (We'll do it all again for shot #2 in a couple of months.)

#resist
+ https://standwithminnesota.com
+ https://projectreliefme.com (mutual aid in Maine)
+ Jan 30-31: ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE shutdown and protest
+ Feb 17th: #50501 Protest: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
+ March 28: No Kings Protest #3
+ There's a drive for knitted or crocheted balaclavas for the Minneapolis protesters, so I'm looking into doing that, except I've used nearly all my appropriate worsted weight yarn that's not earmarked for money-making projects. Not sure what to do. Anybody got a yarn stash they don't need? Or I guess I could go to walmart, which, sadly, is cheaper than Michaels. Or I could order an equivalent $ number of balaclavas from amazon and have them sent there. Hmm.

I hope you're all doing well & keeping up your spirit in spite of all the horrors. Much love! <333

aurumcalendula

I'm kinda tempted to make a Wikipedia account so I can update Mary Lambert's discography - her page is missing the singles Tempest from last year and Minneapolis from last week.

imho they're both really good songs.

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oursin

What I read

Finished The Edge. Well, there was a fair amount of research on Canadian railways went into that....

Shani Akilah, For Such a Time as This (2024), sortes ereader, i.e. opened up as I was scrolling my unread list - not sure how I came across this but enjoyed it, linked short stories about a group of Black British young (ish) people of diverse origins.

Forgot to mention this which I had already started last week and put to one side: Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (1995, reissue with new afterword 2009) - I think I saw something about this somewhere and was interested in the idea. I was a bit irked at first by the style which was a certain kind of upmarket journalistic, and I was then a bit hmmm about him getting in touch with his own occluded lost in the mists family roots, but it was intriguing stuff, especially the way he got both drawn into the whole thing and then ejected by the community.

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (1964), since we watched the movie at the weekend (Colin Firth gives with brood) and I couldn't remember the book well enough to say how it matched (it did some odd things). Not, I think, peak Isherwood.

Madeleine E. Robins, The Sleeping Partner (Sarah Tolerance #3) (2011, recently reissued) - I read the earlier ones ages ago but missed this, which I was really gripped by.

On the go

And straight on to Madeleine E. Robins, The Doxies Penalty (Sarah Tolerance #4) (2025)

Up next

No idea - though a book I requested for review has now turned up. (Also essay review I turned in months ago finally came back with some minimal edits to do.)

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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: What are your crafting goals for 2026?

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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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Title: Older
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 486: Feeling Blue.
Spoilers/Setting: Surprise / Innocence.
Summary: Buffy turns seventeen. So much for a happy birthday.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

Older

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

just_ann_now

Same icon! Still cold! We got six inches of lovely fluffy snow, but then we got two inches of horrible heavy sleet, which froze hard as cement. Thanks to neighbors with a snowblower and a teenage son, I'm dug out in the front of the house, but am still chipping away at the back walkway. Fortunately we don't have anywhere we need to be in the foreseeable future, and it is supposed to warm up some next week, so we are just taking it easy right now. And reading! Of course.

What I Just Finished Reading

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I read this for a Children's/YA Book slot on Dreamwidth Book Bingo. It was fun! I will highly recommend it (and possibly the movie, too, though I haven't seen it) to the grandkids.

When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory. This was also loads of fun in a very wacky way.

rachelmanija, I was sure I heard about this from you, but can't find a review. Was it some other one of y'all? In any case, thank you - it was great for the snow day. For A to Z Authors.

Silk: A World History, by Arathi Prasad. This was absolutely riveting - a biological, economic, and technological examination of THREE types of silk: from silkworms, from spiders, and from a mollusk. Wow. For a "Global History" slot in my own book bingo (I didn't know if there would be one on Dreamwidth, so I made my own.)

What I Am Currently Reading

Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia, by Michael Novacek. Not a book about dinosaurs, but about A Paleontologist's Journey - from his youthful fascination with the big dinos, to his finding his niche in the study of tinier, but still amazing creatures. For A to Z Authors.

Inventing the Renaissance, by Ada Palmer. Simultaneously breezy and dense, a very readable combination. I'm more natural-history than world-history, so it's a good switch for me.

What I Am Reading Next

Tonight I plan to dive in to Moniquill Blackgoose's To Ride A Rising Storm, the sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath, which I absolutely loved.

Question of the Day: I don't have one today! Do you?

brightknightie

snowflake_challenge: Tropes: "Talk about your favorite tropes (themes, motifs, cliches) in media or transformative works."

I've been musing on this Snowflake prompt since it posted. Just yesterday, I finally looked up the proper fannish/genre terms for my own most favorite kind of story (not previously having known there were terms for it!). Apparently, the vocabulary is "noblebright" (fantasy) and "hopepunk" (sci-fi). It seems these terms have nuances beyond their genre associations, but together they seem to orbit the general target of the stories of my heart.

I've previously tried to express this storytelling approach and way of understanding by quoting Lois McMaster Bujold on "choosing the hard right over the easy wrong," Saint Teresa of Ávila on "no hands, no feet on earth but yours," and Forever Knight on "the girl or the cup." But, unanchored, misconceived, those could be made to lead to despair, nihilism, hopelessness, and that's not at all what I want. Now, I do love to read tragic and sad stories! By all means, serve me character death! Serve me whump! But I want it in a world of meaning, a universe where the characters' choices and efforts matter. I want characters who fight for the good and the better and the right, whether at the closest, tiniest level in their own lives or at the widest, grandest level for all lives. I want stories that never preach cynicism to the reader.

The worlds in which these favorite character types live are of course full of woe. There are monsters and villains and tyrants who sometimes, perhaps often, win the day. But they won't -- can't -- win eternity. The stories emphasize that caring -- love, community, honesty, self-sacrifice, justice, mercy -- is brave, powerful, and dangerous to oppressive systems and all forces of darkness. Hope isn't just a feeling; it's a chosen determination about how to live. Actions have consequences. Characters have agency. Good and evil are different and the difference matters.

When a hero falls, his god embraces him, even if his world never did.

(Now that I have these words, I need to update my profile and standing "Likes & dislikes" post.)

soemand

I’m seriously considering going all‑in on a tape deck just to see how far I can push the technology and the techniques. eBay is doing its best to break my spirit—every search feels like spelunking in a cave full of “untested, probably works” listings—but I think I’ve unearthed a few Type IV‑capable decks worth experimenting with.

The plan is to run the whole thing into my HomePods as a stereo pair, so no towering retro hi‑fi stack for me. Just a tape deck, some questionable mid‑life choices, and the sheer joy of seeing how ridiculous this can get.

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