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It was hot and sunny yesterday so we went down for dinner instead of breakfast/lunch. Unfortunately it was still pretty warm and sunny when we got there, though at least the sun was going down. But even once the sun was no longer blazing, it was still super muggy. Bleh.

( But we did have a nice dinner! )

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France 1940: an elderly British man struggles to transport an ever-growing number of children--and a kitten!--out of the war-zone and far from the tender mercies of the Luftwaffe, the Heer, and the Gestapo.

Pied Piper by Nevil Shute

marcicat

For one of my current 'I should use up some of this yarn' projects, it looks like it's going to wind up using about 12 skeins of yarn. Which is great! During the course of the project, I also purchased 8 skeins of yarn (only two of which were relevant to the project, the others were just 'ooh, yarn!').

So it's really still a net win!

Most importantly, I learned something new. Okay, so I got a BUNCH of Wool-Ease Aire yarn on deep discount, and I definitely read all the reviews that were like 'this yarn is hard to work with' and thought 'how hard could it be?' VERY HARD. It's wildly inconsistent (within skeins and color to color), it sticks to itself constantly, it's so fuzzy you can't see what you've done... and yes, I thought 'oh, I've used yarns like that before, it's totally manageable.' NOT LIKE THIS YARN, I HADN'T.

BUT! I had so much of it that I was determined to find some way to use it that was fun, so I figured out some yarn hacks to make it easier.

1. BIGGER HOOK (the yarn itself recommends a 6 mm hook, I'm using a 9 mm)
2. MOSS STITCH (or any simple stitch where you can stitch into gaps instead of into stitches; this is the one and ONLY project thus far where I've loved the moss stitch, my nemesis)
3. ADD A SECOND YARN (I added Caron Cloud Cakes yarn, which is sooooooo soft and glide-y, it makes the fuzzy sticky yarn easier to work with AND makes the stitches easier to see!)

mx_morden

I may have convinced my sister to spend one day in Torino so we can wander around and visit the Egyptian Museum and the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile >_>
It would actually be our best option, too, bc being in Torino proper and not in my sister's friend's town would take 1 hour off of our trip to the airport on our way back. We would stay somewhat close to the train station and we'd be able to take things a little easier in the morning, then hop directly on the train to the airport and chill until the flight.

Fingers crossed!

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Six-ish sentences from Chapter 3 of Angry Kitten:

"What are you doing?" Roz asks, frowning ferociously. He's radiating 'keep the fuck away from me' vibes. The tension practically ripples through his shoulders, and he's doing his very best to loom at Cliff despite the fact that Cliff has several inches on him.

"You can't drive to Montreal," Cliff says, and then adds quickly, as Roz's scowl deepens, "Not by yourself. You're tired and your ankle isn't healed" - plus, he doesn't say, you're in a deeply self-destructive mood - "and you'd probably drive yourself into a ditch before you got even halfway there."

"So, what? Are you offering to drive to Montreal with me in the middle of the fucking night, Marly?"

"Yes," Cliff says simply. "Someone has to save you from yourself. Might as well be me."

torachan

1. The other day I noticed a new Vietnamese coffee shop had opened nearby and this morning I rode my bike over there to try it out. They are famous for their banana coffee, which was sort of a frappuccino style drink, so I got that. It was super delicious, but they had only drinks, no food, and I wanted some sort of pastry or something. There's a bakery a couple doors down that is suuuuuuper trendy and has a line down the block all the time so although I would love to try them, I didn't want to wait in a line so long my drink would be gone by the time I got my food.

So I decided to leave my bike parked there and walk a few blocks down to Randy's Donuts, which is a famous LA donut shop that started opening new locations in recent years after having just been a single location for ages. I've never actually been to the one in Santa Monica. As I was walking, I saw there was a Dunkin Donuts across the street just one block down and was briefly tempted to just go there, but I knew Randy's would be better so I continued on and I'm so glad I did because they had a Pride donut and also a mango tajin one and both were so good. Their donuts are big and I really only should have gotten one, but I wanted both lol. The mango one had mango tajin frosting and a delicious mango filling. The Pride one was just a frosted glazed donut with rainbow stripes, but even for a basic donut it was really tasty. I was very full afterwards but it was such good breakfast.

2. It was still hot today so we went to Disneyland for dinner instead of going earlier in the day. Sadly it was warmer than I would prefer even at 6pm when we got there, and super muggy. But we did have a delicious dinner.

3. Tuxie's fur has been growing back on his forehead. I don't think you can really even see where the wound was anymore. So handsome!

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Scarcely a month goes by when I don’t receive an email, phone call, or manuscript from someone, more often than not a retired engineer, who has their own theory of relativity. These people have read something about Einstein’s theory of relativity, noticed that something about it doesn’t accord with their own intuition, decided that therefore Einstein must be wrong, and come up with their own theory which they are convinced must be right. It is certainly true that there are aspects of relativity that are counterintuitive, not only to retired engineers but also to many physicists. Therefore if one’s own intuition were to be the final arbiter of correctness of a theory, that would be good reason to reject relativity. But of course science doesn’t work that way: the final arbiter for correctness of a theory is experimental evidence. So if a counterintuitive theory is supported by the evidence, one should retrain ones intuition to think in the ways required by the theory.

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The New York Knicks are your 2026 NBA Champs!!! Jalen Brunson scored half the points the Knicks had! MVP!

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Current Music: Knicks post-game show

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I can't remember if it ever occurred to me before last night's re-read of Jane Yolen's Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk (1982) that her Greyling (1968) resembles Gordon Bok's "Peter Kagan and the Wind" (1971) in that both are stories of selkies who return to their seal-selves not despite the bonds of human love but because of them—a father in one case, a husband in the other, both fishermen in peril on the sea. Bok and Yolen knew one another; she partly dedicated the collection to him. It's slightly nuts to me that he never set either of her sea-songs published in it, since it takes so little imagination to hear "The Ballad of the White Seal Maid" or "The Selchie's Midnight Song" in his deep-grained swell of a voice. I don't know whose version coalesced first. I grew up on both of them.

Via

regshoe, a book meme.

General Questions

This week I'm reading: I am currently in the middle of Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous (1955), the paperback reprint sent me by

boxofdelights in 2022 as a replacement for my long-lost, lent-out college copy. Also re-reading Yolen's Merlin's Booke (1986), the Ace first edition inherited from my god-aunt in 2000 which I had not then read since my childhood in the Cambridge Public Library. For the first time, Jonas Kreppel's Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes (trans. Mikhl Yashinsky, 1908/2025), a present from my parents earlier this year. With snail-mortifying slowness, I am continuing to poke at the modern Greek of Nikos Kavvadias' Πούσι (1947).

My favourite book of all time is: Impossible to answer. I did that hundred books meme last spring and kept having to append titles that had slipped my mind.

My current favourite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months): With apologies to Molly Crabapple and Seamus Heaney, almost certainly Leon Garfield's The Stolen Watch (1988).

The last book I bought was: Joan Coggins' Dancing with Death (1947), a present for my mother which she promptly loaned back to me so that she could discuss it. The last book I bought for myself was Andrew Hiller's Hornytown Chutzpah (2026), brought to my attention by

mrissa.

The first book I bought with my own money: No clue. My first real job was in a science fiction and fantasy bookstore when I was fifteen and they might as well have paid me off the shelves.

The first book I received as a gift: Equally impossible to estimate. I can remember receiving Brophy's The Prince and the Wild Geese (1983) early on, but it would not have been the first.

The last book I received as a gift was: Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026), courtesy of

a_reasonable_man.

The last book I borrowed from the library: Either Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City (1960) or What Time Is This Place? (1972), whichever was not checked out first.

The book physically closest to me right now: Robinson Jeffers' Such Counsels You Gave to Me (1937), the burgundy-boarded, jacketless first edition from my grandparents' house. After that, Imogen Sara Smith's Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy (2008), which I gave some years ago to

spatch.

Do you read bookfic, and if so what is your favourite bookshop fic? I don't think I have ever read a bookshop fic. I read Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (trans. Eric Ozawa, 2010/2023) when

spatch gave it to me for our last anniversary.

This or That

Physical book or e-book: Physical book if at all possible, since I process them differently. E-book in the inevitable event that I can't get hold of something and there's one copy digitized maddeningly on the Internet Archive.

Used or new: As a reading experience, I don't think it makes much difference to me. If I own a book, I try to keep it in good shape.

Fiction or non-fiction: At the moment I seem to be reading more fiction than nonfiction, which may or may not be the case in another three months.

Read at a coffee shop or at the park: I haven't been inside a coffee shop in years. Last Friday I was reading on the stone wall overlooking the water at Spy Pond Park while waiting for

ladymondegreen.

Paperback or hardcover: In terms of preferred reading format? I don't think it makes much difference to me, either.

Romance or Crime: More crime than romance.

Yes or No

Stream of consciousness? Yes.

Poetry? Yes.

Memoirs? Yes.

Philosophy? Yes.

Thrillers? Yes.

Chronicles? What?

Dialogue heavy? Alan Garner?

Current Music: Gordon Bok, "Peter Kagan and the Wind"

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Sunday we had non-Disney plans, so no need to get started super early in the morning, but of course I did wake up early. The laundry had piled up again, so I walked over to the other hotel to get a load started and then walked to the station to get McDonald's. Unfortunately, I'd misremembered the opening time and thought they opened at seven, but it's not until eight. All that was open was a Starbucks, another little sandwich/coffee shop whose name I don't remember and the New Days convenience store. I got pastries and coffee for myself and onigiri for Carla and took everything back to the hotel to eat.

( Togoshi Ginza, Gotanda, and Shibuya )

slippery_fish

F, Marry, Kill: Romcom meets horror comedy. I thought this one was mostly fun. Eva is starting to date again while a serial killer is murdering woman. Cue her trying to prove to her friends that all the guys she is going out with are not murderer. Things gets chaotic with that. Some of that is pretty fun, some is very awkward and some scenes go surprisingly hard in regards to sexual assault considering the genre. All in all, fun movie.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025): This one was so weird. The car crash that caused all the drama was so much more benign than the one in the original movie. Everybody tried to save the victim. The secrecy and everything else wasn't necessary.

Contacting the “Originals” didn't work as well as it did in the Scream franchise. But I did like the way Julie and Ray have massive issues with each other and their marriage failed. Helen's cameo was random as fuck, though.

The tone of it was uneven, several moments just seemed entirely off (The whole “We gotta kill Stevie- moment at the end? Whut?), the whole movie didn't really work for me.

Scream 7: After 5 and 6 (especially 6), I really liked this one. Scream is Sid's franchise and trying to change the focus on the Carpenters just never would have worked for me.

I liked the way the relationship between Sid and Tatum was portrayed. Sid not talking about her past because she doesn't want her daughter to grow up in fear. And still, she is so focused on security that of course her past is haunting her child.

I loved the interview scene, Sid being forced to open up. And that moment when she was on the phone with Tatum and had to direct her how to use a gun was so very good as well. Sid is used to being the one reacting and fighting. Making her helpless in this way really gave us a good scene. But we also got ruthless Sid which I adore. She is great when she's on a role.

Also, a big fan of Gale having fucked up hands because of the New York murder spree. Dewey also had some physical damage and I just like that we get the physical consequences of the attacks.

I thought some of the murder were weirdly cruel for the franchise. I wasn't the biggest fan of that.

Also, they really didn't use the Roman cameo to its fullest potential. But I'm biased there.

musesfool

So yesterday, I logged off a call with my boss and the CEO, and my internet went down again, just like it had on Wednesday, at almost exactly the same time (1:30 pm EDT). After some back and forth with Spectrum where they insisted it was a me problem and scheduled a tech visit, I got a message that there was an outage in my area but it would be fixed by 4:30 pm.

Unfortunately, instead of being done with work at 2:30 pm like a usual summer Friday, I had a board call from 3 pm - 4:30 pm (despite all of my written and verbal instructions to Assistant J, many meetings were scheduled on times and days I told him not to schedule things, like the Tuesday after a Monday holiday, or 3 pm on a summer Friday, but I hope this experience of having to work 2 extra hours on a summer Friday stays with him so he never does it again), so I had to be on by phone, because no one from IT ever answered my question about why I couldn't use my phone as a hotspot, the way I used to be able to. Until I was logged in on my phone - then Teams started blowing up with instructions and I was like, sorry, on a board call, can't talk right now. But it should work going forward if necessary. I was looking in the wrong spot (I mean, I was looking under "hotspot" instead of "wifi" so was I really wrong? I don't think so. and yet!), which they kindly told me.

I could have tried to switch in the middle of the call, but figured better to stay on and get all my notes than disconnect and not be able to reconnect. And then at about 4:35, the internet came back! And I still had to wait almost 2 more hours for one of my co-workers to finish editing her slides so I could PDF them and send to the chair for review. And then the slides were too large, even as a reduced-size PDF, to email with all the other materials, so I had to split it into 2 emails. I told my boss they need to slim that deck down, but one of the VPs is insisting on having his slides in there twice since he gave the same presentation at 2 meetings, instead of just saying, "please refer to slides A-K for this presentation." I am desperately hoping the chair dings him for that, but he probably won't. (If it were up to me, I'd have just deleted them but when I asked my boss told me the VP specifically stated he wanted them in there twice. It's just the pre-reads deck that probably nobody reads, so it probably won't matter to anyone else, but I think it is a bad way to manage your meeting materials.)

Anyway! In other news, I mentioned friend L is moving back to ATL next month, so she's coming to hang out here next weekend, so I need to get some of my clutter tucked away before that happens. I ordered some Rubbermaid bins to pile stuff in, which won't look great but will at least free up the chair from all my mixing bowls and cupcake pans. (I know, I know, but sometimes it's just easier to always have stuff out then to put it away and need to pull it out again three days later.)

I'm thinking about what to cook and I might do the white lasagna I like so much - I could send half of it home with her and still have enough leftover for dinner for a couple of days - plus the SK strawberry summer cake. And maybe breakfast tacos on Sunday? And some coffee granita? Idk, I'm still thinking.

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I think I keep overthinking (lol) what to write on this blog. Back in the day, we would just write whatever. Full on flow of consciousness, several times a day. I should just go back to doing that lol

Sooo I'm watching Quali. We're on Q3, and Charles' bad luck is not giving him a fucking break, because he just crashed out. The McLarens did well in the practice sessions, but seem to be struggling a little in Quali. Fingers crossed they fix whatever the fuck is going on.

Today's been a lazy day. I'm not feeling 100% yet, so I just chilled and listened to music this morning. I had a little trouble falling asleep last night, which I don't get, because I woke up super early yesterday? :/ So not even when I do things right my brain rewards me lol When I did fall asleep, I slept pretty well, though! We had a little bit of rain (mostly lightning and some thunder, but also a nice cool breeze) and I'd left all of the windows wide open while I wasn't home, so my room wasn't as hot as usual. I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning lol I had some weird as fuck dreams, though. And I didn't even take any melatonin!

I was feeling a little blue yesterday and the day before, so I went out and gifted myself some highlighters and some washi tape. Both things that I pretty much hoard and never use, but whatever lol I also bought some beads, and I have to remember to make my friend some bracelets for the MCR show next month, because I keep forgetting. I also bought some star-shaped beads I could use to make something Senna/Prost related, but we'll see how unhinged I feel about that lol
Also, while driving home yesterday I turned on the radio and had the INSANE random pull of Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy, which might seem pretty normal in an anglophone country, but in Italy it has basically the same odds as me winning the lottery!

I've been sitting on the balcony after dinner ever since I came home from Madrid. I figure I need to enjoy the very short span of time when the evenings aren't blistering hot yet. We put a cloth screen all around the railing, and the dogs keep sticking their noses underneath it and pushing it up to spy on the people walking down the street. It's not quite summer yet, but I'm pretty sure schools have closed already, so there's a lot of activity around the neighborhood; people hang out at the park with their children until late, teenagers wander around on mopeds, that kind of stuff. The other day I sat outside a little earlier because I was waiting for my sister and my mom to come home so we could eat, and I watched the swallows dive around as the sun went down, and then disappear and be replaced by the bats. There was even a cricket singing on one of the trees! They've become so rare since more buildings have gone up :(

Also, on a completely random note, Marc Marquez was wandering around the paddock yesterday and, while chatting with a Spanish journalist, he called Max "a beast :D" and yeah. Guess I got myself a brand new ship lol

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