Previous poll reviewIn
the Fitness trackers poll, 18% of respondents regularly use a fitness tracker to monitor their activity, 10% also use an app, and 16% use the pedometer on their phone; 48% said "other no", proving that I really should have got more granular (and emphatic) for non-adopters. Sorry! (For me, I enjoy some of the "gamification of exercise" parts, but when Fitbit eventually insists that I have to merge my data with my Google account in a few months, I plan to delete the app and use my device as a standalone thingummy.)
In ticky-boxes, FANDOM SPARKLES came second to hugs hugs hugs, 56% to 68%. "I genuflect to the sanctity of the ticky-box" is a reference to/misquote of a line from a Courtney Milan romance. Thank you for your votes! ♥
ReadingAlmost nothing. Andrew and I started (barely)
The Warrior's Apprentice by Bujold, the first Miles Vorkosigan book, in audio, read by Grover Gardner. And in ebook I've just started Courtney Milan's m/m novella,
The Pursuit of... set during the American War of Independence.
KdramasI was sure I'd have drifted away from
One Spring Night by now in favour of the new thing, but I'm semi-managing to watch that and
Undercover Miss Hong in tandem. I love both of them in very different ways. OSN is slow and as full of social nuance as an Austen novel; UMH is silly corporate spy shenanigans and found family.
(In
Undercover Miss Hong, the 35-year-old lead is undercover as a 20-year-old, and every time she glances around quickly and her shoulders move too, I think, yep, it's the stiff neck that gives you away. #relatable)
As predicted, Pru and I started
Love Scout. I am immediately obsessed with it all over again, ahhhhhh! How am I going to bear the wait between watchings??
Other TVA bit more of
Ponies, but it's so tense that I keep avoiding it. It's only an 8-episode season, and we're halfway, so I should probably bite the bullet and power through.
Episode 2 of
R.J. Decker was terribly written, to the point where I don't know if I can keep going. (I think the
Movie Briefs podcast may have ruined me for PI shows: I kept going, "Is this witness tampering?" and "Stop revealing case information to suspects!")
More of
The Pitt (I am worried about Robbie) (no spoilers, please!!) and
Cheers.
And last night we watched the bizarre combination of:
- the pilot of The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, a gorgeously cinematic show about loss, grief, and New York "society" people dealing with nature in Montana. It's like the love child of A River Somewhere (Australian fly-fishing show which I happen to own on DVD), Schitt's Creek (but without the humour; just the rich people out of their comfort zone part), and [something dealing with partner-loss], and
- The Naked Gun, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson (surprisingly watchable; made us laugh).
We've also watched a bunch of stand-up lately: Marc Maron, Rose Matafeo, probably some others.
Audio entertainment"Corporations have learned that when you have total buy-in, from everyone, and if you can make it impossible for people to not use your product, you determine what culture is. You just do." Gita Jackson on
Tech Won't Save Us. (I am so grateful to Dreamwidth for not having an algorithm!)
Online lifeSign-ups are open for the 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange!! Yay!! This is our eighth year, and it's always a great time.
Writing/making thingsI finished a round of rewrites on one of my started-for-Yuletide fics and sent it back to beta; now I need to apply the same rewriting strategy to my other started-for-Yuletide fic too. 520 Day assignments will out by the 8th, so that's my deadline for these: three weeks. In theory, that should be do-able.
I'm averaging one fic a month so far this year, which is pretty slow-paced for me, but it isn't nothing.
Life/health/mental state things( [Dog in burning house; everything is fine.gif, local politics edition] )Link dumpThe Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited by Gita Jackson |
Heroes Choose Danger - How to Make Your Passive Hero Active [Screenwriting Tips] by
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heyjameshurst (Youtube, 12:57 min) |
Night Train with Wyatt Cenac ep 1 (stand-up series made for streaming, but then the streamer went bust).
Good things520 Day, yay!! FTH, eeee!! Writers' Hour continues to keep me showing up; it's a structure that works really well for me. Kdramas and those of you who recommend them to me. AO3 comments on some of my favourites of my fics. Sunday's long bike ride to buy the best hot cross buns didn't have any negative arm/wrist consequences. The air fryer I inherited is ridiculously tiny, but I'm enjoying it. Good weather. Reasonably good health. (*knocks on wood*) Cat! Andrew!
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Smoke alarms
View AnswersI have some on ceilings/walls
40 (78.4%)
I have some in piles around the place
8 (15.7%)
I have an inadequate number / inadequate coverage
5 (9.8%)
nope
3 (5.9%)
when one goes off, I assume it's serious and take action
15 (29.4%)
when one goes off, I assume it's a battery issue and silence it / take it off the wall
21 (41.2%)
my place/building has built-in alarms, and I trust them
5 (9.8%)
my place/building has built-in alarms, and they go off all the time, argh
1 (2.0%)
other
3 (5.9%)
ticky-box full of pizza, yeah!
25 (49.0%)
ticky-box full of iridescent bubbles
31 (60.8%)
ticky-box full of chopsticks
21 (41.2%)
ticky-box full of hiking
19 (37.3%)
ticky-box full of hugs
40 (78.4%)
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