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Unwanted Update
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1502
[1 pm on Wednesday, 29 November of 2017]

:: Jules has to handle a glitch in his waiting job… or is it a glitch? Part of the Lodestar story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Back to part one
:: Thanks for reading! ::

Jules waited until both the troubleshooter and Pips had taken seats in the living room before he joined them. “Start with the reason that you’re not on call, but I only need an overview, a way to put the emotional turmoil I’m seeing over what seem to be simple texts into some kind of context,” the troubleshooter began. “Also, please just call me Stone. I keep looking around for my father when someone says ‘Mister Larrent.”

“Got it. I’m Jules. I’d been asked to put in the same system for files that I’d set up at the local Thalassian embassy, out in the kids’ camp, but we were still on the basic tour when someone abandoned a baby at the gate. He had chicken pox. I went into quarantine with the baby, with the understanding that I’d come back to the job I was actually hired for, and that I’d be paid at the same rate while taking care of the little boy.”
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday July 08, to midnight on Thursday, July 09. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34813 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 8

How are you doing?

I am OK.
5 (62.5%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
3 (37.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
2 (25.0%)

One other person.
4 (50.0%)

More than one other person.
2 (25.0%)

<sigh> My apologies, folks. I simply forgot what day it was. 😢

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

cornerofmadness

So today I went to the Honda dealer to look at another CR-V and went next door to the Hyundai dealer. Since Hyundai has made remarkable strides in reliability over the years it's now nearly as reliable as Honda and Toyota. After comparing the CR-V to the Tucson, I'm probably going to go with my first ever Korean vehicle. I mean Honda's warranty is 3 years. Hyundai has both the general car AND the electronics under warranty for 6 years/60,000 Miles and tops it with 10 year/100K miles on the driveline.

And then they offered me 0% apr for FIVE years.

It's hard to say no to that.

Came home, searched for end of life planning things that are also humorous found them (and then went to drink pickle brine so I can speed things along)

After that I saw something on Facebook that sounded so good so I went off the site to track it down in the real world so to speak. I found it. It's not some b.s. made up for FB. abruzzo sister tours and they do ancestral tourism. I will check into them more. This would be like archaeotours in Wales where I have a private tour. I am willing to pay for that. Hoping this is an option that doesn't have 1001 complaints lodged around them.

What I'm Reading Wednesday

What I Just Finished Reading:

One of the Girls - this was good

Our Wicked Gifts - not bad, horrorish

What I am Currently Reading:

Purra-normal Activity - a cozy mystery, so far so good

The Silent Companions - for summerween

The Harvesting - Zombie apocalypse fare

What I Plan to Read Next: some of my looming arcs (carry me to the grave or the seance garden) and things for popsugar

Current Music: The Proof is Out There

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hannah

I ended up getting enough done today I won't feel too bad about going to the movies tomorrow, which is pleasant enough. The end of the project is within sight, though not without some consultations about the ephemera. I don't know how my client wants the bank notes and shopping lists tabulated - likely by format and in chronological order, but it's his family documents, so I'm not going forward until I know exactly what he wants.

I've got a decent idea of how I'd do it - and again, his documents. So, while I wait: the movies.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: nothing now

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books
America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin. 2025. FINALLY finished, though I skipped the notes bc I was just done with the book. It's a very thorough and sharply critical history of the Americas, and I loved the first half. The second half is mostly a deep dive into intra-hemispheric politics, most of which I've already studied in detail. I do wish it had started BEFORE the Conquest, rather than at it, but the book's 768 pages as it is.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan. 2026. Started reading just before the Independence Day weekend and just now finished. A chore to read, tbh, bc there's so much orange menace in it, and I hate him. But it confirms gvt by the inept following a plan framed by the vicious. I have been angry at H&S for sitting on so much of this info for up to 3 years, rather than releasing it to the public. But the timing now is good. It's fresh in voters' minds for the midterms. And we certainly won't have an impeachment before the new Congress is sworn in on January 3rd.

iwtv 3.5/tvl 1.5
Holy shit. This show is SO GOOD.

yarning
The cat scarf halves are stitched together & now I only have to weave in five million ends before mailing it out Friday. Didn't make yarn group again bc I slept too late. Stupid sleep disorder.

healthcrap
allergy shot yesterday. I need to remember to make a mammogram appt, though. Also, pain clinic appt. Oops.

wildlife
There's a(n o)possum living in my back porch laundry room. I don't know if it's a nesting female or not. It had diarrhea on top of my washer lid. Which is dried on and vile. (Cleaning it up is my project for maybe tomorrow.) I replaced the burned out light bulb today (and left it on) and left the door open, so maybe it'll vacate the premises on its own. I can call maintenance about relocating it. I just haven't yet. I thought about bombing it with peppermint or something, but peppermint is toxic to cats, and the stray cats use the laundry room for shelter in the winter, so that would suck for them.

#resist
? (I'm still waiting to see an announcement of a new march. Granted, it's hotter than hell, so maybe that's the delay? IDEK.)

I hope you're all doing well! <333

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delphi

Fandom 50 #20

For 1996, a little roots rock from a band named for some 19th century colonial sloganeering.

Crossing a Canyon by 54-40

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troisoiseaux

Finished Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, a slice-of-life novel set in "a village of four hundred souls" in '90s(?) Iceland, narrated in a sort of anonymous, collective community voice (opening line: "Now, we'd almost written that what made our village unique was that it wasn't unique at all, but apparently that isn't true"). Something of a connected short stories feel in the way each chapter does follow a different, specific story arc/plotline from beginning to end, but even then, there's a meandering, kaleidoscopic feel— I'd say it's somehow both sprawling and narrow in focus?— and a few running plot/story threads throughout. (I've seen the author described as an Icelandic Charles Dickens; I found myself thinking more of South Riding.) Particularly enjoyed this for having recently traveled to Iceland, because although we only drove past/through the type of very small, rural town/village where this is set, I did have enough of a sense of the buildings and landscape and the vibes to picture it as I read. (More than if I had read this before I went to Iceland, anyway...)

Finished Buffet for Unwelcome Guests by Christianna Brand, a collection of short stories categorized into "Cockrill Cocktails" (featuring her recurring detective Inspector Cockrill), "Entrees" (longer stand-alones), "Petit Fours", and "Black Coffee." There was something generally flippant about the "Petit Fours", including two separate stories that made me think of the Mmm Whatcha Say SNL sketch, only one of them was about a jewel heist* and one about blackmail and murder; the latter also featured some cheerfully callous children, making two for two on a reaction of o__O towards the children in Brand's mystery stories, which does make me curious about the vibe of her novels for children. The "Black Coffee" stories were, as the name suggests, just plain dark: ( ... ) Bit of a grab bag, quality-wise, and I did skip a couple of stories— one had such a baffling opening sentence that I was like, you know what? I'll come back to this and then I didn't; one was just virulent fatphobia for the first couple of pages and I safely assumed it would not improve— and it ended on a sour note, since the second-to-last story hinged on an intentionally false accusation of sexual assault in a way that has aged extremely poorly. (Not sure when it was written, but this collection was published in the early '80s?) There were some good stories, though— particularly among the Cockrill ones, where I found I liked him more than in Brand's novels— so not an entirely disappointing experience.

* Actually, on double-checking, that one was filed under "Something to Clear the Palate" rather than a "Petit Four"— presumably as the one story in the collection that did not involve murder?— but I don't want to rewrite that whole sentence at this point.

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Posted by Rae Deng

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-islamic-republic-japan/

Trump presumably meant Iran, not Japan, although the White House did not clarify his remarks.

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It is unclear who owns the network of 25 gas stations around the Philadelphia area, which Trump claimed would offer steep discounts on gasoline.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-freedom-fuel-gas-stations/

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Title: Color Therapy
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 763
Prompt: 059: Rose
Fandom/Ship: Xdinary Heroes, Seventeen; Kwak Jiseok | Gaon, Lee Seokmin | DK
Notes/Warnings: (eg. spoilers, triggers, warnings etc. or CNTW)
Summary: Jiseok just wanted some sort of peace.

( Colors helped. )

Find the table with the list of fics here

Current Mood: frustrated

melagan

Anyone going to Shore Leave in Lancaster PA?

goddess47 and I are headed that way tomorrow for a long weekend.

Anyway, if you're going, I won't be hard to spot since my hair is a lovely Pegasus teal blue. Come say hi.

Be aware there could be a lot of blue-haired folk there, it is a sci-fi convention after all.

My grown kids are kindly not saying, " You're weird, Mom, but there's a definite pause before they say, "Have a good time." 😊ᐰ

flemmings

Hot again but drier than forecast and breezy as well, so I was fine getting up to physio and shopping. Because I stayed in yesterday and didn't wear a backpack, my shoulder was perfectly well-behaved. And then I put it on today and ouch. Physio acupunctured and taped shoulder so I trust it will go back to being quiet. Especially since tomorrow is supposed to be rain and thunderstorms off and on all day, so will be back to couch potatodom.

Finally got the form for my quarterly blood draw from my doctor's secretary-- who suddenly seems not to remember who I am: clearly out of sight, out of mind-- and now must get to the library to print it out and then get to the lab. I do hate the whole thing but needs must.

Finished only 100 Demons 27 last week. Had Witch King come through on an ebook library loan and am wading through that. Definitely wish I had it in paper, definitely wish there were not two narratives, find it oddly a downer for no good reason. Continue only because Kai has moments of sounding like Murderbot. And then there's the Ada Palmer that I'd like to concentrate on and can't. Perhaps I should let Witch King go to the 'two people waiting' and, well, concentrate on the nonfiction Renaissance, since nonfiction goes down so much easier in the hot weather we're forecast to have well into August.

susandennis

I was looking at the weather this morning and it looks like today may be the last cloudy day for a while, so I decided to make the Skechers trip today. It's a good 30 minutes away and I do not want to be driving that far in the sun. Fuck, I don't want to be driving that far in any weather, but my chauffeur is a no show, again.

It was a lot fiddlier of a drive than I expected but I made it. And after what seemed like half a day - it's a big store with way too many options - I finally found 2 pair of shoes and got the fuck out of there. Turns out it was only an hour. It just felt like half a day. One reason was that I was NOT going to buy any shoes that did not feel perfect from the jump. A lot came close. But I was on the hunt for perfect. I finally found a grayish loafer and a plain brown leather. It was a BOGO discount day so both pair cost me way less than I expected. And I got a cool backpack bag for free.

Then home. Then I cleared out every shoe that was not perfect. I took them all to the elbow and put a 'free' sign on them. (They took less than an hour to disappear.)

My closet looks NICE!

On to Food and Beverage Meeting which was excruciating. I kept my mouth shut except for at the end when the chairman asked me to read back the list I had gathered for the agenda. She did this last month and it led to another 45 minutes of meeting. I was ready this time and said 'I'll send it to you after the meeting.' She backed right off and we got the fuck out of there. The committee members each believe in their heart of hearts that every person in the world has the same taste, desires and food motivation that they do. It's just painful to listen to. And fucking pointless.

So then I got home and checked my phone and had a message from Costco about my Wegovy prescription. They need to reject my prescription so my doctor can finish my application to the Bridge program. But she insisted she needed my Medicare number before she could do that. They need to reject it on the basis of my lack of insurance coverage but I'm not sure that's what she's doing. Reddit is chock full of Bridge reject stories - and some good success stories - time will tell. I do not want to spend another $350 for a month BUT I can if I have to and I will so I really need to not stress over any of this.

The Mariners are now losing in the 2nd. I'd better concentrate.

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dialecticdreamer - Unwanted Update (part 2 of 2, complete)
questionable_content_feed - Body Plan
starwatcher in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-In
cornerofmadness - Choices
peaked in icons - 259 HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (1x01).
peaked in fandom_icons - 259 HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (1x01).
hannah - Prospects.
enchanted_jae in drabble_zone - Fake (Challenge # 508 - good reason) Passion Flower 53
princessofgeeks - Datelandia, what the fuck edition
sage - What I'm Doing Wednesday
princessofgeeks - update
delphi - Post and Jam: Crossing a Canyon by 54-40 [1996]
troisoiseaux - Reading Wednesday
ao3_news_feed - The Mass Effect Kink Meme is Moving to AO3
snopes_feed - Trump said 'Islamic Republic of Japan' fired missiles at US aircraft carrier
snopes_feed - Trump-endorsed 'Freedom Fuel' gas stations exist, despite AI image he shared
andersenmom - Fic: Color Therapy
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