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There have been some rumours going around the internet over the last couple of weeks, but it has finally been confirmed: the Doctor Who Christmas special has been cancelled. Not only that, but Russell T Davies has confirmed that his time as showrunner is over. That is a surprise, given the cliffhanger that the last series ended on. I presumed that he had a Plan which would explain exactly what that regeneration meant and that would be the plot for the Christmas special. If Russell is no longer the showrunner, whoever takes over has got a HUGE question to answer right from the start.

Apparently there is currently no one lined up to step inside the TARDIS as the next Doctor which is a little worrying. I know it's a demanding role, especially with all the running, and there's also the fact that the actor concerned will always be the Doctor, even after they've left the role. I think that longevity possibly puts some actors off.

The BBC has also put out a request for another company to co-produce the programme. Disney's contract was only for 2 years and when that ended, they decided not to renew it for whatever reason. It is a shame that the Beeb needs to have someone else provide the funding for it now. It's obviously a really expensive show to produce, given the filming locations and special effects involved, and it's probably only got more expensive as time has gone on. I don't think it helped when the government decided that they will no longer fund the free licences that are given to those aged over 75 or registered blind. The BBC now has to cover that cost instead so that obviously means that they have less money to make programmes. I thought at the time that it would affect the Beeb's productions, particularly Doctor Who, and it seems that it has.

It's all very much up in the air. We'll just have to wait to find out what's going to happen and when there will be a new series. As long as it doesn't take another 16 years!

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Location: the other room

arlie

11 News Alerts from AP this morning, counting some that arrived before midnight last night.

I can no longer click through to AP on MacOS, as AFAIK Safari doesn't support any ad and pop-up blocker capable of rendering AP articles readable. (Yes, I could set up Firefox on the MAC, just for AP, but I'd have to make it my default browser for click-through to work, and I don't want to do that.)

This is at least 6 too many, unless they were announcing the start of World War III or similar, particularly now they've made it more difficult to read the linked article.

I read the Guardian's UK edition before even looking at the AP's idea of importance. The only overlap involved the Somali World Cup referee (not admitted to the US) and ongoing events in Netanyu/Trump's war against Iran. (I don't think the Guardian mentioned Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan - if they did, I didn't notice.) The rest was all US politics - decisions on various primaries, not IMO especially worthy of individual alerts.

The volume is getting oppressive, especially with the need to read them on my linux system, and my rule about generally only reading news in the morning - when my eyes may have difficulty with the slightly higher screen resolution I have on the linux system.

I won't unsubscribe this morning, but no promises about tomorrow morning.

torachan

1. I drove the new car to work today. There's some stuff to get used to (I don't like that climate control is touch panel only!) but overall was a very smooth ride and only used about 5-10% of the battery (I can't remember exactly where it was this morning or where it was when I got home but it was definitely in that range of usage).

2. We're having some warm days this week but it's supposed to start going back down over the weekend and be cooler next week.

3. Ollie looks like such an angel here!

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Posted by Samuel Pepys

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/06/09/

Up and after ordering some things towards my wife’s going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have a mind to learn.

So he with me home to dinner and after dinner walk in the garden, and then we met at the office, where Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, and I, and so in the evening, business done, I went home and spent my time till night with my wife.

Presently after my coming home comes Pembleton, whether by appointment or no I know not, or whether by a former promise that he would come once before my wife’s going into the country, but I took no notice of, let them go up and Ashwell with them to dance, which they did, and I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I listened and laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard them stand still and not dance. Anon they made an end and had done, and so I suffered him to go away, and spoke not to him, though troubled in my mind, but showed no discontent to my wife, believing that this is the last time I shall be troubled with him.

So my wife and I to walk in the garden, home and to supper and to bed.

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arlie

I follow a substack blogger named David Friedman. He's local to me, and I've visited his house. One of my sisters also knows him in person from the SCA. So he gets more slack from us than most substackers, even though we regard large chunks of his politics as wrong-headed at best.

He's a mildly famous person, in SCA circles, one of their earliest fighters, possibly their first combat-chosen king, or the first in his kingdom. He's also the son of Milton Friedman. He even has his own wikipedia article.

He believes a lot of things common among libertarians, minarchists, and similar. Some of them strike my sister and I as absurd. Others strike us as being inconceivable without the privileged upbringing he experienced. But he's sometimes interesting, and functions in my blog feed as one of a handful of readable right wing writers.

One of his beliefs is that the ongoing climate change is more good than bad. His evidence looks cherry-picked to me, but then, some quantity of his opponents appear to me to be merely reciting talking points they don't understand. David at least has some understanding of what he's citing - unlike either them or some quantity of his allies.

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which_chick

Let's say that I want to eat an avocado today. That's totally understandable -- avocados are delightful. However, if the avocado before me is hard and green, eating the avocado today will be a bleak, disappointing, entirely sub-optimal experience. I can do it, sure, but it is not ideal. Underripe avocados are edible, if unpleasant, but they're nowhere near as nice as ripe ones.

It is far better to wait for the avocado to ripen and eat it then, even if what I want is an avocado today.

It's not good to be in a hurry with avocados.

A ripe avocado is a voluptuous feast, a sensory indulgence. It gives gently under a probing touch, letting me know that underneath the alligator skin is yellow-green flesh waiting, silky, soft, and faintly sweet. Ripe avocados are worth the wait, but still... avocados give no fucks for my wants and move at their own pace. If I want to eat a ripe avocado, I have to wait for the avocado to ripen.

Anyway, this avocado is unripe.

torachan

1. I decided to work from home today, originally because we had an appointment to take the new car to the dealership so they could put some sort of protective coating on it and I thought I might go with Carla and then take the opportunity to walk back home as my midday walk, but then in the morning I heard back from one of the electricians I'd emailed yesterday and he was able to come by to do an estimate this afternoon, so I'm glad I had already decided to stay home! (I ended up not going with Carla after all, but I did take a nice bike ride in the afternoon instead.)

2. The prices the guy quoted were very reasonable and he's just charging based on the distance to run the wires, not that plus another fee, as some other places were, so I decided to go with him. He helped me pick out a charger and I ordered that and it will arrive on Wednesday, so we set an install date of Thursday. The car still has over 50% charge, so even if I drive it to work tomorrow and/or Wednesday, as I think I might, I shouldn't need to use a public charger before we get our own installed.

3. Molly's such a sweetie girl.

torachan

I woke up around six and had breakfast in the hotel, then walked to the monorail station around seven and got to the park at 7:20 to line up. As with previous DisneySea trips, I made sure to get in the far right line so that Carla could easily find me when she joined me later.

( So many pictures, but not quite enough to break into two posts! )

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Posted by Samuel Pepys

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/06/08/

Up and to my office a while, and thence by coach with Sir J. Minnes to St. James’s to the Duke, where Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse with the Duke a little about our office business, which saved our coming in the afternoon, and so to rights home again and to dinner. After dinner my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the lie, which vexed me, so that finding my talking did but make her worse, and that her spirit is lately come to be other than it used to be, and now depends upon her having Ashwell by her, before whom she thinks I shall not say nor do anything of force to her, which vexes me and makes me wish that I had better considered all that I have of late done concerning my bringing my wife to this condition of heat, I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new concordance, that I have bought, with Newman’s, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when it is only put in another place.

Up by and by my wife comes and good friends again, and to walk in the garden and so anon to supper and to bed. My cozen John Angier the son, of Cambridge coming to me late to see me, and I find his business is that he would be sent to sea, but I dissuaded him from it, for I will not have to do with it without his friends’ consent.

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fred_mouse

Yesterday morning, Youngest reported mould on the wall that their room shares with the bathroom -- mostly behind the door, where I'd entirely missed it, but also a bit along the skirting board (behind the wardrobe we moved).

My first response was approximately 'argh' followed by blue screening, because I could not work out what needed doing. Some time later, after the back of my head had had time to process, it was established that we are going to have to stop using that shower (yay for being a two bathroom household, even if one is the en suite to our bedroom), let the wall dry out, and then do something towards repairing. Probably taking all the tiles out, and resealing the wall, is my current thought. Although it might be that we can seal on top of the tiles, and I should investigate that (having said that, the tiles are original and damaged, and the grout is disgusting. Getting the tiles replaced is on the list of things I would like to have achieved).

But for the short term, we have swapped the study with Youngest's bedroom. Which necessitated partial disassembly of the desk, and near complete disassembly of Youngest's bunk beds. And then swapping the furniture, a lot of vacuuming, and reassembly. Very much appreciate ariaflame helping, especially as the furniture building finger damage was borne by them.

At this point, there are a lot of the storage boxes in the main room; they will go into the new study real soon now, but by the time the contents of the wardrobes were moved, and the wardrobe in Youngest's old room moved (it is the only one without built in robes; the wardrobe was against the problem wall, and now it is not) I had the oomph to move about 10 storage boxes. And emptied one onto a bookshelf, because it is the pile of books labelled 'needs repair' that I think I should go through and maybe decided to throw some of them out, because it has been a decade.

There is bleach in someone's future.

And I'm aware that having the study set up where the mould is is sub-optimal. But it is better than it being the space that is used for sleeping. And I'm thinking that we keep that door mostly closed, so that it isn't getting into the rest of the house, which will have the added advantage of exposing the wall behind the door. I think that the window will have to be cracked for most of the next few months, which is not good as we head into the wet and cold part of the year. Not sure how much rain comes in that window, but I bet it is some

torachan

1. I rode my bike to the store this morning and decided to stop at See's Candies while I was out. I have a gift card from Christmas, but couldn't remember if I'd used it at all or not, and it turns out I hadn't! So I not only got free chocolates today, but still have $8 and change left on the card for another time.

2. Carla made tuna salad for dinner and we had it on some delicious fresh ciabatta bread from the Italian deli that we picked up yesterday. Theirs is pretty much the only ciabatta I've ever liked.

3. I sent emails to a few electricians today to see about getting a charger installed, so hopefully will hear back soon and we can get that done. Meanwhile, I did download an app to see where charging stations are in the neighborhood. There don't seem to be as many random ones at grocery stores like there used to be, so the only larger ones nearby are Tesla ones. One of them does allow non-Teslas to also use the chargers, so I can use that if necessary. There's also one a couple blocks from work that I could use.

4. Tuxie!

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Posted by Samuel Pepys

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/06/07/

(Lord’s day). Whit Sunday. Lay long talking with my wife, sometimes angry and ended pleased and hope to bring our matters to a better posture in a little time, which God send. So up and to church, where Mr. Mills preached, but, I know not how, I slept most of the sermon. Thence home, and dined with my wife and Ashwell and after dinner discoursed very pleasantly, and so I to church again in the afternoon, and, the Scot preaching, again slept all the afternoon, and so home, and by and by to Sir W. Batten’s, to talk about business, where my Lady Batten inveighed mightily against the German Princess, and I as high in the defence of her wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the sessions.

Thence to Sir W. Pen, who I found ill again of the gout, he tells me that now Mr. Castle and Mrs. Martha Batten do own themselves to be married, and have been this fortnight. Much good may it do him, for I do not envy him his wife. So home, and there my wife and I had an angry word or two upon discourse of our boy, compared with Sir W. Pen’s boy that he has now, whom I say is much prettier than ours and she the contrary. It troubles me to see that every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference between us.

So to my office and there did a little business, and then home to supper and to bed. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, do tell me to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed her humour, and is become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is with child, or believed to be so.

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petrea_mitchell

Memorial Day weekend, I attended Bridging the Gap, a one-off fan-run online Pathfinder/Starfinder Society convention which was thrown together when Paizo announced that PaizoCon would not happen this year. By the time I was trying to sign up, a lot of the Saturday and Sunday sessions were full, so I wound up with significant chunks of time free both those days.

(Technically, I still am attending Bridging the Gap, because it had a play-by-post component and I'm in two of those games.)

So on Saturday afternoon, I went out to Waterfront Park to check out CityFair, the county-fair-like area set up there for all three weekends of the Rose Festival. It seems less ambitious than in past years-- just the rides, some food, and a few other vendors. Perhaps I'll be skipping that for a couple years.

On the way back, I stopped by one of the food cart pods in my neighborhood to try out the new barbecue cart I noticed last time I was there. The brisket was divine, the barbecue baked beans were excellent-- I haven't had barbecue baked beans in probably decades, and for that reason alone I'll be going back-- and the collards, okay, I don't know, I don't think I've ever had collards prepared in a traditional manner before. They're certainly something I think I can acquire a taste for.

Last weekend was PIGcon, the first convention run by the Portland Indie Game Squad. Like any first convention, there were a few things to make one think, yup, this is a first convention, I'm sure they'll fix that next year, and a couple things that led more to "have these people ever attended a convention before"? The main thing for the latter was the extremely random length of program items, plus no apparent time allowed for people to cycle in and out between items, meaning that big delays built up throughout the day.

But there were some good items, and some neat things to see. My favorite things were the Choosatron and the print-on-demand con T-shirt setup featuring a manual silkscreening machine. Customers would pick out a blank T-shirt of a size and color they liked, then select one of four possible designs. The only hitch was that this table was badly undermanned, but first convention and all, they'll be able to predict demand better next year.

There was not a whole lot to do, though, so again I wound up with significant free time, and I spent some of it Sunday morning wandering around downtown and checking out about two-thirds of the Bloom Tour installations, another part of the Rose Festival. Lots of pretty things, but a few that didn't work out, like the one that incorporated fruits, and probably looked fine on opening day, but the bell peppers were now visibly shrived and one of the oranges had gone moldy.

Saturday, on my way home, I decided to stop by BG's Food Cartel to pick something up for dinner, and discovered that for once I'd arrived early enough that the Hawaiian cart, which mostly does lunch, was still open, so I got their yakisoba, which is basically stir-fried saimin, and it turned out to be pretty good.

Symposium 2026 is coming up in a couple weeks, and the weekend after that, I will not be attending Between Two Cons, after realizing it's Friday-Saturday rather than Saturday-Sunday, so one day is a work day and the other is Free RPG Day. Still weird that an RPG convention would schedule itself into a conflict with Free RPG Day.

badfalcon

Currently: Fics, Finals & Forehands

📚 Reading:
I once again seem to have accumulated seventeen (17!) books in progress, which is probably what happens when you combine ADHD with a bookshop habit and an inability to say "I'll finish this before I start something else." My main focus this week is Deadline by Mira Grant. I'm about 70% of the way through, and while some sections are still a little slow, I'm finding the conspiracy around the virus far more compelling than the politics that dominated Feed. Every time I think I know what's going on, Mira Grant introduces another layer, and I'm immediately hooked again.

🎧 Listening To:
I am absolutely loving Taylor Swift's new song. I have zero interest in seeing Toy Story 5, but the song itself somehow manages to sound like both old-school Taylor and current Taylor at the same time, which is a neat trick.

Also, for reasons known only to my subconscious, I've had John Barrowman's version of Sunset Boulevard stuck in my head for about two weeks. Not the entire musical. Not a selection of songs. Just Sunset Boulevard. On a loop. At this point I'm less listening to it and more being haunted by it.

📺 Watching:
I'm still really not watching much television. It's tricky when there's tennis on all the time! I haven't even watched Good Omens season three yet, which feels vaguely criminal given how much I love the first two seasons and the Ineffable Husbands. We are still making our way through season seven of Pointless on YouTube though, which continues to be one of my favourite comfort watches.

🎾 Tennis:
Roland Garros has been absolute carnage this year and I have loved every second of it. Even with Jannik's shock second-round exit.

The story of the women's singles tournament has absolutely been Maja Chwalińska. Ranked 114 in the world, came through qualifying, and somehow made the bloody final. I was completely invested by the end of it. Unfortunately for Maja, the person standing on the other side of the net was Mirra Andreeva.

Mirra! My baby girl! Nineteen years old and a Grand Slam champion.

I was genuinely in tears when she won.

Elsewhere, Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten made the men's doubles final but sadly came up short. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori won the mixed doubles, while Katerina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend took home the women's doubles title. Tokito Oda won the men's wheelchair singles, although beating Alfie Hewett left me feeling simultaneously delighted and devastated. Diede de Groot won the women's wheelchair singles, while Alfie and Gordon Reid took home the men's wheelchair doubles title.

Honestly, as tournaments go, it's been a pretty good one for me.

The men's final was... less successful from a personal perspective. Flavio Cobolli had an incredible tournament and I was desperately hoping he could pull off one last upset, but unfortunately Alexander Zverev won the title. Ah well. Roland Garros gave me Mirra Andreeva lifting her first Grand Slam trophy and Maja Chwalińska making a completely ridiculous run from qualifying to the final, so I can't complain too much.

This ridiculous sport remains completely incapable of being boring.

🖊*Writing:
This week I submitted my final assignment of the academic year.

A 2500-word essay on the question "Was religion the main source of identity for early modern people?" My argument, in very broad terms, was that while religion permeated every aspect of early modern life, it wasn't the primary source of identity for most people. Instead, identity was constructed through overlapping forms of belonging: community, family, gender, social status, occupation, political allegiance, nationality, and emerging ideas of racial difference.

Or, put another way: I spent 2500 words explaining why the answer to a history question is "it's complicated."

🏫 Studying:
Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

I am a free llama.

💭 Thinking About:
Finding a routine again.

Between essays, deadlines and life generally being Life, the last few months have felt a bit chaotic. I felt like I'd finally got into a decent rhythm with work and study... just as the academic year finishes and my work contract ends at the end of June.

Typical.

Still, that's a problem for Future Cassie. Present Cassie is choosing to enjoy not having an essay due.

📅 Planning:
Very little, actually, which feels wonderfully strange.

For the first time in months, I don't have an assignment hanging over my head. I suspect the next week will involve reading, tennis, catching up on all the things I've neglected while writing essays, and generally remembering what hobbies are.

There may even be fic.

No promises.

💖 Loving:
The absolute unpredictability of tennis.

The world number one being knocked out in the second round. A qualifier making a Grand Slam final. A nineteen-year-old winning her first Slam. Wheelchair tennis continuing to be some of the most impressive sport on the planet.

This is why I love this ridiculous sport.

Current Mood: disappointed

badfalcon

1. Do you enjoy reading? Absolutely - it's safe to say it's one of my favourite hobbies. I've pretty much always got my nose in at least one book. I've been a voracious reader ever since I was able to read and I can't see it stopping any time soon.

2. What is the first book you remember reading? Oh good god, I've been reading since I was 3 so I have absolutely no idea anymore. I remember the Roger Red Hat books, I remember the Ladybird Favourite Tales and the Puddle Lane books. I loved Beatrix Potter and Enid Blyton.

3. Who is your favourite author? Uhhh how long have you got? I have so many; I cannot bloody choose. Anne Rice, Stephen King, Poppy Z Brite, Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry, Talia Hibbert, Mira Grant, Matthew Reilly, Dan Jones, Ali McNamara... it's basically an endless list

4. What is your favourite book? *laughs slightly hysterically* yes.
Probably Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite, Firestarter by Stephen King or Ice Station or Temple by Matthew Reilly.
But a bit like authors, I'd be here all day listing them

5. What is the last book you read and the first you'll read next OK, so the last book I finished was Cables and Conjurers by Nancy Warren.
The last book I actually read any of was The Sirens by Emilia Hart.

I'm working on finishing some of the seventeen books I currently have in progress, and I've picked Deadline by Mira Grant as my priority, so that'll probably be what I read next.

As for the next book I'll start? Currently uncertain. My TBR is a little ridiculous right now, and it'll depend on what I finish and whether it's part of a series. If I finish Deadline, then Blackout will almost certainly be up next.

Current Mood: tired

torachan

1. I got some cardamom buns from the farmers market this morning. Tried a sample at the stall and they were delicious, but haven't eaten the ones I bought yet. There was another stall that had really good smelling strawberries, so I got some berries and am planning on having those with the buns in a little bit. I think it will be a good combo!

2. I finished up a puzzle this morning. This was a nice one but not one I think I'll keep.

3. We have a new car!

If you missed my other recent posts talking about what we were leaning towards, it's a Hyundai Ioniq 5. I'm so excited to make the switch to an EV. We've still got the Telluride, which is gas, but we won't be using it as much. I'll use the new car for my commute and when we do longer drives like Disneyland, and leave the Telluride for when Carla needs a car when I'm at work. But with the ebikes as well, there should be less around town driving, too.

Now we just need to get an electrician in to set up a charger at home.

4. Speaking of the bikes, I got some smaller plastic containers to store our Christmas decorations, so that got rid of the giant tub that was sticking out from the shelf in the shed and now there's more room for the bikes in the center.

5. We went to the dealership around eleven or so but of course it took several hours to get through everything, so it was like three when we got out of there and we were so hungry. But it's right near the Italian deli, so we stopped off there on the way home and got sandwiches.

6. And then because buying the car had been emotionally exhausting, even if not physically so, we decided to order dinner rather than cook and got curry from Coco Ichibanya, so today was a very good food day.

7. This may be one of the cutest pictures of Gemma I've ever taken. Definitely one of the cutest!

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Posted by Samuel Pepys

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/06/06/

Lay in bed till 7 o’clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not 5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would not believe that it was so late as it truly was. I was hardly ever so mistaken in my life before.

Up and to Sir G. Carteret at his house, and spoke to him about business, but he being in a bad humour I had no mind to stay with him, but walked, drinking my morning draft of whay, by the way, to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw his people go up and down louseing themselves: they are all in a great hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next week. But that that pleased me best, was the remains of the noble soul of the late Duke of Buckingham appearing in his house, in every place, in the doorcases and the windows.

By and by comes Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, to me, and he and I in his coach to White Hall, to Secretary Morrice’s, to see the orders about the Russia hemp that is to be fetched from Archangel for our King, and that being done, to coach again, and he brought me into the City and so I home; and after dinner abroad by water, and met by appointment Mr. Deane in the Temple Church, and he and I over to Mr. Blackbury’s yard, and thence to other places, and after that to a drinking house, in all which places I did so practise and improve my measuring of timber, that I can now do it with great ease and perfection, which do please me mightily.

This fellow Deane is a conceited fellow, and one that means the King a great deal of service, more of disservice to other people that go away with the profits which he cannot make; but, however, I learn much of him, and he is, I perceive, of great use to the King in his place, and so I shall give him all the encouragement I can.

Home by water, and having wrote a letter for my wife to my Lady Sandwich to copy out to send this night’s post, I to the office, and wrote there myself several things, and so home to supper and bed. My mind being troubled to think into what a temper of neglect I have myself flung my wife into by my letting her learn to dance, that it will require time to cure her of, and I fear her going into the country will but make her worse; but only I do hope in the meantime to spend my time well in my office, with more leisure than while she is here.

Hebden, to-day in the coach, did tell me how he is vexed to see things at Court ordered as they are by nobody that attends to business, but every man himself or his pleasures. He cries up my Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to look after business; and with that ease and mastery, that he wonders at him. He cries out against the King’s dealing so much with goldsmiths, and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by them.

He tells me also with what exact care and order the States of Holland’s stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing managed there by their builders with such husbandry as is not imaginable; which I will endeavour to understand further, if I can by any means learn.

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which_chick

There are 11 squares remaining. I'm on the last unstarted ball of mostly-brown (this will make one square) and I can maybe get one more square out of the leftovers from the three balls. Spinning has been neglected and needs to ramp up a bit so that I have material to go on with.

I've also experimented some with sewing squares together and there are now three squares sewn together and I have A Method For Piecing that I am OK with, probably.

torachan

We decided to go down to Disneyland tonight for dinner rather than tomorrow. It was a bit more crowded than usual due to grad nite, but not too bad.

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In which there is uncertainty

AP News continues to disappoint

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Tuesday 9 June 1663

Of Mice and Libertarians

Sometimes (necessary) waiting is annoying as hell.

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2026 Disneyland Trip #17 (4/11/26) Tokyo DisneySea

Monday 8 June 1663

Retrospective or, It's been quite a week.

Interesting times

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Sunday 7 June 1663

Two conventions and a festival

Currently: Fics, Finals & Forehands

thefridayfive for 5th June

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Saturday 6 June 1663

Afghan Accountability

2026 Disneyland Trip #25 (6/5/26)

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