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1. This morning I walked to the fancy donut shop and got a fancy donut.

It was called crispy (or possibly crunchy) french toast donut and it was so good!

2. It was a very nice morning for a long walk, so rather than go directly home, I headed down towards the beach, which is only a few blocks away at that point. This area is actually on a cliff quite high up from the actual beach, so there is a little area with plants and trails and a railing to separate the upper part from the actual cliff, and at one point I spotted the cutest kittens who appear to be living there.

( Kittens! )

There was a bowl of water set out for them and they look very healthy, so it seems like someone's taking care of them. I almost got the black one to get within petting distance, but not quite.

3. My tattoo continues to be itchy but is looking really good. As the redness and bruising goes down, the colors are looking brighter. There are a few spots between the colors where it needs to be filled in more, but she told me to come in after a month or so for a free touch-up, so that will get taken care of soon enough.

4. I finished up my first 1000 piece puzzle today! Looking at the date of the previous puzzle, it looks like it took be a little over three weeks.

5. Gemma's a cutie pie.

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michaelboy

I think nearly everyone has pressed on their closed eyes, especially in the dark, and have seen those odd looking splotches of color. When I worked in the coal mine, I would sometimes shut off my cap lamp and although I know it was impossible to see anything in total darkness, I imagined I did. Of course, it may be the same sort of retinal nerve anomaly that a person notices after a camera flash or after an unintentional glance at the sun.

In the past several years, I’ve been able to close my eyes and see these splotches in much more detail. I know that it is probably imagination more than reality. (And no, I don’t hear voices others don’t hear). But, at times, they appear in a nearly orthochromatic fashion and can be as detailed as faces and places.

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We’d walk on dirt roads late on some nights that were moonless and the light dust of the road surface would appear to fluoresce. I imagined it to be a chemical reaction to the fog that would roll from the creek in the nearby cow pasture.

And with all the darkness of the past several days;

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torachan

1. I bought some purple sweet potato spread at work a couple months ago and hadn't used it yet because I had other toast toppings that needed to get used up first, but I finally tried it today and it's so good!

2. I took four walks today and walked almost ten miles total. It's really nice weather for it. Mostly cool and overcast, and though it was a bit sunnier around lunchtime it still wasn't really hot or glaring.

3. I wanted to walk somewhere for lunch today and go somewhere new, so I was just poking around at the maps app and seeing what was around and remembered this place called Pita House down the street that we'd wanted to try. I took a look at their menu as I was walking down and saw they have cheesy shawarma fries and that locked my decision in lol.

They were amazing. I still have half of them left, as well as a beef kebab and some pita, because the fries were listed as an appetizer so I thought it might be small, but I was wrong. The fries alone would be good for two people and the kebab was overkill. But now I have something to eat tomorrow for lunch as well.

4. I haven't seen the granola bar guy at the farmers market in a few weeks but he was there today. He said he was there a couple weeks ago, but that must have been a week I missed. He's got a new flavor, peanut butter and chocolate, and it's really good. I also got a couple of my favorite coconut macadamia ones.

5. Look at this blob!

torachan

Recently Finished
The Grapples of Wrath
New book in the Grave Expectation series! I had no idea this was coming out until very recently so it was a nice surprise. Still enjoying the series.

A Poison at Castle Gloaming
Second in the Jemima Flowerday mystery series. Enjoying this one as well.

Blackmail, My Love
Stand-alone mystery set in the early '50s with a queer woman investigating the disappearance of her (also queer) brother. I enjoyed this but didn't love it. Kind of slow-paced for a lot of it.

A High Five for Glenn Burke
Sweet middle-grade book about a boy who does a report in class about Glenn Burke, the baseball player who invented the high five, but is afraid that people will find out the other reason he likes Burke so much: that he was gay just like the MC.

Banned Book Club
Graphic novel about college student activists in South Korea in the '80s. This is not a period I had any background knowledge of so it was really interesting. I'm definitely interested in learning more.

The Great British Bump Off:-Kill or Be Quilt
New John Allison comic! I had no idea about this but it suddenly showed up on Hoopla. Although it shares the title with a previous comic from a couple years ago, it's not connected at all except by the main character (who is also a character from his Bad Machinery series). I love pretty much everything by him, and this was no exception. Very silly and cute.

Sakura, Saku vol. 9
I don't think I would have followed this series to the end of it hadn't been on Viz Manga, which I already subscribe to. It's cute enough, but started to feel annoying with the hurdles introduced. This was a decent ending to the series, though.

michaelboy

It wouldn’t be a small fancy engendered by simple cause that which deeply draws from a well - clearly its purpose without plan rather than simply by a more elegant parade of noted attribute.

It is the curve in a jaw or the unique shape in a nose - however it may be and when that imperfection is itself so irresistably perfect that it carries more strength than the softest breath in a whisper.

torachan

I went down to Disneyland after work this evening as it's the first day of the lunar new year festival. A lot of other people were doing the same, as it was pretty crowded. The parking lot was also ridiculously full, though not just from park guests, as it's across the street from the convention center and is used for convention parking as well and there's a big convention this weekend (NAMM). I had to park waaaaaay at the far corner of the lot from the bus loading area and the lines for the bus were looking long, so I just decided to walk over to the park.

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torachan

1. Work was kind of annoying today as I really only had one big thing to work on, but I couldn't work on it until the afternoon because something was messed up with the sandbox environment we were uploading files to and it had to be fixed first. But that meant I got a lot of reading done while I was waiting around for it to get fixed, so that was a bonus anyway.

2. I went to DCA in the evening and got some really tasty foods from the lunar new year festival. Today was the first day so it was pretty crowded (though still not Christmas levels, thankfully) but I had a good time.

3. My tattoo is still healing well. It's at the peeling stage and has been peeling for the past couple days and is almost all done. The skin underneath is looking good and for the most part it hasn't been too itchy. There's still some bruising in spots and redness under the yellow band, but both of those have improved a lot, too.

4. I'm very glad it's the weekend. Since I went to Disneyland tonight, I'm just planning on staying close to home and relaxing for the next couple days.

5. Look at this Jasper!

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January 23rd, 2026: Me and JASON LOO (!) are putting on a SPECIAL EVENT with the Hamilton Public Library where we'll be discussing COMICS and WRITING and will sign all your books too! It's on January 29th, 7pm, at the Westdale Branch - hope to see you there!

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galadhir

Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

Thank you to all the people on my reading list, and to mistressofmuses in particular who comment so often on my posts and makes me feel like a real person. hello

And a special thanks to ysabetwordsmith for doing all the work she does to keep my section of DW full of interesting things.

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michaelboy

Colorized and at the time in the 70's...I DID inhale.

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A couple of photos from a foggy morning, with some geese serenely sailing by. You can better see the scrum of ducks in the next photo, gathered around the aerator. We can only assume that it's the best place to get algae from, maybe it pulls it to the surface?

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torachan

1. Having remembered the new Shake Shack near work, I decided to go there for lunch today to try more of the Korean menu items.

The chicken sandwich was so good. It did make me feel bloated for several hours afterwards, but it was worth it. The fries with kimchi powder were also very tasty, though I didn't love the dipping sauce that came with them. And I almost forgot, but the drink was pomegranate basil lemonade. Not part of the Korean menu, but they always have a variety of seasonal lemonades and they're always good. This one was delicious.

2. There was a tiny bit of rain today but nothing that interfered with my day. As I was getting home from my morning walk there were a few sprinkles, but it was over soon. When I got down to work, the streets were wet, so it had clearly rained a bit more down there, but it wasn't raining when I got there or when I went out for a walk after lunch. It rained a little bit on the drive home, but only barely more than sprinkles, and was done by the time I arrived. I feel like we had enough rain earlier in the month so I'm fine with no more than this amount now lol.

3. I have gotten some really great pics of Tuxie yesterday and today. He looks like he's on a prayer mat here lol.

galadhir

Tonight I committed myself to dancing my solo to Fos by Amanati at Shimmyfest in June. I performed it just before Christmas to an audience of women from my belly dance class and it had a remarkable reaction:

For everyone else the audience made encouraging noises and clapped along at the fast bits. For me it was absolute silence. They did clap afterward, but I really wasn't sure if it was a success or an abject failure.

Today, however, the instructor mentioned that Shimmyfest was looking for soloists, so I asked her if Fos would be appropriate and she said Yes in tones that actually suggested enthusiasm, so I told her I would do it.

She also asked me if I had thought about costuming, which suggested to me that she did not think what I had been wearing at Christmas was adequate, even though I made the skirt myself out of translucent, watery-like material. I guess the t-shirt over the top was not very professional.

Fortunately at that same hafla there had been a lady selling her old dresses just to get them out of her house, and I picked up something more professional looking from her for £25. Unfortunately, I have been dieting since then and have lost a stone and a half (21lb), so the dress may need some taking in. I won't know what shape I'll be until much closer to the date.

Still, time to drag the choreography back out and start practicing again before I forget it all :)

soricel

"Blue wondered what sort of creating they meant. She was always creating things, taking old things and cutting them up and making them better things. Taking things that already existed and transforming them into something else. This, she felt, was what most people meant when they called someone creative.

But she suspected that wasn’t how Calla meant it. She suspected that what Calla meant was the true meaning of creative: to make a thing where before there was none."

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torachan

1. I took Carla to the airport this morning before work and she has arrived safe and sound in Wisconsin.

2. Our heat spell is over and it was chilly and overcast today. It might even rain tomorrow, though the forecast has gone down from 50% to like 25%, so maybe not.

3. I love when cats morph into their slug form.

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