flanakey

flanakey, 6 days ago to random

First day wearing glasses. An early start despite first day of holidays to go to the old place to ensure it was presentable before this morning's open for inspection. It's bf's birthday today, hence the week off, so the next step will be to make carrot cake for him.

gairdeachas, 2 months ago to random

A friend mentioned in passing that they liked pie, so we're bringing over a bumble berry pie later. First pie in the new place!

flanakey, 3 months ago to random

This time next week I should own the new house. Given today's lunch break was correcting a bank error of $30k I can't wait for this to be finished. Lucky I prepared a spreadsheet so I knew something was out pretty quickly.

flanakey, 3 months ago to gardening

Compost bins emptied and spread on the garden in prep for the move. Need to empty some casting from the worm farm next. #compost #vermicast #gardening

gairdeachas, 3 months ago to random

Overheard in our house:

Me: this box says "SFF / philosophy" -- I labeled it and I'm assuming those are two separate categories. Although many SFF books are kinda both.

Daniel: so what I'm hearing is that Asimov is in that box.

Me: oddly, I was thinking that exact same thing!

flanakey, 6 months ago to random

Three extra large bags of clothes and linen donated to the charity shop. I really need to be more consistent with the one in one out philosophy. Next challenge is to cull the book cases (we have 8 of them and 6 of those are as tall as I am).

gairdeachas, 6 months ago to random

Whelp, it's my birthday -- and election day here in the US.

The best gift you can give me today is to vote for body autonomy, education, expanding access to voting, and helping others. Please go vote.

gairdeachas, 6 months ago to random

Today's to-do list:
Put pants on ✅
Leave house for therapy appt ✅
Eat lunch ✅
Get haircut ✅
Update resume ⌛

If I get the last one finished can I be done with adulting for the rest of the month??

flanakey, 6 months ago to books

Today's holiday reading, Noise: a flaw in human judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony and Cass R Sunstein. Fascinating reading but worried it might be too work adjacent. #reading #holiday #DanielKahneman #noise

gairdeachas, 8 months ago to opensource

Wow, today marks my 17th anniversary at Distributed Proofreaders (@DProofreaders) -- the largest contributor of #ebooks to Project Gutenberg! I started out as a proofreader but then quickly got involved in development.

I've been the lead dev and a system admin for most of the past decade, including mundane things like keeping the code up-to-date with new PHP and MySQL versions but also converting the entire site to Unicode.

https://www.pgdp.net

#openSource #foss #books #publicDomain

gairdeachas, 8 months ago to random

Getting back into the #pottery groove. Those are all 1lb and you can tell I was getting progressively better at thinner walls. Always takes me a bit for the muscle memory to kick back in when I've been away from the wheel for almost a year.

Some of these will undoubtedly be reclaimed (looking at you flared rim bowl) but some of them will make for good prep / salsa bowls.

gairdeachas, 8 months ago to random

Feeling big and beefy today after my workout! I showed Daniel two pictures and asked which one I should post.

Daniel: This one because you're making an odd face in the other one.

Me: But I always make odd faces.

Daniel: They're better in person.

Me: 🤣❤️

gairdeachas, 9 months ago to baking

I'm making some chewy molasses spice cookies from Dessert Person for a friend's birthday party tonight where the theme is "small bites".

Daniel: I thought you were going to make them small.

Me: <looks at him><looks at the cookies><looks at him>

Me: these are tiny compared to my usual cookies! Almost half the mass!

Me: <mutters under his breath> size queen.

#baking #cookies

gairdeachas, 10 months ago to random

I've come to realize that I need to do more fun, post-worthy things in my life.

Not because I feel the need or pressure to post more, but rather I want to be doing/creating things in my life that I'm excited to share with others.

I've somehow evolved into the most boring version of me yet and I hate living it.

flanakey, 10 months ago to escribiendo

Cold and wet weather means I've decided to start the Shardlake series. I got five of the seven in a set at the market earlier in the year so hopefully they stand up to their reviews. #ShardlakeSeries #CJSansom #dissolution #fiction #reading #BookStack #bookstodon

gairdeachas, 10 months ago to random

Husband woke up sick and I'm all out of extroverting after yesterday's Broadway Pride street fair so we've spent all Sunday of Pride weekend at home.

And you know, I'm really good with that. Excited for everyone who made it out and paraded and partied. Happy Pride!

🏳️‍🌈❤️🦄

flanakey, 1 year ago to Bonsai

New #introduction after a server migration. I work in #HigherEd, #garden in my spare time (#bonsai, #terrariums, vegetables, passive #hydroponics), lifetime learner, #reader, curious and #queer.