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Jul. 22nd, 2024 08:05 pmThe frustrating thing about drawing? Is sometimes I can do it, and sometimes I can't. ( Read more... )
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In other news? ( politics - Yay for Kamala Harris!!! )
I can't talk about this past that.
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Paris Olympics starts this weekend, and several new sports have been added:
( new events and why I may end up subscribing to Peacock )
Go here for more. And it's complicated now to watch it, unless you have a subscription to Peacock.
They've added Men's Artistic Swimming and Women's Boxing to the categories as well.
I may just cave and get a subscription to Peacock. There's other things to watch on it. And cancel Max, which is more expensive.
It starts July 26 and runs through August 11, I think. I like the Olympics. It's actually the only Spectator Sport that I do enjoy - mainly because it features sports that I enjoy watching - such as swimming, diving, break dancing, climbing, artistic swimming, gymnastics, track and field, surfing, rowing, kayaking, skate boarding, cycling.
I'm not really a fan of the "ball" games or "ball" sports. I don't understand the appeal of a sport where a ball is fired at you out of nowhere. Possibly being hit by them has something to do with this? And spatial perception issues? But 90% of our year-round spectator sports are basically ball games.
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I've joined Stich - now I need to get up the guts to participate in it. Prior to actually paying for it.
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Books
* Decided to loan "Dreadful" to sci-fi cowker, who informed me that he'd let me loan it to him, on the condition that he could return it to me. Which is fine. I have various places that I can deposit books. Little Libraries, and my Basement Library.
* PenPal - this is a creepy horror story that was started on Reddit and finally tightened up and published. My only quibble at the moment with it - is the premise? Or set up? A kindgergarten teacher has each kid in the class write a letter, with their address, enclosing a picture of themselves and a dollar to pay for stamps. They are to put it in an envelope, attach it to a balloon and send it off into the wide blue yonder or the surrounding area. With the view that someone will find it and write back enclosing a picture of where they live. Each picture will be collected and put on a map. This will help foster community building and connect the kids to the broader community.
Okay, I don't know? But I honestly can't imagine any teacher or school for that matter allowing that? Or the parents going along with it? I certainly wouldn't. I'd point out to the teacher - that anyone could get that information.
So I'm wondering if this the writer's metaphor for the internet and various children's relationship to it? In a way - we are all sending messages out by balloons, albeit not with all our personal attention attached, well not always.
The horror story is psychological - and by recollection of an adult of a child's memories, and his mother's. It's vague in places, and very much from a small child's perspective, which makes it far creepier than it might have been from an adult perspective? Interesting narrative style and highly affective.
* Battleground by Jim Butcher - this is book 17 in Butcher's Dresden Files. Audiobook. And damn, there's a lot of fight scenes with monsters. ( Read more... )
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Smartwatch is doing a fantastic job of monitoring my sleep and fitness.
Better than the phone did.
( Read more... )
***
In other news? ( politics - Yay for Kamala Harris!!! )
I can't talk about this past that.
***
Paris Olympics starts this weekend, and several new sports have been added:
( new events and why I may end up subscribing to Peacock )
Go here for more. And it's complicated now to watch it, unless you have a subscription to Peacock.
They've added Men's Artistic Swimming and Women's Boxing to the categories as well.
I may just cave and get a subscription to Peacock. There's other things to watch on it. And cancel Max, which is more expensive.
It starts July 26 and runs through August 11, I think. I like the Olympics. It's actually the only Spectator Sport that I do enjoy - mainly because it features sports that I enjoy watching - such as swimming, diving, break dancing, climbing, artistic swimming, gymnastics, track and field, surfing, rowing, kayaking, skate boarding, cycling.
I'm not really a fan of the "ball" games or "ball" sports. I don't understand the appeal of a sport where a ball is fired at you out of nowhere. Possibly being hit by them has something to do with this? And spatial perception issues? But 90% of our year-round spectator sports are basically ball games.
****
I've joined Stich - now I need to get up the guts to participate in it. Prior to actually paying for it.
( Read more... )
***
Books
* Decided to loan "Dreadful" to sci-fi cowker, who informed me that he'd let me loan it to him, on the condition that he could return it to me. Which is fine. I have various places that I can deposit books. Little Libraries, and my Basement Library.
* PenPal - this is a creepy horror story that was started on Reddit and finally tightened up and published. My only quibble at the moment with it - is the premise? Or set up? A kindgergarten teacher has each kid in the class write a letter, with their address, enclosing a picture of themselves and a dollar to pay for stamps. They are to put it in an envelope, attach it to a balloon and send it off into the wide blue yonder or the surrounding area. With the view that someone will find it and write back enclosing a picture of where they live. Each picture will be collected and put on a map. This will help foster community building and connect the kids to the broader community.
Okay, I don't know? But I honestly can't imagine any teacher or school for that matter allowing that? Or the parents going along with it? I certainly wouldn't. I'd point out to the teacher - that anyone could get that information.
So I'm wondering if this the writer's metaphor for the internet and various children's relationship to it? In a way - we are all sending messages out by balloons, albeit not with all our personal attention attached, well not always.
The horror story is psychological - and by recollection of an adult of a child's memories, and his mother's. It's vague in places, and very much from a small child's perspective, which makes it far creepier than it might have been from an adult perspective? Interesting narrative style and highly affective.
* Battleground by Jim Butcher - this is book 17 in Butcher's Dresden Files. Audiobook. And damn, there's a lot of fight scenes with monsters. ( Read more... )
***
Smartwatch is doing a fantastic job of monitoring my sleep and fitness.
Better than the phone did.
( Read more... )