Designing a database is HARD. The last time I built one from scratch was back in the late 1990s, for my dissertation research, and it was non-relational and with a different program. Now I'm using Access 2016, setting up lots of relationships and forms and bells and whistles. But slowly I'm getting there. Useful skills, whether or not I ever write ( Read more... )

I was going to do this last week, for my birthday [because I am a Hobbit, and Hobbits give other people presents on their birthdays], but (a) busy, and (b) IJ down and I prefer doing auto-crossposting, so ( Read more... )

So I wrote three ficlets today. (Yes, I did work too. They were written on breaks/lunch.) Which is, like, unheard of for me lately. I'm not going to count on it continuing though. What really makes me go o_O, though, is that I posted them on AO3, and the first one, which went up less than 8 hours ago, has 151 hits and 15 kudos already. WTF. I'll ( Read more... )

( So that's that, then. No kids. )

Day 6

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

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Day 5

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

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( Cut just on general principles )

Day 4

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.


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Day 3

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

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