Denise reports on DW that crossposting to
LiveJournal [is] silently failing, and has been for at least the last
week. This is not something that DW has any control over. Will
crossposting ever work again? Who knows? Importing from LJ is
also failing, so if you were counting on that...

If you are reading this on Livejournal, ( Read more... )

Last week went by rather quickly -- I don't think it quite registered. Much of my headspace was taken up by GoingSideways.blog and related work in MakeStuff. I even got into flow a couple of times, which is always good. By the second one I had developed a workflow that's pretty painless, and ( Read more... )

Trip Diary: Paying Calls - GoingSideways.blog.
The first visit we made today was to a nearby Zimbabwean village. But it began with a stop at the supermarket in town.
Some village tours in this area compensate their hosts by way of a ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Being alive. It suddenly occurred to me last night that I ought to be grateful for that. I guess? It's better than the alternative, anyway.
• Along those lines, N95 and KN95 masks. Home Depot has a good selection ( Read more... )

I've been using the same software for doing my taxes for somewhere around 30 years. It was called TaxCut back then; the company that made it was bought by H&R Block in 1993, though they didn't rename the software until 2008. For much, if not all, of that time I've been doing it on a Mac of some sort.
Last year I looked at the ( Read more... )

The latest post on GoingSideways.blog: Trip Diary: Tenderness in Warthogs.
There’s a line in an old Robert Heinlein book, in which the main character muses about the perfections of female humans, and then adds, “No doubt a gentleman warthog feels the same way about a lady warthog. But if so, both of us are very sincere.”
I can ( Read more... )

Not a bad week. Nothing disastrous happened (to me -- things weren't so good in Tonga yesterday), and I actually got a few things done. And tried to figure out what I did last year. (I'm sure I forgot some things -- I've been having a little more trouble than usual with my memory the last few days.)
I shipped $writing-gig-6 ( Read more... )

Two new posts today on GoingSideways.blog:

1. 
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Today I am grateful for...

• My TMJ not getting (much) worse, and not being (very) painful.
• Heating pads.
• Being able to coerce WordPress into doing a some of what I need it to do. (But by no means all; WordPress is very cat-like, and only obeys when it feels like it.)
• The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) for when I ( Read more... )

More specifically, what the heck have I done in the last year? It occurred to me that last year's New Year's Eve post was mostly about what I failed to do last year. That fits my mood way too well, but it isn't good for ( Read more... )