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Jul. 24th, 2015 02:05 pmOur cleaning lady usually comes on Thursdays, but she called yesterday to ask if she could come today instead. I saw no reason not to say yes, so she'll be here in about half an hour, and I really should eat lunch before then, in spite of having gotten up fairly late.
Scott got up at 7:00 because he needed to take the car in for work. They shuttled him home, so he's not stuck there, but we have no idea when we'll get our car back.
I caught Cordelia just in time last night-- She didn't realize (and I didn't realize that I hadn't told her) that bloodstained clothing needs to be soaked in cold water to get the stains out before washing. She'd just been throwing stained stuff into her hamper with the intention of washing it soon. So we've got six or seven pieces of clothing in the sink right now. The stains are old enough that they may not come out very well, but I'm hoping. I really don't want her to lose all three of her pairs of shorts.
I haven't had any updates on my sister, but I didn't really expect to. It's entirely likely that she's home by now. I may try calling my mother tomorrow. I need to get my brother-in-law's cell phone number. I thought I had it, but I don't. I suppose it makes sense that I wouldn't. We've only met twice, before Cordelia was born, and we've never actually talked. Still, it would be good to have his number.
Even if my mother ends up in Michigan for the first week in August, Cordelia and I will almost certainly be staying in Ann Arbor. The lump in my breast has shifted around to become more obvious, much closer to the surface, and my doctor wants me to get a mammogram and see a specialist. The available time for that is the afternoon of Wednesday the 5th. I already had an appointment on the morning of the 4th, but I could reschedule that pretty easily and with only a few days notice.
I spent a couple of hours this morning weeding the Metanews LJ reading list. More than half of the communities we followed hadn't posted in months or even years (some of them even had posts saying that they were ceasing activity). I cut all of those. I cut all of those that post frequently but don't actually link meta (we were following a couple of communities that exclusively link fic). For those, I went back a screen's worth of posts and cut them if there wasn't a meta post or link in that space.
Of course, we don't actually currently have anyone checking the LJ reading list (which is a pity because there's a fair amount to be found there). The other moderator said she would but hasn't had time (or so I judge by the fact that none of the links that I'd expect from LJ have been in recent posts). I probably should post looking specifically for someone to deal with LJ. I am starting to think that there's no hope at all of finding someone who will help with the blog list, so I'm probably going to have to take an ax to it and cut a lot of sites that do good meta. I don't think I'm capable of keeping something on the reading list and not going through the posts, looking for meta.
I may drop The Daily Dot. It has a high volume of posts for a handful of more or less meta stuff. Also, a lot of readers dislike the site and don't ever want to go there. Then again, The Daily Dot is really, really easy to weed-- I can delete 90% of the posts without even looking at them, just going by the titles.
I guess I'm wishing I had an easy way to consult with readers to see if there's anything I'm linking that isn't of interest to anybody. For example, do people actually want links to every new installment of Tor's rereads? All of those come up every single week, and I'd expect regular Metanews readers who're interested to have started following the rereads independent of our links. Then again, it's always possible we'll get a new reader who hasn't discovered those rereads yet. I don't know. The Tor rereads take a good bit of time because there are so many of them.
Scott got up at 7:00 because he needed to take the car in for work. They shuttled him home, so he's not stuck there, but we have no idea when we'll get our car back.
I caught Cordelia just in time last night-- She didn't realize (and I didn't realize that I hadn't told her) that bloodstained clothing needs to be soaked in cold water to get the stains out before washing. She'd just been throwing stained stuff into her hamper with the intention of washing it soon. So we've got six or seven pieces of clothing in the sink right now. The stains are old enough that they may not come out very well, but I'm hoping. I really don't want her to lose all three of her pairs of shorts.
I haven't had any updates on my sister, but I didn't really expect to. It's entirely likely that she's home by now. I may try calling my mother tomorrow. I need to get my brother-in-law's cell phone number. I thought I had it, but I don't. I suppose it makes sense that I wouldn't. We've only met twice, before Cordelia was born, and we've never actually talked. Still, it would be good to have his number.
Even if my mother ends up in Michigan for the first week in August, Cordelia and I will almost certainly be staying in Ann Arbor. The lump in my breast has shifted around to become more obvious, much closer to the surface, and my doctor wants me to get a mammogram and see a specialist. The available time for that is the afternoon of Wednesday the 5th. I already had an appointment on the morning of the 4th, but I could reschedule that pretty easily and with only a few days notice.
I spent a couple of hours this morning weeding the Metanews LJ reading list. More than half of the communities we followed hadn't posted in months or even years (some of them even had posts saying that they were ceasing activity). I cut all of those. I cut all of those that post frequently but don't actually link meta (we were following a couple of communities that exclusively link fic). For those, I went back a screen's worth of posts and cut them if there wasn't a meta post or link in that space.
Of course, we don't actually currently have anyone checking the LJ reading list (which is a pity because there's a fair amount to be found there). The other moderator said she would but hasn't had time (or so I judge by the fact that none of the links that I'd expect from LJ have been in recent posts). I probably should post looking specifically for someone to deal with LJ. I am starting to think that there's no hope at all of finding someone who will help with the blog list, so I'm probably going to have to take an ax to it and cut a lot of sites that do good meta. I don't think I'm capable of keeping something on the reading list and not going through the posts, looking for meta.
I may drop The Daily Dot. It has a high volume of posts for a handful of more or less meta stuff. Also, a lot of readers dislike the site and don't ever want to go there. Then again, The Daily Dot is really, really easy to weed-- I can delete 90% of the posts without even looking at them, just going by the titles.
I guess I'm wishing I had an easy way to consult with readers to see if there's anything I'm linking that isn't of interest to anybody. For example, do people actually want links to every new installment of Tor's rereads? All of those come up every single week, and I'd expect regular Metanews readers who're interested to have started following the rereads independent of our links. Then again, it's always possible we'll get a new reader who hasn't discovered those rereads yet. I don't know. The Tor rereads take a good bit of time because there are so many of them.
