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the_rckI cut two blogs off the Metanews reading list yesterday. One tended to produce one usable meta post for roughly every ten actual posts, but I had to read every single post all the way through before deciding to link, and it posted about fifty things a week, so that ate up a lot of time. The other was a much higher volume site with three or four hundred posts a week, only five to ten of which would be meta. I thought about keeping it because it was very fast to weed. Most articles were clearly, based on title alone, not meta, so I only had to look at ten to fifteen articles in any depth.
That leaves four sites that I'm looking at that might be more trouble than they're worth. The two of those that I would most like to cut, I don't want to let go because they're the only two that we follow that are dedicated to comics. They're both very high volume sites, however, that yield little meta.
I think I need to think twice about signing up for a week of check in posts for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
writethisfanfic again. I hate to give up on it since there only seem to be three of us willing to do it, but this week, I didn't once post before 5 p.m. Usually, I post before noon. Also, I'm not really using the community because I haven't actually done any writing in a couple of months. I want to, but I can't focus at all. I like the idea of the community, but I'm not sure I'm getting anything out of it. Of course, check in posts take all of about ten minutes a day, every day for a week. That's not a huge time commitment. The hardest part is coming up with discussion topics that aren't either inane or things that have been put forward dozens of times before. I'm feeling more than a little burnt out on that part.
We only got through one CD of Son of Neptune tonight because Cordelia didn't want to do more and didn't want me to go on without her. We only have one CD left, though, so I may insist that we listen to it tomorrow before we go to the library.
Cordelia's best friend and her younger brother will be coming over every day next week. Their father usually drops them off about 7:45, but their mother says she'll be bringing them about 8:00 instead. Cordelia has the impression that their mother may actually have started driving and that that's why she's bringing them. If they were coming by bus, I'd expect them to come later because it takes a while to get here and because the buses are extremely crowded at that time of day. She has also offered to bring food which would be difficult on a standing room only bus.
Scott picked up some Stain Devils to try to deal with the bloodstains on Cordelia's shorts, but the stuff only comes in really tiny bottles, and the stains are huge and in many different places. Trying to immerse each one completely for two or more hours would take more time than we've got and a lot more of the product than we've got. Also, Scott didn't read the label-- We would need heavy rubber gloves. Scott ended up going back out for some Oxiclean, and that has cleared up both pairs of shorts completely.
Scott's worried that taking my Gmail address off my phone will make it not work as well. I pointed out that it's very easy to put the address back if, for some reason, I need to. I'm still learning how to do things with my phone. Today, I discovered that I can't set an alarm to the minute I want. The program will only allow five minute increments. I wanted 10:02 but could only have 10:00 or 10:05. It's more of an inconvenience than anything, but it does make it harder to set my alarm for exactly half an hour after I take my morning meds.
I've already had my mug of coffee, but I want more. I shouldn't because a tin only lasts me six servings (my mug holds two cups) and because I don't need the extra sugar. Also, it's warm and humid in here. Why on earth would I think more hot liquid would be a good idea?
I'm going to try to finish my interlibrary loan book before library time this afternoon. I've only got about forty pages left, and it reads quickly. I'm finding some of the author's recurring phrases annoying, and, although this is a work of historical non-fiction, he keeps talking about characters suffering the vengeance of the Sun Goddess.
I think I'm going to give up on the other book I'm currently reading. I'm only vaguely interested in it, and I have trouble tracking which bits of story go with which characters, so I'm not following events very well.
I still haven't found that missing library CD. I haven't looked very hard, though. I keep hoping it will just turn up somewhere without me tearing the house apart. I probably should at least get down on the floor and look under the couch. The gaps between sections are large enough that our DVD remote can fall through, so a CD case definitely could. I was mistaken-- Amazon still lists this CD as in print and for sale for $19.99. I really thought it was out of print. A lot of others in the series are.
That leaves four sites that I'm looking at that might be more trouble than they're worth. The two of those that I would most like to cut, I don't want to let go because they're the only two that we follow that are dedicated to comics. They're both very high volume sites, however, that yield little meta.
I think I need to think twice about signing up for a week of check in posts for
writethisfanfic again. I hate to give up on it since there only seem to be three of us willing to do it, but this week, I didn't once post before 5 p.m. Usually, I post before noon. Also, I'm not really using the community because I haven't actually done any writing in a couple of months. I want to, but I can't focus at all. I like the idea of the community, but I'm not sure I'm getting anything out of it. Of course, check in posts take all of about ten minutes a day, every day for a week. That's not a huge time commitment. The hardest part is coming up with discussion topics that aren't either inane or things that have been put forward dozens of times before. I'm feeling more than a little burnt out on that part.We only got through one CD of Son of Neptune tonight because Cordelia didn't want to do more and didn't want me to go on without her. We only have one CD left, though, so I may insist that we listen to it tomorrow before we go to the library.
Cordelia's best friend and her younger brother will be coming over every day next week. Their father usually drops them off about 7:45, but their mother says she'll be bringing them about 8:00 instead. Cordelia has the impression that their mother may actually have started driving and that that's why she's bringing them. If they were coming by bus, I'd expect them to come later because it takes a while to get here and because the buses are extremely crowded at that time of day. She has also offered to bring food which would be difficult on a standing room only bus.
Scott picked up some Stain Devils to try to deal with the bloodstains on Cordelia's shorts, but the stuff only comes in really tiny bottles, and the stains are huge and in many different places. Trying to immerse each one completely for two or more hours would take more time than we've got and a lot more of the product than we've got. Also, Scott didn't read the label-- We would need heavy rubber gloves. Scott ended up going back out for some Oxiclean, and that has cleared up both pairs of shorts completely.
Scott's worried that taking my Gmail address off my phone will make it not work as well. I pointed out that it's very easy to put the address back if, for some reason, I need to. I'm still learning how to do things with my phone. Today, I discovered that I can't set an alarm to the minute I want. The program will only allow five minute increments. I wanted 10:02 but could only have 10:00 or 10:05. It's more of an inconvenience than anything, but it does make it harder to set my alarm for exactly half an hour after I take my morning meds.
I've already had my mug of coffee, but I want more. I shouldn't because a tin only lasts me six servings (my mug holds two cups) and because I don't need the extra sugar. Also, it's warm and humid in here. Why on earth would I think more hot liquid would be a good idea?
I'm going to try to finish my interlibrary loan book before library time this afternoon. I've only got about forty pages left, and it reads quickly. I'm finding some of the author's recurring phrases annoying, and, although this is a work of historical non-fiction, he keeps talking about characters suffering the vengeance of the Sun Goddess.
I think I'm going to give up on the other book I'm currently reading. I'm only vaguely interested in it, and I have trouble tracking which bits of story go with which characters, so I'm not following events very well.
I still haven't found that missing library CD. I haven't looked very hard, though. I keep hoping it will just turn up somewhere without me tearing the house apart. I probably should at least get down on the floor and look under the couch. The gaps between sections are large enough that our DVD remote can fall through, so a CD case definitely could. I was mistaken-- Amazon still lists this CD as in print and for sale for $19.99. I really thought it was out of print. A lot of others in the series are.
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Date: 2015-07-27 11:25 am (UTC)(I'll take your five minute increments! My alarms always go off at weird times because I'm lazy and mine's like an odometer-spinny and I just send it sailing and whatever time I get close to what I want, I roll with.)
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Date: 2015-07-29 09:58 pm (UTC)There are a few types of apps that I sort of think might be useful, but none of them are things I want enough to deal with going online with my phone.
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Date: 2015-07-26 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-29 09:55 pm (UTC)Of course, the phone won't stop whining about the fact that I'm not logged in and trying to persuade me that wonderful things will happen if I just give the phone my Gmail and password.