I remember playing this back when it was new, although all I can truly recall about that experience is it being a real pain in the arse to run and not having a good time with it. Thankfully my personal tech’s and personality’s moved on a long way since 2006, so I thought it was about time I revisited a fully patched up (official patches only) Neverwinter Nights 2 with a better PC and fresh eyes. Or not. Within seconds I’m staring in disbelief at the dialogue before me, wondering if perhaps I…

This is so well put and ever since having kids, I have described it exactly the same: Your heart now lives outside your body. The hardest part of being a parent is that you have to trust these awkward, gangly, brave, but ultimately reckless little humans with keeping your heart safe, while also letting them be awkward, gangly, brave, and ultimately reckless. Because that is how growing up happens. It’s stupid. Mike Monteiro’s Good News

Okay, so, on Tuesday evening I was with a group of Ukraine writers and ended up recounting two or three times that I had felt so vulnerable in writing that I made poor decisions or I was led the wrong way. That suddenly sounds so much more dramatic than it really was. Nobody has led me into a dark life of crime and scandal, although there may yet be hope. What I meant was, for example, the way that my school careers teacher laughed at me for wanting to write and how that sent me off down the…

Welcome to Friday and another update on things here in North Wales in my little workshop that despite the autumnal weather remains comfortable at present. Get yourself comfortable, and let me give you a guided tour...It's rather lovely to be testing the 16mm rails in the garden! This build has been something of a slow burn, but very much on the home straight now with most of the paintwork and assembly fitted. The final stage is to add some weathering to breathe a little life into this cute…

There is one event I've kept out of the record for a year, and I kept it out because of a word. The word is Christ. It splits a room faster than greys do, and where I live it lands on a reflex before it lands on a mind. I've stopped caring who flinches.

Who lives here? What kind of life do they live? That’s what I wonder. The post Everybody Needs a Place to Spend Winter first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Last Friday for the first time in + a year, we went into our post-town for the Friday artisanal market: it is small but perfickly formed: Peter the veg; Cormac the cheese; scones, pies & cakes; fresh fish. We came away with a cheese selection; spuds and fractal brocolli. Food fit for comp'ny - a bit too expensive for everyday. Then we repaired across the street to the pub-undertaker for coffee and viennoiserie from Seamus the Plúr, who was previously up the way when Fərmεntary was a thing. The…

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Everyone posts lists ranking random items in the hope of fanning enough controversy that their bad opinions become viral (see: TasteAtlas). Yet, even though I am mostly immune to bad culinary hot takes (see again: TasteAtlas), I could not help … Continue reading →

I just finished reading null: $cat /dev/null_ by Dienw Neb. I found an ad for it in the back of 2600 Magazine that piqued my curiosity. I’ve mentioned it here a couple times recently. If you’re the kind of person who’d be reading these words I’m writing, you’d probably enjoy this book, and you should get your hands on a copy. I don’t even know where to begin. There’s almost nothing I can tell you about the stories in it that wouldn’t spoil it in some way, and it’s far too good to take that away…

Yay, a Gum Gum Person. Also, the arms are disproportionate to each other, something I’ll fix if I revise this.

Spotted while on a photo shoot a couple of weeks ago - and it made me chuckle. I had to ask, and it seems that B.L.O.G. stands for Buckden Lodge Owners Group, for users of Buckden Marina, nothing to do with those of us posting away on the internet...Not sure an AGM would be a great idea. The Treasurer's report would be a bit of a disaster, and you lot might vote me out!

How about another spooky car? Today I'm checking out yet another vehicle in the 2026 Halloween series of Hot Wheels and this time it's a Dodge Charger Stock Car that is showing off its Halloween spirit. This one isn't as inspired as the Baja Hauler I looked at a week or so ago that was outfitted for delivering pumpkins but it's still a neat little frightening automobile. Let's go fast and turn left over and over after the break...The Facts:Length: 3 1/8ths inchesNon-Scalper Price: $1 to $2…

Thanks for the tight squeeze before you hit the road. We’ll miss you too. Later, baby. AWESOME! There’s even more awesome here: Photo from: here The post #570 When a little baby gives you a hug before it leaves appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 19 through Sunday, October 25! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes: When the event will take place What the event is Where the event will take place Who is holding the event This week’s events Monday, October 19 Tuesday, October 20 Wednesday, October 21 Thursday, October 22 Friday, October 23 Saturday, October 24 Sunday,…

A camera obscura photo from tonight’s special guest Deb Chachra: “In July 2023, I went to Naples to spend a week working with Wayne Chambliss, who was doing fieldwork for his practice-based doctoral project in human geography. We built a camera obscura in a bedroom of our Airbnb as practice for building one at the (gated and locked) entrance to Hell, which we went on to do later that week.”1There was a time when I would tell people I did not dream. If they did not believe me, I'd say okay maybe…

After writing about being laid off in April, I went almost five months without paid work. As I wrote in that post, I started with some severance. After that, I learned how to participate in Colorado's unemployment insurance benefits system. Just before reaching that program's limits, I was offered a position at Colorado State University, and I accepted. Colorado recorded 2,400 people hired in September 2026, and I was one of them. Surprisingly, I found the job posting on the Larimer County…

7 fall soups to keep the chill off because nobody wants to sit by the fire with a big bowl of salad. I know you're thinking this is going to be a super-boring post about soup, because how interesting can soup be? But you'd be wrong in thinking that. Very, very wrong. Soup, as it turns...Read More

This is an ongoing project that will get continuously updated whenever I have made some progress. Check in once in a while for updates! You probably have a lot of questions. Let’s begin. …why? It all started back in 2021. A guy from Australia that did videos about restoring and upgrading old iPods set up a car channel, and that was when I got introduced to the glorious Fiat 126. These videos really do feel like a few ol’ mates fixing a car together, and that got me hooked. You can get a more…

So I’ve made it through the week with one pick. If you’re not a musician, you don’t know how hard this is to do. It’s taken an extreme amount of concentration on my part, but I’ve done it. But gig is tomorrow, and it is literally the only pick I have like it. I’m bringing a backup just in case, but this is a challenge I’ve never done before, and so far it’s working. What’s the point, you ask? There is no point, just like life. I just wanna see if I can do it because every time I play bass or…

As I alluded to in my previous post, I've got a new job. I'm a research associate at Colorado State University, working at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). For the first time in over 20 years, I'm working for a local organization, the biggest local institution, in fact. Riding my bike to the office, learning to pack a lunch, all the things. I'm helping several research projects use satellite imagery to derive global cloud properties in near real-time. Yesterday I…

...belies the dense day ...day thick with the fog of worry ...worry having compounded over a life ...blessed with gifts and cursed with loss ...just like everyone else on this vale of tears. a call goes unanswered... a wish bends to the wind... the wind blows my heart hither and yon... until it sinks to where it must... into a dream of falling, flying, rust. once upon a time a boy found his father when the man was at a loss what to do next and the universe quietly said: "pause, find, here."

It has been a good day, too. Much of the day was spent getting as many little things done before heading out. Things I won’t be able to do for weeks, after the surgery. Of course, that meant the phone kept ringing. The pharmacy. Home care with their annual call to my husband. My mother. … Continue reading Last day

Last issue I asked ya'll for questions, and I got some really lovely ones, and then I got hellaciously sick — "just" a respiratory viral thing but had a fever, basically slept straight through for several days, etc. etc. So, no newsletter last week.This week I'm answering the following question, from an anonymous writer.How do you find energy to come home after work and invest time in hobbies that take skill and effort to learn and refine? Even when so-called "motivation" strikes, by the time I…

A dramatic silhouette of a person standing against a vibrant red light backdrop by BEETTHOW (Pexels)"You must choose," the fate keeper says. "What is known or what is unknown." By the time I blink she has already disappeared, leaving me standing in the doorframe. I know what is behind me. Cold darkness that clenches my heart and drains the very life from me, but it's safe. It's comforting. It's a place I've known. Security is worth a lot, maybe even the corrosion of your soul. Security lets us…

Finally feeling better and getting Maui cuddles. Selfie a day for a year, day 48: Oct 15, 2026 edition.

A few weeks ago, one of my professors sent out an announcement that our university has positions open for an internship that's relevant to my major. I sent in an email application and was interviewed a few days later. 30 minutes after the interview, I was accepted! It will start next semester, and I will be paid $19/hr! This will be about $2 more than my previous job (if you can even call it that) lol. What's even better is that after my interview, my invitation said that they need more people…

⌾ : Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.⚲ : ///mock.brings.shops I travelled to watch an NRL match in Sydney last night. Australia vs New Zealand. The first time I have been to see rugby league played in such a large stadium. The thing that impressed me the most was the visceral wall of sound that was pumped into place. Thumping bass beats and an over-caffeinated announcer encouraging mass sing-alongs (Sweet Caroline is apparently the anthem for this) and kick-off countdowns. As soon as there was any break…