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Boy Scouts Handbook - First Edition

The first edition. A hodgepodge perhaps chiefly of interest in what is included. Games. Short history and civics lessons. Discussions of wildlife and tracking. First aid. How to earn badges.

Some articles show that science has marched on from the day.

Sayings from Indians are invariably in crude English, but also invariably are to teach wise things to the boys.

I noted that in the fire section, they discussed the danger of wildfires, but didn't mention that first of all, you ensure you build your fire on bare earth. Anything burnable will carry the fire away, and roots are particularly dangerous. So, health and safety information may also be out of date.

settiai

Nintendo announced yesterday that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting an update in January!

... okay, yes, there was also some news about the new Nintendo Switch 2 edition being released, but I didn't pay much attention to that one. I'm lucky to have a still-working Switch Lite considering just how old it is at this point, and I think it's safe to say that a new system isn't in my budget in the foreseeable future. So I'm much more interested in the update for everyone who already has the game.

ACNH has been my comfort game for over five years now. I'd never played any of the Animal Crossing games before, but one of the players in my Friday D&D group convinced the rest of us to all buy the game after D&D the day it was released back in 2020. The world had just gone into lockdown, and it was a lifesaver then and has continued to be over the years.

It's amazing just how much my mood has been lifted hearing that there's something new coming for it. I honestly didn't think they would be doing another update. 💕

Current Mood: excited

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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

Current Mood: busy

beccaelizabeth

A sensible person would take breaks from this game.
... it is three in the morning and I have played Wrath of teh Righteous a Lot.

But the only thing left to do in the game is to win it, so.

I finished the Dance of Masks DLC. I would like my achievements for it, because I did them all on Core now, which was not simples. But it hasn't been giving me achievements. Which is a worry because if I win this on Core and it decides not to know that? I will be so very very deeply displeased. I will grump for ages.

But! The festival bit of the DLC was fun, and I liked how it was mostly dealing with the party having trauma, because theme. I also liked the happy bonus content when romancing Ulbrig. ( Read more... )

After that though there was the bit that is the reason I've never got around to trying for the secret ending: ( Read more... )

So I got the tedious bit all done and it took way longer than I imagined.

But the game is all saved and set ready to win next time I play.

... I should have a day off, but I have met me, and this seems unlikely.

I really like winning this game.

lizvogel

On reflection, I've decided against the 60K November challenge on AbsoluteWrite. I've done the 50K of NaNo a couple of times, I know I can do it, but I don't see any need to make it harder. Also, the book really doesn't need another 60K (ghod, I hope it doesn't!), and while I certainly could finish the book and pad out the rest with short stories or whatever, I think I will have earned myself a nice break when I finish this thing, and it would be a lot healthier to take it.

So instead I have signed up for thirty30K, to see if it's worth signing up for. It looks like a very stripped-down NaNo: there are badges and words-per-day calculations and a progress chart, yay!. Not much community, at least not yet; there don't seem to be open forums, though there are groups you can join. Overall it looks worth a try, and like something that might grow into a decent NaNo-replacement given interest and time. At the very least it will give me structure for doing 30K (which should, please ghod, finish the book) in November.

In preparation, I thought it would be nice to get the book up to 90K, a nice round number, which needed about 3400 words in the last four days of October. I pulled off 1125 on Tuesday and 1360 yesterday, leaving a very achievable <900 for tomorrow. (Today was otherwise spoken for.) This is reminding me of something I've learned before, but keep forgetting: having a specific word-count goal for the day works to keep me at the page, and if I try just a little more I often find I have another batch of words in me after I've run out the first time. I can do this.

I've kind of abandoned the monthly word quota; for a long time it worked for me, but then it started being more harm than help. I've never really done a daily goal, outside of NaNo. But maybe I should try it. I mean, if a day is really not working, I don't have to chain myself to a quota; sometimes there are days when it's just not happening. But it might not hurt to try a modest daily goal for writing days, to give myself a more specific target than just "write some".

We'll see how November goes.

Current Mood: pondering
Current Music: Guster, "Perfect"

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settiai

I've made this post a few times without any luck, but I wanted to try again just in case. Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. I'm trying to cover the hotel bill due today, and it would help a lot if I could at least sell the Pokémon one since it's worth the most.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

beccaelizabeth

My achievements did not pop up today. Once again I have done A Dance Of Masks and not got the achievements for it. Not the fighty ones and not the ordinary ones. It is frustrating and annoying.

I only loaded to see if they would and to go back a bit to get some loot I missed last night. Had to go back to the previous autosave and then go put my buffs on again. Which took less than an hour.

Today's Labyrinth t shirt is so long it is only not a dress because of what would happen if I bend over. It's a good t shirt though. There's suddenly a lot of them to choose from, it's neat.

I dreamed this morning of a very old pub called The Holly Man. ( Read more... )
The part where twelve people sit down together and chat to set the world to rights is the interesting things about pubs. So making it that small was sort of concentrating the interesting bits.

Still wondering what would happen if the Holly Man turned up
especially if he found some very unholy people at dinner.

Now I am awake and must admit it and get on with my day. New food arriving this evening because some of it wasn't there on Sunday. But some nice stuff for lunch is available. I keep forgetting how nice eggs with a bit of cheese can be. Or I could run the dishwasher and have the soup bowls with the lid ready again.

... kind of missing the idea of someone cooking it for me, but I haven't gone indoors at a pub for longer than it takes to order for over five years...

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

beccaelizabeth

I have done all the Festival bit of the DLC, including all the arena has to offer.
Played a bit later than I intended but around the time I was planning to sleep I was instead stuck in a rolling battle that just kept getting worse. I was thinking I did not know how to survive it but if I did survive it I would have bragging rights forEVER.

Details under the cut: ( Read more... )

So that was the kind of very exciting computer game day where you spend a lot of it going
yikes yikes yikes yikes
and trying to figure out what is going on because there's too many overlapping graphics on the screen and it is lagging so so bad
but then I won
so now it is fun excite again.

Pretty good apparently nine hours today.

... now if it only gives me my achievements that'll be grand. I got one of the ones I earned yesterday but it hasn't pinged up the second from yesterday or any today.

If I lose the achievement for finishing on Core I shall be very, very, very annoyed.

... but I do seem to be kicking its butt on Core.

gwynnega

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sovay and

asakiyume.)

1. Lust, books I want to read for their cover.

I'm pretty sure I originally picked up Little Women (an abridged edition) when I was eight years old because of the cover. (It's this edition.) This sparked an Alcott obsession.

2. Pride, challenging books I finished.

Ulysses, maybe? (I read it via dailylit.com, in small email installments every day.)

3. Gluttony, books I've read more than once.

I don't do that as much these days as when I was younger, but sometimes I'll listen to an audiobook that I've previously read in print. I've done that recently with Rosemary's Baby (read by Mia Farrow) and Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej. Back in the day, I reread Marge Piercy's Vida and Braided Lives, and some of Marilyn Hacker's poetry books, among others. (ETA: I reread Dracula via Dracula Daily a couple of years back, long after my first read of the novel. I'm currently rereading Frankenstein. Also, it occurs to me that I've reread some novels for panel discussions. Joanna Russ's The Female Man springs to mind.)

4. Sloth, books that have been longest on my to-read list.

I don't have a to-read list, but I have owned quite a few books for decades without reading them. Sometimes I eventually get rid of them, but others I keep if I still think I'll want to read them. That category includes: The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (I hauled that book from Los Angeles to the UK and back again) and (more recently) The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers.

5. Greed, books I own multiple editions of.

Diane di Prima's Loba, Samuel R. Delany's The Motion of Light in Water, Judy Grahn's The Highest Apple, and Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God. (The editions differ in terms of what material they include.)

6. Wrath, books I despised.

An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson. A dark-academia Carmilla set in the 1960s should have been a lot of fun. I know some people really liked this book, but I couldn't get past the raging anachronisms. I suspect the book was originally set in the '90s or '00s, but then the author added some miniskirts and no one bothered to check the references--for example, mentions of Anais Nin books that hadn't come out yet, and a reference to Sylvia Plath "first editions" (when her books were new). Also, it somehow never occurred to anyone involved that no one talking about a telephone before the age of cellphones would call it a landline.

7. Envy, books I want to live in.

I suppose when I was a kid, I would have liked to hang out with the March sisters or Sherlock Holmes? But the prospect of living in the 19th century stopped being appealing at some point.

settiai

Now that I've finally made it through last week's episode without a panic attack in the middle, I managed to get caught up on sharing all of the art from the past six days on my side accounts on Bluesky and X. I've gotta admit, it took a lot longer than expected. It's easy not to realize just how much art this fandom produces when you're sharing it constantly throughout the day vs. playing catch-up.

Still, things are slowly getting back to normal. Or, at least, as normal as things can get for me.

The whole mess with last week's episode really threw things off for me more than I realized. I hadn't realized just how bad my brain had gotten until it started shifting back from the brink. It explains why it's felt like I haven't been able to get anything done the last few days, though.

That said, I think it's probably a good thing that there isn't a new episode of Critical Role tomorrow. Well, not a main campaign one. They're doing a one shot, which I don't tend to watch. I think it will help to have a full week off from them after finally watching the episode last night.

But for now? Work ends in about fifteen minutes, and I desperately need a nap before D&D.

Current Mood: tired

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Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling

An autobiographical account.

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beccaelizabeth

I have new hair :-D
Which is the same as the usual hair, I've been going the same hairdresser for my whole adult life, he remembers.
Excellent hair :-D

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settiai

Okay, I have some specific timestamps to avoid, so I'm going to give last week's episode of Critical Role another chance now that I'm spoiled for some things. I'm still not particularly thrilled with the way they handled a certain storyline, especially since they knowingly don't provide content warnings of any type, but we'll see how it goes on attempt #2.

As with previous posts, it's a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation. And it's obviously full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

( Spoilers under the cut. )

Complicated feelings? Check. But I at least made it through the episode.

Current Mood: annoyed

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