Art

Jul. 11th, 2025 03:35 pm
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This art workshop made a "landscape" out of loose parts for the artists to use as inspiration.  Every art room should have a generous collection of objects to mix and match like this.
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I found a video that I thought was more informative for Listening to people worry about lower birthrates on World Population Day is enough to drive me to drink on National Mojito Day.

nonstop non-story nonsense

Jul. 11th, 2025 02:52 pm
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So....

The 'list' of Epstein 'clients' that existed before, never existed.

The security camera footage outside his cell that didn't exist before - does exist (and rumors are it's been altered)

Now there's also rumors of a little they-go-or-i'm-gone between a few highers-ups in the Trump administration (bondi vs bongino)

Someone resigning or getting fired seems inevitable at this point - who do you think it will be?

Who do you believe Epstein was? A disgraced financier with a sick side job? C.i.a? Mossad? All of the above?

If you were an advisor to Trump, would you advise him to say nothing, do nothing, and wait for it to go away?

Or is this not going away?

Birdfeeding

Jul. 11th, 2025 02:53 pm
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Today is sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a house wren.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- Yesterday I collected 5 little pink crabapples while out and about. These are almost marble size, much more useful than the pea-sized ones. So I potted up those today to see if they'll sprout.

TV Talk: Murderbot

Jul. 11th, 2025 03:41 pm
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Good season finale! Expandspoilers )

As it says on the tin: Good news, stupid humans: Murderbot has been renewed (avclub.com) [The big question is, who is going to play ART?!!]

Demonic Ox arrives today!

Jul. 11th, 2025 11:29 am
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The newest Penric & Desdemona e-novella, "The Adventure of the Demonic Ox", is being uploaded today. The time for an upload to penetrate the system varies wildly, from an hour to a day, but I'll post direct links here as each of our 5 vendors goes live.

Amazon Kindle is first out the gate:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHBMR3DN

Not yet up, but pending:

Kobo, Google Play Books, and Apple Books are interesting if you search by my name, because they each carry so many foreign language titles, if you scroll down. (Amazon ditto, I suppose.) These pages should populate in due course, though it may take a while for a new entry to sift to the top:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?que...

https://play.google.com/store/info/na...

https://books.apple.com/us/author/loi...

B&N Nook, same deal:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/lois...

To recap:



The Adventure of the Demonic Ox

When sorcerer Learned Penric hears of the suspected demonic possession of an ox at his brother-in-law’s bridgebuilding worksite, he thinks it an excellent opportunity to tutor his adopted daughter and student sorceress Otta in one of their Temple duties: identifying and restraining such wild chaos elementals before harm comes to their hosts or surroundings.

What begins as an instructive family outing turns anything but routine when a mountain search becomes a much more frightening adventure for Penric and his charges. What is undergone there by both mentor and students will yield lessons both unexpected and far-reaching.

***

I'll make my usual spoiler discussion space post tomorrow, for the speed readers.

As always, reader mentions of the new title out and about on the internet and elsewhere are always greatly appreciated, as this blog and word of mouth are the only advertising my indie books get. Amazon always gets plenty of reviews; the other vendors are usually more in need. But no one will see any vendor pages unless they've already heard of the story someplace else, and go to look, so outside reviews and mentions are especially important.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on July, 11
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Trying to read Dogs of War

Jul. 12th, 2025 01:52 pm
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is amazingly hit-or-miss for me, but this looks like it's coming up "hit". The sapient arthropods are a swarm of bees. If there are any spiders, I haven't met them yet!

Bonus Fishbowl

Jul. 11th, 2025 12:38 pm
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There will be a bonus fishbowl on Tuesday, July 15. The theme will be "anything goes." If you want a continuation of an earlier piece, or something totally new, that doesn't fit the usual themes, then now's your chance. Brainstorm in advance and jot down ideas for later. You can also request any favorite series, character, setting, etc.

Note that our internet connection has been bad for well over a month. Sometimes it's down completely, other times things like Dreamwidth and searches won't run. So I'm losing a lot of work time and may only have access for half a day or less. Given this limitation, there's a higher chance of actually getting things written for prompts that use characters, settings, etc. that are already established.

Follow Friday 7-11-25: History

Jul. 11th, 2025 12:05 pm
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Today's theme is History.

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