I've had a few new followers recently. And I will usually follow back, but if I don't it's because either:
1. You have nothing on your profile and no posts. I want to know something about who I'm following.
2. You have nothing on your profile but an OnlyFans link or something that indicates you're here for dating purposes, or all you post is nude selfies. Good luck, but I'm not interested, thank you.
3. You think some people's right to exist, or to live in peace, is up for debate.
Also, please don't DM me until we've had some public interaction, otherwise it's weird. Thank you!
Right now my best friend is in Canada and my worst enemy is stuck to my abdominal regions.
You really don't want to know what Sibyl did this afternoon...
That feeling when you e-mail your very dear but terminally absent-minded friend to ask them about a technical matter on which they are an expert, and they reply to every single point in your e-mail apart from the one thing you specifically e-mailed them about... 😆
(So I reminded them gently, and got a reply saying, "ah, yes, as you see, I'm very distractable", followed by an extremely erudite explanation which I passed on to the person who'd originally asked in the hope that they understood it!)
Something online reminded me of the first time I ever ate at a fast-food place. I was staying with a university friend in Liverpool, and it turned out that her family ate at this place once a week, so I was just invited along. And it was so strange; my friend's parents weren't at all embarrassed by the fact that they had two teenagers with them, and we didn't have to talk in super-quiet voices and pretend we didn't really exist, and nobody complained about how expensive it was (my parents could easily have afforded it but thought it was an extravagance).
I was so overwhelmed I didn't even dare ask where the vegetables were.
They've commuted the weather forecast overnight. After a slight respite at the weekend, the beginning of next week was originally slated to be hot again; but now it's set to cool down after tomorrow, and the temperature graph is heading rapidly and satisfyingly downwards. At the moment we're now looking at some maximum temperatures below 20 C next week.
I've just got to make it through the next few days... I predict a busy time for my air cooler!
If you actually have to e-mail a manufacturer to ask them how to open their product, then, no matter how good that product is, they're doing it wrong.
I know this bloke (haven't seen him for years now) who habitually refers to Americans as "merkins". Which just sounds like a humorous mispronunciation unless you know what the word "merkin" actually means. So I was a little bit horrified when he did this, and I said, "Do you know what that word means?"
"Oh, yes!" he replied cheerfully.
Let us then sincerely hope that any Americans in his ambit don't.
(No, I'm not going to enlighten you. Use a search engine if you're curious. It won't be embarrassed!)
@maikel@vmst.io OK, so for some reason at the moment I can't upload audio files, so here's a Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8bhg8onukjo6bgtzzynhb/sample.wma?rlkey=r07snush8coi9d6jdxpvjfij4&st=smheyvly&dl=0
I'd be fascinated to hear what you make of my accent. 😃
What is going on here?
I'm trying to upload a sound file, which I've been able to do perfectly well in the past. First of all I tried the .wma, which came straight out of my voice recorder. That gave me all kinds of sinister error messages saying the content wasn't what it said it was (no, really, it was). OK. Used VLC to convert. It wanted to convert to .mp4, so I let it. Tried uploading that and it said "this video has no video stream". I thought, that's weird... so converted to .mp3. Got exactly the same message.
@vmstan@vmst.io , any ideas?
Normally I'd be in church at this moment. Someone would be standing up at the front and "sharing the notices" (I love my church, but occasionally the jargon does make me wince a bit). But not today.
I woke up in the small hours with a Sibyl blockage, thought I was going to be sick (I wasn't - I'm on ondansetron to stop my stoma medication making me throw up all the time), spent I know not how long sitting up in bed with my head over a bucket feeling like death... then at last she cleared herself and I was able to go back to sleep.
So now I just feel like death warmed up.
I got my SCA tunic finished yesterday, no thanks to Sibyl. It really was very simple, because they didn't have shaping at the time (that didn't really start to be invented till about the 11th century); you take two rectangles, sew them partway up the sides, hem the armholes, sew the shoulder/sleeve seams (shaping the neckline on the fly), and hem. I did cheat slightly for the neckline; at the time they'd have just done a narrow hem (facings are quite a modern invention), but I used cotton tape as a binding. It's not going to show, after all. And you wear a belt so it doesn't look like a sack.
Next job: my Simple Wimple.
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