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I woke up at a bit past 11:00 and got out of bed somewhat later, had breakfast, and while my coffee was brewing, checked to see if my package from Thriftbooks with Middle Brother's birthday presents, and turned up. I didn't expect anything, but surprise! There it was. So I have his books.

I had the coffee, and started fighting with the computer. At 1:30 I tried to Zoom for the Starsky and Hutch creative work session. Zoom did not work. Would not open. I alternated trying to get in, with using my phone to Zoom in.

Finally I decided to try redownloading the Zoom app to the computer. And that worked. I got in to the Zoom, and had no problem with it. I even managed to get a little work on the story done!

We got off a bit before 6:00, and I tried catching up online on the sites I go to. I loaded Teams and waited til the FWiB was ready at 7:00, and tried to Team. It was successful but then something weird happened an I lost the visual. We restarted the computer and I used my phone til it came up again, then shifted over.

At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He is fine, looking forward to his birthday, Daylight Savings Time, the first day of spring, and St. Patrick's Day, in that order. I have to talk to RK about getting to him for his birthday.

I finished teaming the FWiB, and had dinner. Then I called the Kid and left a message by text. I went to the bedroom and called

mashfanficchick just to say hi. We talked for a bit, and apparently when we were talking the Kid called, but it didn't ring through.

After I got off with

mashfanficchick I saw the missed call from the Kid so I called her back and we talked awhile.

Then I played a little solitaire, then got up to feed the pets. The computer is so far working OK.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The books showed up.

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. The Zoom finally worked.

5. The Kid.

6. Middle Brother is fine.

Current Mood: relieved

conuly

Not me specifically, I don't think, she just wants to offload a rabbit on somebody.

I actually would like a rabbit, but I think I probably have enough pets. Also, my sister would surely lose her mind.

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conuly

And was there not a king somewhere who said:
“Back, waves! I do command you!” I forget
His name, beloved, or his race, and yet
I know the story and am comforted.
The tides will rise, are rising—see, they spread
About your robes, your ermine will be wet,
Your velvet shoes, your dear dear feet! Ah let
Me warn you, sir, the waves will reach your head!

My king, my kingly love, how shall we stay
The bold broad lifting of this lovely sea?
What is the master word that we must say
To bring these roaring waters to the knee?
The other king went scampering away!
Will you so do? Or will you drown with me?

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This poem is by Leonora Speyer

silver_chipmunk

I got up at 9:00 and had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and went to my Al-anon meeting.

The weather is beautiful though that will change over the next few days. Oh well.

The meeting was very good. Then we went to the diner, I got a ride with S as usual. I had my usual bacon, egg, and cheese on a toasted English muffin. Nothing to drink though today.

After we finished, I took the bus into Flushing rather than coming back home, and met

mashfanficchick and we went to the food court of one of the Chinese markets. Ze had lunch, and I had a tea drink. Then we went to the market and ze shopped while I tagged along and looked at stuff, and thought maybe I'd come back another day and buy some things.

Then we split up and I came home. It was too late for the Starsky and Hutch chat, so I puttered with the computer, trying to get it's serial number (I eventually did).

At 7:00 I started trying to Team the FWiB. I had so much trouble that eventually I said to Teams me on my phone, while I worked on getting it up on the computer. So we did that. I did get the computer up and we got on that, but the connection was awful.

The books I ordered for Middle Brother's birthday were supposedly delivered today. They were not here. Either they lied about the delivery or they were stolen. I am very annoyed abuot that.

I should say something about the bombing of Iran. It's sickening. And as the FWiB pointed out, look now for more terrorist attacks in America in retribution. And can this administration keep us safe from them? I doubt it.

So that was the day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3.

mashfanficchick

4. Nice weather.

5. I did manage to get the serial number.

6. The computer seems to be working OK at the moment.

Current Mood: drained

conuly

This is some wag the dog garbage, but with worse naming, isn’t it.

midnight_heavenly_bodies posting in

addme

Name: C.K. or Chester

Age: 36, nearly 37, growing old mandatory, growing up optional

I mostly post about: Culture Club/Boy George & Jon Moss (my hyperfixation of 22 years and counting), Linkin Park, wrestling (classic SMW/WWF, Jim Cornette, and my deeply cursed WWE 2K25 Universe), my OCs who are realer to me than most people, witchcraft/spirit work/folk healing/moon rituals/grief magic, retro gaming, emotional overshares that read like journal entries from a possessed poet, fanfiction that makes people unwell at 2am, chaos, and the occasional Reddit food rabbit hole

My hobbies are: Writing fic that's 70% emotional breakdown, 20% worldbuilding, and 10% people getting railed in a meaningful way, hexing cults with sigils and sass, collecting music like a religion, drawing OCs, being a haunted glitter goblin with eyeliner and vengeance, building 48-year fanfiction universes with fully documented timelines and named children, going to work like a normal person and coming home a completely different entity

My fandoms are: Culture Club (I'm writing a massive AU called Colour By Numbers spanning 1978-2026, and a supernatural [not the show] fic called The Rhythm of the Hollow), Linkin Park (Bennoda forever), wrestling (SMW/WWF/WCW but mainly the universes in my head)

I'm looking for people who: are too weird for Reddit, too raw for Instagram, too smart for Twitter/X, overshare about their OCs like a religion, cry over character development, understand that Jon Moss deserved better, write long posts, and don't find it weird that I've named all the children in my fictional universe including the surprise baby

My posting schedule: Erratic. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes I vanish for three weeks and return with an entire AU timeline and a new OC

Dealbreakers: Racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, being a dick, Scientology apologists, anyone who thinks Mike Shinoda is evil because of an Instagram reel, "isn't wrestling fake?", "you still like Linkin Park?"

Before adding me: I'm a trans man (he/him, they/them). Autistic and ADHD. I write mpreg unapologetically. I am a Zionist and tired of explaining what that actually means. Pro-AI. I smoke weed. I am extremely defensive of Jon Moss and will write essays about it. My AO3 is CampCornette69 and yes that's a wrestling reference

Current Mood: bouncy

silver_chipmunk

I was up til 3:00 am last night trying to update my journal on this crappy computer. Then when I finally got to bed, I played solitaire to try and calm down, for far too long.

So today I slept until 2:00. I got up, had breakfast and coffee, and tried to go online. It was frustrating.

I got one at 4:00, just in time to shower and dress to go to my meeting.

I tried something different today, taking the 61instead of the 25. Not a great idea, it doesn't stop where I thought it did, and I had to walk back to the 50 stop. But I just made a 50, so that's OK.

Anyway I had my usual pizza first, and then went to my meeting, which was small but good.

L drove me to the bus stop, but the bus was almost 15 minutes late. I fonally got it and got to the 25 stop, had to wait 10 minutes for the 25 but finally got home.

Tried to Team the FWiB. The computer would not cooperate. Finally we connected, and talked for about half an hour. Then we got off and I started trying to do my journal again. Not working well.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. I was able to sleep late today.

3. Pizza.

4. My meetings and the people there.

5. The bus finally came.

6. Bed soon.

Current Mood: frustrated

silver_chipmunk

I got up at 10:00 this morning and had breakfast and coffee, and then showered and dressed.

Then I crossed my fingers and went down to the laundromat, hoping my laundry would be done. It was, so I paid and brought it home.

I put it in my room, put the cart away in the kitchen and then left to go over to meet

mashfanficchick.

We met at Cobblestones and had lunch there. I had their Philly Cheesesteak sandwich which was delicious, and I really splurged and got a green mimosa for a drink.

After lunch we looked over zer lease papers, and ze signed them, and then we went back to zer place.

I heard from Funko, they are refunding my money because they are out of the Stephen Colbert Pops. So, in frustration I went to Ebay and found it there. I was pretty sure I'd be able to. There was a markup of course but it wasn't too bad. So I ordered one, because dammit, now I really really want that Pop!

We hung out for awhile after that. Theo called and ze talked to him. At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB from my phone.

At 8:00 we watched 911, it was a pretty good episode. At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He went to dinner for one of the residents birthday and had a good time. Then we watched 911:Nashville which was so-so.

We had some snacks for dinner, and then we watched this week's episode of Will Trent on Hulu, which was very good.

After that I Ubered home, and fed the pets, and started here. The computer has been awful, I had to restart it twice so far.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Clean laundry which was done on time.

3. Yummy lunch.

4. Good TV.

5. Going to get the Stephen Colbert Pop one way or the other.

6. Middle Brother having fun.

Current Mood: frustrated

silver_chipmunk

Once more I failed to get up at 10:00. I finally made it out of bed by 12:00. I had breakfast and coffee, and then showered and dressed,

I took the ag of laundry that I got together yesterday down to the laundromat, I am happy to report that although there is still a lot of snow, the street and sidewalks were clear.

Dropped off the laundry and came back home. Worked on the story I've been wrking on, largely editing what I already had, but did some writing and am now around 3,330 words.

Last night in bed I went to PetSmart on my phone. I've always gotten pet products online from either Amazon or Petco. But someone had said PetSmart was better than Petco, so I decided to try it out in my eternal search for a pump to empty out the turtle tank. And I found something that I hope will work! I ordered it right then, paid for it by Paypal so I didn't even have to get my credit card out of my purse.

And got overnight delivery, to be delivered by DoorDash between 3:00 and 6:00. So I was waiting for that while I wrote. It came around 5:00, and I looked it over, looks like just what I want.

Didn't have time to try it out today, and won't tomorrow, but on Friday I will. Hopefully I'll be able to drain the tank and fill it up again.

mashfanficchick called and we made plans for tomorrow.

So that's the news of the day. Then at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. The Teams worked well, so I was hopeful that the Discord would work for my game, but there were problems with it. I had to switch out to my phone at two points. But I was able to take part in most of the game, and had a good time.

After the game finished, I fed the pets and had my dinner, then started here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got my laundry down.

3. No problem with uncleared sidewalks.

4. Got a pump that looks like it'll work.

5. My gaming group.

6. My phone.

Current Mood: satisfied

conuly

Watch on YouTube

silver_chipmunk

I actually got up with the alarm today at 10:00, and made it out of bed pretty quickly. I had breakfast and coffee, and started to write again.

The story is going pretty well. It's now 2,850 words, and has more to go. I'll work on it tomorrow too.

Once again, that's pretty much all I did today.

mashfanficchick called me to tell me ze has zer plane tickets for zer next Ohio trip, and we talked a bit, that's all.

Oh one thing I did was get a bag of laundry together to take down tomorrow.

Anyway, at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB, the Team worked well so I had hopes for my Al-anon meeting Zoom working. But it was only semi-working, it kept blanking out audio. Fortunately there was only me and M there.

After the meeting I had dinner, and went to the bedroom to lay down.

Facebook reminds me that today would have been Aunt Helen's 97th birthday. I miss her, a lot.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The writing is going well.

3. My meetings and the people there.

4. Memories of Aunt Helen.

5.

mashfanficchick

6. The Teams worked well and the Zoom was at least usable.

Current Mood: nostalgic

silver_chipmunk

Woke up with the alarm at 10:00, then dozed on and off til 12:00. Finally got up, and had breakfast and coffee.

Then I started writing on the story I started yesterday. I made significant progress, up to over 1500 words now.

And that was really all I did today. I contacted Funko again about my Stephen Colbert Pop, they essentially said be patient.

At 5:00 I stopped writing and went to the bedroom til 6:30. Then I came out and started trying to get Teams working to Team the FWiB. We both had issues, but eventually we got though and talked til a bit after 830, when we were interrupted by his brother calling him.

I had dinner then, and went back to the bedroom. I called

mashfanficchick and we talked about various things including Middle Brother's birthday. I had texted RK last night about him taking us out for that, he says he doesn't know yet and will have to see. If he can't, not sure what I'll do but probably a combination of the LIRR and Uber, which will be expensive, but necessary.

Anyway, I fed the pets, and now here I am, and that was the day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Story coming along.

3. Friends.

4. Warm apartment.

5. Came through the blizzard without problems.

6. Heard back from Funko.

Current Mood: accomplished

silver_chipmunk

The Kid called me last night at 12:50-something just to check on me, how I was prepared for the coming blizzard. Why did she call that late? "You don't work". *sigh* We had a nice talk though.

Woke up with the alarm at 10:00, dozed off and on til 11:30, finally got out of bed. Had breakfast and coffee, and went to the Starsky and Hutch Creative Work session.

I actually did some writing in something that I know more-or-less where it's going and therefore can actually finish. The Zoom worked perfectly, btw.

Anyway, we chatted til a little after 6:00. At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB and that worked perfectly too, except that every now and then the video and audio would freeze up for a few seconds and he'd have to repeat something he said.

At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He's fine, nothing new. We're starting to talk about his birthday.

The FWiB and I talked a few more minutes after I got off the phone with Middle Brother, then we got off and I had dinner.

After dinner I went to the bedroom and called

mashfanficchick and we had talked for awhile. Then I got online on my phone and ordered two books for Middle Brother's birthday from Thriftbooks, one on New York City and one on weather, which is what he asked for, as well as Niagara Falls. He also want a cd named Low Riders, but there's to many things with that name. I'll have to try and get more info from him.

The snow was falling pretty hard the last time I looked, and the city has implemented a ban on driving except for emergencies.

That's pretty much all.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. I don't have to go out in the blizzard.

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. Middle Brother is fine.

5. Thrift Books.

6. New story in the works,

Current Mood: good

conuly

I didn’t guess that I’d be stuck with the roads closed until at least noon tomorrow.

Well, I’m getting paid every hour I’m here, at least.

conuly

So, you got my opinion on Heated Rivalry, but I gotta say, I will never not read fanfics structured like ongoing internet sagas.

Also, gotta love the one dude, BostonSportsBro69, who posts in both /r/relationship_advice and /r/hockey going around in /r/hockey saying "Uh, no, it's just normal sportsbro rival stuff, you're all reading way too much into this" ~~when~~ because he absolutely knows better. (I don't think he's supposed to be one of Ilya's teammates, just a fan.)

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silver_chipmunk

Just a little though. It was the Flushing Lunar New Year Parade today, and I knew that would make getting to my meeting harder, so I got up 15 minutes early.

I had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and went to look for where my 28 bus wuol be rerouted to. I went to the regular stop, even when it was obvious it wasn't there, in the hopes there would be a sign saying where it was. Ha!

No sign, but a police officer directing traffic who knew, so I was able to find it. I got the bus to my meeting and got there just on time.

The meeting was very good. Afterward as usual I went to the diner, driven by S. Today was a soup day, I just felt like a bowl of cream of turkey soup. I also got an order of onion rings, which I should not have done, but they were very good. And a cup of tea.

Then I took the bus home as usual. The 12 also was rerouted for the parade, but my stop was only a little bit moved. I got home and tried to get to the Starsky and Hutch chat.

I got in with the Zoom, but then I made the mistake of clicking on something in the chat, and it froze up. I had to restart the computer finally to get back in, and I used my phone for awhile while I was working on the computer. But after that it worked OK.

We ended a bit after 6:00 and at 7:00 I tried to team the FWiB.once again there were technical difficulties caused apparently by the app, as both of our computers had problems with it. He [honed and we talked while he worked on his computer. Eventually he Teamed on his iPad instead. Then, when we were saying goodbye, the teams just crashed for both of us.

After that i had dinner, and went to the bedroom to play solitaire.

The Kid FINALLY texted me to say she was alive, just busy. *sigh*

I fed the pets, and now am here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. My pets.

4. Sunny weather before the blizzard expected this weekend.

5. Soup.

6. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

Current Mood: okay

conuly

The evening darkens over
After a day so bright
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.
There’s sound of distant thunder.

The latest sea-birds hover
Along the cliff’s sheer height;
As in the memory wander
Last flutterings of delight,
White wings lost on the white.

There’s not a ship in sight;
And as the sun goes under
Thick clouds conspire to cover
The moon that should rise yonder.
Thou art alone, fond lover.

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conuly

And lemme tell you, my team picking was solely on the basis of "Are people in this team active" and "Do they have an open slot for me", because active team members send you more lives and you're more likely to win prizes in the team competitions, but most teams are 100% people who joined and never play.

But you can talk to each other, great, except that there's this one person who is very active and posts every single day about how they've changed the game so she can't win, she sucks, she is always stuck, she doesn't like it anymore, she's gonna quit - this all prompts a flood of "Oh, don't go, please stay" responses, and I can't help but wonder if that's the sole reason she posts like this.

One day I'm going to tell her that if she really feels that way she ought to quit, or at least shut up about it, because her posts bring my enjoyment of the game way down. Don't know what sort of response I'll get from everybody else who isn't her, but I can't be the only one who's itching to say it.

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conuly

Oh boy....

silver_chipmunk

Which may have been because I slept til 2:00 pm, if you recall. But anyway, I slept badly in the night, woke up several times. was awake for a long time and as a result of all of this am now rather tired.

But

mashfanficchick and I both got up around 1:00ish and puttered around, then had cereal for brunch somewhat after 2:00.

Then we watched another episode of MacGyver, which continues to be silly but fun. When that was over I went and showered and dressed, and by the time I finished it was almost 5:00 and time for me to go to the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting.

I took the subway to Flushing and the 50 bus from there and got to the Bronx by 6:15, so I had time to get my traditional pizza for dinner.

The meeting was small, just me and L, and we cancelled the second meeting so I got to the bus just before 8:00.

Got home before 9:00, and Teamed the FWiB. I had an awful lot of trouble getting Teams to log in on the computer, so we used the phone until I did and then we switched to that, and it worked OK.

That's about all, we talked til a bit after 10:00, and then I started catching up on the internet.

One thing I did was check my Funko order status. It now says the package was lost. Nothing about sending a new one. I will contact them tomorrow.

I also called the Kid, she didn't pick up of course so I texted. Hopefully she'll either call or text back.

I made Facebook contact with Liz M, the very old friend I sent a Christmas card to! She accepted my friend request, haven't heard anything from her yet though.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Fun TV.

3. Found Liz M without even looking, she just popped up on my "you may know" thing.

4. My meetings and the people there.

5. Got back home and everything was OK.

6. Bed soon.

Current Mood: cheerful

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Page Summary

silver_chipmunk - Some good news
conuly - One of my coworkers keeps trying to give me a rabbit
conuly - She says, being forbidden:
silver_chipmunk - No Starsky and Hutch today
conuly - Jesus fuck again with this shit?
midnight_heavenly_bodies in addme - I'm back after disappearing for a gazillion years again
silver_chipmunk - Short day
silver_chipmunk - TV night and lunch out
silver_chipmunk - Took the laundry down
conuly - (no subject)
silver_chipmunk - Ignoring the State of the Union Address
silver_chipmunk - Writing day
silver_chipmunk - Blizzard!
conuly - I guessed people would call out, and I was right
conuly - (no subject)
silver_chipmunk - A little unusual Saturday
conuly - [The evening darkens over] by Robert Bridges
conuly - So, the silly phone game I play has "teams"
conuly - Over a foot of snow projected for tomorrow!
silver_chipmunk - Slept badly last night

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