Brinens and Things

(part 3)

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Mom thought going straight to ripping up swaths of the feral meadow this year was too extreme, so I am scaling up amaranth production more gradually. This year I have planted one (six foot by two foot) bed.

I went out to give it a watering, and there are a bunch of tiny amaranth sprigs in the bed!!

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3) Where do you set your thermostat?

Currently 73F. Some years we work our way up to 74.

Symmetrically, in winter it's 67 or sometimes 66.


4) How did you learn to swim?

I did play around in pools as a kid, but also I took a class in 2011. Apparently almost all people take swimming classes either in early childhood or not at all: there were only two other people in the adult class (ages 13+), and they were both elderly people trying to get over their fear of water so that they could play with their grandchildren in the pool.

Which is kind of strange, really, since it turns out that swimming gets so much easier after you've been on estrogen for a while. I have a built-in flotation belt now!


5) How do you avoid overheating?

In practice, mostly by staying inside. Outside: hats, shade, fans, having a body that grew up with New Jerseyan summers and is used to this sort of thing.

Comments on my own posts:

[mild cw: amnesia] (not that the tag was ever meant to be interpreted literally)

[cw: food, apocalypse, poison, (fairly mild) unsanitary] The one about gardening and whether high-effort food tastes better [two comments on Dreamwidth, three comments on Tumblr]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea; in response to katuah) At the moment I don't *directly* have any prepping book recs, but I do have a website rec that in turn has book recs.

[mild cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by argumate; partly in response to eightyonekilograms) Authenticator apps with actual backup systems, unlike *some* (Google) apps we could mention.

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Links:

[cw: flashing gif] [Wayback] (by Kate Davis Jones) The history of Space Cadet Pinball. (Surprised to learn that it was a thing for several versions of Windows starting with 95. I thought it was XP-specific: I don't remember ever seeing it in Windows 98.)



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I was too tired to do this last week, so here is a longer three-week post.


Comments on my own posts:

Another mind-blowing these-songs-are-by-the-same-person fact:

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Comments on other people's posts:

(This is from March 4th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by archosaur-automaton) The adorable cover of this textbook is harder to appreciate when you've actually taken the course it's used for.

[mild cw: food, apocalypse] (This is from April 8th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by 1rakus) A quiz with weird question weightings, and a digression on emergency power generation.

[arguably cw: aging] (This is from April 24th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundup.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by thejogging) The many meanings of a half-broken key.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) A short puzzle game about meeting password construction requirements.

[cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by staff) Tumblr is ramping up its censorship, under the guise of "keeping hate speech in check".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Fun with Project Gutenberg.

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by rustingbridges) Preference ranking of starches.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Space-efficient email apps.

[cw: nsfw text, (mild) discourse] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by tototavros; also in response to shieldfoss and eightyonekilograms) Today in people getting separated by a common language (and not always geographically): how to distinguish between different types of plug. [three comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by lavenderfables) I like Rincewind *because* of his cowardice, not in spite of it.

[cw: Pyrebound spoilers] [WordPress part 1; WordPress part 2; WordPress part 3; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2; Wayback part 3] (OP by theredsheep) Pyrebound reactionblogging. (It's amazing! If you're okay with stories getting pretty dark sometimes, go read it!) [four comments]

(I noticed while archiving those that each section had exactly one previous crawl, manually requested, starting in July 2019 but continuing for the post written afterward. It's good to see that someone has taken the story under their wing.)

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Links:

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