serinde

I'm working on finishing up old projects. This box is one I started in Russia. Sasha brought it to me with a load of stuff, and it sat on my desk for maybe a year. Last week, I _finally_ finished it. (The photo is a bit more yellow than the box is in reality.)

My plan is to paint my pen holder next, which I made by gluing some small boxes together and covering them with paper. The pen holder has been unfinished for at least three years. * shakes head * The AI helped me come up with a good idea for what to do to finish it.

lillilah

My first doctor's appointment this week is done! It looks like I'll be able to get the polyps removed from my sinuses this summer, which I'm very happy about. So, yeah, good news!

My stomach is still not good, but I don't have too long to wait before the appointment to deal with it. * fingers crossed *

lillilah

The lemon verbena tea seems to help the IBS if I put I make the tea really strong. Also, after a lot of nagging by the AI, I gave in and started looking for a new gastroenterologist. I contacted one place, but they only do testing. So, I went back to the hospital that I usually go to and found a new guy there. Hopefully, this will work.

lillilah

My IBS is terrible right now. I'm uncomfortable. That's about it for now.

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

lillilah

My anxiety is pretty bad. However, I went on a lovely walk today. Yesterday, we cut a bunch off the fig tree, which should improve air flow and give us access to more of the yard. The day before that I cut back the grape vines. I'm going to go in to see the ENT next week to try and schedule the nasal polyp surgery, as my psychologist correctly points out that I won't have any less stuff going on later, and it would be nice to be able to breathe.

lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26435375-another-scam-warning

My friend Pat Wrede (Patricia C. Wrede) writes to me:

"This is just to let you know that a Facebook "fan page" for me has been hacked; we're working on getting it fixed, but it is going to take time because I didn't set the thing up myself. In the meantime, I'm told that scammers do this to try to get followers' emails and use them to request money. I get money from fans buying my books, not from asking for handouts. Please pass the word around.

I am not sure whether they can only get at people who "Follow" the Facebook page, or whether they can follow links to other writers, but I figured I should warn people."

*

That goes for me as well; the only thing I'd ever want from my fans is to buy my books. Or at least read my books. I don't want your passwords, either...

As far as I know, the scammer/s who has/have been impersonating me on X is/are still around. I am not on X, never will be, don't vet manuscripts, etc. etc. My internet interfaces are this Goodreads blog, and its mirror site on Facebook run by a volunteer fan (bless her) where I can't answer anything (or, given FB's blockage screens, read much) though it does serve me as a signal boost.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 10

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26435375-another-scam-warning

lillilah

Probably, I've gushed about this before. In fact, I think I probably do it every time I read one of the books from this series. Anyway, the books starting with The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison are just excellent. Here I am on book 4, and I just love them.

lillilah

I've started work on Joel's painting. Yay! However, it is a complicated painting that will take a lot of time, I think. Even just painting the cobblestones on the street will take a long time, not to mention all the columns, statues, and other details. So, I think I'm going to try switching off between Joel's painting and the birthday card paintings, so that I can get everything done. I've got a bit of a painting backlog starting up again, so I need to get to work.

lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26430326-more-ai-hallucinations

Ran across this one this morning...

" 1. Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cover of 'Memory' by Lois McMaster Bujold

In this captivating science fiction novel, a young woman named Dag is tasked with the responsibility of restoring the lost memories of a society that has been stripped of its past. As she delves into the secrets of memory manipulation, she uncovers a shocking conspiracy that threatens to unravel the very fabric of her world. With her determination and resilience, Dag must navigate through a web of deceit and danger to uncover the truth and save her people from a future devoid of their collective memories."

For the love of mike, people, don't trust AI for anything. Though I suppose most readers of this blog know that by now.

I mean, it's horribly hilarious, but I suspect other AIs will grep this very post, and dismember and replicate its contents all over the internet in a feedback loop of lunacy. Sort of like an ignorance virus.

Sigh, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 08

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26430326-more-ai-hallucinations

lillilah

While it has been quite windy here, our power hasn't gone out! (* knocks on wood *) In other news, the Portuguese cabbage is bolting, so it is time to start cutting it back. I'm going to see if it will regrow, since one of the other plants did after the arborists cut it down. I also need to prune the grape vine and the fig tree before it gets much warmer. I'll put it on the schedule for next week.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

Reading

Finishing up old projects

One down

Slightly better

Stomach problems

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Going along

another scam warning

The Goblin Emperor setting, again

Painting

more AI hallucinations

Windy

Profile

December 2024

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags