And now...

Sep. 12th, 2025 08:33 pm
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It is Friday. Weekend goal, sleep...

*yawn*

Sep. 11th, 2025 08:40 pm
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Is it the weekend yet? Why isn't it the weekend yet?

Wednesday

Sep. 10th, 2025 08:22 pm
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Halfway. Work was fine. My classes are amazingly going well.

We had a fire drill today. I told the kids and told them drills were better if they knew about them. This is true. I read about it after they wouldn't tell us when a hard lockdown drill was once. It was not long after a teacher accidentally put the school in a hard lockdown which traumatized my students. And all of us! And of course there was a school shooting today. I'm glad(?) I didn't find out until after work, and I so hope the kids will be ok.

Tom!

Sep. 9th, 2025 08:41 pm
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Tom has been fully out of his cage for about a week now. He seems to be at least mostly healed. He's very much acting like it, running and jumping more than he should. I'm so relieved for him!

Monday

Sep. 8th, 2025 08:20 pm
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Monday, and another testing day. Watching six hours of kids taking a test is exhausting...

Zzz

Sep. 7th, 2025 06:50 pm
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It was a three nap weekend. *yawn*

I often wonder how people do it. I don't have much responsibility beyond work and a job that covers what I need. If I'm always so tired, what is it like for people who have responsibilities and not enough?

Knitting

Sep. 6th, 2025 07:42 pm
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I've knit a few rows today. I'll hopefully knit more. I love the lace weight yarn--it will be worth the extra stitches and rows!

Zzz

Sep. 5th, 2025 07:37 pm
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Friday or tired from the vaccine? Either way, naps are nice...

Success!

Sep. 4th, 2025 06:33 pm
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Covid and flu vaccines done!

She did ask my underlying condition. Probably because it was a clinic instead of a pharmacy. Physical inactivity, clearly! I can't believe they put that as a condition. Isn't that 95% of the US?

*fingers crossed*

Sep. 3rd, 2025 06:20 pm
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I have a loophole appointment for a covid shot tomorrow. Pharmacies can't give them, even with a prescription, but private clinics can, so I have a CVS Minute Clinic appointment. I half expect it to fall through.

I amazingly haven't had covid yet. I know I'll eventually get it, so boosters, please!

Tom update

Sep. 2nd, 2025 09:25 pm
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Tom is currently without a cast and has a lot of freedom. His last cast was a little tight, so he bit it and needed it removed and had to spend a week in a kennel with a cone. But it's healing well, and now is just sleeping in it because Poppy and Sid are nuts at night. He's already a little more active than he should be, but he's a cat, so that's not surprising!

One inch

Sep. 1st, 2025 09:01 am
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The sweater is one inch long, and still about 18 inches. This is good! The pattern has a 44 inch bust and claims it's for a 34-38 bust, but I don't think twelve inches (or twn or six, actually) of ease will look good, even though 20s styles are loose. Four inches seems like plenty of ease.

Of course, my hips are about 38 inches, so I'll go with the original 44 inches for the lace border. Or as close to it as the 12+2 repeat lets me. That's 24-36 stitches bigger than the bodice. I'm going to try decreasing evenly in a row above the lace. Just like the bodice, I want a seam allowance. I think that will be fine. If not, I'll just gather it. It's very lightweight, so that will work.

I've done a similar adjustment for bathing suits. Larger below the waist, smaller above. It'll give a slightly different look than the pattern, but I think it's what anyone knitting this in the 20s would've done.

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

Started...

Aug. 31st, 2025 06:00 pm
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I started the new 20s sweater. The pattern had you purl row one and start the lace pattern on row two. I knit three rows first to give a seam allowance.

I hope my gauge was right and 144 is the right number of stitches. If not, I'm used to starting over!
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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

Footstool!

Aug. 30th, 2025 06:24 pm
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I decided I wanted a footstool today, so another trip to IKEA. My room is getting very comfortable!

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