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from Enjoy the detours!
Sadly, one week without progress on #TheMonthProject. The weather was dry and cold, so I spent a lot of time with my oldest in the woods. Goofing around, throwing stones into the frozen pond, collecting sticks for a bonfire we plan to do, or just talking and playing with our invented superpowers. I needed this time. And today it also snowed. So I fetched both kids earlier from the Kindergarten so that we can sled from our small hill in the woods and build a snowman afterward.
Besides spending some quality time, I've had a lot to do in one of my projects. Where most of the work is now done for the big release. Now I can slow down a bit here and can concentrate on other things. Funny coincidence, I've got a call from one of my old projects, that they require help. Because I have so much time to spare, I said yes. (This was a joke, I never have time to spare.) 😎 There is always something to do, but I like to help and to build a better reputation.
After this call, we've decided that I need to outsource some work in our garden. Mostly removing old plants and roots, dinging a pit for our pool in summer and some other small stuff, which takes a lot of time. I like this work because you don't have to think a lot here. Just do the work. Some kind of meditation. But I know that I don't have this time until the springs comes. So I have to admit that we need help here. Besides my projects, we also have the basement, which needs to get done. My wife decided that it should be done until her birthday in April. The help with the garden is now a good compromise. And I'm happy with this solution. 😀
That's it for today. Just some random things that came to my mind about what's going on in my life right now.
06 of #100DaysToOffload
#log
Thoughts?
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
(schotland)
ess e e e n ~~~~ ~~~~
Oh kijk I! Indrukwekkend het monster / van Blog Ness!! – i I
(parijs1)
^ ^ ^
Dis Lucht Disnie Land | Disnie Zee \ | / i I
(parijs2)
. . → Ik had meer Het is bijna van de Mona sluitingstijd. Ze Verwacht. is vast moe. \ / i I
(pisa) | | | | |Toren van Pisa | |volledig vernieuwd. | | Het leuke | is er nu Volkomen onterecht | wel af. recht gezet. | \ / | i I
from Telmina's notes
今日は1年で最も不快な日でありますが、今年は不快な気分を吹き飛ばす朗報がありました。
そう。今日から後半戦が始まる「モンスターハンターワイルズ」第2回オープンベータテストの開催期間が延長されることとなりました。
第2回オープンベータテスト後半は、本日12:00から、当初予定では17日(月)の11:59まで開催される予定でした。
しかし、先週末、PlayStation Networkで障害が発生し、それが第2回オープンベータテスト前半を直撃したため、後半では24時間延長し、18日(火)の11:59まで開催されることとなりました。
先週末休日出勤が入ったためプレイ時間が大きく制約された自分としても、今回の措置はラッキーです。
とはいえ、今回の件、メーカーのカプコンは被害者側のはずなんですけどね。にもかかわらず今回の期間延長に踏み切っていただき、本当にカプコンには感謝しかありません。
自分は既に前半戦で概ね目的を果たしているとは言え、製品版に向けて基本的な操作を身体にたたきつけるべく、後半戦もしっかりプレイしたいと思います。
今日は相当厳しいとは思いますが、土日に一緒に狩猟しても良いという方、よろしくお願い申し上げます。
PlayStation 5 モンスターハンターワイルズ同梱版が登場するとのことです。
通常版とデジタルエディション。残念ながらProは対象外みたいです。
自分は買いません(というか買えません)が、モンスターハンターワイルズに興味はあるけどPS5を持っていなかったという方は、いい機会なので購入を検討してみてはいかがでしょうか? お値段も据え置きみたいですし。
#2025年 #2025年2月 #2025年2月14日 #ゲーム #モンスターハンター #モンハン #モンスターハンターワイルズ #モンハンワイルズ #MHWilds #Steam #PC #PS5 #PlayStation #Xbox
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From the record label:
NUG is the musical collaboration of artists Jordan Juras aka PVAS and Florian T M Zeisig. They previously released their debut album Napping Under God on 3XL (2022).
Recorded February 2022 in Hinang, mixed November 2022 in Berlin.
Tags: ambient, electronic, interstitial, berlin
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Whispering words on the Web.
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
Lang en gelukkig leven
19 miljoen per kwartaal
Miserabel en armoedig
256 per maand met plus minus 300 eigen bijdrage per jaar ivm levenskosten.
Altijd leven met Oorlog en vrede
Vast contract, hoog inkomen
Altijd omringd door Klimaatrampen
Dito
CL finale
380 miljoen op jaar basis
CL winnen
600 miljoen op jaar basis
Normaal leven
Vast contract, modaal salaris plus bonus
Levenslang slaaf van geboorte tot de dood
Inkomen, werkplicht, leerplicht, entertainment via media en tickets plicht, plicht plicht, recht op plichten et cetera ...
Leven als replica, voorbeeldig gedrag
56000 per maand inleveren bij de koning 56001 krijgen van de koning 1 euro verplicht afstaan aan Anjer fonds
dit is slechts een aanbod van normaal geachte toekomsten voor u, mijn werkgever, en u medewerkers, mijn boodschap ontvangers, mogelijkheden die ik hen kan aanbieden op lange termijn
Het volledige aanbod aan toekomstscenaria kunt u vinden op mijn website Com.missietoe.com.net. In overleg kan ik tegen niet geringe vergoeding een op maat gemaakte toekomst leveren aan u mensen en dieren.
Nu in de aanbieding Toekomsten met Apen en Beren, individueel gerichte schaapherder toekomst inclusief wolf vrees, voor herders die hun vak niet verstaan en kuddes leiden zonder rammen, horen en liever niet werken met natuurinstincten betreffende noden bij kudde gedrag, schuld hulp verlening toekomst voor door rijken uitgedaagde armen, de voorbeeld volgers, dit hele land leeft van krediet, zelfs de banken of vooral de banken, zelden organisaties zo zien opscheppen over poen, niks daarvan is eigen, zelfs hun salaris betaald u, net de staat, maar ik garandeer een toekomst waar we deze leugens kunnen behouden, een zilvervloot scenario, een toekomst vol rotzooi maar dat noemen we dan rijkdom, ook leuk voor thuis op de schoorsteenmantel, excuus voor onder het vloerkleed, ik heb 1001 scenaria voor ieder land, bedrijf, elke zender, voor ad verteren, verkopen, voor overlegstructuur, voor broekriem handelaars, voor praters, zitters, arbeiders, het pro letariaat, pre dikanten, voor beroepspokeraars, beroeps spookeraars, ja ook, voor sneeuwschuivers voor sneeuwsmelters voor zonaanbidders voor maanstellers... echt te veel om op een dag te beloven kies daarom nu voor een langlopend contract met
De Belover Ja zeker, de belover.
from EnbySpacePerson
On Fediverse, we have a few writing prompt tags. I often make long posts on it. However, today's prompt for WritersCoffeeClub is long enough that I'm making a blog post about it here instead.
The prompt for February 13 asks “How do you organize your writing projects?”
If you'd like to skip the details, go to Whoa! at the end.
My organization is built around what I call the planning file. The planning file gets:
For a series, the character, species, etc. will get moved out of the individual story's planning file and into individual files (e.g. one big file for all the series's characters to live in, one big file for all the species to live in, etc.). The series planning file gets a story index instead of a chapter index. Each individual story still has a planning file with synopsis, plot, and chapter index.
I also have set sub folders. One of them is named after a short hand for cover. It's where cover files, promo graphics, and promotional text drafts go. The other is named after a shorthand for front/back matter. Right now, it's just where my CSS file lives. I had loftier goals for it but, since I'm only publishing through Draft2Digital right now, I don't need those other files.
For the drafts themselves: Individual chapters get their own markdown file. I use the cat
command put them into a combined manuscript. If I was using Windows for writing, I could use type
but I have a version of cat
compiled for Windows too. I switched to individual chapter files for technological reasons but I like this better now. Each chapter gets a heading block and a comment at the end tracking the ending word count of the day. I use that info for my word count
spreadsheet. I usually only retain ~3 days final word counts in a given chapter. If I was still working on whole manuscripts, I would only track word count by day against the entire project rather than by chapters.
Not included. I have scripts and configuration files I use so I can generate a preview file, ePubs, etc. on a whim. If you're already doing some kind of Pandoc process for your stories, we could compare notes. It's not even potentially useful for anyone else to hear about it.
This is pretty easy for me to spin up at any moment because I have a folder called a new project kit
that includes template files for all of the above. I just copy it to start a new project and fill in the bits I need.
That part is the part I think will probably be most useful to someone else. Make yourself a template with the things you need already there. Copy it when you start or plan a new story.
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from An Open Letter
Over and over again. It just pools around my inner organs until it’s absorbed back and it happens over and over and over and over and
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
Ik ben de belover ik word betaald om te beloven ik beloof wat de hoogste bieder mij beloofd ik handel in de toekomst in agenda punten afspraken vergaderingen percentages en cijfers echte liefde plezier voor morgen ellende van nu en de omzetting in de bouw en in de afbraak ik deal in voorbeelden, verhalen, artikelen labels, versies daarvan statistieken in succes de hoogste bieder bepaald de vorm van succes of het bestaat uit een front overwinning of een uitverkoop een buitenkansje of een medaille een persoonlijk record of jubileum de ware, waren ik deal in hemel en hel gelijk de potentie het talent welk label ze ook willen ik gebruik het ik adverteer belofte met woorden, curven, foto's ik noem het pensioen, gezondheid, lang en gelukkig dood en verderf of de hoofdprijzen het winnend lot uitverkozen door God net als de paus een held, een heilige, een topper, een prinses, een winnaar het paradijs of de val, het verlies ik herdefinieer waarde voor mijn opdrachtgevers iedere keer weer ik beloof wat ik moet beloven omdat ik geloof dat dit doen loont ik beloof ik beloof ik beloof ik beloof ik beloof dat het uiteindelijk goed komt met mij zolang ze mij uitbetalen in wat ik waard ben een hele hoop belofte
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This review originally appeared on Goodreads on September 21, 2014.
By David Wesley Hill – Temurlone Press – November 16, 2013
Review by Robin Marx
This nautical adventure is the first chronicle of Peregrine James's adventures as a part of Sir Francis Drake's crew. The book reads like one of the early Horatio Hornblower novels, with an earnest and resourceful young man proving his worth to his superiors, but rather than a promising young midshipman, James acts as the ship's cook. This provides an interesting perspective on the events to follow.
This book is well-grounded in history, taking place on a historical expedition full of real, named historical characters. This feeling of authenticity extends to every corner of the book. The details of seagoing life and the dialogue all feel realistic and colorful. I particularly appreciated how the author didn't shy away from the bawdier aspects of the sailor's language and lifestyle like many nautical fiction authors; this earthiness added a level of realism that is often lacking in more “PG-rated” ocean adventures.
My only complaint about this book is that I wish there was more of it. I wasn't aware going into the book that it was to be part of a series, I expected a stand-alone novel and because of my misperception the pacing felt a bit off throughout the book. Nearly a quarter of the book is done before the ship actually ventures out to sea, and rather than circumnavigating the globe, the events described here hover around Africa's Barbary Coast, a fact that made me a bit nervous as the end of the book approached. Not only does the book only cover a portion of the journey, it also ends on a right bastard of a cliffhanger. While I was pleased to see that more adventures are to follow, and pacing is less of a concern if the reader is aware going in that more books are forthcoming, I still can't shake the feeling that—instead of a complete book with a beginning, middle, and end—this book is simply a bloodily truncated section of a larger work. That's one aspect that compares unfavorably with something like the Hornblower series, which managed to deliver satisfyingly self-contained stories within the framework of a larger saga.
That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I'm very eager to see what comes next.
★★★★☆
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from Robin Marx's Writing Repository
This review originally appeared on Goodreads on May 29, 2012.
By Lois McMaster Bujold – Spectrum Literary Agency – January 5, 2011
Review by Robin Marx
Winterfair Gifts first debuted in a genre romance anthology called Irresistible Forces, but I'd only recommend it to those already familiar with the Vorkosigan stories, as it doesn't stand on its own very well. While not an indispensable entry in Bujold's long-running Vorkosigan series, this novella was a very satisfying read, one of those rare stories that left me with warm fuzzies after the story's conclusion.
Taking place between A Civil Affair and Diplomatic Immunity, plot is secondary in this story. This is a trait shared with some of the other recent Vorkosigan books, but this isn't a gripe. People read Bujold for her characters, which are second to none. With more than two dozen Vorkosigan stories available, Miles Vorkosigan, his family, and comrades have all become like friends to this reader. Every new Vorkosigan story is a welcome chance to visit with these longtime friends again.
★★★★☆
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This review originally appeared on Goodreads on August 9, 2017.
By Kenneth Robeson (House Name)/Lester Dent – Street & Smith – 1933
Review by Robin Marx
Doc Savage is hired to investigate a criminal conspiracy and incidents of sabotage involving a dam being built by the Desert Mining Construction Company.
While not without merit, this is probably the blandest entry in the Doc Savage series so far. There are some nice action scenes and Monk's secretary Lea Aster, the sole female character, shows a great deal of ingenuity in getting word out to Doc Savage after she is kidnapped by hoods. This volume was also completely absent of dated racist stereotyping, but this is probably because the book takes place entirely within America's borders. Exotic locations are a big draw for me when it comes to pulp fiction, so their absence in this story was a definite negative. While physically present for most of the story, another weakness is the fact that Savage's five companions also do not have much dialogue.
The criminal conspiracy at the heart of the story is interesting, as is the fact that Doc Savage spends a great deal of time surrounded by people who may or be secret saboteurs. However, once again the masked mastermind is dramatically revealed to be...a minor, unobtrusive supporting character who we are given no prior reason to suspect. This seems to happen frequently in the Doc Savage stories. A little foreshadowing would go a long way when it comes to adding some impact to the final reveal. All in all a C effort.
★★☆☆☆
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