Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The continuing adventures of Jeeves and Bertie.
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The continuing adventures of Jeeves and Bertie.
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Mostly food-related things for the first day of fall
Sep. 22nd, 2025 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's autumn! Or spring! Happy equinox!
And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating! May the coming year be sweet.
It's not actually in honor of autumn's arrival, but we have a chicken marinating in the fridge for tonight's supper. ( food chat under the cut: very little more about the chicken, a bit about apples, and a bit about breakfast [read: banana bread] prep )
And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating! May the coming year be sweet.
It's not actually in honor of autumn's arrival, but we have a chicken marinating in the fridge for tonight's supper. ( food chat under the cut: very little more about the chicken, a bit about apples, and a bit about breakfast [read: banana bread] prep )
due South: Sunday Dinner by ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum)
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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio, Ma Vecchio, Vecchio family
Rating: Gen
Length: n/a
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum) on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Family, Domestic
Summary: Dinner at the Vecchio house is always an adventure.
Reccer's Notes: An excellent set of panels with Dief and Ma Vecchio cooking, Fraser feeding the smallest Vecchio, and all of them at the dinner table. It's cheerfully domestic and perfectly captures the warm chaos of a Vecchio family dinner.
Fanwork Links: Sunday Dinner
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio, Ma Vecchio, Vecchio family
Rating: Gen
Length: n/a
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: ArtConundrum (SpaceTimeConundrum) on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Family, Domestic
Summary: Dinner at the Vecchio house is always an adventure.
Reccer's Notes: An excellent set of panels with Dief and Ma Vecchio cooking, Fraser feeding the smallest Vecchio, and all of them at the dinner table. It's cheerfully domestic and perfectly captures the warm chaos of a Vecchio family dinner.
Fanwork Links: Sunday Dinner
A Reminder re: Hey!Cafe
Sep. 22nd, 2025 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm maintaining an account on that Penticton, BC-based social media service, partly as a fallback measure in case I lose access to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter-as-was, and partly as a means of supporting made-in-Canada social media. You can find my account here:
https://hey.cafe/@dewline
Yes, I expect to set up something with Gander as well, for similar reasons.
https://hey.cafe/@dewline
Yes, I expect to set up something with Gander as well, for similar reasons.
SGA: A Place On The Corner by Cesare, anatsuno
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth, Carson, and other Stargate characters
Rating: General (later works in the series are explicit)
Length: 8467
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Cesare on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, rhea314 on AO3, rhea314 on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Series, Comfortfic, Complete AU
Summary: Grounded by an injury, John Sheppard leaves the Air Force and, at loose ends, takes up running the bakery he inherited from his mother's family in Colorado Springs.
Reccer's Notes:
This is the first story in a long series called Foster's Bakery. It's a "coffee shop" AU in which John's a baker, and Rodney is of course drawn in by the coffee he serves and becomes a friend, and then a lot more. The relationship is established in this initial fic, and is deepened in later stories in the series. It's a charming story, with the usual Stargate characters as regulars at the bakery - Radek even does a bit of matchmaking. The whole series is very much recommended.
Fanwork Links: A Place On The Corner, and the podfic read by
rhea314 is here
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth, Carson, and other Stargate characters
Rating: General (later works in the series are explicit)
Length: 8467
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Cesare on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, rhea314 on AO3, rhea314 on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Series, Comfortfic, Complete AU
Summary: Grounded by an injury, John Sheppard leaves the Air Force and, at loose ends, takes up running the bakery he inherited from his mother's family in Colorado Springs.
Reccer's Notes:
This is the first story in a long series called Foster's Bakery. It's a "coffee shop" AU in which John's a baker, and Rodney is of course drawn in by the coffee he serves and becomes a friend, and then a lot more. The relationship is established in this initial fic, and is deepened in later stories in the series. It's a charming story, with the usual Stargate characters as regulars at the bakery - Radek even does a bit of matchmaking. The whole series is very much recommended.
Fanwork Links: A Place On The Corner, and the podfic read by
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RIP: Bernie Parent
Sep. 21st, 2025 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Another piece of my childhood sports-watching life gone...
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/bernie-parent-obit-1.7639630
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/bernie-parent-obit-1.7639630
Weekly proof of life: work, impending work, and at least a bit of clutter tamed
Sep. 21st, 2025 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Posted elsenet yesterday: Queen's Quality is the only manga I've worked on with a simulpub release (for the last few years of its run), and now I'm down to odds & ends and small corrections that need doing for its final compiled volume. Feels a bit strange, having properly said goodbye months ago when adapting the epilogue.
That's this weekend's work, which I'd hoped to get done sooner than this (due to the Dayjob crunch starting this week, not because I'm running late), but I don't have the translation for my next assignment yet anyway, so I guess it's worked out fine. I do hope I can get this done today, though. (And I wish I'd gotten that translation and could have started adapting it this weekend, given. >.<)
Queen's Quality is one of those series that switched publishers/titles partway through its run (very early, in this case), and there's always something a bit amusing about being like, "I'm working on vol. 25, which is the final volume. I've worked on this story for 27 of its 28 volumes." (Which is to say, in this case, that Queen's Quality was preceded by three volumes of an initial series called QQ Sweeper, and someone else adapted vol. 1 of that one.)
scruloose and I have been getting some household puttering done, which was desperately needed. We're both prone to letting piles of ~stuff~ slowly accumulate, and getting some of that beaten back before work swallows my life for however long is a relief. (Especially since that type of visual clutter is one of the sensory things that starts to bother me far too easily when I'm stressed. It starts to feel like I'm being loomed over.
scruloose also hung up a piece of wall shelving for displaying things in my office! I have no clear idea yet of what will wind up on it, as most small things that go on such a shelf are just sort of stashed around my office in bins or odd places. I'll have to dig through some drawers and see what surfaces.
(I see the usefulness of the "a place for everything, and everything in its place" concept, but am terribly unclear on how that actually works for most people in practice, given how many sorts of objects [that do in fact see use] don't really lend themselves to "this object resides here in the house". We're very much not minimalists, which doesn't help, but...yeah. Like what do you do with, say, a vacuum cleaner if you don't have some closet space that lends itself to being the vacuum's home?)
(A while ago my mother-in-law forwarded a couple of pics she'd come across of our place not long after we'd moved in, when we were unpacked and a bit settled. It's incredible how alien it looked--the original horrible paint colors, some furniture that's been LONG since replaced--but I think the biggest thing is the complete absence of anything cat-related.)
That's this weekend's work, which I'd hoped to get done sooner than this (due to the Dayjob crunch starting this week, not because I'm running late), but I don't have the translation for my next assignment yet anyway, so I guess it's worked out fine. I do hope I can get this done today, though. (And I wish I'd gotten that translation and could have started adapting it this weekend, given. >.<)
Queen's Quality is one of those series that switched publishers/titles partway through its run (very early, in this case), and there's always something a bit amusing about being like, "I'm working on vol. 25, which is the final volume. I've worked on this story for 27 of its 28 volumes." (Which is to say, in this case, that Queen's Quality was preceded by three volumes of an initial series called QQ Sweeper, and someone else adapted vol. 1 of that one.)
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(I see the usefulness of the "a place for everything, and everything in its place" concept, but am terribly unclear on how that actually works for most people in practice, given how many sorts of objects [that do in fact see use] don't really lend themselves to "this object resides here in the house". We're very much not minimalists, which doesn't help, but...yeah. Like what do you do with, say, a vacuum cleaner if you don't have some closet space that lends itself to being the vacuum's home?)
(A while ago my mother-in-law forwarded a couple of pics she'd come across of our place not long after we'd moved in, when we were unpacked and a bit settled. It's incredible how alien it looked--the original horrible paint colors, some furniture that's been LONG since replaced--but I think the biggest thing is the complete absence of anything cat-related.)
Journal 2025-09-21 Sunday morning.
Sep. 21st, 2025 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last week was a busy week. Last Sunday evening I attended a Charlie Kirk memorial in Beaverton. It was well-attended, quiet and dignified, and I saw a number of friends from the local conservative community. The ceremony was short, about a half-hour, with about an hour of social time afterward. We didn't have any trouble from the other side.
Thursday night I attended a fundraiser dinner in Beaverton, again running into a number of friends from the conservative community.
On the work front, I learned that my current contract will be ending at the end of this month (my manager had extended me for as long as his bosses would let him), but almost immediately after getting this news, I was contacted by a recruiter for a very promising opportunity in Hillsboro, only about a mile from my front door. I should be learning more this coming week.
Also in my professional life, I finally scheduled, took - and passed! - the first of two exams required to get a fresh A+ certification (the entry-level professional certificate for IT support). I'm taking the second exam tomorrow morning, so I'll need to set aside some time to cram.
And I finally started the online Hebrew course I'd signed up for months ago, and which was postponed twice. It is an Ulpan-style conversation course, and I think I'm going to be very happy with it. I took the placement test and they put me in Level 6 (of 7). We are reviewing the Pi'el conjugation and practicing vocabulary and dialogs related to art and design.
And with that, time to get back to studying. [270]
Thursday night I attended a fundraiser dinner in Beaverton, again running into a number of friends from the conservative community.
On the work front, I learned that my current contract will be ending at the end of this month (my manager had extended me for as long as his bosses would let him), but almost immediately after getting this news, I was contacted by a recruiter for a very promising opportunity in Hillsboro, only about a mile from my front door. I should be learning more this coming week.
Also in my professional life, I finally scheduled, took - and passed! - the first of two exams required to get a fresh A+ certification (the entry-level professional certificate for IT support). I'm taking the second exam tomorrow morning, so I'll need to set aside some time to cram.
And I finally started the online Hebrew course I'd signed up for months ago, and which was postponed twice. It is an Ulpan-style conversation course, and I think I'm going to be very happy with it. I took the placement test and they put me in Level 6 (of 7). We are reviewing the Pi'el conjugation and practicing vocabulary and dialogs related to art and design.
And with that, time to get back to studying. [270]
The Pitt Fic: A World Aflame (Abbot/Robby, NC-17)
Sep. 21st, 2025 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A World Aflame (45470 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Frank Langdon, Parker Ellis
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Complicated Relationships, Hiking, Cabin Fic, There Was Only One Bed, Grief/Mourning, robby has four days off, and is heading for the hills, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Guilt, First Kiss, First Time, Porn
Summary:
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Frank Langdon, Parker Ellis
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Complicated Relationships, Hiking, Cabin Fic, There Was Only One Bed, Grief/Mourning, robby has four days off, and is heading for the hills, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Guilt, First Kiss, First Time, Porn
Summary:
Robby frowned and looked at Jack. "Is it me or are you now off Monday through Thursday?"
"Yeah, I figure we can drive out Tuesday morning and come back in time for my shift Friday night."
Robby's eyebrows rose in surprise. "Did someone invite you to the cabin I rented?" Jack tilted his head and just looked at Robby, silent and expectant. After a long moment, Robby huffed a resigned laugh, like he wondered why he even bothered protesting. "Jack, would you like to come hiking with me?"