sgatazmy

One of the spots with stairs up to the sidewalk, this is one of the spots where it's not terribly high.

Top of the stairs:

More stairs:

I am trying to find ways to vary my staircase shots without doing weird angles and stuff. I need to do all the stairs, but I also need more top tier stairs pics and variety. On tumblr, in the top pictures of staircases, they are mostly used as a framing device rather then being the primary subject. I am looking out for a shot like that, but I don't know if I can find one here.

( Mostly stairs )

I think my stair-step count for that day was about 750.

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A guy in a cloak with a dagger and sword fights two big green fish-people as the ship room they're in fills with sea water.

Tim Kirk’s 1978 cover to Heroes and Horrors, by Fritz Leiber

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Posted by Zach Weinersmith

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Hovertext:
The hard thing about male clowns is you have to disbud them at a young age are they get dangerous.

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Title: Preparations
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Dr Jordan, Eve, Scott.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 502: Come With Me.
Spoilers/Setting: Vortex.
Summary: Varian must help rescue Dr Jordan’s friends, but first they need to regroup and make plans.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

Preparations

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

paperghost

Yeah I think I'm going to reconsider how I use this journal. My health issues are really bad right now and I currently can't function or interact with anything, but I need to invest in a different kind of space.

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Posted by Victor Mair

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Oh, my!

Selected readings

"Commas matter, Oxford and otherwise" (4/17/22) — with extensive bibliography
"Crack and crab" (5/10/26)

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kalloway

Five tiny resin crates in various states of paint sitting on a green cutting board.

I ordered a brown AK paint marker solely to paint these crates, because I had absolutely no brown, apparently. No brown in the other marker sets, no brown paint. This is both baffling, because it's a pretty common color, but also not surprising because I first started painting Transformers for customs/character-swaps, and then moved on to Gundam and models and those all need brighter, shinier colors... So, finally, brown. Also grabbed a nice orange that's probably 99% for Blue Frames.

Crates were not the only thing I worked on over the weekend, but they were something I kept coming back to. I'm not sure what scale they're meant to be. Probably 1/35 or 1/48? But I can do whatever with them. All five were in a bag for $1 at SEMMEX so I feel like however they turn out and whatever I do with them, I got a good deal.

Nothing else to report. Have some plants ready to give away, and dug stuff for next weekend's nerd show out of the closet.

aome

So, Salzburg. ( Still gorgeous. )

( Travel to Amsterdam, including picky agents )

Will cover Amsterdam in next post. Hopefully in less than a month. :-P

the_siobhan

An exciting weekend was had by all.

Friday was actually nice weather, so I walked downtown to run some errands. Picked up my new glasses, dropped some stuff off to a charity, bought some new headphones to replace my broken ones. Got over 10k steps in, which is a new rehab best. The dodgy foot was so sore after and has been doing some cramping since, but I keep stretching it and so far so good.

Woke up Saturday and it was raining.

And raining.

And raining.

About 8 PM my neighbour knocked on the door because the drain pit was overflowing and he could see from his top window that it was pouring down my back steps. I checked and the basement was still dry but it meant the water being pushed out by the sump pump was just flowing back in from above. (And carrying mud from the yard with it.) The pump was going non-stop. The connection between the pipe that comes out of the wall and the one that is buried under the yard is open to prevent back-flow and water was starting flow over the top and into the neighbour's yard, where it was going into their basement.

So I spent the next hour in the rain moving mud from one spot to another. I piled some rocks along the wall of the pit and closed the gaps with mud to make the world's shittiest temporary dam and I dug trenches on the opposite of the pit to try and get the water to flow towards the back of the yard instead. I was only kinda successful because I hit cinderblock at one point, but the rain finally slowed down a bit.

By morning the sump pump was still sending water into the pit, but the level had gone down maybe a foot so it wasn't overflowing any more. It rained again last night, but this morning it's at about the same level. I checked the weather and we're supposed to get a couple of days off from rain, so fingers crossed it empties a bit before the next round of water.

So getting that to work better is definitely this summer's big work project.

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This morning I got up, emptied the dishwasher, and spotted what looked like a tangled clump of food and hair resting against the drain so I reached in with my hand and pulled it out.

Dead mouse.

So that's how this week has started.