Sundry Sunday Thoughts
Sunday, March 16th, 2014 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kJust expressed my interest in 144 WisCon programming items. You have until midnight CDT 17 Mar (0500 UTC 18 Mar)--don't let the chance to determine our programming slip by.
Sunlight until almost 7 pm is singing-at-the-top-of-my-lungs wonderful. There's been major melting—I can now use the fixed route bus again. Hooray! While it sounds convenient to have door-to-door service with paratransit, the ride is so long and anxiety-inducing that the "big bus" is a delight.
Neither swam nor trod my mill nor walked with my walker today. Yes, I'm feeling exhausted and weary and unwell, and part of me thinks that it is OK to take a day off. But the most impairing thing right now is guilt: the gloomy voice accusing me of lassitude due to "just" depression, and not my Syndrome. Brainweasel rodenticide, I need some.
I've learned something important about my reading tastes: I don't really like fantasy, or at least this decade's. That said, I'm finding Helene Wecker's The Golem & the Jinni to have just enough real-life history that I can stick to the story, and just enough polished, old, fantasy to be fascinating and familiar. She takes me inside the Jinni's and Golem's thinking, and their viewpoints make turn-of-the-19th century NY city even more magical. Also the immigrant experience, which resonates with my own family's.
In recent reading folks have written that a grey on black Tumblr with 7 point type can be a roadblock. It could be to me, as well, except I've developed a quiver full of "make it easy to read" tools. Would anyone be interested in an article explaining "how to make 90% of web pages readable, with a few mouse clicks or handy browser extensions"?
Sunlight until almost 7 pm is singing-at-the-top-of-my-lungs wonderful. There's been major melting—I can now use the fixed route bus again. Hooray! While it sounds convenient to have door-to-door service with paratransit, the ride is so long and anxiety-inducing that the "big bus" is a delight.
Neither swam nor trod my mill nor walked with my walker today. Yes, I'm feeling exhausted and weary and unwell, and part of me thinks that it is OK to take a day off. But the most impairing thing right now is guilt: the gloomy voice accusing me of lassitude due to "just" depression, and not my Syndrome. Brainweasel rodenticide, I need some.
I've learned something important about my reading tastes: I don't really like fantasy, or at least this decade's. That said, I'm finding Helene Wecker's The Golem & the Jinni to have just enough real-life history that I can stick to the story, and just enough polished, old, fantasy to be fascinating and familiar. She takes me inside the Jinni's and Golem's thinking, and their viewpoints make turn-of-the-19th century NY city even more magical. Also the immigrant experience, which resonates with my own family's.
In recent reading folks have written that a grey on black Tumblr with 7 point type can be a roadblock. It could be to me, as well, except I've developed a quiver full of "make it easy to read" tools. Would anyone be interested in an article explaining "how to make 90% of web pages readable, with a few mouse clicks or handy browser extensions"?