donutsweeper

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! It's been a weird weekend for me with just son and I here since daughter's graduation was yesterday (due to health issues I couldn't go, but they did livestream it which was cool so I got to watch it). Son was awesome and got enough donuts to snack on yesterday and have for breakfast today so I am quite content on that front.

TV season is coming to an end and shows are getting cancelled (or renewed in a few cases) right and left. L&O:SVU is getting a 20th season, NCIS a 16th and SPN a 14th. I'm beginning to wonder if they will ever go off the air. SPN outlived the network it started on, NCIS has surpassed the show it spun off from by a lot (JAG lasted an impressive 10 yrs, ABC must be kicking itself for cancelling it after its first) and L&O:SVU will tie its mothership (and Gunsmoke) for longest running scripted primetime shows.

I don't watch it, but I'm happy for the B99 fans who saw their show cancelled and then get picked up by another network.

Lucifer, unfortunately has been cancelled :( I'll admit this season has been all over the place, but still. I'm sad to see it go, especially since tptb have apologized for ending on a major cliffhanger so Monday's episode will probably be frustrating on that front. There's been no word on Timeless but this season was beyond uneven, so I can't say I'd be too upset if it doesn't return. Lethal Weapon however.... ( chaos abound )

My NPT assignment is fighting me some. Ugh, why is writing so hard?

I've been sort of ignoring organizing my last group of links because there was no real cohesive theme to group them into but I need to just bite the bullet and get them posted so hopefully they'll be some use to someone so be on the lookout for those within the next week or so. (Also, as an FYI a lot of links have been added to previous posts as I came across them.)

Anyway, happy Sunday/holiday that lacks a following half-off-candy-day to anyone who celebrates it. If you do, I hope you got donuts and if you don't, I suggest you use my birthday as an excuse to go get yourself some donuts because donuts are awesome.

Well, not a links compilation post anyway as there are going to be links in it but other stuff too.... (and I do hope all those posts aren't annoying anyone. I think there'll only be 2 or 3 more though. Also, as an FYI I've been adding links to older ones as I come across them so there might be a lot more if you look back at one.)

I totally forgot to update everyone on Molly, whom I last reported having a stoke/seizure in mid december. Other than some balance issues (mostly of the doggy headshake/earfwap and then fall over variety) she seems to have recovered nicely! Look how cute she is:



And, wow, she has gone grey. Here's a picture of her from March 2011, when she'd been with us about 6 months:


Anyway, good doggie is good doggie, although she'd like the snow to go away so it's easier for her to snort about on our walks.

Links-wise, these aren't writing/research related but still come neat things I thought I'd share:

The Victorian Telediagraph- a device for sending/receiving pictures as described/demonstrated back in April 1900. Pretty amazing.

And here's a hysterical article (with wondrous illustrations) of "Future Dictates of Fashion" as published in the Strand magazine in June 1893. (very tongue-in-cheek) I feel slightly putout that the fashion of the 1990's went in a different direction.

Wynonna Earp has been renewed! Awesome news all around, apparently SYFY/Space isn't scared off by a female led shows with canon f/f. Kind of surprising that it's only halfway through S2 and they're already announcing S3, but I guess it's due to SDCC hype.

Killjoys has been pretty good this season, the most recent ep gave us a taste of Pree's warlord days and introduced us to both his current (Gared) and his ex (and Pree and Lachlan's 'goodbye' makeout scene was ridiculously hot. I hope we see him again soon) I need to hunt down everything Thom Allison has ever done, I love his Pree and he's wonderfully kind of twitter.

I fell away from Doctor Who a while back, but the new news re: Thirteen's casting is awesome. I just may have to try to start watching again.

I haven't managed much for this year's Watsons-Woes, a combo of uninterest in Sherlock (the past several additions to canon haven't really been my thing), general bad brain and the fact I set myself the goal of writing something I'd be willing to put on AO3 as opposed to just throw on my LJ/DW. Oh well, maybe the last few prompts will spark something.

I'm debating signing up for the newest remix challenge, http://remixrevival.dreamwidth.org/, which, unlike previous ones, does not allow for turning gen relationships in the original fic into a pairing (all have the rule that if the fic has a A/B relationship you can't change it and remix it to be B/C but the last time I did one it didn't consider that altering A&B to A/B was changing the relationship so that was allowed). I worry a little that I'd get assigned someone who writes only, I don't know, A/B/O HS AUs or something and be stuck trying to figure out a way to write a remix out of something that is not remotely my cup of tea. Signups don't end until 7/30 though, so there's still time to decide.

I'm been doing a lot of genealogy of late. Something I love, but am often hampered by the lack of online resources, location (if only I were still in NY!), money (I can only justify paying for subscriptions to so many sites/ordering so many certificates) and a language barrier. There aren't that many German, Polish or Russian documents available for my tree for me to flail and fail at, but there's quite a lot of church books in Swedish and French (Quebecois technically) that I've been trying to muddle my way through for my husband's. Trying to get through 200 or 300+ year old bad handwriting (sometimes also scanned poorly) in a language I do not know can make for an interesting time. (On that note, if anyone is willing to look at one particular 1819 Quebec marriage record for me, I'd be ridiculously grateful.) By the by, I've also helped create trees for friends, if you're interested in trying to delve into your family's history or expanding on what you know I'd be happy to help. (I have the world ancestry.com subscription and know of a bunch of other sites, some of which are free, so while my expertise is US- particularly NY/NJ/MN, Pale of Jewish Settlement, Canada, and Sweden, I can probably help for just about anywhere.)

Daughter finally arrived home from studying abroad across the pond a few weeks ago. She had a blast and traveled at every opportunity so went all over the UK, Ireland, France, Milan, Italy, Romania, Germany, Latvia, Spain and probably a few places I am forgetting. However it did lead to the great texts like "I'm okay! Was at Notre Dame when everything went down but they herded to a bookstore and locked us in! How awesome is that?" (about the stabbing spree at Notre Dame. She was in Manchester and London the days of the terror events in those places too. Possibly another as well? I can't remember.) She also made it to Oxford and met up with jadesfire there so that was kind of cool. Molly the dog is thrilled to have her girl home, and as a bonus I don't have to walk her in super hot summer humidity anymore now since that's daughter's job when she's here. :)

So with so many shows having different length seasons several have already run their course for the season.

Lethal Weapon wound up being amazing. It did the 'it looks like we're going to take the typical way out for this one storyline but NOPE' (which is what I'd hoped it would do) but then took it a step further with a twist I didn't see coming. As a result I kind of want to rewatch most of the season to see if they'd teased it and I just missed it. That's the best kind of feeling about a show.

Grimm's series finale aired today and... wow. I only bothered with it this year because I knew the sixth season was its last and it was given the 13 episodes to sum everything up. To be kind, suffice it to say it didn't do a great job at it.

Sleepy Hollow aired its season (and possible series) finale today too. I know the show got a lot of flack for Abbie's fate last year but I actually liked this season. And it ended in a decent place in case it wasn't renewed.

Legends of Tomorrow finishes up next week. I dunno.. we'll see what happens. If I never have to see DCTV's Damien Dhark or Malcolm Merlyn again it will be too soon. I just want to watch the White Canary's bisexual romps through history. Is that too much to ask? (apparently so)

Hubby flies home Sunday after being gone nearly all month, the longest we've been apart since... well a very long time. Possibly before some of my flist was even born. I cannot WAIT until he's home again.

Molly and I randomly came across a turkey on our walk the other day. They are SO much bigger than any kind of wildlife we usually come across but she was not impressed (perhaps slightly confused, but unimpressed). The plastic bag that blew past us a few minutes later however, was terrifying. Utterly TERRIFYING. Dogs. So weird.

So a few weeks ago son and I discovered a rather, shall we say, questionable item at the grocery store



We had a good laugh over the sheer wtfery of it.

Then I made the mistake of sending him to pick up a few things on his own. The following is now being made in my kitchen....



(He's taking them to a friend's house where a group of them are going to consume and mock them.)

(The gummy bears' colors keep getting brighter, I am teetering between scared and disturbed.)

Awww, Jan Rubes- known to my flist as Daniel Jackson's grandfather Nick Ballard on SG1 and the coroner Dr. Mort Gustafson on Due South- just died. He was 89.

His imdb page.

I am confused....

I just gave the cat a small piece of chicken. He accidentally dropped it on his tail.

He saw where it landed and started going in a circle to get it.

And circled and circled and circled....

I should feel bad at laughing. Really.

I bought a big huge dove chocolate bar to eat during Passover when I was doing the shopping for the Seder.

Now I can't find it.

I am a very unhappy camper.

Dear Mother Nature,

Last Wednesday it was -23 with windchill. Monday it was 67. Today it is 34 and snowing.

Please make up for mind before I go insane.

Thank you.