Sometimes
Jul. 12th, 2025 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
syzygisSometimes love
Is telling a child
That you know they can do it
Sometimes love
Is helping a child
As they take their first steps through it
Sometimes love
Is refusing a child
When they want you to do it instead
Any claims
That parenting's easy
Are lies no matter what they said
-K Royka, 7/12/2025
Is telling a child
That you know they can do it
Sometimes love
Is helping a child
As they take their first steps through it
Sometimes love
Is refusing a child
When they want you to do it instead
Any claims
That parenting's easy
Are lies no matter what they said
-K Royka, 7/12/2025
Rest
Jul. 10th, 2025 08:32 pmsyzygisI'm going to take a single break
From learning Spanish, please.
I'm suddenly in "by the way,
Here's ten new words to learn with ease."
Excuse me? Giving me a phrase
Would maybe make some sense,
Or throwing me a bunch of verbs
That match except for tense.
But telling me, "now, here are words
Where accents must be shown"
Does not help me remember them
Once that first screen is gone!
-K Royka, 7/10/2025
From learning Spanish, please.
I'm suddenly in "by the way,
Here's ten new words to learn with ease."
Excuse me? Giving me a phrase
Would maybe make some sense,
Or throwing me a bunch of verbs
That match except for tense.
But telling me, "now, here are words
Where accents must be shown"
Does not help me remember them
Once that first screen is gone!
-K Royka, 7/10/2025
First of all, I am in Texas but not flooded.
Jul. 6th, 2025 04:47 pmjennariaIn the event that any of y'all were worried.
Second of all: Wife and I went to see the live-action HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, which was fun, but did not...do anything? With live action, to differentiate itself from the cartoon? If you're gonna make a live-action remake - heck, if you're gonna do a remake at all - then there should be a reason for it that's not 'look at my shot-for-shot re-creation,' at least in my opinion. I still enjoyed the movie, not least because we went to an indy filmhouse that spent the half-hour ahead of the film doing an incomplete survey of dragons in movies and TV, rather than an assortment of advertisements, but I feel a little guilty for the enjoyment.
Third of all I ran headlong into writer's block on one of the stories I was writing. Boo, I say, and Boo again. I have vague ideas as to how to get myself unstuck, but only vague ones. Meanwhile I shall go off and world-build on my gloriously silly NaNoWriMo prompt.
(Fourth of all, does anyone know how to force wipe an old HP computer that won't give you the Settings menu? For relative amounts of old - I think it's still Windows 10. Wife says I'm safe to just give it the old heave-ho, but I don't trust there isn't financial information on it somewhere.)
Second of all: Wife and I went to see the live-action HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, which was fun, but did not...do anything? With live action, to differentiate itself from the cartoon? If you're gonna make a live-action remake - heck, if you're gonna do a remake at all - then there should be a reason for it that's not 'look at my shot-for-shot re-creation,' at least in my opinion. I still enjoyed the movie, not least because we went to an indy filmhouse that spent the half-hour ahead of the film doing an incomplete survey of dragons in movies and TV, rather than an assortment of advertisements, but I feel a little guilty for the enjoyment.
Third of all I ran headlong into writer's block on one of the stories I was writing. Boo, I say, and Boo again. I have vague ideas as to how to get myself unstuck, but only vague ones. Meanwhile I shall go off and world-build on my gloriously silly NaNoWriMo prompt.
(Fourth of all, does anyone know how to force wipe an old HP computer that won't give you the Settings menu? For relative amounts of old - I think it's still Windows 10. Wife says I'm safe to just give it the old heave-ho, but I don't trust there isn't financial information on it somewhere.)
Little Joys
Jul. 5th, 2025 08:52 pmsyzygisFinding the pack of 18 eggs
That's just a little cheaper
Then turning to a neighbor's cart
And sharing the price that's better
Singing to my children
Since I know I stay on key
But singing out just loud enough
That strangers smile at me
Cooking up the mushrooms
Then reducing the port wine
The recipe, delicious,
But achieving it? Divine!
-K Royka, 7/5/2025
That's just a little cheaper
Then turning to a neighbor's cart
And sharing the price that's better
Singing to my children
Since I know I stay on key
But singing out just loud enough
That strangers smile at me
Cooking up the mushrooms
Then reducing the port wine
The recipe, delicious,
But achieving it? Divine!
-K Royka, 7/5/2025
Flavorful (a poem from my whiteboard at work)
Jul. 3rd, 2025 08:55 pmsyzygisRosemary’s for remembrance
But it’s thyme for a change.
All our sagest advice
Which may pepper this exchange
Can’t convince me to salt away
-- Even just for a slice --
The balms and the bitters
That give life its spice.
-K Royka, 7/3/2025
But it’s thyme for a change.
All our sagest advice
Which may pepper this exchange
Can’t convince me to salt away
-- Even just for a slice --
The balms and the bitters
That give life its spice.
-K Royka, 7/3/2025
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pmalierak posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceWe're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.