You will never find a more wretched hive of ponies and buttercups.

The Best of The Week

In which wertperch talks about feels, dealing with old journal/daylog entries, memories of grundoon and Tessie, and weroland, who's in hospice care at home.

i spent a good part of yesterday going through my old daylogs, for two reasons. Partly I wanted a list summarising them all (I used to have such a list on my homenode, but it got killed off due to my using unapproved Unicode characters =[). The other thing is that I've wanted to document my coming to America, and my relationship with Christine and Tess, so I could point people to that collection of writings. That category, The life and times of grundoon, is getting to be almost complete; I still need to add in some of Christine's own writings on her progress through cancer and the treatments. In part, this is to tell the story of how we met, but also document the growing love that we shared, and how the three of us (grundoon, myself and Tessie) managed this dreadful seven-year journey by just loving one another.

Tips for getting the best from your café and barista

Baristas work bloody hard. It's a skilled job as you'd find out if you had to juggle making hundreds of drinks a day, all day, every day. Pulling an excellent espresso shot alone takes time and practice to learn,. Add in a wide variety of drinks based on espresso and you'll see there's a lot to balance and think about, not to mention the hideous and innumerable matcha concoctions that are suddenly

I'm on my hands and knees, looking at the strange accretion of living growths that have begun to sprout from the ground in the shade around the base of a strange black boulder the size of my pickup truck. The boulder is the largest of several in a small clearing in what I think of as the jungle. The growths, almost like ferns but somehow plump and wet like fungus, are pinky-orange and sit entirely within the drip-line surrounding the tiny overhang of the boulder

News for Noders


August 4: Happy birthday avalyn!

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July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

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June 16: Bloomsday.

June 19: Juneteenth.

June 20: Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) and winter solstice (southern hemisphere).

June 21: nicolasstag's birthday!

June 23: AdamTheDewott's birthday!

June 23: weroland's birthday!

June 28: Tau Day.


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April 1: By popular demand, March has been redacted.

April 10: Happy birthday, nuggets!

April 12: Yuri's Night

April 22: Happy Earth Day, fellow earthlings!

April 23: Saint George's Day.

April 24: Happy birthday, Rancid_Pickle!

April 30: Walpurgis Night.

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February 1: Brevity Quest 2025 begins!

February 2: Happy birthday Auspice!

February 2: Happy birthday npecom!

February 5: Happy birthday wertperch!

February 8: Happy birthday to panamaus

February 15: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 23: Happy birthday Samuel Pepys!

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