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Law and cybersecurity geek, TTRPG fan/player/gm, needlecrafty, reads almost all the things
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful November.
Apple almond spice muffins cooling in their muffin tin right after coming out the oven.
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I haven't mowed a small bit of our back yard all year, mostly to find out what would grow on its own. But then I noticed over the summer I had more lightning bugs. And then I started to hear more crickets, and then more frogs in the evening. Lately it's moths, and now these guys are hanging out :)
A monarch butterfly with a black lace pattern across its orange wings resting on a green stem with a chaotic mess of grasses and weeds behind it. A monarch butterfly with black border around its black and orange wings resting on a thick green stem. A mess of green, purple, and brown is tangled behind it.
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Tech rehearsal night! It's such a cool opportunity to get to play at the Moody Performance Hall :)

If you want to support a queer community band here in Dallas as we celebrate 45 years, there's still a chance to buy tickets before the concert tomorrow :)

www.oaklawnband.org/tickets
The empty Moody Performance Hall in Dallas Texas with lights up - In the foreground are empty seats and folded stands waiting for performers downstairs. The empty hall holds the promise of 750 seats.
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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If you're in the Dallas area and and want to support our local queer community band, check out the Oak Lawn Band at the Moody Performance Hall on October 11! Ticket sales will also benefit our partners at the Resource Center :)

Tickets available now: www.oaklawnband.org/tickets
Blue text at the top reads Oak Lawn Band's Sapphire Celebration. A symmetrical design mimicking the curtains pulled back on a stage features the iconic Dallas Pegasus, music notes, clefs, and other filigree all in shades of blue. A sketched band plays ce ter stage over the rest of the concert information reading: 45 Years od Pride! OCT 11, 2025 MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL At the bottom are the logos for the Oak Lawn Band and Resource Center
October 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Just finished Apollo 13 (aka Lost Moon) by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. I loved the movie but had never actually read the book before though. Really enjoyed it :) - I loved this little aside on the battery explosion. #booksky
An excerpt from Apollo 13 as the engineering team worked to figure out whether the battery explosion the astronauts had reported was worrisome or not - "Look," Arabian said after a pause, "you know this is no problem and I know this is no problem. But if the battery screws up, I'm going to say so. And if a tank screws up, I'm going to say so. And if the crew screws up, I'm going to say so. Fellows, these are just systems, and if you're not honest with yourself about what went wrong, you ain't gonna be able to fix anything."
June 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Ha, that's probably the best a night sky picture has ever turned out for me. Castor, Pollux, and Mars in a neat little row down here in Texas :)
The just off of full moon blazes in the bottom left corner and lights up a night of feathery clouds. Over the narrow strip of roof, three lights make a diagonal row - bright red Mars and Castor & Pollux, in an order I can't ever remember.
January 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I finished it!
From Mary Oliver's Snowy Night, "I love this world, but not for its answers" is stitched on a narrow blue and white mottled strip of Aida cloth to make a bookmark. On the right hand side are three owl face silhouettes. The background is filled in with a repeating blackwork pattern - a large narrow X with block Xes at the vertices and single stitches radiating out from their centers. The same bookmark used as a bookmark on a random page in The Left Handed Embroiderer's Companion by Yvette Stanton.
January 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I'm trying to ride this wave of motivation to finish this little bookmark project before work starts back up. My first time designing my own project :)
A half finished project on a narrow piece of blue and white mottled Aida cloth. On the left hand side are the words "I love this world, but not for its answers" from the poem Snowy Night by Mary Oliver. On the right hand side, more filled in, are three angular owl head silhouettes and a blackwork pattern. The blackwork consists of a series of stylized Xes - a narrow large X with smaller block Xes at the vertices, and those in turn filled with single stitches radiating from the center.
January 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hehe, my band was selling these ornaments at our concert tonight and I'm very happy I got one :D
The ornament is a white disc in a black frame. The white disc reads 2024 in block numbers at the top. The Oak Lawn Band logo takes up the bulk of the disc in the center. The O in Oak resembles a whole note. The d in band is an eighth note. The b in band extends up to form part of the L in Lawn with a little Texas flag. Beneath the text of the logo from edge to edge is a bar of rainbow colors. At the bottom of the ornament is the caption, "Don we now our gay apparel."
December 22, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Oh hey! If you're in the Dallas area tomorrow (Sat 12/21), my band (an LGBTQIA+ community band) is putting on a holiday concert at 4 at the Latino Cultural Center :)

Tickets (in person and live streaming!) here: www.oaklawnband.org/tickets
On a red and white peppermint background, text is centered at the top' You're invited! In the center stylized on a gift tag, it reads: With Pride and Joy, a Festive Concert. Center below the gift tag is the location details: Saturday, Dec 21, at the Latino Cultural Center from 4-6. In the upper right corner is a QR code which goes to the ticket link in the text of the skeet.
December 21, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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#BookSky #BookChallenge 20 books that have stayed with / influenced me

5/20

(I forgot again 😂)
The cover is split between three uneven yellow, white, and red bands. In the yellow band, ink splotches stand out against the blotted yellow. In the middle white section, an ink pen is poised over the cursive script "The Screwtape Letters" with a couple more ink spots. In the bottom red, C.S Lewis' name is printed in block yellow letter.
December 13, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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#BookSky #BookChallenge 20 books that have stayed with / influenced me

4/20
On a gradient midnight blue to sunset pink, the title and author text look hastily painted with a rough brush in big block letters. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
December 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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#BookSky #BookChallenge 20 books that have stayed with / influenced me

3/20
A starburst is split down the middle with a stark dividing line. The left side is light blue with the star in white while the right is dark blue with the negative image of the star. The text, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. le Guin, is centered on the dividing line and it's gradient of dark to light makes it seem to pop from the cover
December 8, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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#BookSky #BookChallenge 20 books that have stayed with / influenced me

2/20
(Also whoops, time passed lol)
The owl version of the cover of Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Amaya, where the left half of the owl's face dominates the picture with two shadowy figures reflected in its orange eye.
December 7, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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#BookSky #BookChallenge 20 books that have stayed with / influenced me

1/20
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
December 1, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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If you're in the Dallas, TX, area, my band is doing a thing :) Come support our local LGBTQIA+ community band!
Colorful lights surround a herd of zoo animals like giraffes, zebras, and elephants. Underneath the animals, Dallas Zoo Lights, Holiday music performed by the OLB Marching Band. The pep band event is Dev 15, 2024, from 6:30 - 9:45 pm CT at Zoo Noth Prime Meridian Cafe (650 S R.L. Thornton Fey., Dallas, TX 75203)
November 27, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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I have played this game many time, but Alice always gets me. The first time I played #Spiritfarer, we had just moved my mom into a memory care nursing home. Four years later, different parts of her story resonate in different playthroughs. This time, it was Alice telling me she was ready to go.
Stella, the Spiritfarer, escorts Alice up to the prow of the boat as Alice's legs aren't as strong now. Behind her are sunflowers and corn ready to be harvested from the boat's field, and the pink sky of Spiritfarer's dawn. Stella stands at the bottom of the stair leading up to the prow of the ship. Alice stands contentedly in the spray of the ocean and the sun sets over the ship just before her confusion peaks (as with sundowners syndrome). Stella's white fluffy cat, Dandelion, plays with the Everlight behind them. Stella escorts Alice to the little boat that will take them both to the Everdoor and end Alice's journey. The other characters stand at the exit to see Alice off - Atul the smiling blue toad, Astrid the austere brown dog, Summer the serene green snake, and Giovanni the bombastic dark purple lion.
November 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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*proud tear* I've always wanted to be #1,227,965
September 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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I am really liking this turn in the #QuestCalendar story with the "giants'" barn and the sense of scale with the owl. Thanks to some lucky rolls finding travelers lol, I'm back up to 0 lost travellers! Woo!
Left hand side shows the current character sheet for Merrick (renamed Merra) Lightfoot. She is down a few more hp to 10/14 and she's used some of her rations, health potions, and camp fires. On the right hand side is the current calendar page for Monday 4/1. A great big shadowy shape takes up much of the page. The player-critters are dwarfed by the owl and stand tiny in a shaft of light in a dilapidated old barn.
April 1, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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#QuestCalendar
Well, today Merra incited a riot because the Queen couldn't be bothered to either remember she closed the gates or just give us a pass to get out. Have we considered just letting the bugs have a shot? 🤔

Lol, every single option failed
Two fierce looking guards, a mouse and possibly a fox, bar the gate. They're surrounded by panicking villagers who just want to get out of the city and go home. There are four options for getting out presented - persuade the guards, sneak past, intimidate the guards, and fight your way past. You have the option for a distraction as well that could add or subtract from your roll depending on the outcome.
March 22, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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#QuestCalendar Hmph - "Permit me to earnestly implore you to ponder the trajectory of your life's course" the queen said yesterday.

Pretty sure that's saving us right now... That's it, everyone's getting pickpocketed now! We're gonna take this cool necklace & leave all our virtue pts behind lol
Showing yesterday and today's quest calendar pages. Yesterday, the queen mouse granted an audience flanked by the armored fox guard captain and the beaver looking guy whose name I can't remember. The queen is centered in the frame on her golden throne, in a crown, yellow dress, and high red collar. She looks displeased or maybe disinterested with her eyes heavily hooded. On today's page, the beaver looking guy offered a series of equipment - a gold and amethyst choker, a purple feathered bow, and a heavy helmet with a great orange leaf centered on the brow.
March 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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#QuestCalendar - Merra is having a rough week. We've got our cool hourglass and just kinda kicked out into the streets for a bit. Which was fine, until the blizzard started. Stole from an old turtle and then tried to help ppl, which didn't go great. Now we're stumbling frozen through the sewers lol
Current Merra Lightfoot character sheet and calendar page. Merra is hurting a bit at 10/14 go, but she also picked up some healing potions recently. Thursday's calendar page shows a sewer maze with labeled rooms for Merra to explore. There are blocked and flooded pathways for her to navigate until she gets to the sewer grate at the castle.
March 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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#QuestCalendar update! We've added a couple party members with the Monk and a snail. I have yet to successfully activate a party member lol. Merra lost some herbs in the fight, but hopefully not too much.
This shows the current character sheet for Merra Lightfoot and the herbs she's collected to heal the big tree. She's a thief, so shes been losing virtue points as she takes the shadier sneakier path through the year long game. The March 5th calendar page shows three tough looking critters threatening Merra. She defeated two, but took damage from one before he ran off.
March 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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#QuestCalendar
Huge threat under the castle, so let's go on a shopping trip :D

Merra was all the way down to 1 HP by the time she got back to the throne room this week. I'm not sure how she feels about them already sealing the tunnel as she climbed up 🤔

Enjoying the story and pace so far
Quest Calendar page for Wednesday, Feb 28, shows the bustling marketplace of Crownspire. Skunk and racoon adventurers look at shop stalla and merchant wares. Merra is back at full hit points on her character sheet and has picked up some of the supplies she was asked for.
February 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Merra's had some real bad rolls up until today when she decided to lie through her teeth and offer King Wraithex a deal. We ah, we really should have taken some health potions from the other adventurers in the throne room...

#QuestCalendar
In the background is the character sheet for Merrick Lightfoot showing they're down half their hit points. In the foreground is the Thursday, Feb 22, quest calendar page. It shows a giant purple centipede reared up with a wicked looking crown and a green glowing scepter. He has threatened the kingdom and tree and is frankly insulted I'm the only one they sent down..
February 22, 2024 at 3:25 PM