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[community profile] fandomtrees has revealed and I was gifted some great fic and art: Kevin Can F**k Himself moodboards, a Hudson & Rex drabble and a really fun Murder, She Wrote/Midsomer Murders crossover!!

Check them out at my tree and please tell them how wonderful they are!

Birdfeeding

Jan. 17th, 2026 12:09 pm
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Today is cloudy and cold.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a flock of sparrows and a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.




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A visit all about transport in London

Jan. 17th, 2026 05:42 pm
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Yesterday, Mr Cee and I travelled to Acton Town in West London to visit the London Transport Museum Depot.  The main London Transport Museum is located in Covent Garden in Central London, and we have visited it many times. However, like most museums, they can't display all the items they have, and their depot in Acton has 320,000 items ranging from underground train carriages, buses, taxis, signs, signals, an artwork archive, building blueprints and even tiny things such as examples of tickets.

The Acton depot has been open since 1999 and was specifically designed to allow the public to visit and see the results of cataloguing and preserving the history of transportation in London.  The public can only view the items during guided tours because the depot's contents are constantly being rearranged (many of the vehicles are taken on tour or to repair facilities outside of the depot), and it is not set up as a museum. However, with the assistance of one of the very knowledgeable volunteer guides, we embarked on a two-hour exploration of the items.

Under the cut for a little bit of history and quite a few photos...

Read more... )

It was a very interesting outing, and we will consider returning for some of their other tours. We also want to visit the Covent Garden London Transport Museum, as they currently have an exhibition about Art Deco.  So that will be a future outing!

Snowflake Challenge 9: Tropes

Jan. 17th, 2026 10:49 am
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Snowflake Challenge 9: Tropes

Let's talk TROPES! Our ninth challenge is about discussing your favorite tropes, which can include requesting recommendations or making recommendations for a particular trope. Follow your heart! (Also a trope.)

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)



An old-fashioned ornament of two young girls bundled up in coats and walking side by side is nestled amidst pine boughs.

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Theme Prompt: Hot Water
Title: What They Say
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences
Bonus: No
Word Count: 985
Summary: Two times Aragorn takes a bath.

What They Say )
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This is going to majorly PO American auto makers! Breaks my little heart. But that wasn't the reason for the deal.

Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and Canada followed suit. China's cars are very wide in range in features: some are utter crap, some make a Tesla look like a Tonka, but Tesla hasn't really been updating their cars like they should. And above all, Chinese EVs are VERY inexpensive! How? Cheap labor, possibly even prison labor. But as a result of these prices, China has greatly reduced their use of fossil fuels and EV sales are soaring over there.

When Canada put in the tariff, China retaliated with a high tariff on Canadian canola seeds, a major farm export. With this drop in the EV tariff, China is dropping theirs from 84% to 15%. There were other items taxed in China's retaliation, I suppose those are still being negotiated.

But here's the telling bit: "Carney [Canadian Prime Minister] said China has become a more predictable partner to deal with than the U.S, the country’s neighbor and longtime ally.

“Our relationship has progressed in recent months with China. It is more predictable and you see results coming from that,” Carney said.

Carney hasn’t been able to reach a deal with U.S. President Trump to reduce some tariffs that are punishing some key sectors of the Canadian economy and Trump has previously talked about making Canada the 51st state."


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/16/canada-cuts-chinese-ev-tariff-100-exchange-lower-canola-tariffs/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2112255/canada-reverses-tariff-on-chinese-evs
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Just a minor issue!

From the article: "The bug appears to be tied to Secure Launch, a security feature that uses virtualization-based protections to ensure only trusted components load during boot. On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete. From the user's perspective, everything looks normal – until the PC keeps running anyway, refusing to be denied life.

Microsoft says that entering the command "shutdown /s /t 0" at the command prompt will, in fact, force your PC to turn off, whether it wants to or not."


It hasn't affected my two Win 11 computers, haven't powered up my laptop in a month, so it hasn't updated. I would expect this will be updated with next month's Patch Tuesday release, but they may release an out of schedule patch to fix it.

Of course, make sure all your documents are saved before issuing that shutdown command or you may risk losing information.

And all computers will shut down when you pull the plug out of the wall or bus strip.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2144202/patch-tuesday-update-makes-windows-pcs-refuse-to-shut-down

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #9

Jan. 17th, 2026 08:01 am
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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4 * Challenge #5 * Challenge #6 * Challenge #7 * Challenge #8 *



Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #9 )

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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Speak Up Saturday

Jan. 17th, 2026 03:45 pm
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

Quote...

Jan. 17th, 2026 08:30 am
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Quote:

"The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience."

"I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility."

~ Anthony the Great

The Day in Spikedluv (Friday, Jan 16)

Jan. 17th, 2026 06:07 am
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I hit Price Chopper, the Pharmacy, and the Bakery while I was downtown. (McD’s was warmer than yesterday, but still not ~very warm.)

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I made shake ‘n bake chicken thighs for supper and egg salad for weekend lunches.

I watched the current ep of 9-1-1 and both eps of The Pitt, as well as a couple eps of House Hunters International. (How I hate the people who claim they want to live in the city center so they can walk to bars, cafes, restaurants, and then complain that it might be noisy. No fucking kidding, it’s City Center!) Zoo Tampa was my background tv.

I bought several more containers of yogurt in a variety of flavors for my snacks. I have been eating a lot of them, probably because it’s been a while, so they’re tasting especially good. Also, I’m sometimes lazy and they’re easy. I have to switch it up so I don’t get bored with them!

I had no plans to go downtown tomorrow (now today, Saturday), but I’ve had to schedule a doctor’s appointment. I think I have a yeast infection. I haven’t had a yeast infection in years. Decades. I’m not saying the ultrasound is to blame, but I’m also not not saying that.

Temps started out at 13.1(F) and freaking windy! The roads weren’t great on the drive downtown and at one point I saw a cloud of snow swirling in the air before I drove through it. That was different. Temps reached 28.9. The forecast called for a high of 20, so this was a surprise. There was also a bit of sun and I got a peak of blue sky!


Mom Update:

Mom sounded good when I talked to her on the phone. more back here )

Weekly chat reminder

Jan. 16th, 2026 11:52 pm
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Please join us for the TS chat on Saturday, January 17th, at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/19:00 UTC. That could be as early as 11 am if you’re on the west coast of North America, or 2 pm if you’re on the east coast, or 7 pm in the UK, or Sunday morning in Australia or New Zealand.

 

We’re in the usual place: http://us25.chatzy.com/81935648447483. There’s nothing to download or install, just choose a name and a color and click on “join chat.”

 

Our topic this week – how would you reboot the show in 2026? Would you recast the roles of Jim and Blair, or would it be about the next generation with some cameos from Richard and Garett? Is there anything you would change? What things would you absolutely have to keep the same?

 

See you there!

 


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