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+ Oh no I've pretty much eaten all my fancy chocolate :( I got a bag of random leftovers when I ordered a box for my mom for Christmas (Jentene På Tunet, BEST chocolate I've had in my life), and now there's only four pieces left. Rip.

+ I did pick up a packet of gf gnocchi yesterday, guess it's time for a very carb dinner :D

+ Decided to shuffle the list so I don't run out of femslash recs; today have a gen offering!

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Rec-cember Day 6

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
by

ryfkah (632 words). Happy dancing whenever I find a cute holiday themed rec for this ;D
Ensconced in the supply closet, Jake told Amy, grimly, “Nutcracker Ballet.”

Amy gasped, her hands flying to her mouth.

“I thought it was bad when I caught her standing for 20 minutes staring at the tree in the front office --” Jake grabbed for Amy’s hands. “Babe, you gotta help me here. I am wildly unqualified to salvage Rosa’s Christmas. I have one single Christmas card to play, and while I’m obviously always happy to play that card --”

Amy winced, and shook her head. “You know Rosa still hasn’t forgiven Bruce Willis for A Good Day to Die Hard. Giving her a very Die Hard Christmas is just going to fill her with additional rage.”

muccamukk

Thirty-six years ago today, a lone gunman murdered fourteen women at Polytechnique Montréal, before taking his own life.

The names of the women were:

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

CBC: Montreal to honour 14 victims of Polytechnique massacre at ceremony.

Globe & Mail: Progress on combatting intimate-partner violence stalling under new government, advocates fear.

oursin

What is this that this thing is, when, okay, one is aware of all the woozing and grumbling about the various delivery services, but here is the ROYAL MAIL being pretty bad.

Yesterday I had an email saying they had delivered a parcel.

There was no parcel.

I looked at the proof of delivery and behold, that was Not Our Front Door they were sticking it through, it was the wrong colour and one could see the corner of a glass panel (ours is solid wood).

So I went on to their site to try and delve a bit further and, my dears, it is HORRENDOUS, one suspects it is designed to make people Just Give Up.

For example, the 'contact us' link, that actually goes to a 'Help and Support' page that lists a whole range of possible contingencies that one has to sort through to discover one that matches the occasion.

And once I had come across the Advice relating to item (presumably) misdelivered to wrong address, advice was, to contact the sender.

I have no bloody idea who the sender was being as how I was not even expecting a Royal Mail delivery, have been back over my emails and texts and no, I did not receive any previous message involving that particular tracking code.

There is a passing allusion to possible scanning errors.

The only means of contacting them is by phone, and when I tried, and had made my way through the menu options, the wait to speak to a person was 50 minutes.

I am leaving all this pro tem in case a) it was misdelivered and gets put back into the system b) it never actually existed in the first place.

But, really.

And in other, perhaps more minor (?) annoyances of Modern Life, what is this thing that this thing is of 'Cooking Instructions on Back of Label'? that you then have to detach, in the hope that it will actually come off in one piece that one can actually decipher....

marcicat

*IT SNOWING

*which means it's a SNOW DAY! (totally a snow day even though it's just a few tiny flurries)

*time for the VERY IMPORTANT snow day accessories!

*PAJAMAS

*COZY BLANKETS

*and the VERY IMPORTANT snow day snacks!

*COFFEE

*FRENCH TOAST STICKS

*and the VERY IMPORTANT snow day activities!

*CROCHET

*AUDIOBOOKS

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Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968; aged 21), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967; aged 22), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968; aged 21), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960; aged 29), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964; aged 25), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966; aged 23), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967; aged 22), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961; aged 28), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968; aged 21), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966; aged 23), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969; aged 20), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958; aged 31), nursing student

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I'm playing for Cambridge Womens Blues against Oxford Womens Blues tonight. My BUIHA stats page tells me this will be my second game for Cambridge WBs against Oxford WBs, hopefully it goes better than the last one three years ago. None of my teammates from that game are playing today, although five of the Oxford women are the same (and one of those five was on my Biarritz tournament team this summer).

My stats page also tells me that I have scored more points against Cambridge Huskies than for them (1 is more than 0), and that two of my current teammates were my opponents in my WBs v Huskies game three years ago. I have no memory of either of them in that game.

The Womens Blues game is immediately followed by a matchup between the Mens Blues teams, so I'm looking forward to watching that, before we all pile on the coach back to Cambridge.

oursin

Happy birthday,

gillo and

laughingrat!

buttonsbeadslace

One of the most delightful parts of Language School so far (at least for me) is the walking tours they have on Fridays. The guy who leads them is very fun to listen to, so I forgive him for walking extremely fast.

Yesterday's theme was upcoming holidays, which are - let me see if I've learned my lessons properly -

6 December - Constitution Day, when the current constitution was accepted after Franco died
8 December - day of the immaculate conception of Mary
22 December - official Christmas lottery drawing day, apparently it is traditional to split the cost of a ticket among a group of family & friends
24 December - Christmas Eve which is apparently the real party
25 December - Christmas of course
26 December - saint day for San Esteban, who is not extremely notable as a saint but people like having an extra day off to travel home after Christmas
28 December - day of the innocents which for whatever reason is a prank holiday here, like April Fools
31 December - New Year's Eve of course
6 January - Three Kings Day, for which there will be a parade and a speech by the mayor to "welcome the three kings", and kids can personally deliver their "please give me gifts" letters

December 6, 8, 25-26, New Year's Day and January 6 are all "días festivos", government holidays when schools and most businesses are closed.

Why did this topic need to be a walking tour? It doesn't, but there's supposed to be a walking tour every Friday and this week all the Friday special things are supposed to be holiday themed, so there we were.

Of course most of these are Christian and/or specifically Catholic holidays, but our teacher managed to spend most of his time talking about local history. While explaining Constitution Day he had to interrupt himself multiple times to remind himself to summarize briefly and not get too far off track (and he still ended up telling us about how Juan Carlos I accidentally shot his brother, and about the suppression of the Catalan language during the dictatorship.)

He also told us about how December 8, in addition to being a Catholic holiday, is also the anniversary of a 16th century battle over Spain's control of parts of what is now Belgium and the Netherlands, wherein Spanish army forces were beseiged on an island by enemy ships? But the Spanish troops won? I want to learn more about this, but I didn't catch the name of the location where it happened.

He also taught us a lovely expression, "ajo y agua" - "garlic and water" which is a minced oath / abbreviation for a longer phrase that means "go fuck yourself and deal with it".

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I ate'nt dead and all that...

We upgraded Ubuntu on our webserver, which upgraded PHP, which broke the CMS I was using for random.fangirling.net. The CMS (PicoCMS) is no longer supported or under active development, as is the way of such things, and it makes sense to me because the niche it filled - flat file CMSes - was quickly squeezed out by static site generators.

So I figured I should rebuild it using a static site generator (SSG), and spent some time playing around with Astro and Eleventy before I got too frustrated by how hard it was to build a site with the file structure I wanted. And then I thought, why did I spend all that time writing a static site generator if I wasn't going to use it?

And thus, here we are. random.fangirling.net is now mostly functional again. Please let me know if anything seems amiss!

The biggest thing that's missing is the breadcrumb navigation, which was the only kind of navigation I had on the site but which is difficult to generate with my script. So that's on the TODO list.

I thought I might make the code I use to generate the site public too, as a demo for how to use my makesite.py fork. Something to ponder!

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