YULETIDE RECS hurry before anon ends!

I'm just gonna dump all the links of everything that pleased me enough to comment on. \o/


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My phone—a BLU Advance 5.0, running Android something-or-other—is rebooting for the—eleventh?—time today. I've kind of lost count. It's not even getting to the lock screen in between reboots, just sitting there rebooting endlessly.

Does anyone have any idea what's wrong and how to fix it? I've already tried taking the battery out and putting it back in. Twice. The second time I did that is when the endless reboots started.

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"The Witches of Athens" by Lara Elena Donnelly in Strange Horizons (three years ago apparently) is pleasing unto me.

First good thing all day.

IT'S BEEN A LONG DECEMBER AND I CAN'T FINISH THIS QUOTE STRAIGHT-FACED

Forget this "watch the ball drop in Times Square" thing. (Not worth finding a livestream, probably. I've no TV.) I'm planning on eating The Foods Of My People--blackberry-jam-and-chili-sauce Lil Smokies with ciabatta and gouda, and steamed shrimp with cocktail sauce, and a root beer float--and ringing in the New Year with prayers to Athena and Zeus and I don't know who all else because I haven't written the prayers yet. Also spending the first hour at least of 2017 reading Something Hellenion-Clergy-Ed-Relevant and painting my nails.

What about y'all? How are you spending New Year?

meme via lilysea :p

Various friends have done this and I liked the idea: what should be my new year resolutions? Feel free to suggest anything at all, serious or silly, and I'll pick some I like.