a phrase people may not understand but oh well:

It seems impossible to get powdered pinchbeck.

well, I found the laptop I want, which should be able to handle most of what I want. Now I just need to be able to afford it.

This is an amazing description of what being trans can be like. Unhinged

my new year’s resolutions:

n the background, I also have notes for another book I want to do. It's a novel in a dystopian superhuman universe. In 2026, an energy pulse called "The Surge" hits Earth, and .01% of humanity gets some kind of superpowers.

did some reworking and edits on Grey Swan to bring it up to date with the stuff I finally nailed down in the rest of the stuff.

Hey, language people (including bootknife), do you have any idea what modern term would be used as "country", in the same way that "-polis" is used for "city"?

I was looking through the list from one of the food delivery services, and right after each other were “Texas Burgers and Chicken” followed by “Toms Dim Sum”.

My brain conflated things and then locked up briefly as I tried to figure out what would be served for Texas Dim Sum.

My wife noted that we’d have a good idea about the pork bun filling.

before the computer went flat I was working on what promises to be one of the top three tense scenes in it: the old new girlfriend meets the FWB who has just realized she’s gonna lose the WB part, and is genuinely happy but also being a little catty.

With some other friends who are FWBs there too.

A very happy birthday to you, yarnzipan !