Small losses are like Paper Cuts- annoying out of proportion to the injury

[feng_shui_house]

My AO3 icon no longer animates. It was a 45k 9frame animation of Howard Stark morphing into Tony Stark. It had been turned into a one frame and renamed from 'standard' to 'original'. I dug up a copy of the animated (sometimes I save entire story pages including the icon) and edited it at AO3 to put the animated version back. It said it updated, and it showed the name change to standard, but again, it had been turned into a one frame. Darn it. I had actually had several people comment over the years that they loved this icon and hoped I'd never change it.

I reported it- here's hoping it's a glitch and not a deliberate change. They're having a lot of 'prove you're a human' moments, so who knows?

And ARGH. For over a month I'd been playing a game on AARP that got really hard, but I figured out how to wait to earn gold to buy stuff to survive. Got up to about level 368? and then THIS MOrNING, it put me at LEVEL ONE. There was a TINY TINY, half second power glitch that made my battery back up/surge protector chirp. Did that do it?

I dunno. But I haven't the heart to start over. Zoo Boom supposedly goes to over 1500 levels. Too bad, I'd got used to internally timing 15 minutes to watch another few seconds of ad to earn gold (50 gold every 15 minutes is the maximum, and it costs 1500 gold to buy 15 rockets- or drills etc. And you could NOT LIVE without rockets on the higher levels.) Oh,well. It was nice while it lasted.

Had to reset kitchen clock and restart my rock tumbler, so the power glitch lasted long enough to blank them.

Fixed up some 1890 chromolithograph cigarette cards to make a design. The Allen and Ginter company made a lot of very beautiful cards and they're all out of copyright, so free to reuse any way you like. Once I fix the damaging effects of age/wear and arrange them nicely, they're really pretty.

This is the large scale on a sage green background.
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/18791988

Bulk pickup is next Monday, so I put out two small boxes for the cruising scavengers to see. Not much right now- metal in one, and a few things someone might like as household stuff- never used potholders, a craft book on making angels which I'd never use, etc. We shall see what happens.

Also I have started to cut back the big loquat. I regret it a bit because it has a lot of small green fruit- I wasn't feeling up to doing it earlier in the year, but I don't want to wait any longer- it's not quite tall enough to threaten the power line to the street light. Will at least start in between other things, no longer having the 15 minute gold harvesting break I have to push myself to move. Work at computer, sew, work at pool, or yard, etc. MOVE. MOVE. MOVE the MOUNTAIN Mohammadmarian.

Also get to use up (to tie the cut branches into bundles) some of the selvage strips I'd cut off Spoonflower proof sheets. Years and years worth before they decided it wasn't profitable for them to make us buy proofs -OMG they had to pay their employees to cut small pieces of fabric! So now they have 'digital proofing' where the site(when it works, which right now is kinda a crapshoot some days it works, some MINUTES it works) requires you to click on a few things to say you examined the zoomed images for flaws and didn't see any. It's funny, they don't trust the designers enough to let us communicate with buyers, but they trust us to diligently check for flaws when all you have to do is click 'looks fine' to be able to set for sale.

I wound up putting up 21 set for sale (7 colorways, each in small, medium & large scale), so I'm close to using up this week's Spoonflower quota. I used to try to do 7 a day to stretch out the brief 'new for sale' visibility, but last week they had it impossible to change scales so I wound up not coming anywhere near my self-imposed quota.It SEEMS to be working at the moment, but they still have a popup saying there are problems.

Cut some of the loquat tree- trying to get more of the top stuff. If I can leave the lower branches I might be able to get some fruit when they ripen. Tree cutting is tiring and I still haven't done Max or any sewing today. *flumph*

Ok, 5:33 pm and I did manage once around the pool with Max- progress is happening I can see further into the water, daily Maxxing is gradually getting the settled sediment out.

Started sewing the next tote, but thread kept breaking. The thread was strong, so it was take apart the usual bits and clean out the build up of thread/cloth fuzz with tweezers and my great-grandmother's pearl (a white glass bead) headed hatpin (at one time people were trying to legislate against HAT PINS because women had the nerve to use them to defend themselves from rapists), and still kept breaking, so it was rethread and check for fuzz in the path the thread takes- up down around up down through etc. and still kept breaking, so it was take out the bobbin case again and check to be sure the thread went from the right side to the left side, etc.

So I finally got one half of the zig zagging done. Time to feed the pool.

Maybe tomorrow I'll finish this tote and take photos.

Comments

[vera_j]

I see that not everything is always according to our images...oh yes.
I was stupid today - went to the forest and wanted to clean away several falen trees to unable an access to a critical place where several very high pines were uprooted during the windstorm in autumn. These trees got stuck in crowns of neighbouring pines and are hangign there. They are called "hangers" and are the most dangerous item for an amateur with a chaisaw. Not me, of course, but my son - he does have a certificate for his heavy Stihl chaisaw but these hangers need a real professional with necessary machinery. We have hired such a man. I wanted to be prepared - several thin pines fell across the forest "path" which is also the access. I thought - well, the trees are dry and relatively thin, though long...you will manage to saw just the piece of the trunk that is in the way. Ouch. I have a garden aku chainsaw, very small...thwo power packs. Of course it was not easy at all! But I was stubborn...after exhausting both the packs, I took a classical hand saw and began working. What an idiot I am always. I did manage to remove one piece out of the five...out of breath, muscles hurting and the worst my hip joins. So the punishement for my stubborness and stupidity - I had to take a brufen pill, cancel my evening with neighbours in the pub and trying to recover. Which I will eventually but I could avoid it... You see, I really can´t sew and stuff...I am more a lumberman, hahahaha!

[feng_shui_house]

Trees are TOUGH. I know how it is, once you start, you think, just a little more, just a little-- and then you straighten up and your whole body says NO, LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME.

*HUGGLES* I hope you get over your aches soon.

I'm still working on the loquat, and it's NOTHING like what you were doing. The branches are maybe a little bigger around than my wrist, so they're a size that can (not easily, but possibly) be cut with an extensible pruner that uses leverage on a chain to snip.

And even that gets tiring, I cut enough to make one bundle to walk out to the curb (not TOO large a bundle- my father used to call it a 'Lazy man's load' when you try to carry too much at one time to save journeys.) Then I come in to rest up for a while before going back out. Bulk pickup is on Monday, so I have enough time to do a lot of it with rests in between. For some of it I MAY have to get a ladder and saw (a double-action/quick cut handsaw is MUCH easier than the old fashioned kind because it cuts on both the push and the pull). I haven't got to the point where I can tell if I need to do that.

I'm just glad I didn't wait any longer, because the top branches are only a few feet away from the street light power line- and with enough rain, it can grow fASt.