@Dina:
I wish you and your hubby a great Día de los Reyes Magos today!


We are watching Arcane now with Mini. Her friends told her, it is good and I also had it on my watch list already. I must say, I like it.

I am reading the second book of "Ever After". I think I told you about it last year. That's the story about those descendents of fairy tale characters and a prophecy about a sleeping prince. The Prince has to be kissed by every female descendent on her 18th birthday. And when the right one kisses him, he will wake up and all will be sunshine and roses, so to speak.

I wouldn't have read it, but it is no romance despite the very romantic description. When the girl kissed the prince (she didn't want to and was forced to do it, because she is kind of a rebel), it was a very funny scene. She had to cough because the prince was a dusty skeleton.  Of course he has been there for thousands of years. Then she accidentally cracked his skull and tried to cover it up. I had to laugh at the slapstick moment.
So, the prince is now awake, but the prophecy was bullshit, because he wants to destroy the world and build a new one. And she has to marry him to be his queen.

At first it read like some kind of teenage romance until their hometown was suddenly full of werewolves and other nasty creatures. Suddenly there was no more romance but more blood and entrails.

I only read it because a colleague told me it would get really exciting soon. She wanted to read some fantasy romance and was shocked at first but also could not stop reading.

So now there is a second book and next year there will be a third one.

Sometimes the main character is almost annoyingly stupid but hey, otherwise there would not be that much adventure, lol. Last chapter she gave up 5 memories to see an old friend. And before that she promised 80 (!!!) years of her life to a witch if she could reverse a curse on her cousin which transforms him into a bird in a cage each time he leaves his room. Couldn't she think of something else to trade? 80 years! Before that that witch talked about 3 or 5 years for some potions. I am sure she would have accepted less, lol.

Unstuck.  For a few percentage points, any way.

92% today. *** does the dance of joy ***

Give the guy a break, the holiday turn around has been very short and hectic this year!

That's what I thought. Everything I planned to do had to be left for after the Holidays.

Oh. It's 2025. We're closer to mankind's final invention than we are to the point flip phones stopped being cool. That's not possible, it's impossible to blink for that long.

Happy New Year, Weird. It just now really clicked instead of being a reflexive grunt brought about by cool weather.

I would also like a cat, right now. Maybe I can go purr-suede the sofa.

I am sure there are many kittens in the sofa. All the cats always loved it.
Take two, so you can have fun watching them ply together.

Our 3 cats didn't leave the tree alone, so we removed the decorations soon after Christmas.
They were ok during the new year fireworks. I was at work doing the nightshift. We asked security to open the roof for us. It's the 14th floor. Very cool view over the whole city.
But a lot of people were hurt that night. So the emergengy room was always full. A lot of bleeding people means a lot of work for us, too.
But we still got the 10 minutes on the roof at midnight. And we had some food prepared.
It was a great experience. But next year it will be someone else's turn to work that night.

For science, of course.

Only for science, of course.

@all: Happy Holidays!


The old red sofa gave me a pencil tonight. I am waiting for the next time. Probably I will receive some paper. I think it means for me to draw something to put into the sofa for the next one to find.

Today we will eat the rest of the fondue, go to the cemetary to say happy birthday to my dad and then to my mama to drink coffee and eat cake.

The question thus becomes:  what will we see on the cover?

Will we see two Harrys fighting?
Will there be any hats?
Will they be fighting over a hat?
Maybe... an Evil Hat?

And, looping back to my "Soulgaze" thread -- will Harry Soulgaze Harry??!?   

 

And will he have a goatee?

Hello Weird, and the forum at large. As a long time lurker, I just wanted to say thanks for always being here over the years. I'm delving back into the DF and refreshing myself on everything, so maybe I'll be around. Even if not, I look forward to talking about 12 months with all of you.

Hello, BugBear!

What Dina said  🤓 and I hope we will have 12Months by summer or autumn next year.
Time to start getting excited.

Hello, everyone!
How are you?

I've been ill for a week. I am still not exactly well but definitely better than on the weekend. Some people have covid, some have something else.
Even our cat Lisa had a cold. She was treated with antibiotics and now she is well again. The vet told me to keep her inside until the snot is gone. It was very cold and wet outside, so she only complained for a little while, because I opened the door for the other two but she had to stay inside, poor kitty. The others were nice and brought a lot of winter birds inside. I managed to safe only one. The others were either already dead or dying. The one I saved managed to escape and flew around in the kitchen dropping shit everywhere. Yay. It took me almost an hour to catch the bird. But I managed to bring it outside and it flew away.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_blue_tit

There are a lot of these here. We also feed them sunflower seeds during winter time. I try to hang the feeders where cats can't reach them.

Yesterday, there was a woodpecker on the half dead apple tree again.


I have finished the Sandman Slim books. They were a great read, if you are not feeling touchy about Christian beliefs. Sometimes they felt a bit like Dresden going Deadpool starring in Mad Max. The last one was not that good plotwise, but it still left the opportunity to continue in the end. And I have read somewhere that the author is currently writing the next book.
The first one read a bit like just one guy wanting revenge and I wasn't sure if I wanted to read more in this style. But there was some promise of character development and interesting world building that kept me reading and I wasn't disappointed.  I read all 12 books without pause.

Norwegian feels like a mix of German and English so far. But I think understanding spoken words is more difficult, because of the pronunciation and because they tend to swallow the ends of words which makes them almost sound like another different word, if you know what I mean.
But I like the sound of the language.

Hello Weird! I hope everyone is doing well.
Random post: I have been playing this game (and some of its relatives too) and I thought I would comment it in case someone is interested. I was surprised to discover I had not idea where today's capital was located 

Very cool. I knew yesterday's country and everything except things like how big the country is and how many inhabitants. I never know this.
Today's country I didn't recognise, though once I knew I had the neighbours correct at first try, lol. And I even guessed the city sizes correctly.

It is very difficult to know the country, if all you see is the shape and not how big it is. I mean you could show me the shape of for example Sierra Leone and Poland with the same size and I definitely wouldn't recognise Sierra Leone.


Soooo, 80% progress 12months. I must admit, my excitement died down a bit. But I know it will come back once we have a release date.
I am still reading Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. Currently at book #5.
There are 12 books, so I still have some to enjoy. Probably there still won't be the next DF book when I'm done with them.