There are never enough trains
Feb. 27th, 2026 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rattfanI saw this on Facebook today: It's a bewildering concept. This may be my favourite boardgame, well, after Scrabble, but a movie? Of course, as a card carrying nerd [it's my library card] I would watch a movie of a bunch of people on an old style train, playing Ticket to Ride.
nerdist.com/article/netflix-developing-ticket-to-ride-movie-board-game-asmodee/
nerdist.com/article/netflix-developing-ticket-to-ride-movie-board-game-asmodee/
Rat Birthday pictures
Feb. 24th, 2026 02:16 pmrattfanSome birthday pictures:
A picture of some teenaged rats: The boys early in 2024, when they were about four months old. Then a pic of Ajax on the bike from last year, since he didn't want to wake up for the birthday pictures. On the day itself: Griffin gazes vacantly through the bars, wondering why he is awake. Frederik does likewise on the lower shelf and that's Ajax, the heap in the corner behind Fred. Rats do sleep more than humans, especially the very young and the elderly. They like to get their full 12 hours.
photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJMTB35YXYd0cKRpLOD0OtPN6WUzEd8Ov0uu1UkDIiZ0y1-L2kv8ciEMTNH4wNxg
A picture of some teenaged rats: The boys early in 2024, when they were about four months old. Then a pic of Ajax on the bike from last year, since he didn't want to wake up for the birthday pictures. On the day itself: Griffin gazes vacantly through the bars, wondering why he is awake. Frederik does likewise on the lower shelf and that's Ajax, the heap in the corner behind Fred. Rats do sleep more than humans, especially the very young and the elderly. They like to get their full 12 hours.
photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJMTB35YXYd0cKRpLOD0OtPN6WUzEd8Ov0uu1UkDIiZ0y1-L2kv8ciEMTNH4wNxg
Routine Colonoscopy Countdown.
Feb. 23rd, 2026 08:46 amleecetheartist It's prep time. T minus 3 days.
Meal 1. Gluten free rice bubbles and vanilla yoghurt and 2 mugs of white coffee.
On the upside, yesterday was the Perth monthly fountain pen enthusiast meeting, so we sat around and talked, drew, wrote and looked at each others' pretty pens and ink and drank coffee or whatever everyone else was drinking.
Finished reading Network Effect to Rob and Mum last night, and we all started a rewatch of the serial. We'd eaten a delicious Indian takeaway, as a farewell to interesting food for me for 3 days. Mmm Vindaloo.
Meal 1. Gluten free rice bubbles and vanilla yoghurt and 2 mugs of white coffee.
On the upside, yesterday was the Perth monthly fountain pen enthusiast meeting, so we sat around and talked, drew, wrote and looked at each others' pretty pens and ink and drank coffee or whatever everyone else was drinking.
Finished reading Network Effect to Rob and Mum last night, and we all started a rewatch of the serial. We'd eaten a delicious Indian takeaway, as a farewell to interesting food for me for 3 days. Mmm Vindaloo.
Doing nothing in honour of my rats' birthday
Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:20 pmrattfanI saw this on Facebook and stole it instantly, for use in M's next Groundhog Day adventure.
"Quit asking if I'm okay. If I'm ever okay, I'll let you know!"
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I also intend to adapt it to M's perennial, "Are you doing anything interesting/exciting this weekend?" which drives me crazy, because that sounds like something you'd ask a kid on holiday. Also it makes me feel bad because I'm usually not doing anything/can't afford to. If that makes any sense. And I suspect what I find interesting would not at all align with M's ideas.
M asks me that weekly or as often as she sees me, which can be several times in a week. Weekends are usually when I hide, because this suburb is very, very busy on weekends and I don't like that. Same as I go to the beach on weekdays when it's not insanely crowded and you're less likely to be swum over by some gung ho type practising for the Rottnest Swim. Which got cancelled this weekend because of rough weather, so it is in my mind.
My mum has NO clue. When I was talking about this annual event, in which people swim the 20 kilometres from Cottesloe Beach to Rottnest Island, she asked if I was going in it, to which I asked if I looked crazy, by which I really mean that obsessed. I'm an all right swimmer, but I cannot do a distance like that. Has she met me?
In other news:
Google has slowed to a crawl this weekend, so that loading anything took a long time, enough that I finally checked and there was actually a reported problem, cause unknown. Which is preferable to the times when the Down Detector responds with, "No, why do you ask?" That's what it feels like, that I am being humoured by their AI.
It is my rats' second birthday. I gave them some leftover chips from fish and chips. Doing nothing is their favourite thing, so this post is in their honour today.
( another inept assassination attempt on Trump )
"Quit asking if I'm okay. If I'm ever okay, I'll let you know!"
www.facebook.com/photo
I also intend to adapt it to M's perennial, "Are you doing anything interesting/exciting this weekend?" which drives me crazy, because that sounds like something you'd ask a kid on holiday. Also it makes me feel bad because I'm usually not doing anything/can't afford to. If that makes any sense. And I suspect what I find interesting would not at all align with M's ideas.
M asks me that weekly or as often as she sees me, which can be several times in a week. Weekends are usually when I hide, because this suburb is very, very busy on weekends and I don't like that. Same as I go to the beach on weekdays when it's not insanely crowded and you're less likely to be swum over by some gung ho type practising for the Rottnest Swim. Which got cancelled this weekend because of rough weather, so it is in my mind.
My mum has NO clue. When I was talking about this annual event, in which people swim the 20 kilometres from Cottesloe Beach to Rottnest Island, she asked if I was going in it, to which I asked if I looked crazy, by which I really mean that obsessed. I'm an all right swimmer, but I cannot do a distance like that. Has she met me?
In other news:
Google has slowed to a crawl this weekend, so that loading anything took a long time, enough that I finally checked and there was actually a reported problem, cause unknown. Which is preferable to the times when the Down Detector responds with, "No, why do you ask?" That's what it feels like, that I am being humoured by their AI.
It is my rats' second birthday. I gave them some leftover chips from fish and chips. Doing nothing is their favourite thing, so this post is in their honour today.
( another inept assassination attempt on Trump )
Theatre for free
Feb. 21st, 2026 08:17 amwatervolevia vivdunstan
“The Importance of Being Earnest” with Ncuti Gatwa is going up free on YouTube for a limited period in March."
Love the play, love the actor. Definitely going to try and catch this.
Love the play, love the actor. Definitely going to try and catch this.
An astronomical interlude
Feb. 20th, 2026 03:41 pmleecetheartistIt's been the New Moon, so a good time to get out there with the telescope!
Got some quite good detail with Centaurus A.
Got some quite good detail with Centaurus A.
I rode this image into dangerous territory last night, because I ran out of space in the telescope, oops, but still it turned out pretty well. Remind me to clear off the scope this arvo!
The first time I processed the image it was pretty bright, it didn't look very natural, so I did this version. I might post the lurid one later.
So who's ready to see the Carina Nebula I did a couple of nights ago after this? Only an hour or so but you'll get to see us Southern Hemisphere types' consolation prize for not having a pole star.
