emoji barista Dani @dani_p@wandering.shop

Oops that tag should not read sff but sf. edit feature please 😂

FRIENDS, I am in a bar where they have loads of vintage arcade games you can play for free—Frogger, Donkey Kong, Galaga, even a Star Wars game where you drive through a field of fireballs and destroy the Death Star. SO FUN.

#videogames #sff

#nerdromance date went so well. We decided that last night was actually Date 2.5 (with breakfasts as mini-dates). Date laughed at my tales of not wanting to assume anything based on copious baking & very communicative body language ("oh!! perhaps he is just being nice!!!"). We set ground rules for communication & workplace stuff & are on the same page about what we want out of this.

THANK FOR SUPPORTING ME in what was actually not that harrowing of a journey hahahaha omg he likes me *lies down*

*clutches coffee, a disaster of fleece and bedhead* Tonight is #nerdromance date night. But I'm starting my day with a little oatmeal-baking (granny smith apples, quick oats, maple syrup, cinnamon!) and participation in the racial justice FB group I'm part of, to help cool my nerves and distract me from the anticipation.

I'll probably add to that effort by lifting some weights and reading something good. Anyone have any recs for a distractingly good novella? :'D

*rolls into the Shop whilst on the commute to work* Good morning, colleagues!

Nothing exciting to report over here! Not yet, anyway. Sending everybody strength and love who needs it since I feel like I have plenty to spare. *sets up a comfy space bordered by pillows and good luck charms*

*screams into a cup of espresso*

So I may have a date on Saturday.

#nerdromance

*bustles into the Shop with an armload of schedules and other colour-coded papers*

So is today the day to get bullied by an architect?

I have decided NOPE. *shoots two espressos, turns cozy sweater inside out into a Business-Type Blazer, puts on a chill and adult face, and sashays out*

is there a good way to provide feedback to a publication regarding their ebook formatting? or is there a hack I can use to get around this issue?

I'm reading an epub of a mag and there are no paragraph indents, and no difference in line length between paragraphs. it's messing up my scansion. I run paragraphs together in ways I'm not sure the authors want, making the writing seem worse than it is.

shrinking the display text helps, but not if a paragraph ends at the end of the column width. :<

For #scifi Sunday, I'm (still) catching up on short fiction readings. I have a sweet spreadsheet of my subscriptions and what hasn't been read yet. I also use it to track which stories have been written by people of colour.

Question for those of you who read by the issue (rather than online as things are released or recced on social media): how do you choose which stories to read within an issue? Do you give every story a chance? Do you read everything cover to cover? Do you go by subgenre?

Yondalla in her aspect as Hextor?
Persephone in her aspect as Hades?

Listened to a talk about Ehlers-Danlos & dysautonomia. The speaker said that some of his chronic pain patients say they are really good sleepers bc they can pull a 12-hour sleep no prob. The twist is that their sleep studies show that they're having >100 pain/adrenaline-related semi-wake (arousal) events that mean folks hit 0 REM cycles. And that's why they wake up exhausted.

So because that is 100% me now I'm like, doubting my famous claim to being an expert sleeper D: ???

A little espresso to start my day at the Shop. Anyone else in? Crema for everyone who wants it!

#tbr for this weekend: I want to tackle my short #sff pile, see if I can clean out a few issues. It's so grey out, it's a good time to be reading. :> Let's check my TBR spreadsheet and find out what's on deck!

#nerdromance update that I learned cute work crush is a complete nerd for Civ games, we spent >4 hours alone together this week, and I'm definitely buckling up to say "show me your cards / let's go watch cars save the world" at our next breakfast.

Which involves peanut butter brownies.

Which I'm really hungry for right now.

Back to your regularly scheduled Saturday!!!

*tumbles into the Shop for the morning, sweaty and dizzy and full of breakfast*

I've been on a tiny (unintentional) social media break! I promise it's not cause of y'all, I just do this periodically. Helps me clear my brain.

And... well... lately there's been a certain interesting party in my life. Still trying to find best way to ask person to see Fate of the Furious with me. We both have a stated interest in seeing this film and neither of us has seen it.

I just need to ask...

#nerdromance

Tonight's super highbrow wine pairing: 2014 Merlot + Reese's pieces. Surprisingly good, though a drier red with a woodier or more mineral note would pair better.

*stumbles in with hair in disarray and orders a medium coffee to go* Listen, I thought for sure today was going to be a writing day... do you make red eyes for desperate humans with too many commitments?

*barista gives Dani the "please don't make me cut you off" face*

*sweats* No, no, you're absolutely right, it's better this way...

Cute Work Crush has graduated to sending me cute emails with emotes and jokes and lots of exclamation marks. I'm ... I'm faint.

We're having another breakfast this coming Wednesday 😳 But with a specific work bent to it this time (regarding, it must be said, SharePoint). I DON'T KNOW. My heart can't handle this. *lies down on the floor*

#nerdromance