秋桜

・Things I could have done without this week: the first multi-day headache in quite a while (since I got my lovely new desk chair, I think). As always not disabling, just dreary and demoralizing, especially in the middle of gorgeous fall weather.

・Items on my perpetual-stew-style to-do list at the moment include but are not limited to "postcards, Asahikawa, AO3 etc., Y glasses, blood, APPLY, Yuletide, Brahms," in no particular order.

・Chinese: Yu-jie taught me to pronounce, and hear, the difference between 希望 (xīwàng) and 失望 (shīwàng); since they mean respectively "hope" and "disappointment," this is kind of an important one.

・I was very pleased to find that the FAQ for a translator's aid still contains the question "Does [application] support Klingon?" to which the answer is "HIja' (Yes), Klingon speakers can now scan their bilingual files for the intrusion of filthy Romulan characters and also purge them from alphanumerical Borg-isms. Viewing Klingon characters is possible if you install the un-cloaking font Code2000. Klingon is represented by the mighty language code TLH."

・Thanks for guessing many of the songs in my last post; for the record, here are the answers to those unguessed. ( Mostly, but not entirely, obscure )

・Photos: These are just a few of the approximately fifty zillion cosmos flowers blooming in a field in Y's hometown; I couldn't begin to take pictures of them properly, but at least here's a taste.
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Be safe and well.