Kerr Avonsen (she/her)

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Being able to listen to recordings of symphonies while sitting at my computer.
2. Beautiful sunshine today.
3. Perl.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this evening.

1. The interesting conversations we're having around #FinishOrFrogAlong
2. The good, fresh food I can easily purchase.
3. Nikola Tesla.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I just got word that a fanfic that someone was writing for me is finished, and they will post it tomorrow. Whee!
2. Posting pieces to my P-o-D shop, https://fluid-visions.com ALL the prints are there! (Expect to hear more about my art in future, folks.)
3. All the interesting stitch-patterns that folks have devised for knitting and crochet. MAGIC STICKS!

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

@anikeaten@kind.social @Lemlems@mastodon.social I used to think that too - then I became a Great Aunt... That doesn't mean that I feel obligated to make teddy bears. All it takes to turn something into a toy is to embroider a face onto it...

Reminded of a few things that make me feel like an ancient Auntie. Let's do a poll, to see how old/young y'all are... (and how Aussie-centric this poll is?) Have you ever...

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Had a lovely game of Settlers over Zoom with family.
2. Managed to put the rubbish bins out while it was still daylight.
3. Free Libre Open Source Software

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I am writing this.
2. Helpful knitters here on Mastodon, giving me ideas!
3. A doona under a blanket under a quilt. Warm.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

Ugh. Coles will not allow me to delete my mobile number, just replace it with a new one. What if my phone had been stolen, you assholes?!

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I had a most delicious dish of scrambled eggs with dill-infused goat's cheese. Light, fluffy, creamy. I doubt I will ever be able to reproduce it, but it existed, and I was able to eat it. That is good.
2. I managed to put the rubbish bins out while it was still daylight. (Yes, I consider that an accomplishment).
3. Electric kettles. (Bright, but not copper -- "Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens." 🎶 )

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

I am sniggering at what Coles have put into their "Health & Dietary" category. It looks like it is completely random, because they certainly have a lot of things there which could not be classified as either healthy or dietary (or allergen-free):

• Vanilla Ice Cream
• Sour Cream
• Thickened Cream
• Instant Coffee
• Cheese slices
• Banana Loaf
• Instant Noodles
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Bread Rolls

They do have other things which do fit, such as gluten-free, sugar substitutes etc - but the non-fitting things have rendered the category utterly meaningless.

#Coles #OnlineShopping

@Lemlems@mastodon.social @anikeaten@kind.social Oh my, it's a Womble!

@Sarah111well@mas.to As l've already said in this thread: Lucky you!

@gracehill.bsky.social So is the the old unreliable ones, or the new ones?

@feritae@universeodon.com Yay for your nephew!

@Sobtanian@mstdn.games NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (all the hugs)

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Smoked King Island cheddar on multigrain bread rolls for breakfast. (Why do they call Tassie "the apple isle" when its most delicious export is CHEESE?)
2. The satisfaction of solving puzzle-games.
3. Rain turning to sunshine.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

@SeaFury@aus.social It is indeed, quite common that one needs a holiday to recover from one's holiday.

@joannaholman@aus.social Winston is a very fitting name.

@JustFi@beige.party Interesting flecks of colour in that yarn.

@satsuma@dice.camp (Okay, I better do a haiku response...) To lie on a bed Of gold, and starve, for your pack Has no food in it.

@satsuma@dice.camp Sure, he said, quacking With laughter. How do you like your dried worms and bugs?

I can has a pebble watch! !!!!! It arrived sooner than I expected. I have just spent hours exploring, wondering what apps and watchfaces to install. I'm still not entirely sure what I need and how it all fits together. I've installed Gravel, which is a FOSS app for interacting with a pebble (no account needed) and also installed GadgetBridge, though I'm not sure that I need both of them. I think I'm heading into information overload territory, so I'm going to take a break. #pebble #smartWatch #PebbleOs #FOSS

#SocialMedia I hereby am trying out a new plugin for #Obsidian: a post-thread-to-Mastodon plugin! It took a while for me to figure out how to actually get it to authenticate with #Mastodon; it simply would NOT do so. I tried on Linux; the results varied depending on which browser was set as my default browser; I tried both #Firefox and #Brave... I may even have tried #Waterfox too, I can't remember. [1/5]

@pedersen@c.im I've taken a quick look at their "so you want to write a plugin?" and it seems they have *written* an example "hello world" plugin for newbies to try. Whether that also means that they've improved the documentation, I don't know. As for writing a separate app, there are a few reasons why my answer to that would be "no". I like that Obsidian plugins work on both Android and Linux, without, presumably, the plugin writer having to do the heavy lifting to get something to work on both. Also, I'm reasonably familiar with TypeScript, so that would also reduce the learning curve needed. And part of the reason I'm thinking "plugin" is because of the convenience of being able to do something from within Obsidian, rather switching back and forth between programs.

@pedersen@c.im And I do have to ask - in what ways was writing an obsidian plugin painful? Because, yes, I am pondering whether I would like to write my own, for personal use.

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Dried strawberries (I ate the last of them).
2. Warm bed on a cold day.
3. The folks who have enough of a sense of humour to make quirky/silly watch faces and apps for Pebble watches. (Like, the watch face which is Always Correct... because what it displays is the word "Now")

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

One of the follies of modern government is the persistent but irrational belief that adding more paperwork saves money. #Government #beaurocracy #RedTape #paperwork

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social (takes deep breath) Three good things. Yes, I can do that. Sure. Suuuuure.

1. People are still taking beautiful photographs (see: Silent Sunday)
2. Not only do I have a roof over my head, but I own the roof.
3. Refrigeration.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I dug in and tackled adding art to my print-on-demand store (https://fluid-visions.com) and I managed to get through all the "S" pieces! That leaves T through Z left, but "S" was a big section (over 50 pieces) so that's a great relief.
2. I managed to get quite a bit done on my loom-knit purple bag while listening to two albums back to back; I got into the zone with it.
3. Bob Dylan. 🎶

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I got a bunch of stuff done.
2. Though there was a "damaging winds" weather warning for today, it was not particularly wild where I was.
3. Jean Michel Jarre 🎶

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. I snail-mailled the last of my Marvel Trumps Hate fills from last year.
2. A nice barista who gave me a sample of his coconut hot chocolate (made with coconut milk and real chocolate) because I was enjoying his iced mocha (also with real chocolate).
3. That I was able to be amused rather than aggravated by Random Dude here on Mastodon who was trying to pick a fight with me about "democracy".

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

@JustFi@beige.party I don't think it's a question of "brave", but of a desire for subtlety.

@gracehill.bsky.social I think the one which threw me out of the story the most was "council" rather than "console" (it was a Doctor Who story, so they were talking about the TARDIS console.) No, actually, I am mistaken, the worst one in recent memory, which made me give up on the story completely, was using "Parthenon" instead of "Pantheon". (Yes, an Asgard-centric Marvel fic).

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Did ALL the things on today's to-do list. I don't always have a daily to-do list, and when I do, I usually manage to do most of them but not all of them, so go me!
2. Being able to go to bed when I'm sleepy.
3. Frogs.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Reading the fanfic story which was written for me.
2. Playing around with apps and watch faces on my new Pebble watch.
3. Looking at people's cool user names (such as epicdemiologist, Consumable Joy, HistorySheWrote)

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Good progress made on my MTH jewellery piece.
2. Lovely chat with the machine-operator demolition guy (whose name, I forgot to mention, is Ahmed.)
3. Sky 🎶

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Useful parcels arrived, progress was made on a project.
2. Necessary errands were run.
3. There was some lovely sunshine today.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. The start of #FinishOrFrogAlong is definitely a good thing.
2. Persevering through multiple frustrations today.
3. I have a warm fluffy dressing gown on.

Reed, quill, nib and brush Transforming ink into words Thoughts made manifest #DailyHaikuPrompt - Quill - 20th Sept - #Haiku #Poetry

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Experimenting with craft project to find what does not work.
2. Blowing bubbles. 🫧
3. Sam Robson 🎶

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

Which brings me again to wondering... why do some writers feel that giving someone an exotic name makes the character "special"? (And why does the character have to be "special" anyway?) And all those other... appendages and attachments which are given to Mary-Sue characters, like purple hair and wings and royal descent... I mean, why? Or maybe I'm just baffled because I live in a mostly-classless society where one's parentage is completely irrelevant compared to one's own achievements? Maybe the authors think that being born an aristocrat really is Something Special? #MarySue #Fanfic #Fiction #Writing

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this evening.

1. I'm posting here, even though I've had a rough day and don't feel like it.
2. Stuffing my gob with chips. Comfort food.
3. Manhattan Transfer. 🎶

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. The encouragement folks here have given me after my vent. Thank you all.
2. Had a lovely phone call with my b-i-l about woodworking and creative stuff. After he recovers from tennis elbow, he might be making me some cubic knitting needles...
3. Loreena McKennitt 🎶 ("Night Ride Across The Caucasus" just came up on my randomplay).

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8

I freely admit that I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against billionaires. #Inequality #Economy #CostOfLiving

Possibly these authors think that say, having a character acquire wings is an instant Sign Of Worthiness? Because fluffy wings are always angelic, right? Right? What they don't seem to realise is that anything, ANYTHING, which sets someone apart can be (re)interpreted as a Sign Of Evil. Angelic wings? Sure. "Those wings! They are an unholy union of man and beast!" Former normal-human now treated as a non-person. There are no Signs of Worthiness. (Personally, I think Mjolnir is a bit dodgy. What Odin might consider Worthy is probably not what the rest of us would...) I am reminded of the bit in "The Princess and Curdie", where Curdie asks the Grandmother to give him a sign that he might recognise her by, and she refused, saying that then he would learn how to recognise the sign, rather than knowing how to recognise *her*. It's a lot more work to evaluate a person than it is to evaluate a sign. Signs are easy. Signs separate the we from the not-we. Signs mean you don't have to *think*. #Fiction #Writing #Fanfic #MarySue

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Wearing purple from neck to ankle is fun.
2. Still playing around with my Pebble watch.
3. Fruit leather. Yum.

#3GoodThings @3goodthings@fedigroups.social Three good things this day.

1. Good report at regular GP visit.
2. Found some WIPs that I'd forgotten about.
3. Audio recordings that enable us to listen to creators long dead, like Ella Fitzgerald. 🎶

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." - Philippians 4:8