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Sally Lait
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06🌱 Musings around life, tech, and management.
👩🏻🦰 Tea lover, 日本語 learner, cook, gamer, reader, walker, gardener, CFS/ME haver, v tired parent
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I recently offhandedly mentioned to my husband just how stupid I found the trademarked tagline on the shampoo he's been using, and how I can't help but see it every time
Getting in the shower just now I found this packaging amendment and I genuinely laughed out loud
(For those unfamiliar, this is a reference to lines from Moana, spoken by "hero of man" Maui, which feels like it is on perma-repeat in our house)
I got the Board position I really wanted! 🥳🥳
So much of my #Japanese study time nowadays is done on the sidelines of soft play centres
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@Sheril@mastodon.social Looks like you already have a few options but here's one more. Bookoff is a chain in Japan, and do lots of used books. Looks like it's not available new from there, but if you're open to used then it's on the site here:
https://shopping.bookoff.co.jp/used/0016547103
When you ask AI to help you overhaul the furniture in a room. I guess I wasn't specific enough about actually being able to access cupboard doors 🙄
It was another tough trip to the fetal medicine specialist yesterday, and we're back to testing for (new) chromosomal issues, as well as moving my risk levels further up the scale for preeclampsia
So exhausted from all of these neverending problems and tough decisions to make 😔
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@sil +1 to the Tombow recommendation you got for brush pens. I also have some Akashiya Sai pens I picked up in Japan at some point, but they seem to be available here too.
I don't do calligraphy as such or any formal lettering, but I know they can be used for that, plus they're also lovely for watercolouring (you can use a water filled pen to make the colours bleed out)
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@boffbowsh My husband has a work Jaguar I-PACE which a) has SO many varied problems, including repeated battery issues (was sent away for months). But at this point it's just a running joke about how little works well. b) the customer service from a 'premium' brand like Jag, both at the individual but also the business account level have been absolutely awful
Also, personal view: so dumb that a £££ car has no rear wiper and you frequently can't see well. Very much do not recommend! 😂
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You should also all be very proud of me that I had to add a new CSS component in to finish this, and didn't (yet) get sucked into absolutely rebuilding my hideously outdated and deprecated (argh) source code
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@colly@mastodon.social Loved these, and looking forward to part 3. Thank you as always for such brilliant write ups!
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io For some reason I saw this post first and was pretty confused until I got to the top of the thread, haha 😆
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@thisisjofrank@mastodon.social So sorry to hear that! Take lots of care and I'll shout if I hear of anything x