Notices by Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 (cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org), page 4

I may have to stop solving #Harper's Monthly Magazine #cryptic #crosswords, unless someone who can scan them from their library's current issue holding wants to co-solve with me.

@tomasino the difference is a May 2019 webpage detailing the common errors and how to fix them. I haven't yet read through the lower half of the page, which is a procedure on deDRMing ebooks.

@tomasino I'd tried five times in as many years to get this to work. My m.o. was to start with a keyword search for "install linux mint Adobe Digital Editions WINE" and then copy and paste the error messages into search engines, find forums that could have a response, look at my errors and gnash my teeth in sorrow and frustration.

I joined a "hate pick" death pool earlier this year. Today I learned I have one hit worth 84 points and there's one less sex pest in the world. My reaction:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

I don't know how to feel about not collecting a 'solo' bonus -- relieved I'm not the only one who'd have him as a "hate pick"?

A friend
Who when I fear your closeness, feels me push away
And stubbornly will stay to share what's left on such a day,
Who when no one knows my name or calls me on the phone,
When there's no concern for me - what I have or haven't done -
And those I've helped and counted on have, oh so deftly, run,
Who when there's nothing left but me, stripped of charm and subtlety,
Will nonetheless remain.

Will you be my friend?
For no reason that I know
Except I want you so.

I shake a little almost every day
Because I'm more frightened than the strangers ever know
And if at times I show my trembling side
(The anxious, fearful part I hide)
I wonder,
Will you be my friend?
#jameskavanaugh #poem

Will you be my friend?
There are so many reasons why you never should:
Often I'm too serious, seldom predictably the same,
Sometimes cold and distant, probably I'll always change.
I bluster and brag, seek attention like a child.
I brood and pout, my anger can be wild,
But I will make you laugh
And love you quite a bit
And be near when you're afraid.
#poem #jameskavanaugh

A friend
Who far beyond the feebleness of any vow or tie
Will touch the secret place where I am really I,
To know the pain of lips that plead and eyes that weep,
Who will not run away when you find me in the street
Alone and lying mangled by my quota of defeats
But will stop and stay - to tell me of another day
When I was beautiful.

#jameskavanaugh #poem

I cry a little almost every day
Because I'm more caring than the strangers ever know,
And, if at times, I show my tender side
(The soft and warmer part I hide)
I wonder,
Will you be my friend?
#poem #jameskavanaugh

Will you be my friend?
There are so many reasons why you never should:
I'm sometimes sullen, often shy, acutely sensitive,
My fear erupts as anger, I find it hard to give,
I talk about myself when I'm afraid
And often spend a day without anything to say.
But I will make you laugh
And love you quite a bit
And hold you when you're sad.

#poem #jameskavanaugh

#poem #jameskavanaugh

But we've got to stop laughing like this
And set some goals
Or be practical
And maybe save the world
Because someone might see us
And wonder why we're laughing
When the bankers look worried
And money's tight
(Did I tell you that your nose is bent,
That you have hound's eyes
And squirrel's cheeks
And I love you?)

But we've got to stop laughing like this
With tears in our eyes
(Which is a nice way for tears to take their leave).
Someone might see us
And wonder why we're still laughing
When the evening news
Only permits an occasional grin.
(Did I tell you that
Your bottom lip hangs down
Like a baby bulldog's,
That your teeth are crooked
And I love you?)

#poem #jameskavanaugh

#poem #jameskavanaugh

We've got to stop laughing like this -
someone might see us
And wonder why we're still giggling
When the whole world is weeping.

We've got to stop laughing like this -
someone might see us
(Did I tell you
That you have a clown's face,
That your ears are too big for your head,
Poking through your hair
Like curious children,
Begging to be nibbled at?)

Three-Toot Poem: "Someone Might See Us"
If you recognize you and me within it, I offer this James Kavanaugh poem to you.
The poem'll be under a Content Warning with its title and ordinal position and carry the hashtags #jameskavanaugh #poem

Watching this Segundo de Chomón 1908 short film before settling into Dominic Smith's novel _The Electric Hotel_
https://invidio.us/watch?v=cCzru63JBSE

Made this quick, easy, delectable salmon recipe for evening meal / supper / dinner:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012829-sauteed-salmon-with-brown-butter-cucumbers #salmon #cucumber #butter #garlic

@tomasino Yeah I tried six times to fix that. I can delete the gophermap listing as long as a direct URL works.

This evening:
I learned about collops and Devonshire splits.
I watched up to the first hour of 'Les Diaboliques' and thought how excellent its contemporary US film adaptation would have been with Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball doing away with William Frawley.