Done Since 2025-12-28

Not a great week. It starts with my mother's 105th birthday -- she died a little before her 100th -- and ends with my 50th wedding anniversary -- the last one Colleen was alive for was our 45th.

The New Year's Eve/Day Zoom filksing was a high point -- I sang 9 songs. It went on for almost another day after I left. R was online too, so I got to hear him sing a little; we decided that this could count as our holiday video chat if we didn't get arouond to an official one. OTOH because I don't plan well and don't multitask at all, there were undoubtedly a number of things that should have been done before year's end that weren't.

In the category of things that ought to be done soon, see this Post by @rahaeli.bsky.social — Bluesky " I strongly suspect, from all these signals, that Sberbank is preparing to either sell the outside-Russia part of LJ if they can find a buyer, or shut it down if they can't. " -- so back up everything you care about from LJ to DW, if you haven't already, or import it all into DW. I did that several years ago.

As for links... Maduro 'captured and flown out' of Venezuela, Trump says -- it's been suggested that Venezuela should return the favor. How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine's special issue on climate, including A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals.

( Notes & links, as usual )