So I mentioned the power was out sometime over the holiday and my freezer was full of frost. It must have been out longer than I thought because poking around I saw all the ice cream had melted everywhere but that's not the weird part.

No, apparently it was off so long that whatever blockage between the freezer and fridge melted (in spite of me having the fridge off all day once already) because the fridge is ICE cold (I had it on the highest setting just to get it to be slightly cool) I'm like what? What?!? How did you come back to life? It's still a mess but I'm going to let it limp along for now.

I found a manager special half off tray of devil's eggs (24 of them). I have never seen this before. NO ONE has seen this because all the cashiers and baggers were running over to see it. I wonder if this had been a special order that wasn't picked up. Either of way I'm gonna eat them all up.


I was halfway through making the new homework for the first week of the class but suddenly 50 questions into 90 of them (I pick and choose from the 90s to make the homework) the power fails. No reason. No high winds, no big storm. Just boom no power. Lose everything.

And I had just got the phone system working but then bang, the power goes out and the phone with it. Naturally the cell phone says 'no cellular connections.' ARGH


At least I got writing done but when the power went out at least I had handwritten back up for what hadn't autosaved


As horrible as the last week has been for America and the world in general I find myself in an awkward position of arranging the work conference and planning a vacation in spite of being afraid to literally go anywhere even within my own state let alone elsewhere. I can't be alone in this terrible feeling.


Have some links for Science Saturday

Lupus Linked To Virus That Over 95 Percent Of Us Carry – And Now We Finally Know How I remember in medical school when we were really starting to see EBV and thought it caused 'chronic fatigue syndrome' but weren't sure it did anything at all (and weren't sure chronic fatigue was real), now we know it causes multiple cancers and now this


Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some speaking of weird

Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England lots of assumptions here but the trumpet itself is cool

Study Raises Serious Questions About The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Potential Anti-Cancer Fungal Compound Finally Synthesized After 55 Years

Unique 'Golden Shark' Caught Off Central America Diagnosed With Rare Condition

Silencing Bacterial 'Chatter' in Your Mouth May Help Prevent Tooth Decay Another one for my student



And here's the Fannish 50 Friday (one day late) Fic round up

Paint Me Golden Hazbin Hotel

Flight Time 9-1-1

Banded Dress and Black Coat Wheel of Time

make what you believe 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

Alastor's Lament Hazbin Hotel

Settling Into Beacon Hills Teen Wolf

Feeding Time Stargate Atlantis

Caught Flat-Footed Torchwood

Wants and Fears FAKE

Cultural Exchange Stargate Atlantis

The Duel Torchwood

Favorite for a Reason Stargate Atlantis

Shark Dicks NSFW comic Hazbin Hotel

One Drink Lasts Too Long Hazbin Hotel

Fair Food Stargate Atlantis

In Which, We Are Chaos 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Adjacent Hazbin Hotel

Blizzard Conditions Torchwood

The New Wave. Hazbin Hotel

Fat And Thin Hazbin Hotel

Jin's Dad Jokes 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Plotting Revenge The Professionals (TV 1977)

Chip On My Shoulder UglyDolls (2019)

in the nest box Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena