some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. A. very gently and patiently telling me to pick a film, and when given précis of Ponyo and Kiki's Delivery Service picked the latter. So I watched it again, having forgotten most of it, and was charmed again.

2. A. made dinner, in which we continue using tomatoes and herbs from the patio, and I find it soothing.

3. I took a break halfway through the film when a friend arrived to spend the weekend holed up in the second bedroom having a thesis-submission-related essay crisis, during which I made plum-and-apple cobbler and also made substantial progress on putting together the wheelchair I'm to deliver next week. (I have now met a Quickie Xenon and its baffling folding mechanism, being very used to the Kuschall Champion that is my main chair.)

4. While I did have a panic about having Cocked Up relating to all the various wheelchair-related parts that were required, I've got some bonus kit out of it and I asked for appropriate help & support in Sorting It Out. (Actual Sorting It Out to follow, but sketch plans exist.)

5. Neither of my computers has gone bafflingly wrong in several days, and as a bonus I "fixed" the issues I was having with playing mp3s in Firefox by... "upgrading" (slightly dubiously, via the magic of being extremely selective about the unstable repository for Debian) to ESR 60.1, having established that Tree Style Tab now exists for this brave new world. I am genuinely mildly surprised at how much I don't hate it. (I would like there to be more and better ways to get rid of visual clutter, but at least some of it has an API in development honest guv, and as for the rest I can just about remember how CSS works and I can definitely copy and paste other people's code.)

6. I have just had an excellent giggle with H over Captain Awkward imitating life; we both read the first two sentences of one of today's short question and went "IS THIS US"

Comments

[alexseanchai]

yay movie and tastynomnoms!

[recessional]

That's still Bucky's favorite movie.

[kaberett]

It's so GOOD. I asked Adam if he wanted fish-makes-friends-with-boy or tiny-witch-gets-part-time-job-at-bakery, and he picked this, and... yeah. (It's his third Studio Ghibli, and I always think of the boys when I decide it's time for another one and get the box set out.)

[damerell]

I love Kiki's. In particular, it never crosses the threshold of obviousness at which I want to clutch my chest and gasp "heart... dangerously... warm...". :-)

(The fish pie's a bit CLANG, but in another direction.)

[lunabee34]

I love Kiki! So delightful.

[rmc28]

Kiki is a film I still like after watching tens and tens of times with small children. Many films with far fewer watches are no longer bearable for me. (Totoro & How to train your Dragon are other notable survivors of similar experience.)

[silveradept]

Hooray for Kiki. And for food and computers behaving (for a given value thereof).

[jesse_the_k]

Deathless computers = YAY!