RJL20 @rjl20@oulipo.social

Oh, I did miss @halfgray! Howdy to you, too!

Howdy to folks with accounts in this spot who I probably forgot to say howdy to prior to now: @markonalark , @AABBCCDD, @alison, @molly, @insipid, @solvxrv, @coisasoutras, @Hava, @ilona, @kolinjMum, @dozns, @Nil_Pill, @tony, @Yuxx, @rjp, @micchi, @gwbaum, and @nat! (Many of whom didn't post any toots so far.) Did I miss anybody?

My latin is old and rusty. I think this is right, though.

Making a big pot of soup with collards and ham and a traditional black-spot faba for annum novum. It's not my tradition, but it is tasty, so I'm taking it.

Shoot, that was an opportunity to try out "li¢sing" as an oulipo-compliant word.

What? No, no. I'm not thinking of starting a cult to avoid tax. I'm thinking of starting a cult for a discount on musical composition playing rights; turns out a church only has to pay a third what a pub would.

Us, a nonprofit: *looking for cloud hosting, don't got much cash*

Microsoft: I got discounts for nonprofits! You know you want a discount! Apply now!

Us: Yay!

Microsoft: Not your kind of nonprofit.

Us: Oh.

Amazon: I got discounts for nonprofits too! Apply now!

Us: Yay!

Amazon: Program's on hold until January.

Us: Oh.

I just laid down 11 tracks of fiddling, about 4.5m to a track, for a www toy/tool I'm working on. That's an album's worth! It took about two hours (plus a bit to upload and post), and quality is accordingly low -- first try only for all but a particularly bad try. But that's a bunch of stuff to accomplish, and I'm proud of putting it out. Yay!

I bought it in 2010. Why is it so slow now? *sigh*

Also, my computing box is only mostly up to this task. So... that's fun.

My work found out last night that tomorrow night's public virtual shindig is too popular for our Zoom account. So today was my day to study up on how bouncing a zoom thing to youtoob works. Half a fortnight's study in a day. My brain is full.

*puts on long black coat and ocular mirrors*

"I know OBS-fu."

Opinion on this batch: tasty, but soupy. A bit of cornstarch might fix that in round two. Gonna put bits of this batch in my morning oat groats, though; that sounds amazing.

Aloha to an arrival to this toot-spot: @nat!

Again, putting rhubarb and oats and flour and sugar cinnamon and milk fat in a hot box and waiting for tasty noms.

Baking a rhubarb crisp with oats and cinnamon and brown sugar and such, with rhubarb from our back yard. Looking forward to nomming, but good sniffing is going on now!

So many zips.

Fixing structural cracks in my fancy work chair with plastic zips and two-part joining liquid (it sat all night curing). Works so far! *crossing digits for luck*

Shout out to oulipians @NHS, @guchinowaso, @B2020, and @Lo_LO_ol, not in this spot for too many days so far. Howdy!

Oulipo's starting to cost big cash to run! All of 26¢ in mail hosting this month!

(NB: This is not a call for donations.)