Saloutard, bíentés.
There's a reason why I began with this carryover from the Google+ years: Because, starting yesterday morning at 10:57 EDT, I've been invested in reviving the Relformaide Dictionary on Referata--so much so, I barely even have time to get started on this milestone entry. After little more than a year away thanks to a hacking spree...business as usual: A long-awaited undo of last northern spring's damage, followed by brand-new roots, several renames, a revamp of almost half the grammar, a set of newly crafted possessive suffixoids and indicative verbal termisons (144 and 20 all told respectively), and a great deal of maintenance/upgrades to the {{Morpheme}} table (ongoing as I prepare this writeup). On a related note, the Snippets section could use some more work, and that I'll get to in a matter of time, en route to our first official entries--the sooner the better.
And for that, you can thank a pause in my Veritas gift-map mission for finally sending me back. The Veritas layout was looking good earlier this week--until I felt it wasn't. Setting up Rogatia was already one thing; dealing with the bathymetric uplift for the Bastion of Truth may be another. Scrapping what we've already got and returning to an earlier step soon; again, 100 guarantee we'll deal with the street grid of Weymouth, Elmshire, Rogatia, and 200 a crack at the first 1,000 words of Unspooled #1.
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And...apologies if it's taken me too long to drop back here to update this post (on the overnight of July 9 + the night of July 10). Since last time--alliteration alert--the highlights of our Hive hiatus were:
- June 10: Revisiting Veritas for a while
- June 11: 12-hour overhaul on the Snippet code at the Relformaide Dictionary, whose URL (rfm.referata.com) was inaccessible from June 30 till recently thanks to network/server issues--and barely a month after reopening, at that
- June 21-22: Overhaul of the RFM Declension table code; see above
- June 23: Nostalgic double feature of The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)/The Secret of NIMH (1982) on our new Vizio Smart monitor--in primetime. My younger sister chose the first half for her children, while YouTube took care of the other via AutoPlay.
- June 30: Again, see above
- Ca. July 1-4: Testing out which music apps on my device could cast to said monitor--and which couldn't. (Only three of them--Rocket Player, GoneMAD, and GPlay--got through. The latter, though, only supports playback of tracks bought or uploaded to there--no luck with local files. But, with only months to go before YouTube Music takes over...)
- July 4, ~4:30 p.m.: Revisiting Hamtaro, a highly underrated kodomo anime desperately in need of a U.S. comeback--and believe it or not, a guest on Toonami USA's schedule back in its prime. (Thank my younger sister, who put a sample of it on for her kids via YT.)
- July 4, 6:15 p.m.: Catching Tangled, Disney's 2010 take on "Rapunzel", on Disney+ for the first time. (Missed my chance to see it on Starz almost a decade ago.) Two cues therefrom, "I've Got a Dream" and "Kingdom Dance", are headed for the Adanson Jukebox soon enough.
As a reminder, microposting already isn't quite desirable on STM/Hive, so an overdue addendum had to do to get my reputation in check. Returning with a new one before July 12, so keep an eye out.
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And so passes another milestone with nary a bit of fanfare--but 3,000 is on the way this northern fall, and I am not missing that. Until we meet again, take care, stay connected, wipe everything down, wash your hands...and God bless.
All of us, and George Floyd's family.
From the one and only #WhatLiesAground
(2900 + 2934 + 2935)