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1 day ago

I have tried to give the zonelets blog a different look, since everyone who uses it seems to keep the same styles. I would like it to match the main body of the site, but I've no clue on how to do that without wrecking the script that's in place, but at least it looks a bit different. Perhaps the biggest change would be to get a new background image for it, or just take out the background image entirely.

crafty-hobbit-reads

1 day ago

One problem that I've observed with music is that it is quite stuck in the past. (I'm in my 40s, so people should take heed when someone of my age, or older says this.) We love Guns n Roses, Metallica, Nickelback, Sonata Arctica (and there are many, many others that I could mention from the 2000s and earlier), but when you look at the line up of a music festival, it's always an old band or singer headlining it, and

crafty-hobbit-reads 1 day ago

I mean, OLD! Not bands from 5 years ago, or even bands from 10 years ago, but ones from the 90s and early 2000s. They are great, and we love them, but we need new bands and artists, too, and none of this bland, AI generated junk.

crafty-hobbit-reads

1 day ago

Getting a layout to display right is a right pain, sometimes.

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2 days ago

Wow, you read a lot! This year is the first in a long time where I can count books per year instead of year per book. Nice website, very cozy.

crafty-hobbit-reads 2 days ago

Thanks. I have really only been keeping track since 2024, and I only started getting back into reading properly in 2021. For ages, I didn't read much because of concentration problems. About half of the books are audiobooks, though.

crafty-hobbit-reads

3 days ago

I'm quite tired today. I sometimes get fatigue. Fortunately, I have done what needs to be done, and I've got a couple of Ursula Le Guin books from the library - The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven. I will move on to these after finishing Twelve Months. I'm about three quarters of the way through it and it is still missing something. I thought that Peace Talks and Battleground should have been one book, but this?

crafty-hobbit-reads 3 days ago

The Thomas and Justine storyline is really the only thing that is holding it together (and so far, there hasn't really been anything of Justine), and everything else in the book just seems to be there to pad it out. I'm pretty certain that if it was an author other than Jim Butcher, I would have dropped the book by now. Mirror Mirror had better be better than this. We know Jim can write, and that's what makes it more

crafty-hobbit-reads 3 days ago

disappointing than usual.

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3 days ago

Today, we got a new computer monitor and I was able to fix a laptop that has an issue with certain keyboard keys not working properly. The increase brightness button had stopped working and I accidently made the screen go dark, but with the new monitor I was able to fix it. We have a new keyboard so that solves the issue with the dodgy keys but after over a decade of using laptop keyboards, I find a desk top keyboard

crafty-hobbit-reads 3 days ago

to be quite clunky (and LOUD!) to use. On the plus side, though, the monitor is much larger than the laptop screen so it reduces eye strain so I'll probably use the monitor and keyboard quite regularly. I look forward to playing LOTRO using the new monitor because with my diabetic retinopathy issues, it was starting to become difficult to play the game.

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4 days ago

As we will soon be passing the equinox, another challenge to my vision when it comes to reading is darker nights and shorter day lengths, increased cloud cover, rain and generally gloomy light levels. You might think that colder weather and longer nights would make me read more, and that would have been true before my eyesight started going bad. But now, it makes focusing on physical books more problematic and this

crafty-hobbit-reads 4 days ago

why the books at the start of the year were consumed in multiple formats. I will be getting a new light so I don't have to struggle with the over head light in the bedroom (it strains my eyes too much) and I need a better set up for the hands free magnifier which I bought back in May - I need a something flat to lay books on because the magnifier distorts the text in the middle because books dip along the spine.

crafty-hobbit-reads 4 days ago

I also need a better chair/sofa to use it as well because it's too high for the bed. Unfortunately, I've not been able to use it as much as I wanted to.

crafty-hobbit-reads

5 days ago

I am currently on page 4 of special sauce for the book tag filter, which isn't bad since the site is not very old, but it will probably take ages to get up there on the unfiltered page. Still not showing up on Activity, though.

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5 days ago

I have got the layout done for the cd page, and hunted around for blinkies though I think there are too many and I'll need to split them up so that they don't become too much on the eyes. It's fun making a website... Now, I think it's time to listen to some Danielle Jensen...

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5 days ago

It occurred to me last night that I should do a music page, so I've been having some fun with getting the layout done for that. I'll probably do the same for films and TV shows, BUT I don't watch a lot of the new stuff because most of it is unrealistic crime and thriller rubbish with unlikeable characters in them.

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6 days ago

I came across your page while searching for an answer to the last updated situation. I created my site at the end of August this year and find that I show up on the special source, and last updated, etc, but only if I filter it by tags. On Activity, I don't show up at all. It's disheartening because I was using blogger for my site (I set it up around late December last year/early January this year and found that I

crafty-hobbit-reads 6 days ago

was getting no interaction on it. I decided to join neocities because there is a strong book community on here, (as I have other sites) but I doubt that it will grow much here because I don't show up anywhere.

crafty-hobbit-reads

6 days ago

I am currently reading Twelve Months, the latest Dresden Files book. I can understand why it was written, (and it is still well written, btw), but it is more like a series of vignettes or short stories that span the year after Peace Talks and Battleground, and plot-wise, it's not quite up to the usual standards as you would expect from a Dresden book. I don't really like the 'romance' plot with Lara, either. It's

crafty-hobbit-reads 6 days ago

clear that Harry isn't interested in her and she's not really interested in him. It's a bit creepy, tbh, and it would get called out if the story's main protagonist was a women being forced into something like that. It will end up being a 3 star rating for me. Given how these books have been since Skin Game, I wonder if the author wants to keep writing them because there's been a huge gap between publication of the

crafty-hobbit-reads 6 days ago

latest books and Peace Talks and Battleground feel like a single book that was split into two.

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