u/Offutticus

(not sure about the flair)

In my fantasy novel, that is not on real earth but on an unnamed Earth like world, I have temples that have fires that are never put out but once a year. I say in the book they are small but never imply actual size. I am editing that book as I rewrite it (again) and see I said it was bronze.

Could bronze work for being hot all year around? The year in this novel is 484 days so for all but a few minutes once a year, it is always burning. The fuel is some sort of oil. I thought of making it a holy fire but that seems to be a big much.

The society is advanced enough to make steel armor. No combustion engines but they do use things such as water wheels, weights, and pulleys, horse or oxen pulled agricultural machinery. That's their technology level.

Would bronze work or should it be another metal? Cast iron came to be in the 1500s which would line up technology wise. But bronze is prettier for the temple.

The things I get stuck on.

Windows 11, Brave browser, Feedly extension v3.1.2.

Not sure what happened, but a week or so ago Feedly stopped grabbing feeds for me. Then it suddenly did. But it was like it was a brand new install and I had to go through and reset options. The one option I cannot find is the "mark as read" when I click and open a feed.

For example, I get the feed from National Hurricane Center. They put out a new report every 6 hrs when not active and then a crap ton when one is. What happened before is I click to open the topmost one and it disappears from the list. I click the Mark as Read and all the others go away. Now, though, the one I click does not go away. This happens with all feeds, not just NHC. Same thing as with my Comics folder. I click the topmost and it should disappear. This makes it easier to see which ones I have already opened.

So, where is that dang little check box? The "Auto mark as read on news open" is checked.

As I said in a wall of text post a few days ago, Conway has coccidia again. As of yesterday, she isn't eating. If I wave greens to get her attention, she just closes her eyes. Typical "if I don't see it, it doesn't exist" thing.

I know I can add bee pollen to her food. I know tricks to get her attention and interest in food, but what do I do if she just refuses? I know it has only be yesterday and today but this girl never misses a meal.

What can I do to get her to eat a little? If she doesn't even try, the bee pollen won't work.

When do I need to contact the vet? It has only been six days, 5 days of meds. I know the med probably is messing with her appetite. But when to let the vet know?

I'm misting her greens to increase fluid intake. But, again, if she won't eat...

I just took a round trip of about 550 miles. I was on my way home today and got a popup message on the dash. "2 hours since ignition". That's all it said. I've never seen it before. Not going around town nor on long drives.

I had stopped about 2hrs prior for pee break and food. But what does it mean? I'd look it up in the manual but not a clue where to start.

I will be making Conway an appt with the vet tomorrow. Just saying that up front.

A while back, I took Conway (adult female) to the vet (the first one, not the current smart one) because she began to have really bad aim at things while eating. The vet said it was an infection and they rinsed some debris from her eyes. No cornea scratches. She believed it was shed that got in there and didn't leave. One eye was much worse than the other in terms of infection.

I hadn't had her long and she'd not had a shed yet. A few months later her head, beard, and one arm turned white and she shed. There were not issues with her eyes. She's had smaller sheds, like just the lower half of her tail, but nothing major. The current shed to go well and is still progressing. I didn't see any whitening on her head, mostly her tail, legs, and sides. It came off in huge chunks then smaller chunks near where she rubs against the blocks.

And now one of her eyes is watery again. I've not noticed any aiming issues and the eye isn't looking weird, just watery which is unusual.

Going on the assumption that she again somehow got shed in her eye, WTH can I do to prevent this?!? I'll ask the vet too, of course, but thought I'd ask here.

In my manuscript that I'm editing, there are limited dialogue that is kinda sorta telepathic but not really. Anyway, I have all of it set aside with : before and after and the speech is in italics. When I first did this, I included the : in italics. Since then I had a science fiction book where we decided to not put it in italics. I want to keep with the trend on this book (fantasy).

:Daughter.:

to

:Daughter.:

Rather than go through and manually change them one by one, is there a way to do the Find and Replace to do this? I looked through it and set the Find to : with attribute of italic and the replace with : and no attribute but that didn't work.

Is this possible to do? It isn't earth shattering if it is not. I'll either do it by hand or leave it since it happens so rarely.

Version: 26.2.1.2 (X86_64)

Build ID: 620(Build:2)

CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win

Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US

Calc: CL threaded

Conway went to the vet today to get another fecal for coccidia and a general checkup. I needed the fecal done because soon, I hope, I will get her new enclosure built and use substrate.

She is still negative for coccidia (yay!) but now has threadworm which vet says is a type of pinworm.

She does not get crickets. She is my only reptile. I do not feed her wild-caught insects. The vet and I agree she most likely got them from the discoid roaches. I'd already decided to stop feeding her them (they are a PITA) and now I am certain of that decision.

They wanted to do bloodwork to see if she is immuno compromised but they couldn't find a vein. They said she is not dehydrated, just pissed off, wiggy, and dragons have itty bitty veins.

The plan is to treat her with the one dose of dewormer (cannot remember name, started with B I think? not panacur, I know that one) and retest in 2 weeks. If she is positive still, then I will do a drop off appt, they'd let her chill, then they'd try to do a blood draw.

She is NOT happy. At all. She is so very pissed off. We were starving (the quick half hour visit ended at 2hrs) so we stopped to get something to eat. I put her carrier on the dash and opened the side door. Her beard was black, the marks on her belly were black, and she just kept glaring. We were told the dewormer tastes awful and Conway confirmed. She kept opening her mouth and swallowing and making "gonna hack a hairball" sounds. Once she calms down, I'll feed her some greens to help with that taste. Right now she's still stomping around in her enclosure telling the world to get off her lawn.

I am Conway's 3rd owner and she's barely 1.5yrs. Her second home was not great, no idea of the first. She's had it rough and I try like mad to get it right now. You know?

My question is: should I dispose of the discoids I have left? I have BSFL and will be using silkworms instead of the roaches. I get the discoids from Dubia.

LibreOffice 26.2, Windows 11, Writer

I have migraines and the screaming white of the program is far too loud. With my other PC (may it rest in peace), I had it set up in grays.

I got the document background, the space around the document, but the space at the top of the window where all the icons are is black. I can't see most of them. When I go into the

Tools > Options > Appearance

and set it to the Migraine theme, I click Apply. When I leave it asks if I want to restart. I say yes. Then it comes back all black. I have to reset it to the default "Light" to make it not be all black.

How can I make the space where the icons are not be black, but a gray?

Top half of the image is the Migraine theme, the second is the reset.

https://preview.redd.it/6gr9qibzq66h1.jpg?width=1291&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeac1e303fcc0355a07962ce2aaeace5380203f6

In my head, I have the geography of the main nation in my fantasy novel. Somewhere I have very ugly map of it.

The issue I keep running up against is this: I have a valley that is prominent in the book. On both sides it has two mountain ranges running roughly north-south. The one to the east is taller. There's a big river running roughly down the middle. It floods a lot.

The book opens with a big storm that hits the valley. But I can't make up my mind how the weather would work. Would it go N to S or S to N? Does it matter and just make it fit the book?

Is there a weather resource for these and other burning questions?

I've been playing RimWorld a lot lately. And not having much luck. Bad map, weird weather, etc. I don't have any DLC, just a lot of mods.

Anyway, so last night I had a dream I was playing the game. And I got a notice pop up on the screen.

>The Throne is angry. Mab is sitting on it and sweating. The Throne dislikes sweat. The Throne dislikes disrespect. The Throne demands the death of Mab or The Throne will leave.

I woke up all tangled in my blankie and my Rottweiler (aka The Furnace) laying up against my side. And I was so very hot and sweaty. So was I The Throne or was I Mab?

Dreams are so ducking weird.

Someone mentioned in another subreddit that one should bake commercially produced topsoil before using, eliminating any bad bugs, fungus, mold, etc.

I thought that had gone out of fashion as we learn more about what works and what doesn't.

So, should topsoil be baked before using?

I have a Zoo Med double dome (not the Nano). I had 2 150w Exo Terra Intense in the 4x2x2 enclosure for my bearded dragon. In the winter, it was enough to keep it warm in this old, drafty house. Basking spot stayed in the low 100Fs. But now that it is warmer, the basking spot gets far too about 4hrs. As in I've measured 117F.

So I got 2 100w Intense and last night went to switch them out. The one did fine, but the other won't. If I hold the ceramic top, it turns but is twisting that internal bit. I don't want to break it. And no, I didn't over tighten it when I put it in. I use paper towels to hold the bulbs. That bulb has been in there the longest.

I've tried holding it but it's hard to hold both the bulb and that small ceramic ring.

Any ideas how to get it out?

I have a 25 Forester with the Eyesight system. I also use a handicap placard. Hanging the placard in this car is frustrating. I have a plastic holder with a hook but it just does not fit.

I did a search today and found these magnetic hooks and bead chains that work with a plastic holder that also has a magnet.

BUT will these magnets me with the Eyesight?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1819275395/handicap-placard-holder-magnetically