Structure diagram

Aug. 29th, 2025 05:36 pm
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 Today was a good work day as I started the day reading in the Obsidian discord channel and learned of a few things that will be useful later, and others that are already useful. This inspired me to start working on my proof of concept SEAD database structure Obsidian vault.
 
In the long run I want to be able to export the entire database structure and import it into Obsidian, with links between everything that is connected and properties for all of the import information attached to each type of data. 
 
But that is going to take time and lots of learning and experiments. So for today I have started a database structure vault that has a few folders for thing like Location, Sample, Analysis, etc, and put at least a couple notes under each, and created properties for links between them (as daughter or parent, so that the graph view connection lines show the arrows going in the same direction as in the pdf we have that shows the database structure). Then I applied colour coding to the folders so that each will have the same colour as in that pdf, and applied groups in the graph view based on the folders, with colour coding to match.
 
So far it is a tiny hint of the full database structure, but it is working exactly how I want it to.
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So I sent a message to my colleague, Roger, who also uses Obsidian and showed him the photo, and he pointed out that to get the full structure I can use 
Visio, and provided a link. He also commented that he has been looking for a good way to graphically present the database structure, and agrees that Obsidian may be the tool to accomplish this.
 
But by then it was pretty much 13:00, and I needed to quit work for the day to åack for the event (a little early, but I have put in a few nine hour days to make this possible).  
 
I also needed to eat lunch, so by the time I finished packing bedding, projects, banners and food (clothes and archery stuff and the mattress were already in the can last night), had cleaned the kitchen and emptied the cat sand and trash, and fed the cats, it was already 16:00, and Keldor was already off work for the day and taking a nap at his dad's house.
 
So I picked up his package that arrived today (new arrow points, we'd packed the arrows waiting for points), and drove up to Skelleftehamn to pick him up.
 
Now we are heading to a store to get him a few last minute things, then we are on our way to Skördefest, a local SCA event at the larp village about half an hour north of Skellefteå. 

Things I won't be buying

Aug. 29th, 2025 11:34 am
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Nice, though. [image: image.png]

https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Black-Blue-Gold-Beaded-Astrology-Vest-67fdc1b55919e04dd741f6b9

Apples and packing

Aug. 28th, 2025 10:54 pm
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 I did, in fact, go to bed at 19:00 last night. This resulted in my waking up around 01:00, and by 01:20 I realised that I wouldn't fall right back to sleep, so I got up to see what I could accomplish with the time.
Just over two hour later I had filled both Keldor’s and my old food dehydrators with slices of apple from his dad's tree, and was ready to go back to sleep for a short rest.
The apples dried happily during the day, so I turned off the dehydrator in the early evening,  before I finished packing my chest for this weekend's event.
They discourage driving all the way down to the larp village to keep from damaging the road, which is just a sandy path through the forest. Therefore Keldor choose to pack his garb in a backpack instead of his normal chest. I opted to pack my things into my small chest, the one that had bern made to fit into the trunk of David's car. Ever since we got the matching larger chests we have had one each for clothing, and used the small one for accessories. It was interesting to remember that the little chest uses to be enough,  and make it so, again.
 

Finally actually working with data

Aug. 27th, 2025 06:46 pm
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 Some mornings 05:20 feels earlier than others, and 6 hours of sleep doesn't feel like enough...
Luckily, it was an interesting day at work, so I managed to stay awake. I had a 9:00 fika with my former colleagues with the research data group at the library, followed with a meeting of the Radiocarbon Isotope Data task group for SEAD.  We went over the various data files we got from the Radiocarbon Isotope researchers who are looking to get their data into our database and looked at a variety of available tools for dealing with data and cleaning it up before ingestion into a database. The meeting ended with me taking on the assignment of figuring out the locations of the various sites listed in their spreadsheet. The researchers must have geographical coordinates somewhere, as the spreadsheet includes a copy of their figure 1, showing the locations on a map. However, neither that paper, nor any of the others I could find in the citation chain provided any location details. Therefore, I did the easy thing and sent an email to the author. 
After work I tried mailing back to the museum the pot handel I accidentally brought home from Lofoten with me. But the guy couldn't make it trackable, so I didn't send it.

Now it isn't even 19:00, and I am super tired, and I have done my yoga for the day, so I am seriously considering just heading to bed directly after posting this.

To-do note I jotted down this morning: sew a magnet to my backpack, and to my hat, so that the hat can just sit in place, rather than bounce around on the end of the string. Repeat for the other hat.

Close-up of pallu

Aug. 27th, 2025 07:48 am
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One of my friends asked for a close-up of the fancy woven section of the new pocket vest that I made, so here it is.

During the design process, I sketched out different ways of cutting the saree up; I ultimately decided to split this pallu section in half, so that it would be symmetrical on either side of the front opening, but another version had the pallu all on one side with the plainer part of the saree on the other.

summer clearly winds to a close

Aug. 26th, 2025 10:52 pm
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 I took my electric scooter over to the dentist today, and learned the hard way that it is too cold to be out with only a thin cashmere sweater as an outer layer if one is moving at 20 km/hr. Brrr.
Other accomplishments of the day include work, laundry, getting the dried black currants off of the old, kinda broken plastic trays they had stuck to, and ordering a new, larger, food dehydrator with stainless steel trays. It will be interesting to see how well it works.
 
I am also pleased that whatever caused the muscle aling the right side of my spine to hurt yesterday and this morning seems to have adjusted itself, as it is feeling much better.
 
 

Retail Mocking

Aug. 26th, 2025 05:59 am
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When I take Grup-P to the stores, we often indulge in what we call Retail Mocking: ridiculous things for sale. This time some of the things we saw were merely interesting.

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new garment from old saree

Aug. 26th, 2025 05:58 am
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This has large, smartphone-capable internal patch pockets.

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"As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us."
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I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us.

Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry. We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Netchoice have been fighting for you had a temporary setback last week. We genuinely and honestly believe that we're going to win it in the end, but the Fifth Circuit appellate court said that the district judge was wrong to issue the preliminary injunction back in June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the state from enforcing the law requiring any social media website (which is very broadly defined, and which we definitely qualify as) to deanonymize and age-verify all users and obtain parental permission from the parent of anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.

Netchoice took that appellate ruling up to the Supreme Court, who declined to overrule the Fifth Circuit with no explanation -- except for Justice Kavanaugh agreeing that we are likely to win the fight in the end, but saying that it's no big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime.

Needless to say, it's a big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime. The Mississippi law is a breathtaking state overreach: it forces us to verify the identity and age of every person who accesses Dreamwidth from the state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of 18 by collecting identity documents, to save that highly personal and sensitive information, and then to obtain a permission slip from those users' parents to allow them to finish creating an account. It also forces us to change our moderation policies and stop anyone under 18 from accessing a wide variety of legal and beneficial speech because the state of Mississippi doesn't like it -- which, given the way Dreamwidth works, would mean blocking people from talking about those things at all. (And if you think you know exactly what kind of content the state of Mississippi doesn't like, you're absolutely right.)

Needless to say, we don't want to do that, either. Even if we wanted to, though, we can't: the resources it would take for us to build the systems that would let us do it are well beyond our capacity. You can read the sworn declaration I provided to the court for some examples of how unworkable these requirements are in practice. (That isn't even everything! The lawyers gave me a page limit!)

Unfortunately, the penalties for failing to comply with the Mississippi law are incredibly steep: fines of $10,000 per user from Mississippi who we don't have identity documents verifying age for, per incident -- which means every time someone from Mississippi loaded Dreamwidth, we'd potentially owe Mississippi $10,000. Even a single $10,000 fine would be rough for us, but the per-user, per-incident nature of the actual fine structure is an existential threat. And because we're part of the organization suing Mississippi over it, and were explicitly named in the now-overturned preliminary injunction, we think the risk of the state deciding to engage in retaliatory prosecution while the full legal challenge continues to work its way through the courts is a lot higher than we're comfortable with. Mississippi has been itching to issue those fines for a while, and while normally we wouldn't worry much because we're a small and obscure site, the fact that we've been yelling at them in court about the law being unconstitutional means the chance of them lumping us in with the big social media giants and trying to fine us is just too high for us to want to risk it. (The excellent lawyers we've been working with are Netchoice's lawyers, not ours!)

All of this means we've made the extremely painful decision that our only possible option for the time being is to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing Dreamwidth, until we win the case. (And I repeat: I am absolutely incredibly confident we'll win the case. And apparently Justice Kavanaugh agrees!) I repeat: I am so, so sorry. This is the last thing we wanted to do, and I've been fighting my ass off for the last three years to prevent it. But, as everyone who follows the legal system knows, the Fifth Circuit is gonna do what it's gonna do, whether or not what they want to do has any relationship to the actual law.

We don't collect geolocation information ourselves, and we have no idea which of our users are residents of Mississippi. (We also don't want to know that, unless you choose to tell us.) Because of that, and because access to highly accurate geolocation databases is extremely expensive, our only option is to use our network provider's geolocation-based blocking to prevent connections from IP addresses they identify as being from Mississippi from even reaching Dreamwidth in the first place. I have no idea how accurate their geolocation is, and it's possible that some people not in Mississippi might also be affected by this block. (The inaccuracy of geolocation is only, like, the 27th most important reason on the list of "why this law is practically impossible for any site to comply with, much less a tiny site like us".)

If your IP address is identified as coming from Mississippi, beginning on September 1, you'll see a shorter, simpler version of this message and be unable to proceed to the site itself. If you would otherwise be affected, but you have a VPN or proxy service that masks your IP address and changes where your connection appears to come from, you won't get the block message, and you can keep using Dreamwidth the way you usually would.

On a completely unrelated note while I have you all here, have I mentioned lately that I really like ProtonVPN's service, privacy practices, and pricing? They also have a free tier available that, although limited to one device, has no ads or data caps and doesn't log your activity, unlike most of the free VPN services out there. VPNs are an excellent privacy and security tool that every user of the internet should be familiar with! We aren't affiliated with Proton and we don't get any kickbacks if you sign up with them, but I'm a satisfied customer and I wanted to take this chance to let you know that.

Again, we're so incredibly sorry to have to make this announcement, and I personally promise you that I will continue to fight this law, and all of the others like it that various states are passing, with every inch of the New Jersey-bred stubborn fightiness you've come to know and love over the last 16 years. The instant we think it's less legally risky for us to allow connections from Mississippi IP addresses, we'll undo the block and let you know.

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 I worked from home today, so decided to try setting up a work station in the kitchen for easier reading of the screen (I forgot my new computer glasses in the office on Friday, and they are probably not set up to use the recliner and look up at the monitor anyway. So I unscrewed my monitor from the moving desk in the living room and took it to the kitchen, and found my old external keyboard, in the cupboard where "away" said it would be). sadly, the usb slot in the keyboard doesn't have enough power to run the Wacom tablet, so that has to stay attached to the computer itself, which meant that I had to unplug the hearing-aid Bluetooth thing to attach the keyboard to the computer. (This monitor has no USB slots, perhaps it is time to buy a better one?) I plugged that into the keyboard, but I am concerned that future me will forget to move it back to the computer, so I made a note and attached it to the usb.
During an early break I started a batch of bread dough, with plenty of chunks of garlic in it, and let it rise as I worked, baking it in a bunch of small flat loaves with little pockets of soft roasted garlic, and plenty of garlic brushed over the outside of the loaves before, during, and after baking. Yum!
 
After work I had the energy to steam a bunch of vegetables I bought yesterday, and make a yummy sauce for them made from peanut butter, boiled garlic, melted butter, soysauce, chili, ginger, etc.
 
I got my cooking mess cleaned up before Keldor got home. He'd bern given som venison from one of hos colleagues who had hunted it a couple of days ago, so he stopped on the way home to pick up some chanterelle, and at the store to buy some cream and rutabaga. He put most of the meat into smaller bags in the freezer, then cooked up a stew with the other ingredients he brought home, plus som canned tomato and beans.
 
So we are clearly both recovered from the Norway trip, and once again doing things like cooking.
 
 

More blackcurrants

Aug. 24th, 2025 09:39 pm
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 Last night while watching the movie my legs started cramping up. I was also super tired, so I did my yoga, and then lay on the ccouch with my legs on the rotating ball massage tool till it turned itself off. Around that time Keldor came back upstairs to say that he'd returned to the garage to continue what we had started earlier, and now he'd moved the long table that came with the house aeay from the wall, moved the safe into the corner where it had been, and the secong hand old fashioned carpenter's bench we bought not long before heading to Norway against the wall. 
I felt bad that I had been too tired to even notice that he'd gone downstairs, let alone help, and super impressed he managed to move that heavy safe.
 
I got up the first time today at 05:30, fed the cats, did a load if laundry and got the dried red currants out of the dehydrator and started the white currants drying. Then I went back to sleep for a couple of hours (I don't think Keldor even noticed I had been up).
 
We started our day with a game of Qwirkle, then added the weather stripping around a couple of windows, that should have been done ages ago. The others will have to wait till we get more.
 
Then he went out to pick chanterelle, and I curled up with a book, then delt with some Exchequer paperwork, and finally went out to see how many black currants our bushes have this year 7 bushes between them yielded a good handful of berries (they are clearly starting to think about forgiving us for transplanting them, but aren't really ready to do any serious berry production).
 
So I hopped in the car are drove to the place a couple of km on the other side of the highway where there area bunch of black currant bushes, and picked for an hour or so,which gave me enough to fill the five trays of my dehydrator. Hopefully I will get back out there at least once more this year.

A productive day

Aug. 23rd, 2025 09:12 pm
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 Oops, forgot my second set of vitamins yesterday afternoon. Second time this has happened. 

For first time in several days, the cats left a tiny bit in the bowl, so I could water it with a mix of the last of the sauce in the bag plus warm water, so the food wouldn't dry out. The watering the left overs is our normal procedure, and, often, they go back later and finish the food. Sometimes they just drink the water, and, if I notice, I water it again. Usually the food either dissappears before the next morning, or it dries out and will never be eaten. On the days it dissappears early, if they ask for more after work they usually get a second bowl, which gets the same watering treatment, and which often dissappears before breakfast time (if it didn't dry out). Sometimes the second breakfast (as we call the occasional serving of soft food after work) doesn't completely dissappear before breakfast the next morning. On those mornings, they won't get a second breakfast after work, though they do get snacks. (So the extra meals get tied to days where one or both of them were hungry enough to eat everything the day before, though if it wasn't eaten because it dried out, we assume they were hungry enough and still get second breakfast, as drying out is on us). 

Since getting home from Lofoten they have been cleaning their plates at first serving, even when they ask for second breakfast (which is most, if not all, of this week). Today is the first day we are back ro the previous "normal" Of leave a little. I guess they have now had enough second breakfast days in a row to feel like they are well enough feed to leave something again? 

...and mid afternoon Skaði came back and ate up what was left, and then they both asked for second breakfast an hour or so later, which they devoured directly. We may have become a twice a day wet food for the cats family. 

Today was otherwise a productive, but easily distracted day. We unloaded the lumber he'd brought hone yesterday, and started cleaning the garage, so we can bring it in.

This lead to the first distraction. His running treadmill was moved to the garage months ago, with the plan to build an under base for it to compensate for the slope of the garage floor.

Today we decided to move it to the downstairs guest room, where the floor doesn't slope. So we rearranged the furniture in that room, stood the treadmill on end (it is designed to do that, and hung the rowing machine on the wall). We moved the desk dresser full of fishing gear to in front of the window, where, if anyone wants to open it and use umit as a desk, there will be better light, and the big dresser on the wall holding shut the door to the laundry room.

As we finished with the guest room and returned to the garage we found distraction number two. The table he built to take to events was also in garage, and should be in the attic now that camping season is over and we will be sleeping indoors at events.

Carrying it up reminded us that he'd cut that plexiglass to fix the broken attic window. The one that broke some time before we bought the house, and which someone had shoved a mastress in it to keep the snow out. Keldor had cut some plate metal the right size to screw over the window frame the first week or so after we got the keys, and for a little more than 3.5  years that end of the attic has been dark. I mean, yah, we had run an extension cord and a lamp back there, but it didn't help as much as one might like.

So today we cleaned and organised that end of the attic, took down the window frame, took off the metal, and screwed the plexiglass in place and put the window back. My, it lets in a Lot of light!

By then I was getting really hungry, so I took a "break" and made a quick pot of soup, with homemade noodles. Yum! Amd curled up with a book. Then Keldor fell asleep on the couch, and I decided to bake some scones. Because I am nice I woke him when they came out of the oven.

I had thought to return to working, but he voted for watching Snowwhite, so I made progress nålbindning his socks instead.  Now I feel tired, so time for yoga and bed.

Planning more home improvements

Aug. 23rd, 2025 01:08 am
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 I got nearly 8.5 hours of sleep last night, and could have slept more, but I got up with Keldor at 5:30 nonetheless. We had our normal half hour call as he drove to work, and then I sat down to the computer for work. Yay! Working from home!
 
I had an 08:00 zoom meeting, looked into travel options for the work trip to Stockholm next month, took a nap. Actually booked the flights and hotel, emptied my inbox, and suddenly the work day was over.
 
Then I measured the second hand door we bought, marked the wall with tape to show where it would go if we install it in the space next to the wall that currently seperates the kitchen from the small room next to it. Then also marked the floor with tape showing the latgest size pantry that could go in the corner between the space for the door and the corner, and between the window on the other wall and the corner, assuming the shelves on the outer wall are 18 cm wide, and the entrance to the pantry is on the corner, 45 degrees to both walls.
 
That pantry space looked small to me (I grew up in a house with a pantry so big there was a big stand in freezer in the smaller end of the space), and if we did then change that way then the piano would have no where to go.
 
If I made the pantry longer, long enough for the piano to fit against its outer wall, I like the pantry space better. However, thst would mean I would have to take our the wall and wall of cabinets that I have wanted gone since I bought the house.
 
I like this idea, so I spent some hours at the computer drawing up that idea. Meanwhile, Keldor stayed after work to tale apart some very large pallets that he thinks would be good for some of our projects.
 
He started driving home around the time I finished with the computer, and we chatted on the phone while I tidied up in the kitchen and started cleaning the red currants I picked yesterday and getting them into the dehydrator. 
 
Keldor got home as I was nearing done with that task, and I showed him my drawings, and he commented that he had been thinking of a pantry even smaller than the smaller of the two I had marked with tspe on the floor. His version is a square i stead of a rectangle. 
 
He also reminded me of his concerns about taking out that wall. We don't know if it is load bearing, if it goes we need to replace both flooring and ceiling. All valid concerns. 
 
The load bearing part got me to check the kommune's web page to see if there are any architectural plans for this house in file available for download. Nope. So I filled in the form to order some, if they exist.
 
 

More berries!

Aug. 21st, 2025 08:28 pm
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 Yesterday Phil, one of my colleagues told me that they have more red currants than they need, and do I want to come pick some? Yes, yes indeed!
 
Since we had a working meeting after lunch today we decided that I would head home with him directly after the meeting, pick berries, and he'd drop me at the bus station after.
 
This is exactly what we did. They have only one red currant bush, but it is very prolific! I was there 45 minutes, and didn't quite empty the bush! They also have one black currant bush, that they will keep the berries of, and a white currant bush, which he gave me (he picked the white, while I picked the red).
 
Then I caught the 18:00 buss 100 north. That one doesn't stop in Lövånger, as it is an express bus to Haparanda, so Keldor drove down to Sikeå to pick me up at 19:00, which meant I was home at 19:30.
 
I am too tired to start drying the berries tonight, so I sm going to bed early (it isn't 20:30 yet). Tomorrow I will work from home. 
 
 

Still tired from the drive

Aug. 20th, 2025 11:10 pm
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 Busy day at work. During one meeting a colleague noticed that I use Obsidian, and we happily geeked out about it.
 
I also had a meeting with someone at Skellefteå kommun, who let me know what rules currently apply for the home improvement projects I have been dreaming of (carport and bicycle shed, a back door and a deck) and the fact that the rules may change with the new year, as the government is considering a proposal to make renovation easier.
 
Then we had a Shire meeting, during which I finally started actually inserting the photos I took during my inventory of Reengarda stuff in the storage unit. The timing is good, as it was only this week that Obsidian added the new Bases core plugin that turns the vault into a database, with the option to display the contents as cards with a cover photo, if one sets up an images property that contains a link to the relavant photo. This meant that I could do that step as I put the photos in. I am too tired now to put the photos of the result somewhere that I could share in Dreamwidth, but you can look at them in the Readme file I created for the inventory 
 
Now I really need to do my yoga and get to sleep!

First day back at work

Aug. 19th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Didn't really want to get up this morning,  did it anyway. Had a good morning phone call with Keldor as he drove to work, then took my elsparkcyckel to the busstop. 

As expected, the 1.5 hour bus ride wasn't long enough to empty ny inbox from all the vacation mail, though I did manage to delete a fair bit.

I tried stopping by hörcentralen on the way to work, as my left hearing aid hasn't seemed to be producing sound at full power. However, they had a note on the door saying reduced drop-in hours right now due to someone being out on sick leave. I checked their normal open hours, and they don't open till 09:00 anyway, so I will need to try again another day.

Had both fika and lunch breaks with Phil. He says they have lots of red currants if I want to come pick some. I said I would love to, later in the week, as I have blueberries drying and black currants in the fridge.

This evening I took the dry blueberries out of the dehydrators, and consolidated the ones that are still moist onto two trays. Then I washed the black currants, and decided that it was too late to tey to dry them, so hust bagged them and put them in the freezer.

Driving home

Aug. 18th, 2025 10:30 pm
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 Reached the Bessešjohka rest area just before midnight, we crawled into bed in the back of the van, and got a few hours sleep. I woke at 05:10 with an ache in hips, so I used the toilet and drove two hours, while Keldor slept in the passenger seat. Then he took over driving at the Lappeasuando rest area and I got a 40 minutes nap, till we came to the Stenbro rest area, where I did 15 minutes yoga under the bridge.
 
Then we drove on towards David's house, stopping for a sign in the Kalix area that said "blueberries". So I bought a 5 liter wooden box of blueberries gor 450 kr, which is a lot, but I don't have time to pick them, my day is already packed full.
 
David was home when we arrived, so I was able to get a hug and use the loo before heading down to pick black currants. Keldor lay down on the bed in the van to rest while I picked. After about a 40 minutes I was closing in on 3/4 of a bucket of berries, happily sticking to the bushes in the shade. Then he came down, talking on the phone with his dad, and grabbed me and dragged me over to bushes in the sun which had more, larger, berries. I wimpered a little, because sun, and we filled the rest of the bucket in about 15 minutes, and continued driving.
 
We dropped off a little gift (a glass testube thingie with a coiled base that we found in the second han store in Norway) for Louise in her mailbox on our way out of town (she had a doctor appointment), and picked up one she left for us (a bag of pretty rocks).
 
When we passed through Skellefteå we stopped to pick up my new passport. Luckily, the station is very near the highway, so very little extra time needed.
 
Then home and unload the car. I got all of the kitchen stuff put away and washed the dirty clothes we'd brought home while Keldor dealt with getting the basement stuff put away and mowing the front yard. That leaves the clean costumes and accessories to deal with later.
 
While driving we saw:
 
1 deer crossing the road up ahead, while I drove
2 reindeer, one of which majestic and white, with a huge rack of antlers 

last day at Lofotr

Aug. 17th, 2025 11:59 pm
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 We started the day with loading the car eith everything save food and clothes to change in to after the after work shower. 
 
Then we went to work and packed up the smithy, took down the tents we had been using, loaded everything onto pallets for Drift to take away tomorrow, and our personal gear into out car.
 
Then we spent the last couple of hours of the shift up at the longhouse, where I made a small nålbinded bag.
 
Then back to the house, shower, load the food into the ice chest and into the car, clean the room, and hit the road at 18:00.
 
We drove just till midnight, and got some sleep at a rest area.
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This org has been evaluating demonstrations for many years.

"The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement."

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-data-shows-no-kings-was-one-of-the-largest-days-of-protest-in-us-history/

First part of article:
No Kings Day on June 14 was one of the largest single days of protest in United States history, and it was probably the second-largest single day demonstration since Donald Trump first took office in January 2017. The number of participants and expansive geographic spread that day are both signs of the persistent popular opposition to the second Trump administration.

The Crowd Counting Consortium has been collecting data on protest events and participation since the first Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017. Last week, we published our most recent monthly update, with estimated figures for the month of June, including the nationwide No Kings protests on June 14. With 82 percent of anti-Trump events for which we tallied participation on June 14, our estimates suggest that between 2 and 4.8 million people participated in over 2,150 actions nationwide. (We could not confirm estimated protest figures at 18 percent of events; almost all of these missing figures were in small towns.) However, we estimate the turnout at No Kings to be substantially larger than the turnout at the Hands Off protests on April 5, which mobilized a significant number as well — between 919,000 and 1.5 million people.

No Kings in context
The Women’s March in 2017 — which involved between 3.2 and 5.3 million people — was, at the time, probably the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history. No Kings in June 2025 had comparable aggregate turnout, albeit across far more locations. Whereas the 2017 Women’s March involved actions in over 650 locations, No Kings saw events in over three times as many locations, with events organized in big cities, small towns and places in between.

In that regard, No Kings was geographically more similar to some of the dispersed protests that began to dominate the U.S. protest landscape in 2018. For instance, on March 14, 2018, between 1.1 and 1.7 million students walked out of their classrooms on the one-month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. In an unprecedented demonstration, students in about 4,470 locations — from kindergartners to university students and even some homeschooled students — participated in what was then the largest number of recorded locations in a single day of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Ten days later, on March 24, 2018, the March for Our Lives drew an estimated 1.3 to 2.2 million participants in over 700 locations to demand safety from gun violence in schools. (The 2018 Women’s March, about two months earlier, had drawn an estimated 1.8 to 2.6 million people in 407 locations.) Protests throughout the month of June 2018 turned out several million protesters, largely accounted for by Pride marches and protests on behalf of LGBTQ+ rights — and over a thousand protests against the family separation policy implemented during the first Trump administration.

Sustained protest at geographically dispersed events in the U.S. reached its peak in the summer of 2020, during which millions of people mobilized at some 12,000 protest events in over 3,110 locations over eight months. This makes the wave of protests following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery the largest and broadest mass mobilization in U.S. history; notably, it built on years of intense organizing against police violence toward Black people and communities, including through the work of Black Lives Matter and other Black-led organizations, following the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer in Florida in July 2013, and the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014.

Notable movement growth in 2025 --- see article for the rest of this
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