Check-In Post April 24th 2024

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: We all make mistakes - what's your most memorable crafting disaster?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[illariy]

Now I really regret getting rid of my last Spock icon. :D Yeah, Leonard Nimoy passing was very sad for me, too. I found Star Trek TOS when I was 12 and read his biography I am Spock at the same age and was an ardent fangirl for decades. I am hoping to get back into the fandom soon, actually. Very happy to meet another Spock and LN fan! LN is the best Spock, no one can change my mind about that.

I really like that TextEdit which comes for free with macOS or at least did with mine. It can do many of the simpler wordprocessing things, e. g. open and edit docx files, and Pages can do even more things. But to to be honest, for things above TextEdit's paygrade I only use LibreOffice ad OpenOffice. Oh, and of course LaTeX for uni. All are free thankfully. I do know that especially collaborating/track changes can be buggy between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. So sad to hear that you have to pay for it. Hopefully it's at least not a subscription.

[badly_knitted]

Most things seem to be subscriptions these days. They have to prise as much money out of people as they possibly can. My first laptop, MS Works came free with it, already installed, but that was 16 years ago.

I've not seen the more recent Star Trek movies, but although I like Zachary Quinto, LN is and always will be Spock. Oddly enough, I just watched Star Trek IV this afternoon while doing my cross stitch.

What made Leonard Nimoy's death even worse for me was that he passed exactly a week after I lost my mum. I was already reeling, and Wham, there went my childhood idol. When I was little, I thought I was part Vulcan because one if my ears has a point. I felt a great deal of kinship for Spock, and Vulcan logic seemed very sensible.

[illariy]

Yes, I, too, hate how many apps have moved to subscription! I had a trial of YNAB, the budgeting app for macOS that eventually expired, and when I finally had some money, I went to buy the full version but they're now subscription and I think even web-app only so I noped out of that after all.

Star Trek IV is my fave Star Trek film of all time! Closely followed by Star Trek I and then the Reboot films. Whales and Spock FTW.

So sorry to hear about your mother's death. That must have been double devastating. :-(

My mother died about 11 years ago and it was devastating, too.

I really respect LN for publicising his COPD diagnosis and using his reach on Twitter to warn his readers about the dangers of smoking.

[badly_knitted]

It's so unfair to make us pay extra for the things we need. It's all apps these days too, and I don't use them either.

Yay, someone else who loves the first movie! So many people seem to hate it. IV is my favourite too, but I think most people agree on that.

It's been a couple of months over 9 years for me. I still miss her every day.

I can only hope his firsthand experience convinced a few people to quit before it was too late.

[illariy]

Yesss, I love the first ST film! Aside from IV with the whales, the first film has one of my fave ST moments ever: the moment Spock first enters the bridge in that gorgeous black robe. Yummy. And Kirk's face! I really enjoyed the novelisation of it, too.

Sad to hear about your mother. I can fully understand you missing her after this time. I hope you have plenty of good memories that can give you strength while missing her.

[badly_knitted]

I've got the novelisation too!

We lived together my entire life, I was the one who never left the nest, so I wound up being her carer for the last few years. I still talk to her all the time, because this house is filled to the brim with memories of her, feels like she's still here, in spirit at least.

[illariy]

What a huge loss for you! So lovely that you were her carer for the last few years. And lovely that you still talk to her. I can only imagine the breadth of memories you have of her, still being in that same place.

I moved out 8 years before my mother died, for my studies at uni. We had a complicated relationship for sure - I have PTSD due to what she did to me but of course, I still love her. I am an only child and she was a single mother so as you can imagine, we were still close. I would've loved to keep her old flat the way it was as it was also the main flat I grew up in but it just wasn't possible and I had to clear everything out within about 3 months. That... wasn't fun.

So cool you have the novelisation as well! I no longer own the physical book, had to declutter it years ago due to space constraints. But I sure remember it very fondly and I think I still own the ebook version somewhere.

[badly_knitted]

It was. She wasn't perfect, but she was my mum and we were close, even if we had our fights.

It must have been tough for you, sometimes even the people we love can damage us. Sorry you had to give up the flat and clear everything out so fast. I'm still sorting stuff nine years on, although I've kind of stalled the last few years, since the pandemic hit.

I hope you do still have the ebook. Decluttering sucks.

[illariy]

P.S.: If you ever watch any of the Reboot films, I would love to hear your opinion, especially about the plot's and Zachary Quinto's take on Spock. :-)

[badly_knitted]

I think I have the first one on DVD, if I can ever get around to watching it...

[illariy]

That would be cool! The first one is my fave of the Reboot ones but I happen to love origin stories.

[badly_knitted]

Origin stories can be a lot of fun, filling in the background to already familiar characters.

[illariy]

For sure! ST:XI at the start is just that, at least for reboot!Kirk and reboot!Spock. I loved that.

[badly_knitted]

Cool! One of these days I'll watch it, lol!