Good news and BETTER news about Keely-Boo!
Wait wait wait…December already?
If you’ve noticed things have been quiet around the Scriptorium, it’s not just you. I’ve had a lot on my plate and been feeling consistantly overwhelmed…which kinda just feels like the holiday season overall, yeah?
Friendsgiving was at my friend ’s home and as usual she and her husband Mark put out a helluva spread of delicious food! But then it was time to traipse over to our mutual friend Melanie’s house for a full table of desserts. They all took off for a walk after that but I sat down to scroll through my bsky feed and…fell asleep. I count that as a win!
Anyway, the GOOD NEWS is that Keely finally got to the vet, which I’ve been putting off for months due financial constraints. Read more about that in the Keely-Boo section!
Weekly Roundup
As I said, things have been a bit slow. Nonetheless, a few things keep on rolling, and I’ve done some housekeeping:
I’ve added “Start Here” pages for both the Scriptorium and the Bibliotheca. I’ve never been happy with just relying on my respective “about” pages to get new readers onboard with all that is going on here, so finally I broke down and created guides for people to, you know, “start here”!
4Winds News Update 12/02/2024: More news related to New College, although not much given the holiday week here in the U.S.
Dragon’s Grail Arc 1 is almost complete over on The Bibliotheca! This arc is free for all readers and will remain so forever, although I will make it a book you can buy down the road if you want!
The Bastards of Yumeng continues with Chapter 35!!! This fanfiction is a WIP and is in the 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师-墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī – Mòxiāng Tóngxiù fandom. I’m slowing down posting as life gets busier going into the holidays, but it’s still going strong!
THROWBACK!
This is from wayyyyyy back in August, 2023, not long after I first started paying serious attention to the breakthrough in A.I. represented by LLMs such as ChatGPT and Claude, but before the backlash against it started in earnest. In this test case scenario, I used ChatGPT 4 to clean up some messy dictation I pulled from Otter.ai. It still blows me away just how powerful these machine learning tools are, and this is from well over a year ago.
I know a lot of anti-A.I. folk just want it all to go away already but this demonstrates why that’s not going to happen—it’s just too damn useful.
It’s a Keely-Boo World
The good news was that I finally could afford a vet visit, but the BETTER NEWS is that she is in excellent health for a 17 year old dog! Even the vet was impressed. She’s heartworm and parasite free, her heart is strong, and all her bloodwork came back with good numbers! 🎉
They did confirm the bladder infection, but it was nowhere near as bad as I feared, and she’s already doing better on day two of antibiotics. She still needs diapers, but heck, she’s an old girl!
Here she is in the exam room looking exceptionally betrayed. She did not talk to me until dinner time.
Thanks for reading Keely’s Way!
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