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N. Frances Moritz (she/her)

@ctrlalttabby.bsky.social

Gamer, geek, Mom, 1st degree black belt, currently owned by 4 cats

422 Followers  |  146 Following  |  333 Posts  |  Joined: 08.09.2023  |  1.9102

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Not Anne McCaffrey or Anne Rice?

23.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Temperature projects update 2025 is done!* 2026 projects are progressing! OK, the * is because I still have the border to finish on the 360-day granny square blanket I started in mid-February 2025. The final day in that count…

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20.02.2026 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goblins and art show and boxes, oh my! Capricon 46 has come and, alas, gone, as is the way of annual conventions. I had waves of free time alternating with “why did I schedule myself like this” intervals… again, that&#…

Goblins and art show and boxes, oh my! www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/goblins-and-...

13.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Avoiding hibernation It can be tempting for those of us in cold climates to stay indoors most of the winter, relishing the technology that heats our homes. Several locations that you would generally count as outdoor ea…

Avoiding hibernation www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/avoiding-hib...

06.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An eclectic selection for Capricon’s art show I’ve mentioned Capricon here a few times, particularly last year when I volunteered as co-chair. I have far less work for the convention this year, as a staff member, panelist, and volunteer,…

An eclectic selection for Capricon’s art show www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/an-eclectic-...

30.01.2026 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Apology To Winter “Everything is leafless (except those guys),” I understood of winter as a child, and I believe I mistook that for “so nothing interesting is happening (except snow days).” A…

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25.01.2026 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thoughts on The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association is quite the handful for a book name, and I’m delighted that this book by Caitlin Rozakis lived up to that handful. Our local library ty…

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23.01.2026 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Temperature Tree and Temperature Blanket: Scavenger Edition Back in October, I mentioned the discovery of a Temperature Blanket group on Facebook, and some related ideas, like a Temperature Tree embroidery kit. Since my embroidery skills are not at the same…

Temperature Tree and Temperature Blanket: Scavenger Edition www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/temperature-...

16.01.2026 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Setting my 2026 Side Quests What are Side Quests, you ask? Well, I used to refer to them as Goals, but really, “Quest” is more fun as a concept, at least for us gamers. I don’t accomplish every quest I give …

Setting my 2026 Side Quests www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/setting-my-2...

09.01.2026 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's certainly one way to distract people from the Epstein files.

03.01.2026 11:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thoughts on the Universal Yums Advent Calendar As I mentioned in my previous post about Universal Yums, we purchased their Advent Calendar for this holiday season. Unlike the location-specific boxes, this was entirely sweet: candy and chocolate…

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02.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Default When your attention is committed and a task still needs to be done, how do you approach it? When you’re too tired for the challenging and still looking for something fun, where do you look fi…

The Default www.randomgeekchild.com/the-default/

28.12.2025 11:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christmas Stocking Memories In college, I spent a year abroad at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, which was a fabulous experience is so many ways, including my first Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) adventures. That&#821…

Christmas Stocking Memories www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/christmas-st...

26.12.2025 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enter To Win: The Sequel I don’t usually come back to topics on this blog, which is… absurd, considering how often one comes back to topics in life. And one of the topics I’ve come back to recently is sweepstak…

Enter To Win: The Sequel www.randomgeekchild.com/enter-to-win...

21.12.2025 11:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homeownership is not for the faint of heart Almost two weeks ago now, it snowed – again – bringing our accumulated snow to a whopping 11 inches early in the season. It was warm enough that the snow was melting on the roof even as…

Homeownership is not for the faint of heart www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/homeownershi...

19.12.2025 11:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nah (But Yes) It’s been a very real life week, I’m very tired, and it’s very cold out, so I’m going to forego the usual enthusiasm and commentary and just say, ‘wasn’t this pr…

Nah (But Yes) www.randomgeekchild.com/nah-but-yes/

14.12.2025 12:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Universal Yums, round 2 at the library Over the summer, our local public library hosted a Yum Club event with treats from Taiwan. Having enjoyed that, we prioritized signing up for the next one when it was announced and were delighted t…

Universal Yums, round 2 at the library www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/universal-yu...

12.12.2025 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My mother-in-law had shingles over a decade ago, and said it was terrible. I took her advice and got the first dose of the vaccine the day after I became eligible.

09.12.2025 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do You Recognize This Bird(le)? I was playing Metazooa recently – a taxonomy game – and excited about the different species at our bird feeder, and I figured, “There has to be a bird identification game out ther…

Do You Recognize This Bird(le)? www.randomgeekchild.com/do-you-recog...

07.12.2025 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Touch snow, the grass is covered. It feels like just yesterday that Cassandra posted about touching grass; it was actually two weeks ago, and the seasons have definitely shifted more towards the snowy side here in Chicagoland. In f…

Touch snow, the grass is covered. www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/touch-snow-t...

05.12.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh, The Joys of Spam Generally, I have the great privilege to be left to my own devices. I’m on few enough email lists that it’s rare something comes in that I don’t recognize, and apparently few enou…

Oh, The Joys of Spam www.randomgeekchild.com/oh-the-joys-...

30.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m thankful for Portland’s quirky immersive art Mid-November found us back in Portland, this time joined by my sister, with the primary goal of the trip to visit with my aging grandmother, scheduled in short visits on alternating days so as to n…

I’m thankful for Portland’s quirky immersive art www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/im-thankful-...

28.11.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Y’all, Touch Grass Maybe not literally, depending on your snow situation and urban planning, but I’ve been spending more time just kind of… hanging out in a physical space. Smelling the candle I never lig…

Y’all, Touch Grass www.randomgeekchild.com/yall-touch-g...

23.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MRIs are annoyingly loud A couple years ago, I posted about my first MRI experience, which was for my hip. While I found the sound variance fascinating with a headset, this week, I experienced an MRI without one, and it wa…

MRIs are annoyingly loud www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/mris-are-ann...

21.11.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Onwards and Downwards …a catchphrase which only really makes sense in a handful of contexts. Habitually hanging out on an upper floor. Living at high altitudes. And ocean exploration, where most everything interesting i…

Onwards and Downwards www.randomgeekchild.com/onwards-and-...

16.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall progresses in bursts I swear, from one day to the next, the trees suddenly changed color. I’m sure there was a progression, yet I somehow missed it. What I haven’t missed is the subsequent delivery of many …

Fall progresses in bursts www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/fall-progres...

14.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Do You Keep In Reach? I was wondering recently about the things I keep easy access to, and what they say about me. I almost never wear pants without pockets anymore – I’ve gotten used to carrying two hands&#…

What Do You Keep In Reach? www.randomgeekchild.com/what-do-you-...

09.11.2025 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Done before the first snow! *checks the weather forecast for the next week or so* Done well before the first snow! And, delightfully, done mulching for the season. For those of you following along at home, we went through abo…

Done before the first snow! www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/done-before-...

07.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Personality Types As Music I discovered Sleeping At Last’s work by accident – a chance encounter on YouTube with the Enneagram project, which offers a different song for each of the nine Enneagram personality typ…

Personality Types As Music www.randomgeekchild.com/personality-...

02.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Samhain! Or happy Halloween, depending which you celebrate. Both is, of course, an option. As we wrap up the harvest season, at least those of us in northern climates that are rapidly moving towards winter,…

Happy Samhain! www.momsguidetothegalaxy.com/happy-samhain/

31.10.2025 09:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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