Friday, October 25, 2019

25th - And it's Friday again!

Greasy Food Day

Chucky The Notorious Killer Doll Day

Sourest Day

Punk for a day Day

International Artists Day

Watch Make Mine Music

100 pushups

13 - 13 - 17 - 17 - 16 - 16 - 14 - 14 - 50+
45 seconds seconds between each set

"Well? Did you make it through Week 6? If you did; congratulations - you should be very proud of your achievements and ready for one final test.

If you struggled with Week 6 (many people do), no problem, just repeat the appropriate week and try again. Maybe an extra couple of days rest will benefit you?"

20 pullups

13 - 11 - 9 - 7 - max
120 seconds between each set

"After week 6 you’re ready for the final test. Take two days off. Eat well and remember to drink water. Now you should be able to do 20 pull-ups. If you couldn’t, don’t give up. Start again from week 5 with your new test result."

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Shallow DoF
Steam, Smoke, or Fog
Cityscapes
How to Install Photoshop Actions – featuring Jodi from MCP Actions
Naked night photography

The Inktober prompt is TASTY

Thursday, October 24, 2019

to read, to watch

So... I am going to leave Pinterest. As much as I have promoted it. They are selling it off bit by bit and it's no longer the site I loved. So I am moving things out from there.

Well... I suppose Blogger won't live forever either. But - Uh. Things happen. Nothing lives forever.

This is Heiroglyph, a Fox series that didn't happen.


Watch

Pufnstuf zaps the world
Murdoch Musteries
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Carnivae
The Onedin Line
Rosemary & Thyme
Game of Thrones
Castle
Buddenbrooks
Lillie
Cadfael
The Borgias
DaVinci's Demons
Warehouse 13
Perception
Whitechapel
The Librarian
Special Unit 2
Night Stalker
Passions
Alphan
The Others
Todd and the book of pure evi
house of anubis
beautiful creatures
the escape artist
joan of arcadia
the equalizer
the secret circle
Buffy the vampire slayer
Extant
Transcendence
The Bletchley Circle
The Grand
Ripper Street
Father Brown
Miss Fisher's murder mysteries
MacGyver original
Young Indiana Jones
Haven
The Gates
Tru Calling
Dark Skies
Miracles
Eleventh Hour
Misfits
The Nine Lives of Chloe King
Friday the 13th - the series
Watch:
Making History
The Dresden Files
The Cape
EPIC
Hemlock Grove
The following
The Paradise
The Making of a Lady
The Sceret of Kells
FreakyLinks
Awake
Transylvania
Tigre og tatoveringer

I want to see Xena again, the whole series. I'd like to own it.
I need to see Nikita. all three. Movie, copy, series



HUGE list of shows like Downton Abbey
(It's so huge it ends up being a list of historical shows and movies of which some are a bit like DA :-D)

Against the Wind
An Ideal Husband
Belle
Berkeley Square
Birdsong
Bleak House
Bomb Girls
Bramwell
Call the Midwife
Cranford
Daniel Deronda
Death Comes to Pemberley
Doc Martin
The Duchess of Duke Street
Emma
Father Brown
Flambards
Foyle’s War
Gosford Park
Great Expectations
He Knew He Was Right
Her Majesty, Mrs Brown
Jane Eyre
Land Girls
Lark Rise to Candleford
Little Dorrit
London Hospital
Lorna Doone
Lost in Austen
Mansfield Park
Merlin
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Monarch of the Glen
Mr. Selfridge
Nicholas Nickleby
North & South
Northanger Abbey
Our Mutual Friend
Persuasion
Poldark
Pride & Prejudice
Robin Hood
Sense And Sensibility
Sherlock
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Aristocrats
The Bletchley Circle
The Buccaneers
The Buddenbrooks
The Forsyte Saga
The Grand
The House of Eliott
Murdoch Mysteries
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Onedin Line
The Paradise
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
The Strauss Family
The Way We Live Now
Under the Greenwood Tree
Upstairs Downstairs
When Calls the Heart
Wives and Daughters
Wuthering Heights

7 Movies You've Never Seen To Make Your Night In That Much Better

The Science of Sleep
Red Riding Hood
Phoebe in Wonderland
Brick
Atlantis - The Lost Empire
Sleeping Beauty
Paprika

To Watch

Uncovered
Sherlock Holmes (RDJ movies)
Whip It
Dean Spanley
Red Riding Hood
Resident Evil series
It's Complicated
Oz the Great and Powerful
Hope Springs
No Country For Old Men
Oblivion
Memento
Captain Phillips
Tin Man
Ringer
Finder
the 10th kingdom
being human
eastwick series
the fades
haven
lost girl
seventh son
Emerald City
Dominion
Time After Time
The Wakewood
Shame
Rigor Mortis
Miss Robin Crusoe
Elementary
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Atlantic (BBC America)



Read

Shanaya Tales' reading goals for 2017

Read 35 Books
Finish the Bingo for 2016
Complete 3 book series start to finish
Read My Own Damn Books (books I own but haven't read)
Participate in the community through Readathons and Buddy Reads
 - like Dewey’s 24 hours , AuthorAThon, BorrowAThon, Diversathon & OwnVoices October Readathon.


Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

1
The Lord Of The Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien

2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams

3
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

4
The Dune Chronicles
by Frank Herbert

5
A Song Of Ice And Fire Series
by George R.R. Martin

6
1984
by George Orwell

7
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

8
The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov

9
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

10
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman

11
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman

12
The Wheel Of Time Series
by Robert Jordan

13
Animal Farm
by George Orwell

14
Neuromancer
by William Gibson

15
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

16
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov

17
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein

18
The Kingkiller Chronicles
by Patrick Rothfuss

19
Slaughterhouse-five
by Kurt Vonnegut

20
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

21
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick

22
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

23
The Dark Tower Series
by Stephen King

24
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke

25
The Stand
by Stephen King

26
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson

27
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury

28
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

29
The Sandman Series
by Neil Gaiman

30
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

31
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein

32
Watership Down
by Richard Adams

33
Dragonflight
by Anne McCaffrey

34
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein

35
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.

36
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells

37
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne

38
Flowers For Algernon
by Daniel Keyes

39
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells

40
The Amber Chronicles
by Roger Zelazny

41
The Belgariad
by David Eddings

42
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

43
Mistborn Trilogy
by Brandon Sanderson

44
Ringworld
by Larry Niven

45
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

46
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien

47
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White

48
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman

49
Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke

50
Contact
by Carl Sagan

51
The Hyperion Cantos
by Dan Simmons

52
Stardust
by Neil Gaiman

53
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

54
World War Z
by Max Brooks

55
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle

56
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman

57
Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett

58
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
by Stephen R. Donaldson

59
The Vorkosigan Saga
by Lois McMaster Bujold

60
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett

61
The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

62
The Sword Of Truth Series
by Terry Goodkind

63
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

64
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke

65
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson

66
The Riftwar Saga
by Raymond E. Feist

67
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
by Terry Brooks

68
The Conan The Barbarian Series
by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz

69
The Farseer Trilogy
by Robin Hobb

70
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

71
The Way of Kings
by Brandon Sanderson

72
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

73
The Legend Of Drizzt Series
by R. A. Salvatore

74
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi

75
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson

76
Rendezvous With Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

77
The Kushiel's Legacy Series
by Jacqueline Carey

78
The Dispossessed
An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le Guin

79
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury

80
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire

81
The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series
by Steven Erikson

82
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde

83
The Culture Series
by Iain Banks

84
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart

85
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

86
The Codex Alera Series
by Jim Butcher

87
The Book Of The New Sun
by Gene Wolfe

88
The Thrawn Trilogy
by Timothy Zahn

89
The Outlander Series
by Diana Gabaldon

90
The Elric Saga
by Michael Moorcock

91
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury

92
Sunshine
by Robin McKinley

93
A Fire upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge

94
The Caves of Steel
by Isaac Asimov

95
The Mars Trilogy
by Kim Stanley Robinson

96
Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

97
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis

98
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville

99
The Xanth Series
by Piers Anthony

100
Space Trilogy
by C.S. Lewis

10 Books You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Really Read Them)

1) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
2) Dune by Frank Herbert
3) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
4) Foundation by Isaac Asimov
5) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6) 1984 by George Orwell
7) Last and First Men and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
8) The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
9) Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
10) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace


The 30 Best Fantasy Book Series of All Time

The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Shannara by Terry Brooks
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan




72 Books for Halloween – The Ultimate Guide to Halloween Thrills

Sherrilyn Kenyon Acheron
Gena Showalter Darkest Night
Beautiful Creatures
Karen Marie Moning Darkfever
Christine Feehan Dark Prince
Lauren Kate Fallen
J.R.Ward Lover Awakened
Glass Houses
To The Grave by Frost
Switched Amanda Hoeking
Tempest Julie
Twilight Stephenie Meyer

A Discovery of Witches
Clean by Alex Hughes
Evernight by Claudia Gray
Fated by Benedict Jacka
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Rivers of London
Poison Study b Maria V. Snyder
Rae of Hope by W.J.May
Shadow Falls The Beginning
Jim Butcher Storm Front
A Modern Witch by Debora Geary
Sea Priestess  by Fortune?

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Dark Lover by J.R.Ward
Fracula by Bram Stoker
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Pride Mates by Jennifer Ashley
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
Twilight
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood

Phantom Nights - John Farris
Dark Matter b Michelle Paver
Heart shaped box by Joe Hill
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
Ghost Writer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Carnacki the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R.James
The House of Lost Souls  by F. G. Cottam

the shining by stephen king
the picture of dorian gray
the phantom of the opera
the legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving
The Haunting of Hill House
Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson
H.P.Lovecraft at the mountains of madness

Stephen King It
Clive Barker books of Blood
Laird Barron the Imago Sequence
House of Leaves by
Caitlin R. Kiernan the Red Tree
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Haunted by Chuck Palahnick
Thomas Harris the Silence of the Lambs
psycho by Robert Bloch
Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls
Ray Bradbury From The Dust Returned

11 Of The Best Fantasy Series You've Probably Never Heard Of

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
The Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore
The Patternist or Seed to Harvest series by Octavia E. Butler
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
The Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey
The Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen
The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones

N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy
David Anthony Durham Acacia Trilogy

The 51 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written

1. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
2. The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
3. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
6. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
7. Discworld by Terry Pratchett
8. The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
9. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
10. Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett
11. The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip
12. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
13. Gentlemen Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch
14. The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
15. Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
16. The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
17. The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
18. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
19. The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
20. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
21. Raven’s Shadow by Anthony Ryan
22. The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence
23. A Land Fit For Heroes by Richard K. Morgan
24. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
25. The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan
26. Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson
27. The Black Company by Glen Cook
28. Elemental Logic by Laurie J. Marks
29. The Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny
30. The Avalon Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
31. The Merlin Quintet by Mary Stewart
32. The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
33. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
34. Redwall by Brian Jacques
35. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
36. Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
37. The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
38. Prince Of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker
39. Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
40. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
41. The Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan
42. The Once And Future King by T.H. White
43. The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
44. The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
45. The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
46. The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
47. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
48. The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron
49. Dreamblood by N.K. Jemisin
50. The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist
51. The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman


Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee
The Last of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
The book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Tamora Pierce The Song of Lioness Quartet
Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern
Eddings the Belgariad and Mallorean series
Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series

365 days of ya


39 Classic Books Every Modern Gentleman Should Read

'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig
'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli
'To Kill a Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' by Ernest Hemingway
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton
'Palace Walk' by Naguib Mafouz
'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
'Fathers and Sons' by Ivan Turgenev
'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque
'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy
'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' by Edwin Lefèvre
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' as told to Alex Hayley
'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer
'Beowulf'
'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse
'Why I Write' by George Orwell
'The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass
'King Lear' by William Shakespeare
'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes
'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
'Night' by Elie Wiesel
'The Master and the Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov
'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare
'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin
'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu
'The Epic of Gilgamesh'
'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac
'The Oedipus Trilogy' by Sophocles
'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury
The complete works of Chekhov
'I, Robot' by Isaac Asimov
'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens

Tony Abbot: The Forbidden Stone

Thursday, the 24th

UN Day

National Bologna Day


World Polio Day



Watch The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4.5km (or 28 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Harris Shutter
Freebie Day
Sunsets
What’s a Layer Mask?
Selective colour

The Inktober prompt is DIZZY


Wednesday, October 23, 2019

23rd of October

National Boston Cream Pie Day


National Mole Day

Watch The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

100 pushups

14 - 14 - 15 - 15 - 14 - 14 - 10 - 10 - 44+
45 seconds between each set
20 pullups

8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12
90 seconds seconds between each set (longer if required)
The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Panning
The Rule of Odds
Fun With Light Trails
Levels vs Curves in Photoshop
Car park abstracts

The Inktober prompt is ANCIENT


Tuesday, October 22, 2019

twenty-two tuesday

National Make a Dog’s Day Day - National Nut Day - National Color Day

Watch 101 Dalmatians

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4.5km (or 28 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Slow Sync Flash
Back Lighting
Moon Photos
Post Production
Shoot the uninspiring

The Inktober prompt is GHOST

Monday, October 21, 2019

Complete A Goal A Day For A Year - November 2019

To me this is obvious. It's NaNoWriMo. A LOT of people have "write a book" on their bucket lists, and this month is the month to do so. Just remember one thing: for you to have written a book, it just have to be a book, it doesn't need to be good, have any literary value or get published or anything. Just write 50.000 words.
If you want to have it published, self-publishing counts.


It's also the Mapvember, NOvember, Movember  and Huevember

I also would want to keep on moving. Right now you are able to run 5K, do the splits, do pull-ups and push-ups - what else do you want to be able to do? Find another 30 day fitness challenge and go for it. For example yoga.
10 Insane Yoga Poses
17 of the most impressive yoga poses
10 of The Most Difficult Yoga Poses on Earth


1.11  World Vegan Day - Independence day of Antigua - Vinegar day - Cook for Your Pets Day
National Author's Day
National Calzone Day

2.11 Deviled Egg Day - International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
National Bison Day - Plan Your Epitaph Day

3.11 National Housewife’s Day - National Sandwich Day
Independence day of Dominica, Panama and Micronesia

4.11  - National Candy Day
Job Action Day
King Tut Day  - Check Your Blood Pressure Day
National Tonga Day

5.11 National Doughnut Day - National Love Your Red Hair Day
Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes Night

6.11 National Nachos Day
Marooned without a Compass Day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

7.11 National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
International Stout Day

8.11 National Cappuccino Day  - National STEM/STEAM Day
Cook Something Bold Day - Dunce Day
World Urbanism Day

9.11 National Scrapple Day - Microtia Awareness Day - National Louisiana Day
Go to an Art Museum DayChaos Never Dies Day
Cambodian independence day

10.11 National Forget-Me-Not Day - National Vanilla Cupcake Day
International Accounting Day
National Pupusa Day
Sesame Street Day

11.11 National Sundae Day -
Pepero, Pocky & Pretz Day
Remembrance Day - Veterans Day
Singles Day 1111
Independence days of Angola, Poland
St. Martin

12.11 National French Dip Day - National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
National Happy Hour Day
World Pneumonia Day

13.11 National Indian Pudding Day - World Kindness Day

14.11 National Pickle Day - National Spicy Guacamole Day
World Diabetes Day
Operating Room Nurse Day

15.11 National Bundt (Pan) Day - National Philanthropy Day - National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day - National Recycling Day
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 

16.11 National Fast Food Day
International Day For Tolerance
Have a Party With Your Bear Day
Icelandic Language Day

17.11 National Baklava Day - National Take A Hike Day - National Homemade Bread Day
World Prematurity Day
World Peace Day

18.11 National Princess Day - National Vichyssoise Day - Mickey Mouse's Birthday
Occult Day
Independence days of Latvia, Morocco and Oman

19.11 International Men’s Day
World Toilet Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day

20.11 National Peanut Butter Fudge Day - National Absurdity Day
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Beautiful Day - Universal Children's Day

21.11 National Gingerbread Cookie Day
Great American Smokeout
National Rural Health Day
World Television Day

22.11 National Cranberry Relish Day
Go For A Ride Day
Lebanese Independence Day

23.11 National Cashew Day - National Eat a Cranberry Day - National Espresso Day
International Survivors of Suicide Day

24.11 National Sardines Day - evolution day - All Our Uncles are Monkeys Day
Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Day

25.11 National Parfait Day - Shopping Reminder Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Suriname Independence Day
World Television Day

26.11 National Cake Day
Mongolia National Foundation Day

27.11 National Bavarian Cream Pie Day - National Craft Jerky Day - Pins and Needles Day

28.11
National Day of Mourning
National Family Health History Day
National French Toast Day
Thanksgiving
Make Your Own Head Day - Red Planet Day

29.11 Electronic Greetings Day
National Lemon Cream Pie DaySquare Dance Day
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

30.11 National Personal Space Day - National Mason Jar Day - National Mousse Day -
Computer Security Day
Saint Andrew's Day; Scotland's day

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National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day



National Reptile Awareness Day

Watch Tangled (and then learn more about the chameleons)



count your buttons day

apple day


100 pushups

25 - 30 - 20 - 15 - 40+
60 seconds between each set

20 pullups

5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
Rest 120 seconds between each set (longer if required)
The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Water Splash
Capturing Fire
Shooting Photos At Night
Elements of Composition
Starlight landscapes

The Inktober prompt is TREASURE

Sunday, October 20, 2019

A new week has begun!

International Sloth Day



National Youth Confidence Day

National Brandied Fruit Day




Watch Moana

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4.5km (or 28 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Depth
Nighttime
Panning Blur & Capturing Motion
Art in Photography
Minimalist mono landscapes

The Inktober prompt is TREAD

Saturday, October 19, 2019

19-10-19

Another week is over, and it's Saturday, the evaluation day. It's especially fitting today, because it's the "Evaluate Your Life Day".

So... what went right? What went wrong?

For me nothing much went right, almost all went wrong - about this challenge, that is.
I haven't been doing any exercising the whole October. It shows. I most certainly cannot do the splits, and I still cannot run one minute, not alone 25 minutes, as you can, if you have been good and doing what you should have done.
I haven't seen one Disney movie this October (but I have already seen all the Disney animated feature films, so...) I had a personal goal of watching and reviewing a scary movie every day of October, but it all got to a screeching end with Valentina... I just can't... violence against children is not OK. And I can't just hop over that movie and continue with my list.
I have been working on my Halloween, but it's has mostly been thinking. You know by now that I'm good at thinking. That's why I'm hoping YOU keep on doing what I say and not what I do, because I'm mostly just talking :-D If you DO what I say, YOU will reach goals and do things. Like, YOU have been saving for the trip you are going to take this year. I haven't, so when YOU buy the ticket and take the plane (or train, boat, what ever it is you take) and go to places and experience things, I will be at home moping and brooding and yearning and pining and wishing I had done what you did.
I haven't taken one photo. I haven't even dug out my camera from the storage room. Bad me. I suppose I will just be here moping and all that while looking at all the amazing photos you have taken about your adventures. :-(

What I have done is I have been on Duolingo every day for three months now and earning points. I'm not doing badly. Of course, I don't think one learns languages through Duolingo, but - something I learn.

Seafood Bisque Day

You could learn to cook this. It's not difficult, but it sounds fancy, and might be something that becomes your signature dish. Unless, of course, you dislike seafood like I do :-D



Watch  Hercules

No exercise today, it's a rest day


The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Panorama
Food Photography
Go Wide, Get Close
When natural light won’t cut it
Deconstructed landscapes

The Inktober
prompt is SLING

Friday, October 18, 2019

18th of October, Friday

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

Azerbaijan independence day



Bad King John Died on this day

Watch Robin Hood


Last exercise session of the week. Now, you remember to follow your own program, adjusted to how you develop, and not do what I say here!

100 pushups

13 - 13 - 17 - 17 - 16 - 16 - 14 - 14 - 50+
45 seconds between each set

"Well? Did you make it through Week 6? If you did; congratulations - you should be very proud of your achievements and ready for one final test.

If you struggled with Week 6 (many people do), no problem, just repeat the appropriate week and try again. Maybe an extra couple of days rest will benefit you?"

20 pullups

5 - 6 - 8 - 9 - 10
rest 90 seconds between each set

And I hope you remember to do your stretches every day! You want to keep that split, don't you? Perhaps even deepen it.

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Frame within a Frame
Mastering Artificial Light
Waterfalls
What camera do you have?
Right time, wrong lens

The Inktober prompt is MISFIT

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Seven and ten

National  Edge Day

There is a little error in the text... right now it says that the Straight Edge people don't use drugs, tobacco, alcohol, some won't use even caffeine, prescription drugs or animal based foods, but they engage in promiscuous sex. Now, I'm not a member of that community, so I don't know, but I think abstaining from promiscuous sex sounds more fitting...

National Pasta Day

learn to make pasta. It's not difficult.



World Trauma Day

Wear something gaudy day

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Write a list of 10 things YOU can do RIGHT NOW (or today, this week, this month, this year - as soon as possible) to eradicate SOME poverty. If you can help ONE person out of poverty, it's good.
(don't just follow my list. I'm pretty stupid when it comes to money, and gullible.)

- donate to some organization that provides poor families with livestock or bit of land
- support microloans (do it wisely though. Educate yourself first.)
- sponsor some child through education
- teach someone to read
- start a club in your neighborhood, to teach kids to think economically, use money wisely and save money to fund their goals and dreams. A lot of children have never even touched money, and most certainly haven't ever used any or decided how it is to be used.
- teach yourself out of the poverty mindset, so that you can get rich and give more to help others out of poverty
- donate money to organisations and programs that provide water and education to poor countries
- teach someone to cook and to do it frugally and economically (you are also someone, if you don't already know how to do this.)
- instead of giving money to beggars and homeless people, give them work.
- only buy locally produced items. Choose small, local companies and workers when you need something, like when you are going to eat out, don't go to a chain restaurant, especially a multi-national restaurant chain.


Watch Aladdin

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4km (or 25 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Unbalanced
Freebie Day
A Rule Of Thumb To Help Stop Photo Blur
The Low Down on Lenses 
Brenizer effect portraits

The Inktober prompt is ORNAMENT

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

16th of October, Wednesday

National Liqueur Day

Make your own liqueur. It's not difficult.
You take the fruit you want, cut it in pieces (fruit or herbs or vegetables or flowers or what ever it is you want) and let it steep in good quality vodka for at least a week, preferably more.
You make a single syrup - with any flavoring you want.  (That is, if you want to make caramel flavored liqueur, you make caramel syrup.
You drain the fruit from the alcohol and mix the alcohol with the syrup. That's it.
(And if you want cream liqueur or egg liqueur, this is when you mix in the eggs or cream or milk or what ever it is you want to add.)
You can also put the sugar in with the alcohol and fruits, and let that steep for a week or more. Shake it a little every now and then. And that's it.


Global Cat Day - Feral Cat Day

Go help at your local cat shelter, any which way you can is good. You can donate work, time, money, cat food, items... some cat shelters even accept things they can sell second hand.
If you have time and inclination, adopt a cat. Old cats and black cats are the least adoptable, so if you really love cats, adopt an old cat.

World Food Day

Donate some money to feed hungry people. You might not be able to teach someone to fish, but you could donate someone a farm animal, so that they can become self-sufficient that way. I keep saying "go buy someone a goat", but maybe that's misleading, because these different organizations who will get your goat to the needing family might not be getting them a goat. Because they choose an animal(s) that will most benefit the family in the circumstances they are living. It might be a donkey or a couple of hens or something. Goats are not the best option in every situation, and not even allowed in all places.

Watch Reluctant Dragon and Tarzan


100 pushups

14 - 14 - 15 - 15 - 14 - 14 - 10 - 10 - 44+
45 seconds between each set

20 pullups

8 - 7 - 8 - 7 - 8
rest 90 seconds between each set

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Balanced
Wildlife
Exposure Compensation/Bias
Exposure Compensation
Light spirals



The Inktober prompt is WILD

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

15th of October

National Cheese Curd Day


National I Love Lucy Day


National Grouch Day

World Maths Day

Watch Beauty and the Beast


C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4km (or 25 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
Colourful Water Drops
Product Photography Crash Course
RAW & JPEG Can Coexist
Histograms in the Field
Still life light trails


The Inktober prompt is LEGEND

Monday, October 14, 2019

14th of October

It's Monday again! Yay!

It's National Dessert Day


It's "Be Bald and Be Free Day"
 
Shave your head. Especially if you are a woman. All women should realize that their womanhood and femininity isn't attached to their hair. Give the hair to Locks of Love or some other charity that collects hair to make real hair wigs to cancer patients.
You could also learn to make wigs, or hair jewelry.

Watch Snowwhite and Lilo and Stitch - both with a notable bald character

It's the International Top Spinning Day



It's new week with the physical exercise. It is the week 7, but - of course - you do the week you're on, and not week 7.

100 pushups

25 - 30 - 20 - 15 - 40+
60 seconds between each set

20 pullups

4 - 5 - 6 - 6 - 7
rest 120 seconds between each set

 The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
- Light Painting
- Street Photography Exercise
The Magic Of Histograms
- Histo-huh? What’s a histogram?
- Bokeh bubbles


The Inktober prompt is OVERGROWN

Sunday, October 13, 2019

13th of October... but not Friday

It's National Train Your Brain Day

Learn to solve Sudokus and other such puzzles; and puzzle cubes
Make a puzzle cube like Devil's Knot

Watch Atlantis: The Lost Empire

It's National Yorkshire Pudding Day



It's National No Bra Day

It's new week with the physical exercise. It is the week 7, but - of course - you do the week you're on, and not week 7.

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog 4km (or 25 minutes).

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
- dynamic tension
- The Macro Perspective
- Exposure Compensation/Bias
- Setting Custom White Balance
- Still-life bokeh


The Inktober prompt is ASH


Saturday, October 12, 2019

It was Saturday, the twelth day...

And the God rested... and so do we. No pull-ups, pushups or running today. But you are almost there... only a couple more weeks to go and you will have reached two big goals on your bucket list!
I do hope you keep stretching and maintaining your splits. I don't. I didn't even get there. :-(
And yes, I do feel like a failure. After all, I am.

But... is it really that big a thing? Why do I feel bad for failing? Why do I want to give up? Why do I believe I will never be able to follow any lists or keep my promises to myself or commit or complete anything? Just because I have never done it, it doesn't mean I never will.

Just think about a kid learning to walk. First they can't even stand on their own. When they start learning, they fall all the time. They have never walked in their lives. They just see big people around them walking and climbing and running and hopping. It would be so easy to think "well, they are exceptional, or I am, exceptionally bad at this. It will never work. I'll just give up and be carried the rest of my life".
No. They don't think like that.
So why do I?

When did failure become a thing?

But, not you. You don't fail :-) Or if you do, you just get up, brush off the dust and try another way of doing the thing. (And "the thing" here for me is committing, keeping doing it, following the list every day... I have learned that it work best if I do it the first thing in the morning, or one of the first things. If I leave it for "later", it won't happen.)


But - today there are still things to do. It's not all rest. :-)

National Savings Day - National Freethought Day - National Farmer’s Day - National Gumbo Day - Spain's National Day - World Arthritis Day



Watch  The Princess and the Frog

The Inktober prompt for today is DRAGON

The Photography challenge/lesson today is:
- portrait
- color study
- histograms
- what's white balance
- kitchen close-ups

Friday, October 11, 2019

10, 11

International Day of the Girl Child - National Sausage Pizza Day



Watch Cinderella and Frozen

100 pushups

13 - 13 - 15 - 15 - 12 - 12 - 10 - 30+
45 seconds between each set

"Surprise, surprise, it's time for another exhaustion test. Week 5 was a tough one, and if you've made it this far, you're getting close to reaching your goal. If you're able to perform more than 45 consecutive pushups, feel free to move on to Week 6. Couldn't quite manage 45? No problem, just repeat the week and you should be ready to go after another three workout days. Good luck!"

20 pullups

8 - 6 - 5 - 4 - max
rest 120 seconds between each set

Photography challenge/lesson for today:
- landscape (now, the original challenge tips page isn't there anymore... :-()
- reflections
- steps to taking a photo
- tips for shooting manually
- refractive art

The Inktober prompt for today is SNOW

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Double 10 Day!

National Angel Food Cake Day - National Cake Decorating Day - World Mental Health Day - World Porridge Day

Watch Sleeping Beauty


15 layers with pink and blue forget-me-nots and blue, runny frosting
- with yeast and spices 
- and 15 pink tapers


C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1.2km (or 8 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)

Photography challenge/lesson for today:
- lens flare
- free day
- camera modes
- meter maids
- psychedelic soap film

The Inktober prompt is PATTERN


 

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

9.10.19

Hehe... another palindrome date :-D

Fire Prevention Day - Moldy Cheese Day - National Leif Erikson Day - World Post Day - Curious Events Day

Watch Pinocchio

100 pushups

10 - 10 - 13 - 13 - 10 - 10 - 9 - 25+
45 seconds between each set (longer if required)

20 pullups

7 - 6 - 5 - 6 - 7
rest 90 seconds

Photography challenge/lesson for today:
- Bokeh (It is pronounced "bok-eh". It's a real Japanese word and should be pronounced in Japanese, and it's not difficult. Don't say bo-key or bow-keh or anything like that.)
- portrait (not selfie)
- metering modes
- scales
- oily reflections

The Inktober prompt is SWING

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

8th of October

World Octopus Day



National Fluffernutter Day

American Touch Tag Day

National Pierogi Day

Watch Little Mermaid

Today's photography lessons/challenge
- Sunset
- Expressing a Mood Through Your Photograph
- Metering Modes
- The Exposure Triangle
- Abstracts in Oil

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1.2km (or 8 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)

Today's Inktober prompt is FRAIL

Monday, October 7, 2019

10-07

Bathtub Day - National Frappe Day - National LED Light Day - National Inner Beauty Day



Watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame 



I have a feeling we have jumped over a week somewhere... it's week 6, but I'm on week 5 on pushups... hmm...  Well, you received the link, and had different start position than I, so you should be on right week .-)

100 pushups

17 - 19 - 15 - 15 - 20+
60 seconds between each set (longer if required)

20 pullups


It's time to test your max, again, and adjust your training program.

5 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
rest 60 seconds

The Photography lessons/challenges today are:
- Silhouette
- Recreate Your Favorite Painting or Photograph
- And then, ISO...
- Tackling depth of field
- Flowers in ice
(You can either weigh the flowers down, or froze them in steps - if you first pour in water to fill the container 1/3 of water, put the flower in, let it freeze, the ice will keep the flower anchored so that it won't float when you fill the container and freeze it. You get all of the flower encapsulated in ice without having it weighed down.)

A flower frozen in ice cube by Danil Nevsky - Stocksy United

Read this article about Bruce Boyd's fascination of frozen flowers.

The Inktober prompt is ENCHANTED

And if you wonder about something, go to the whole October list to find links to different challenges etc. 

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Sunday, October 6th

It's the badger day


It's the national noodle day


It's  plus size appreciation day
- watch Phat Girlz, The Nines, Pitch Perfect, Hairspray, Fried Green Tomatoes

It's mad hatter day
- wear a mad hat

Watch Alice in Wonderland

It's already week six on the "Couch to 5K" challenge... we are almost there!

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1.2km (or 8 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes) 

Today's Inktober prompt is HUSKY

And the photography lessons:
- Low angle
- Movement and Action
- Aperture (and Depth of Field: Aperture)
- Understanding Aperture, part 2
- Fine Art Food (take an artistic photo of food, like macro, or a portrait of an ingredient)




Saturday, October 5, 2019

So, first week of October is done

Saturday, 5th of October

Every Saturday you are to take a look at the week that has passed, and see what went right and what went wrong.
Do you keep stretching every day to keep your splits?
Have you been doing the pull-ups and push-ups?
Have you been running three times a week? It's not even every day...
Have you been doing the daily challenges?
Are you working on your Halloween costume and the costume party?
Did you start saving for the trip and have you saved any money?
If not, why not?
What would you want to have achieved this week?
What are you going to do differently the next week?

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It's balloons around the world day
- send a message in a balloon

It's world teachers' day
- send flowers and cookies to your teachers

It's Apple Betty Day
- make Apple Betty

It's Get Funky Day
- learn to dance 70s funk


Watch Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet

Inktober prompt for today is BUILD

Today's photography challenge or lesson:
- High Angle
- Exploring Soft Light
- Understanding shutter speed
- Understanding Aperture
- Food landscape


Friday, October 4, 2019

4th of October

St.Franciscus and world animal day
read Dr. Dolittle

Taco day


ship in a bottle day


Kanelbullens dag.
Kanelbulle is Swedish for cinnamon bun. We don't frost our cinnamon buns. They are ooey gooey delicious anyway. I actually prefer them this way.

100 pushups

16 - 16 - 13 - 13 - 20+
90 seconds between each set (longer if required)

20 pullups

6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - max
rest 90 seconds

Photography challenge
- texture
- exploring hard light
- photography jargon
- Try cross-polarisation
- Controlling the faucet - learning ISO

 The Inktober prompt is FREEZE

 

Thursday, October 3, 2019

3rd of October

Techies day
Learn something about your computer and technology so that you can fix some common problems that arise


Virus Appreciation Day
Learn something about viruses that make you appreciate them


Germany's Independence day
Celebrate the Germany by eating something German and watching a German movie

Boyfriend's day
Celebrate your boyfriend if you have one as if it was his birthday

Watch Meet the Robinsons  


C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)

Today's photography:
- black and white
- depth of field: changing aperture
- shooting fast vs shooting slow
- creating smoke art

The Inktober prompt for today is BAIT


Wednesday, October 2, 2019

2019-10-2

Hehe... palindrome date :-D

world farm animals day

learn about the intelligence and emotions of farm animals. They are more like us than you'd think.



Then make the choice to either not eat meat or see that the meat you eat is from farms where animals are treated well and butchered as humanely as possible. You have the power as the consumer and customer.

It's the Batik Day

Learn to make wax batik

It's also the International Day of Non-Violence

Study the philosophy and tradition of non-violence.



Watch Dinosaur

100 pushups

14 - 16 - 12 - 12 - 18+
90 seconds between each set (longer if required)

20 pullups

5 - 3 - 4 - 3 - 5
rest 90 seconds

Photography challenge:

The rule of thirds
ISO limits of your camera
Another self portrait
Find your camera manual
Indoor splash shot

Today's Inktober prompt: mindless

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Welcome, October!

It feels a bit odd not to stretch for splits any more... though you shouldn't stop, just because September and the 30 days to splits challenge ended. I mean, you need to keep stretching to keep being able to do the splits. :-D

World Vegetarian Day - Independence days of China, Cyprus, Nigeria, Palau and Tuvalu - International Coffee Day

Learn a new vegetarian recipe. You could try making the impossible burger.


Choose a country, learn more about it, cook something they eat there

Learn to appreciate coffee

Watch Mulan

C25K

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)

For the photography "challenge"
- take a self portrait.
- take a photo inside your home
- learn about the exposure triangle
- write an essay about why you want to take photos and why do you want to get better at it.
- take a photo of a water drop

The official Inktober prompt today is RING