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December 02, 2025

IWSG Dec 2025: Annoyed with grammar check

It used to be my text app (iText Express for mac) just makes spellchecks but now it corrects my grammar (after I upgraded) and I'm annoyed with it. If they were accurate, I might be fine with it but they are not.
    Like the word peace - it kept asking me if I want to change it to piece or if I wrote piece, it ask if I want to change it to peace. Or with words like you're and your or then and than or any words in that similar vein. The suggestions are sort of reasonable but still annoying. (And yes, when I made a spellcheck of this post, it asked me if I want change peace to piece and piece to peace.)
    The question is, why is it giving incorrect suggestions? I can't even turn it off because there's no such option. Sometimes it's helpful and other times I just give up. It actually confuses me more because then I second-guess my own decisions. English grammar is confusing enough so I don't need these oddly incorrect grammar suggestions.
    
Do you hate it when you text or word app corrects your grammar?

November 30, 2025

Scribtober 2025 Two

Here are the rest of my Scribtober drawings. The previous ones are here. (click on image for larger view)

seven

eight

nine

ten

eleven

twelve

one (color version)

Have you been drawing or doing some creative endeavor?

November 29, 2025

Book Rants - Nov 2025

Time just flew by. I don't think I did anything productive that wasn't provoked by time. Deadlines are good sometimes especially when you're unmotivated. At least I read some books. Here are the books I read (and a movie I watched) in November.

~ Books I read ~

01 - Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, translated by Alison Watts
What's it about: making sweet bean paste, cherry blossoms, leprosy (Hansen's disease), friendship
I enjoyed this though it's a little depressing and characters aren't exactly winning at life or anything. Tokue (main character) is like a mystical figure because she thinks differently than other people and I like her idea - you don't have to be useful to society to live, you just do. This ended kind abruptly as we don't know what Sentaro's (main character) future. I did expect a certain character's end but kind of didn't want it to happen. This is not a happy story and yet this is recommended as cozy book which I think it's a kind of true but we really need to redefine cozy because cozy always somehow comes with sorrow - this book certainly does but I still liked it.