Morrigan Kig

Three dodgy transactions tried to go onto my card today, two popped up with an authorization request (which I denied) and the third went through without a authorization request. It was for PUBG mobile, and there's something you should now about me.

I don't play PUBG.

I blocked all the affected cards (2) and requested replacement cards on both. I also contacted the card issuer to reverse the transaction. Took a phone call and a few back-and-forths on ticket support messages, but the transaction was indeed reversed on both cards. Was only a few hours in between the transaction and clearing.

I'm trying to think where did could have been gotten. I have the card on a few places, including online and in some apps such as McDonalds.

I rarely use the card physically, primarily using it online and through my FitBit. Even in shops, I will prefer to use the self-checkout so I don't have to physically hand the card over to someone and potentially have them skim the card over a reader.

Although thinking about this now, my local Costa Coffee started using a new card payment system. Dojo I think it was? And I didn't have any issues with fraud transactions until I recently started getting coffees from there since they upgraded.

I've reordered my cards for now and if I card fraud transactions on my card again after buying from the local Costa shop, I'll know the culprit.

Kohaku and Hisui's first joint pic.

Further news has been received regarding the mask I sent back via FedEx for repairs. The workshop have reported that the mask would cost me $550 USD to repair -- this is enough for a brand new mask rather than repair.

FedEx have cost me an entire mask and destroyed my mask in transit.

I'll say it again

NEVER USE FEDEX FOR ANYTHING FRAGILE

One of many glitches on Railjack where the reactor doesn't give a countdown and you drop out of the ship without warning.

I don't think I'll be using FedEx in future. I sent back a mask for repairs (it's one I haven't gone public with yet) and this morning, I received a video of the workshop opening the box and the mask was more damaged than when I sent it. It was also covered in FedEx tape.

The mask was not packed in the same manner I shipped the box in (I packed it in a way that would protect it from being bounced around)

Worse, the box was put UPSIDE DOWN inside the cardboard shipping box, meaning the mask was now bouncing up and down on the lid of the box as it was being transported. It's no surprise it was damaged by the time it was received by the workshop.

Don't use FedEx if this is how they handle your fragile shipments

After browsing DeviantArt, I found an artist by the name of Prinny77 who had an art piece of a kig Y'shtola (link to actual art piece is here: [www.deviantart.com/prinny77/...](https://www.deviantart.com/prinny77/art/Behind-Y-shtola-825748598))

And I just *had* to try replicating that since I had a Y'shtola kig 😀

Second week of pics for Princess Shelley #KigOfTheMonth

First week of the new #KigOfTheMonth for Feb. This month it's Shelley.Shelley is an OC. She's a young princess, with a love of the lolita look.

Second announcement, Kohaku's sister has been completed.

Meet Hisui

Mask: @FACTORYRINS (who also did Kohaku)

Costume: @cosordermade1 (who also did Kohaku's costume)

No #KigOfTheMonth pics from Cloe this week. Time for some announcements.You're probably aware I have a Kohaku kig from #Tsukihime/#MeltyBlood. It's taken a while, but I now have the broom/sword prop for her.

And here's a short video of her with the prop

This will be Cloe's last set of pics for #KigOfTheMonth. Next week, I will be making an announcement.Since it's Cloe's last week, she decided to take a dip in her swimming pool. Meaning.... SWIMSUIT!

This week's pics of Cloe for #KigOfTheMonth Cloe, being part of the Bratz brand, I figured I should get a her a Bratz-themed getup. It turned out... okay, I guess. 😀

More Cloe pics for #KigOfTheMonth. Here's Bridal Cloe.

The size of cloe makes her cover most of my neck leading to some slightly... interesting pics.

Here's the first set of pics for Cloe for #KigOfTheMonth. Here I decided to redo one of my earliest pics as Cloe where she wore my running suit.

Cloe has matured a bit since then, as you can see.

Memories of 2020, even though it's been mostly a shitty year, there were still some high points.

Completed my Alice, Alice Hysteria, Morrigan and Hell Girl kigs

My last set of pics I did over the previous weekend had me pop something in my lower back and it's been killing me over the past few days.

I bought some painkillers yesterday and even after only taking them for a day, my back is feeling much better.

This blog hasn't been given much attentions so perhaps I'll use it as a bit of a gallery.

Christmas may have just passed, but here's some Christmas-themed pics of Cloe.

In case you were not following my Twitter feed, I've started doing a "Kig of the Month" rotation, going through my different characters one by one and putting pics of them online for the entire month.

January 2021 will be Cloe from Bratz.

I cheated a bit and did some pics for Christmas.

IFTTT have now imposed a subscription model which means my preferred way to crosspost across my main social networks has become harder.

I do not agree with their decision so have deleted my IFTTT accounts. But now need alternatives to crossposting.

Only one free tool so far allows crossposting without too much hassle, and that's Hootsuite.

The tool allows you to hook up three social networks (more if you pay) and you can post to all three at the same times. I hooked up Twitter, Facebook Pages and Instagram.

You can post text and it will post to all the networks you specified. Of course Instagram won't allow text-only posts as it's an image-centric network.

Images that are out of effective aspect ratio can be edited within Hootsuite, but that will butcher the quality of the image (see my MTG Alice pics on Twitter to see what I mean)

There is a bit of a catch with Instagram. You cannot post to Instagram from Hootsuit directly unless you link a Facebook page to your Instagram account. You can still post to Instagram without it -- you just need the Hootsuite app on your phone, and then use the app to finalise and do the actual post to Instagram (from your phone).

I use Twitter, Facebook Pages and Instagram as my social networks and a Wordpress blog (obviously, since you're reading this)

Instagram has a crosspost functionality within the app, but it is horrendously bad. It just posts a link on your Twitter feed or Facebook feed and you're then reliant on the viewer's client interpreting it properly. Some clients will not preview the link unless you open up the Tweet. TweetDeck is notorious for this. Twitter's Web Client is better, and some mobile Twitter apps (Plume, Fenix, Carbon) are pretty good at previewing links out of the box./

That's why when I crosspost, I prefer having a copy of the media posted with the tweet. IFTTT did this automatically, and I liked that. Using Hootsuite posts the media independently of each social network. So Twitter, Facebook and Instagram all get their own copy of the media uploaded, no crosslinking required.

Wordpress, however, is a bit more annoying. It does provide crossposting onto Twitter. However, it, like Instagram, just puts a link of the blog article , and does not paste a copy of any image on your article, or lets you choose which image (if any) from your article to use. You can, however, modify the tweet text, but that's about it.

A new feature, however, has been added to Wordpress that allows you post your blog entry as a series of tweets, and looks like you can embed pictures during that thread and they should upload, I haven't tried that yet.

There is another tool that I have seen mentioned called Huginn, but I've not checked that out in detail. It does look pretty complicated to use though.

My neighbor updated me on her insurance claim from the accident earlier this year where 3 cars were written off, and another was damaged.

TL;DR: DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE, IT WILL COST YOU MORE THAN THE DRINK

I now have a rough total of how much the drunk driver is going to have to pay:

Write-off of 3 cars: $4000 + $3400 + $2000 = $9400
Repair of the 4th car: $2000
Hire Car (45 days @ $100 per day): $4500
Total Cost: $15900

So, that $10 drink is now going to cost him $16K.

Oh, and the costs only include my hire car. I know one of the other two drivers opted not to get a hire car, even though he was entitled to it. Not sure about the third.

Also, I don't know if the drunk driver's own car got written off, or got repaired, both of which also has costs, so add that to the $16K

Sorry about the double-posting you've been seeing from me on my Twitter. Turns out my IFTTT connections were firing two different recipes.

I linked my Wordpress to my FB Page, and told it if I had a post tagged with "Image", to upload the image to the page (which would also add the post to the image description). If I had a post tagged with "NoImage", to post a status message instead.

Turns out IFTTT put my blog entry as a status message AND uploaded the image, which fired two FB Pages recipes. One for tweeting a status message, and one for tweeting an image.

So instead, I've just set my Wordpress connection to only ever put a FB Pages status message, and stopped using the Image/NoImage tags.