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Done This Week
Mar. 30th, 2025 11:28 amThe value of having a real nice lunch to look forward to on a workday cannot be overstated. I’ve had the bad tendency to allow myself only minimal lunches and snacks at work. It’s been an active choice to take time for prepping better and larger food options, and it’s really helped with my mental state.
I kept expecting my reading pace to drop off after February. After all, surely I would read less once I wasn’t on leave, right? But even setting aside the comics, which are fast and easy to get through, I’m progressing through my reading list rapidly (for me). I try to tinker with *when* I do things in my day, which seems to get me better results than just trying to change *what* I do, like attempting to limit scrolling time. I probably still end up cutting scrolling time, but it doesn’t feel like I’m having to exercise a lot of willpower to do it.
Soldering is my new favorite thing. I will be eagerly looking for opportunities to do more of it at work. Equipment, please break in very specific ways, thank you!
Also, I’m officially going to be attending a robot training class later this year. Work travel! I’ll still hate traveling, but at least someone else is paying for me to do it.
After getting quite warm, it suddenly turned cold and slightly rainy. My joints don’t think this is the funniest thing ever, though I’m happy enough to delay the inevitable hot weather for a little longer.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cooking: milk bread two ways--one filled with raspberry-rhubarb jam (tasty enough, but not really worth the extra effort compared to just putting jam on bread), the other peanut butter-chocolate chip (delicious, might tweak it a little more to amp up the peanut butter flavor, a solid first try at recreating a loaf I used to buy years ago)
Gardening: weed whacked along the house pathways and around the perimeter of the dog park
Reading: Strangers in Paradise #6 and #7 (*gnashing teeth* I just want them to be happy for five fucking minutes?!?!), My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (a relatively light read, given the prominence of the HIV/AIDS crisis, but I enjoyed the narrative voice immensely), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams Live in Concert (it’s just a selections of passages from a few different sections of the series, but getting to hear them read by Adams himself was pretty delightful)
Listening: bro’s bad january Josaleigh Pollett (they did a song-a-day challenge in January, and it’s fun to hear what are essentially WIPs from an artist I like), Bass Amateur Shop by Louie Zong (oh, a particularly good entry in his catalog, several of the songs remind me of older video game tunes, like Sailor Moon: Another Story and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire)
Clock Mouse: 1353 words
Other: unloaded hay twice (whoo!...wait, why am I excited to be doing this again?)
I kept expecting my reading pace to drop off after February. After all, surely I would read less once I wasn’t on leave, right? But even setting aside the comics, which are fast and easy to get through, I’m progressing through my reading list rapidly (for me). I try to tinker with *when* I do things in my day, which seems to get me better results than just trying to change *what* I do, like attempting to limit scrolling time. I probably still end up cutting scrolling time, but it doesn’t feel like I’m having to exercise a lot of willpower to do it.
Soldering is my new favorite thing. I will be eagerly looking for opportunities to do more of it at work. Equipment, please break in very specific ways, thank you!
Also, I’m officially going to be attending a robot training class later this year. Work travel! I’ll still hate traveling, but at least someone else is paying for me to do it.
After getting quite warm, it suddenly turned cold and slightly rainy. My joints don’t think this is the funniest thing ever, though I’m happy enough to delay the inevitable hot weather for a little longer.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cooking: milk bread two ways--one filled with raspberry-rhubarb jam (tasty enough, but not really worth the extra effort compared to just putting jam on bread), the other peanut butter-chocolate chip (delicious, might tweak it a little more to amp up the peanut butter flavor, a solid first try at recreating a loaf I used to buy years ago)
Gardening: weed whacked along the house pathways and around the perimeter of the dog park
Reading: Strangers in Paradise #6 and #7 (*gnashing teeth* I just want them to be happy for five fucking minutes?!?!), My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (a relatively light read, given the prominence of the HIV/AIDS crisis, but I enjoyed the narrative voice immensely), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams Live in Concert (it’s just a selections of passages from a few different sections of the series, but getting to hear them read by Adams himself was pretty delightful)
Listening: bro’s bad january Josaleigh Pollett (they did a song-a-day challenge in January, and it’s fun to hear what are essentially WIPs from an artist I like), Bass Amateur Shop by Louie Zong (oh, a particularly good entry in his catalog, several of the songs remind me of older video game tunes, like Sailor Moon: Another Story and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire)
Clock Mouse: 1353 words
Other: unloaded hay twice (whoo!...wait, why am I excited to be doing this again?)
