Done This Week
Sep. 28th, 2025 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksIt continues to be strange times to live in.
Work projects all seem to be spinning their wheels. So I invented a project for myself and generally became a nuisance about learning to use the milling machine. I had not, in fairness, meant to be a nuisance about that. My teammate saw me taking off burrs using the grinding wheel, though, and felt compelled to make my life easier. As I’m supposed to be learning from him anyway, I don’t feel particularly bad about taking up his time. (And for once, no one butted in and interrupted us working together.)
This week seemed to have a lot of Notable Online (Trans) People posting pieces saying, jesus fuck, we need to stop declaring we’re all doomed, we are hurting ourselves and our cause. Considering last week consisted entirely of think pieces and threads saying we are all absolutely fucked, flee the country if you can or prepare to lie down and die (I wish I was being hyperbolic), I prefer this week’s change of tone.
I am trying very hard--with limited success, admittedly--to back off on social media. While I want (and debatably need) to maintain some awareness of current events that impact me, I do not need to know on an hourly basis. And social media has become the Hourly Panic Dosing Machine, unfortunately. I wish it was easier to create curated reading lists within one’s general subscriptions (as on DW, in fact) but not have them be public (as on Bluesky). I want to be able to follow everyone under one account, but some days/hours, I want to be able to just look at, say, the nature artists I follow and not the news and legal analysis accounts. I can’t seem to figure out how to do that, though, unless I just remember account names and go to them individually.
*thinking* Well, I could do it with bookmarks in the browser, rather than the app… It’s not graceful, but it’s functional…
After a couple days of building heat, we got a massive (for California, anyway) thunderstorm unleashed on us. I spent a very sleepless night listening to it camped out overhead, while intermittent downpours caused so much moisture to mist through my window, I thought the roof might be leaking. It would have been fun, in a gothic way, had I not needed to get up for work in the morning. And of course, the power went out. The power goes out if you look at a power pole funny around here. Since then, it’s been overcast and muggy. Which is still an improvement over the blazing heat, as far as I’m concerned.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cooking: half-assed chana masala for work lunches (no recipe, all vibes), millionaire shortbread from B. Dylan Hollis’ Baking Yesteryear (superior to other recipes I’ve tried, with a better, more flavorful caramel that is less fussy than the straight sweetened condensed milk ones)
Cleaning: fixed the clasp on mum’s watch
Listening: That Was The Year That Was by Tom Lehrer (felt like an extra music kind of week), Prisms by Shadow Academy (very much hit the spot that I expect from them, not sure if this one is also inspired by classic literature like the last one, I want liner notes, damn it)
Clock Mouse: 1491 words
Work projects all seem to be spinning their wheels. So I invented a project for myself and generally became a nuisance about learning to use the milling machine. I had not, in fairness, meant to be a nuisance about that. My teammate saw me taking off burrs using the grinding wheel, though, and felt compelled to make my life easier. As I’m supposed to be learning from him anyway, I don’t feel particularly bad about taking up his time. (And for once, no one butted in and interrupted us working together.)
This week seemed to have a lot of Notable Online (Trans) People posting pieces saying, jesus fuck, we need to stop declaring we’re all doomed, we are hurting ourselves and our cause. Considering last week consisted entirely of think pieces and threads saying we are all absolutely fucked, flee the country if you can or prepare to lie down and die (I wish I was being hyperbolic), I prefer this week’s change of tone.
I am trying very hard--with limited success, admittedly--to back off on social media. While I want (and debatably need) to maintain some awareness of current events that impact me, I do not need to know on an hourly basis. And social media has become the Hourly Panic Dosing Machine, unfortunately. I wish it was easier to create curated reading lists within one’s general subscriptions (as on DW, in fact) but not have them be public (as on Bluesky). I want to be able to follow everyone under one account, but some days/hours, I want to be able to just look at, say, the nature artists I follow and not the news and legal analysis accounts. I can’t seem to figure out how to do that, though, unless I just remember account names and go to them individually.
*thinking* Well, I could do it with bookmarks in the browser, rather than the app… It’s not graceful, but it’s functional…
After a couple days of building heat, we got a massive (for California, anyway) thunderstorm unleashed on us. I spent a very sleepless night listening to it camped out overhead, while intermittent downpours caused so much moisture to mist through my window, I thought the roof might be leaking. It would have been fun, in a gothic way, had I not needed to get up for work in the morning. And of course, the power went out. The power goes out if you look at a power pole funny around here. Since then, it’s been overcast and muggy. Which is still an improvement over the blazing heat, as far as I’m concerned.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours
Cooking: half-assed chana masala for work lunches (no recipe, all vibes), millionaire shortbread from B. Dylan Hollis’ Baking Yesteryear (superior to other recipes I’ve tried, with a better, more flavorful caramel that is less fussy than the straight sweetened condensed milk ones)
Cleaning: fixed the clasp on mum’s watch
Listening: That Was The Year That Was by Tom Lehrer (felt like an extra music kind of week), Prisms by Shadow Academy (very much hit the spot that I expect from them, not sure if this one is also inspired by classic literature like the last one, I want liner notes, damn it)
Clock Mouse: 1491 words
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