Done This Week

[scrubjayspeaks]

Parfait died sometime in the wee hours of Thursday. She had been continuing in a kind of stasis--not improving, but not noticeably worsening either--and we had an appointment for Friday to return to the vet for more diagnostics. We still don’t know what was actually wrong, beyond having ruled out something contagious that could infect the others.

So that sucks.

Meanwhile, I had a long talk with my supervisor about the nature and extent of the bullshit I’m dealing with at work. She’s going to work on some options on her end. I’m instructed to enforce barriers with the other departments and remind them I am not actually at their beck and call. The robot situation is stalled, because it turns out the mold design is probably borked. While a lot of my work was still going to be necessary, there is a certain element of spinning my wheels.

I had opted to take Friday off because of basically all of the above situations. A four-day weekend is about the only thing that can do me any good right now.

In happier news, I successfully built a new set of porch stairs. The old ones, which my dad built, had reached the point of total disintegration due to time and weather. I had to reverse engineer his design, which was hampered by the fact that the whole thing was falling apart. Also, it turned out that there was a whole extra layer of boards in there that had since become buried in the surrounding ground. I didn’t find that out until I ripped out the old ones this morning. Fortunately, leveling the ground a bit made it possible to still use my set.

Mum painted them to match the rest of the trim, and I’ve now shoved them into place under the edge of the porch. I am no carpenter (*hideous braying laughter*), but they are functional and look halfway decent. Hell, apart from one small splinter, I didn’t even hurt myself at all, which is more than I usually manage at work! :D

...well, apart from the nightmare sunburn I got yesterday. Look, it was overcast when I went out to start working. In a tank top. For the first time of the summer. What was I expected to do, break my hyperfocus while building just because the sun came out and started broiling me? Pfft.

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written

Day job: 34 hours, with a day off to extend the holiday weekend and somehow no overtime???

Cooking: artichoke and lemon cream pasta with chickpeas

Crafting: finished another cotton washcloth, built new porch stairs

Gardening: pruned some problem children in the garden

Reading: Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (eh, I like the Blair Witch style documentary format, but I found the ending rushed, given how many loose ends and outright lies needed to be sorted out)

Watching: Stranger Things season 3 episodes 3-4

Listening: Arms of the Sea by Alexander James Adams (some of his older, pre-transition work, lovely mix of familiar and new folk songs)

Clock Mouse: still taking a break

Other: blood draw

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[trepkos]

You BUILT chairs - that's amazing!