From Rain to Sunshine
Apr. 7th, 2020 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj The nice long soaking rain we had all weekend was still promising things yesterday, but held off long enough for me to do my lunch bike ride. (It teased with a few drops when I was at the turn-around point, and then again just when I was a block from home, but didn't get me seriously wet.) I had a lovely zoom chat with hawkwing_lb before work. We've done it twice now on a Monday morning, so that's traditional, right? And then in the evening I dropped by the virtual book release party for A.J. FItzwater's The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, from Queen of Swords Press. I've been feeling overwhelmed by all the online fannish activity going on, but wanted to support friends with small presses. And so I experienced my first "zoom bombing" which was an exercise in really pointless juvenile "because I can" nastiness which definitely falls in the category of "why we can't have nice things." The release party resumed after being cancelled and private invitations being sent around for the new version. But honestly, if the most entertaining thing you can think of to do with yourself is that sort of drive-by crapping on other people? I think the human race is better off without you.
I was thinking of getting take-out for dinner yesterday but left it too late to get started so I thawed out one of the frozen lasagna servings and determined to remember to order well in advance today. (Like, order by 4pm for a ca. 6pm delivery maybe.)
I'm having the problem of not really remembering what I did the day before. I should go back to blogging right before bed. I'm closing some of my older investigations finally two in the last two days and another on track for sometime this week. That will leave me with only one "oldie moldy", and in fact it will leave me with only one investigation older than the 30-day closure target. So take that, working from home!
Just in case I don't do today's blogging before bed: my baking project today was finally cracking open the elderly can of poppyseed filling and making a rather large batch of kolatchky. (There's enough poppy stuff left for another something-or-other so I think I'll bake a cake. Later.) I'll probably freeze 3/4 of the kolatchky and hope they're still delicious later. I'd much rather share them out with friends and family, but...well...here we are.
Listened to the announcement of the Hugo finalists while putting things in and out of the oven (in the non-biking part of my lunch hour). It'll be interesting as usual to go back and compare with my nominations. Definitely continuing the highly diverse nominee tradition!
Yesterday it was pouring rain after work so the yardwork languished but it looks like the storm has moved on so I can get back to applying the hedge trimmer to the bushes in the parking strip. Assuming that there aren't parked cars in the way. Or maybe I'll take the day off again. I'm feeling tired, mostly from interrupted sleep. And my hands are going through a stiff phase. For a while I thought that adding an aspirin a day to my vitamin routine might have beat back the arthritis, but evidently it was just the normal ebb and flow. My fingers are back to clicking and popping in the morning though they loosen up by mid-day.
hawkwing_lb before work. We've done it twice now on a Monday morning, so that's traditional, right? And then in the evening I dropped by the virtual book release party for A.J. FItzwater's The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, from Queen of Swords Press. I've been feeling overwhelmed by all the online fannish activity going on, but wanted to support friends with small presses. And so I experienced my first "zoom bombing" which was an exercise in really pointless juvenile "because I can" nastiness which definitely falls in the category of "why we can't have nice things." The release party resumed after being cancelled and private invitations being sent around for the new version. But honestly, if the most entertaining thing you can think of to do with yourself is that sort of drive-by crapping on other people? I think the human race is better off without you.I was thinking of getting take-out for dinner yesterday but left it too late to get started so I thawed out one of the frozen lasagna servings and determined to remember to order well in advance today. (Like, order by 4pm for a ca. 6pm delivery maybe.)
I'm having the problem of not really remembering what I did the day before. I should go back to blogging right before bed. I'm closing some of my older investigations finally two in the last two days and another on track for sometime this week. That will leave me with only one "oldie moldy", and in fact it will leave me with only one investigation older than the 30-day closure target. So take that, working from home!
Just in case I don't do today's blogging before bed: my baking project today was finally cracking open the elderly can of poppyseed filling and making a rather large batch of kolatchky. (There's enough poppy stuff left for another something-or-other so I think I'll bake a cake. Later.) I'll probably freeze 3/4 of the kolatchky and hope they're still delicious later. I'd much rather share them out with friends and family, but...well...here we are.
Listened to the announcement of the Hugo finalists while putting things in and out of the oven (in the non-biking part of my lunch hour). It'll be interesting as usual to go back and compare with my nominations. Definitely continuing the highly diverse nominee tradition!
Yesterday it was pouring rain after work so the yardwork languished but it looks like the storm has moved on so I can get back to applying the hedge trimmer to the bushes in the parking strip. Assuming that there aren't parked cars in the way. Or maybe I'll take the day off again. I'm feeling tired, mostly from interrupted sleep. And my hands are going through a stiff phase. For a while I thought that adding an aspirin a day to my vitamin routine might have beat back the arthritis, but evidently it was just the normal ebb and flow. My fingers are back to clicking and popping in the morning though they loosen up by mid-day.
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Date: 2020-04-09 02:31 pm (UTC)