The periodicity is expanding
May. 19th, 2020 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj Dreamwidth forgive me for I have sinned. It has been one week since my last posting. I wouldn't have considered that a long gap in The Before Times, but I guess I've settled in enough that I don't need to share on a daily basis?
My birthday celebrations back on the 12th were delightful. The weather warmed up just enough for hauling out the grill and having dinner on the patio. I had just enough food of enough variety to feel like a feast but not gluttony. People posted lots of lovely pictures, as requested, and a good variety of recipes (several of which I saved off to try later).
Work is doing that annoying thing where I'm working twice as hard as usual to hit all my deadlines before next week's vacation. Because vacation doesn't actually mean you don't have to do the work. I put in a couple of late evenings on 5/13 and 5/14 just to make progress on my "top priority" because all the lower priority investigations nibbled away all the regular hours.
I'm not sure what-all else I did with my time. FB reminds me that I did a different bike route than usual on Friday because I had a letter to mail, so I went off to the main post office to do it. The short route would take me along the main drag through town, while the long route takes me on the rec trail along the riverbed by the airport. I compromised and did one long and one short leg, which was a little longer than my usual route, but not by much.
Saturday was packed with online events, starting with a lecture on homosexuality in the middle ages, live from Drachenwald (which was at 4:30am my time, but then there was no reason for them to schedule it for my convenience!). The SFWA business meeting was done online in mid-morning, then I logged in to a Sirens Conference Bay Area social meet-up when was mostly just two of us for the majority of the meeting (but we had lots of interests in common so it was a fun chat). And Sunday mid-day was my DISTAFF crew chat as usual. Back a month ago I decided I needed some handwork to do during zoom socials and went through my stash of stalled projects. I settled on a needlepoint project of a medieval manuscript illustration with "the rabbits triumphing over the hunters and dogs" that -- I kid you not -- I started when I was in college. I've been making serious progress on it and have gotten to the point where I need to order some yarn colors that weren't part of the original "this yarn is on sale so I'll buy a bunch of stuff that I know will be useful" stash. Perhaps I'll finish it by the end of quarantine. Or at least get it to the point where all that's left is filling in the background.
Between my usual weekend brain fog and the off-again on-again rain we've been getting (which limited yard work) I spent all the rest of the weekend binge-watching the new She-Ra series, which I finished up last night. (Heart-eyes!!!) Where was this sort of content when I was a kid?
So...um...let's see...the pasta maker that I ordered from Sur La Table arrived at the UPS outlet yesterday. I got it confused with the Le Crueset cookware that arrived today and warned them the package was heavy. (It wasn't.) But at least they may remember me when I joke about it today for the cookware pickup. I think that gets me up to day with all my pending deliveries. Time to shop some more!
Speaking of which, Tuesday is now officially farmers' market day, with a break in my lunch-biking routine to do my produce shopping instead (but still by bike, of course). I may see if I can do most of my fruit and vegetable shopping there. There's also a butcher who shows up. In theory I could get my eggs there, but not via bike+backpack!
I got a very nice "we can't buy everything" rejection from the Silk & Steel anthology for my story "Visard in Velvet" which...I'd convinced myself from the start was quite a longshot given the ratio of submissions to available slots. I'll put the story away until I actually start writing the series it ties in to, then I can use it as a promotional freebie.
I've added a new item to my daily routine, exploring YouTube stretching routines. Not exercise as such, and I confess the moves I want are mostly from yoga instructors (several fb friends agreed in a particular teacher, so I'm trying her out), which gets my back up a little with the woo-woo packaging. I get it: it's a wholistic practice, not just an exercise routine. But it's not me. But I definitely need to do some sort of flexibility routine. The biking goes for cardio and the legs. The yard work goes for upper body, more or less. But it's scary how inflexible I've gotten just from being too busy.
My birthday celebrations back on the 12th were delightful. The weather warmed up just enough for hauling out the grill and having dinner on the patio. I had just enough food of enough variety to feel like a feast but not gluttony. People posted lots of lovely pictures, as requested, and a good variety of recipes (several of which I saved off to try later).
Work is doing that annoying thing where I'm working twice as hard as usual to hit all my deadlines before next week's vacation. Because vacation doesn't actually mean you don't have to do the work. I put in a couple of late evenings on 5/13 and 5/14 just to make progress on my "top priority" because all the lower priority investigations nibbled away all the regular hours.
I'm not sure what-all else I did with my time. FB reminds me that I did a different bike route than usual on Friday because I had a letter to mail, so I went off to the main post office to do it. The short route would take me along the main drag through town, while the long route takes me on the rec trail along the riverbed by the airport. I compromised and did one long and one short leg, which was a little longer than my usual route, but not by much.
Saturday was packed with online events, starting with a lecture on homosexuality in the middle ages, live from Drachenwald (which was at 4:30am my time, but then there was no reason for them to schedule it for my convenience!). The SFWA business meeting was done online in mid-morning, then I logged in to a Sirens Conference Bay Area social meet-up when was mostly just two of us for the majority of the meeting (but we had lots of interests in common so it was a fun chat). And Sunday mid-day was my DISTAFF crew chat as usual. Back a month ago I decided I needed some handwork to do during zoom socials and went through my stash of stalled projects. I settled on a needlepoint project of a medieval manuscript illustration with "the rabbits triumphing over the hunters and dogs" that -- I kid you not -- I started when I was in college. I've been making serious progress on it and have gotten to the point where I need to order some yarn colors that weren't part of the original "this yarn is on sale so I'll buy a bunch of stuff that I know will be useful" stash. Perhaps I'll finish it by the end of quarantine. Or at least get it to the point where all that's left is filling in the background.
Between my usual weekend brain fog and the off-again on-again rain we've been getting (which limited yard work) I spent all the rest of the weekend binge-watching the new She-Ra series, which I finished up last night. (Heart-eyes!!!) Where was this sort of content when I was a kid?
So...um...let's see...the pasta maker that I ordered from Sur La Table arrived at the UPS outlet yesterday. I got it confused with the Le Crueset cookware that arrived today and warned them the package was heavy. (It wasn't.) But at least they may remember me when I joke about it today for the cookware pickup. I think that gets me up to day with all my pending deliveries. Time to shop some more!
Speaking of which, Tuesday is now officially farmers' market day, with a break in my lunch-biking routine to do my produce shopping instead (but still by bike, of course). I may see if I can do most of my fruit and vegetable shopping there. There's also a butcher who shows up. In theory I could get my eggs there, but not via bike+backpack!
I got a very nice "we can't buy everything" rejection from the Silk & Steel anthology for my story "Visard in Velvet" which...I'd convinced myself from the start was quite a longshot given the ratio of submissions to available slots. I'll put the story away until I actually start writing the series it ties in to, then I can use it as a promotional freebie.
I've added a new item to my daily routine, exploring YouTube stretching routines. Not exercise as such, and I confess the moves I want are mostly from yoga instructors (several fb friends agreed in a particular teacher, so I'm trying her out), which gets my back up a little with the woo-woo packaging. I get it: it's a wholistic practice, not just an exercise routine. But it's not me. But I definitely need to do some sort of flexibility routine. The biking goes for cardio and the legs. The yard work goes for upper body, more or less. But it's scary how inflexible I've gotten just from being too busy.
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Date: 2020-05-19 11:30 pm (UTC)5/13 - temperature: 97.4; bike ride, regular route, no other contacts
5/14 - temperature 97.7; bike ride, regular route, no other contacts
5/15 - temperature 97.4; bike ride, to main post office, no interactions (posted to outside box)
5/16 - temperature 97.7; got take-out from Hanabi Sushi at Olivera Station, masked, minimal contact
5/17 - temperature 97.7; no excursions off property
5/18 - temperature 97.7; bike ride, regular route; went to UPS store in the strip mall on Willow Pass to pick up a package, masked, minimal contact
5/19 - temperature 97.4; bike ride, farmers market with a stop on the way to drop off some marmalade for Rachael Zavala, interacted with vendors, mutual handling of goods and money. Will go to the UPS store shortly.