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Aug. 15th, 2021 11:24 pmReading. The Bullet Journal Method, Ryder Carroll. I would not recommend this book, I don't think. ( Read more... )
This Will Not Happen To You, Marissa Lingen, as linked by... one of you lot.
I also disappeared down a pharmocological rabbit hole for a day or two in there.
Watching. We watched Leverage: Redemption S01E04. ( Read more... )
Listening. So one of the things Ryder Carroll did was quote Anthem (there is a crack in everything/that's how the light gets in) on a section entitled "Imperfection", as the lead-in to an anecdote about a time he screwed up cooking dinner for an ex. I took this extremely personally, and have therefore worked my way through a bunch of the Live In London videos on YouTube -- including, importantly, fucking myself up with Tower of Song ("Now, I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back/they're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track/but you'll be hearin' from me, baby, long after I'm gone/I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song") -- which, of course, I knew In Advance was going to absolutely wreck me long after he was gone and which, unsurprisingly, does precisely that.
( A parenthetical aside... )
Playing. Okay, so, Solitaire: Grand Harvest annoyed me by letting me build a farm and then taking it away again... but this does not, alas, appear to have put me off it entirely and I am indeed still going.
Also a bit more I Love Hue.
Cooking. Another round of Vanilla Black Cook & Learn, this time Not Mushroom Risotto! Write-up to follow (maybe).
Elsewise of note: potatoes parmentier (freely adapted, including massively increasing the quantity of garlic) with caramelised fennel (from the Ottolenghi cookbook Plenty, see e.g. a classic food blog post on the topic); and lasagna, for the first time in a very long time, which involved using up some dubious vegetable protein Stuff from the cupboard (it was a gift), and the (remarkably edible) basil soy "ricotta" left over from the Vanilla Black adventure, and indeed the rest of the bunch of basil. The fennel seeds in particular (added liberally) were Very Good.
Making & mending. I disc bound my thesis and I am grinning every time I look at it(s exterior
).
Growing. Victory of the day: giving most of the strawberry runners pots with coir in.
Elsewise we have eaten four blueberries and I have just-about managed to keep on top of the watering.
Observing. A NOCTULE.
This Will Not Happen To You, Marissa Lingen, as linked by... one of you lot.
I also disappeared down a pharmocological rabbit hole for a day or two in there.
Watching. We watched Leverage: Redemption S01E04. ( Read more... )
Listening. So one of the things Ryder Carroll did was quote Anthem (there is a crack in everything/that's how the light gets in) on a section entitled "Imperfection", as the lead-in to an anecdote about a time he screwed up cooking dinner for an ex. I took this extremely personally, and have therefore worked my way through a bunch of the Live In London videos on YouTube -- including, importantly, fucking myself up with Tower of Song ("Now, I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back/they're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track/but you'll be hearin' from me, baby, long after I'm gone/I'll be speakin' to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song") -- which, of course, I knew In Advance was going to absolutely wreck me long after he was gone and which, unsurprisingly, does precisely that.
( A parenthetical aside... )
Playing. Okay, so, Solitaire: Grand Harvest annoyed me by letting me build a farm and then taking it away again... but this does not, alas, appear to have put me off it entirely and I am indeed still going.
Also a bit more I Love Hue.
Cooking. Another round of Vanilla Black Cook & Learn, this time Not Mushroom Risotto! Write-up to follow (maybe).
Elsewise of note: potatoes parmentier (freely adapted, including massively increasing the quantity of garlic) with caramelised fennel (from the Ottolenghi cookbook Plenty, see e.g. a classic food blog post on the topic); and lasagna, for the first time in a very long time, which involved using up some dubious vegetable protein Stuff from the cupboard (it was a gift), and the (remarkably edible) basil soy "ricotta" left over from the Vanilla Black adventure, and indeed the rest of the bunch of basil. The fennel seeds in particular (added liberally) were Very Good.
Making & mending. I disc bound my thesis and I am grinning every time I look at it(s exterior
).Growing. Victory of the day: giving most of the strawberry runners pots with coir in.
Elsewise we have eaten four blueberries and I have just-about managed to keep on top of the watering.
Observing. A NOCTULE.