vital functions
Oct. 2nd, 2022 11:58 pmReading. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, still on my very slow second reading. I think I have a working theory for what the hell the chapter-heading-skulls are doing, and I'm also developing Opinions about Resurrection Beasts and Lyctors. More to follow, if I get my act together.
Playing. This week I have tripped and fallen into Redactle, which I had previously avoided; for the benefit of anyone who has similarly escaped this particular trap, the premise is you get one of Wikipedia's 10,000 vital articles presented to you with most of the meaningful words redacted. You guess words, which get filled in. When you have successfully guessed the title of the page, you win. I feel grumpily as though I'm doing a poor job of optimising for a minimum number of guesses, but I'm also having non-zero fun trying to fill out the body text of the article once I've decided I don't stand a hope of getting the title. (Sooner or later I give up and start searching relevant keywords to work things out from there, but sometimes "later" is 1200+ guesses in, only some of which are brute-forcing specific years in the 13th and 14th centuries.)
Eating. Mulberry and apple jam, courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ewt from, I think, the Before Times (very tasty, am once again considering shamelessly raiding the mulberry tree outside the civic centre but not sure I am quite that shameless). A couple of plums off my plot-neighbour's tree. TOMATOES from the ALLOTMENT. Three blackberries.
Exploring. Whipsnade zoo (see also Observing) and, very briefly, the Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, for which we observed a brown sign and got curious.
Growing. A very kindly took me to the allotment both days this weekend. (I feel mildly wretched about needing driving there, but I fundamentally don't at the moment trust my coordination and stamina to let me get there and back again any other way while doing anything at all useful, given the Permanent Migraine and its impact on my proprioception, navigation, etc.) I have Taken Steps toward Not Getting Evicted (Again), and also harvested over a kilo of tomatoes (mostly in the form of two Very Large tomatoes), and also found my spade.
(Every time I think "c'mon you enjoy BEING there, surely you can take the Tramper over--" I remember that walking up and down inside the house massively aggravates my headache, the bumpiness of wheeling anywhere definitely will, and also I get dizzy just thinking about it. So.)
Observing. we went to the ZOO and we saw ANIMALS
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And, at home, we saw The Bat, which has not yet gone to sleep for the winter. Fingers crossed I will get my act together to spot it again before it actually puts itself to bed.
Playing. This week I have tripped and fallen into Redactle, which I had previously avoided; for the benefit of anyone who has similarly escaped this particular trap, the premise is you get one of Wikipedia's 10,000 vital articles presented to you with most of the meaningful words redacted. You guess words, which get filled in. When you have successfully guessed the title of the page, you win. I feel grumpily as though I'm doing a poor job of optimising for a minimum number of guesses, but I'm also having non-zero fun trying to fill out the body text of the article once I've decided I don't stand a hope of getting the title. (Sooner or later I give up and start searching relevant keywords to work things out from there, but sometimes "later" is 1200+ guesses in, only some of which are brute-forcing specific years in the 13th and 14th centuries.)
Eating. Mulberry and apple jam, courtesy of
ewt from, I think, the Before Times (very tasty, am once again considering shamelessly raiding the mulberry tree outside the civic centre but not sure I am quite that shameless). A couple of plums off my plot-neighbour's tree. TOMATOES from the ALLOTMENT. Three blackberries.Exploring. Whipsnade zoo (see also Observing) and, very briefly, the Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, for which we observed a brown sign and got curious.
Growing. A very kindly took me to the allotment both days this weekend. (I feel mildly wretched about needing driving there, but I fundamentally don't at the moment trust my coordination and stamina to let me get there and back again any other way while doing anything at all useful, given the Permanent Migraine and its impact on my proprioception, navigation, etc.) I have Taken Steps toward Not Getting Evicted (Again), and also harvested over a kilo of tomatoes (mostly in the form of two Very Large tomatoes), and also found my spade.
(Every time I think "c'mon you enjoy BEING there, surely you can take the Tramper over--" I remember that walking up and down inside the house massively aggravates my headache, the bumpiness of wheeling anywhere definitely will, and also I get dizzy just thinking about it. So.)
Observing. we went to the ZOO and we saw ANIMALS
( Read more... )
And, at home, we saw The Bat, which has not yet gone to sleep for the winter. Fingers crossed I will get my act together to spot it again before it actually puts itself to bed.