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Dec. 11th, 2022 10:26 pmCelebrating. Apparently the 20th anniversary of my sign-up for LiveJournal (may it rest in peace) happened this week just gone. Gosh but I've spent a long time using and interacting with this codebase.
Reading. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, Ayisha Malik. I did actually finish it but I still wasn't really in the mood for it. It has gone back into the charity shop pile and I hope it brings someone else joy.
Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik. A popular science book on the topic of materials picked up from the library circa 1 a.m. earlier this week. Annoyingly, the story related in the first chapter about a man whose house had been hit by five meteorites in the space of approximately a year is probably a hoax (in that I went "okay, so if this happened in 2007-2008 then it MUST have been written up by now--" and actually all I could find was the same mainstream-media articles, none of which were sourced...), which has dented my confidence in the rest of the Anecdotes, but give or take periodically needing to bury my face in my hands because of the sheer extent to which the author is blithely generalising his personal feelings about, e.g., cardboard, to the world at large -- I am enjoying myself a lot, from the psychophysics of chocolate to having fallen down the Aerogel Dot Org rabbit hole.
Playing. More chroma! We might even actually finish 2.06 next time we sit down to play.
Cooking. I wrangled the Instant Pot into making some yoghurt with Fage as a starting culture, and I think I like the outcome much more than my previous attempts. (Next batch, this week coming, will get 8 hours rather than 10...)
What else what else. Experimented with doing half-and-half beetroot and butternut squash in the butternut squash tart; principle is sound but the case was rather overfull so I am going to have to try again with Less Veg.
Also made another attempt at the carrot-and-leek-tagliatelle thing, which worked much better this time around. Notes taken to support further iteration.
Creating. I am beginning to faff with setting up my journal for 2023...
Observing. In addition to The Birds and The Gymnastics Squirrel, when I headed to the pharmacy and thence into town for Errands the other day I saw both an Exceptionally Seasonal variegated holly covered in berries, and one of those fantastic winter-garden Things covered in metallic purple berries. Which writing this has just prompted me to look up! Apparently they are "purple beautyberry/Callicarpa dichotoma": the RHS features a singularly uninspiring photo, and I'm not managing to find a good one I can straightforwardly link to, but I highly recommend looking the thing up!
And, of course, The Snow. :)
Reading. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, Ayisha Malik. I did actually finish it but I still wasn't really in the mood for it. It has gone back into the charity shop pile and I hope it brings someone else joy.
Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik. A popular science book on the topic of materials picked up from the library circa 1 a.m. earlier this week. Annoyingly, the story related in the first chapter about a man whose house had been hit by five meteorites in the space of approximately a year is probably a hoax (in that I went "okay, so if this happened in 2007-2008 then it MUST have been written up by now--" and actually all I could find was the same mainstream-media articles, none of which were sourced...), which has dented my confidence in the rest of the Anecdotes, but give or take periodically needing to bury my face in my hands because of the sheer extent to which the author is blithely generalising his personal feelings about, e.g., cardboard, to the world at large -- I am enjoying myself a lot, from the psychophysics of chocolate to having fallen down the Aerogel Dot Org rabbit hole.
Playing. More chroma! We might even actually finish 2.06 next time we sit down to play.
Cooking. I wrangled the Instant Pot into making some yoghurt with Fage as a starting culture, and I think I like the outcome much more than my previous attempts. (Next batch, this week coming, will get 8 hours rather than 10...)
What else what else. Experimented with doing half-and-half beetroot and butternut squash in the butternut squash tart; principle is sound but the case was rather overfull so I am going to have to try again with Less Veg.
Also made another attempt at the carrot-and-leek-tagliatelle thing, which worked much better this time around. Notes taken to support further iteration.
Creating. I am beginning to faff with setting up my journal for 2023...
Observing. In addition to The Birds and The Gymnastics Squirrel, when I headed to the pharmacy and thence into town for Errands the other day I saw both an Exceptionally Seasonal variegated holly covered in berries, and one of those fantastic winter-garden Things covered in metallic purple berries. Which writing this has just prompted me to look up! Apparently they are "purple beautyberry/Callicarpa dichotoma": the RHS features a singularly uninspiring photo, and I'm not managing to find a good one I can straightforwardly link to, but I highly recommend looking the thing up!
And, of course, The Snow. :)