vital functions

Reading. Ahhhh I have been managing to read this week, and even I have been making further inroads into the stack of physical books I mostly picked up in charity shops, have spent [mumble] years not reading, do not actually have shelf space for especially if they're just going to sit around unread.

( Martha Wells, Alain de Botton, Rainbow Rowell, curuwen )

Watching. The Addams Family (1991). A much-needed palate cleanser. A remarked that the 2019 film feels like the Leverage reboot, in that the superficial trappings are there but the characters feel like caricatures of themselves drawn without much understanding.

Cooking. I have been feeling deeply uninspired cooking-wise, but I did wind up doing an apparently Ottolenghi-derived broad-bean-and-tomato thing that I was underwhelmed by. Probably I was in part underwhelmed because the specific beans we were eating weren't very exciting, and partly because we had it with pasta, but even so.

I did also make a Ribiselkuchen, which as mentioned turned out Very Well and Extremely Pleasing.

Making & mending. I sketched out roughly want I want a custom... notebook belt pouch...? for Admin: the LRP to look like, and have passed the details on to the crew member who made one or Adam. (I want mine to look an awful lot like Adam's! But there are some tweaks.) I am not expecting it to be ready for E3, which is Definitely At Least Six Weeks Away (spoilers: no it isn't), but I am Hopeful that it will make it easier to e.g. Take My Meds and Not Lose My Pens in much the same way that having the water bottle Attached To My Belt works better.

We have also made up something like 500 meal ticket booklets, having bounced a bunch of ideas about how to Improve them around, so we'll see how that goes.

Growing. ( Read more... )

Observing. Of greatest note: a flock of parakeets seems to have moved in! We've seen them flying past en masse making a tremendous racket at around the same time on several evenings, now, and gosh but they are pretty.