attempting to ungrouch myself

1. The internet is bringing us more jigsaw puzzles! I decided I liked the Clementoni space scene puzzle enough that I poked through a bunch of their other offerings, followed by eBay. Now on their way: Marbles and Pixel.
2. The articulated purple snail is indeed quite fun. A red one is currently in progress.
3. Happily finished the previous batch of raisin & rosemary sourdough (which still goes really well with both hazelnut butter and various flavours of orange jam). Next batch resting in the fridge overnight; it won't be for breakfast but it will be for lunch, and I am looking forward to it.
4. Silver lining of a thing that's making me grouchy: yeah, I do in fact still have actually useful things to say about living with long-term pain, wow.
5. Excellent visual from current book (Otherlands, Thomas Halliday):

   A series of heaped piles of decaying vegetation marks a sauropod nursery. The young of Dongbeititan are minute compared with their fully grown parents, and the developing eggs, about the size and shape of a cantaloupe melon, number up to about forty at most. Ancestrally, dinosaurs laid soft eggs like turtles, but over time several families have independently evolved harder, calcium-rich eggshells. In a herd of 17-metre giants, duck-sized sauropod young would be crushed, and a pod simply cannot stay in the same area for long if their food plants are to recover. So it is that the nomadic adults lay their eggs, scrape earth over them with their enormous hind limbs, and cover the nests with vegetation - the rotting plant matter generates heat and keeps the eggs warm. The nests are prone to raiding, particularly by snakes, but the sheer number of eggs across all nests means that a substantial clutch will still emerge. Once hatched, the precocious infants roam the plain together until they are big enough to join the adult caravan themselves.

... that'll do.

(Bonus: 3d printable articulated elephant.)