vital functions

Reading. Max Gladstone, Wicked Problems. ( Read more... )

Skimmed a couple of cookbooks.

Watching. More Farscape. I am now having less "... what the fuck" than I was in the first half of season one, but I would not yet go so far as to call myself invested. (We have just had episode 19, Nerve part I.)

Playing. I Love Hue: The Dream/Dreamwalker/15 complete! Aaaaalmost to the triangles. Whereupon I expect to rediscover why I wandered off last time through.

Flight Rising: ( Read more... )

Cooking. More East: celeriac, tofu and kale gado gado (BAD. NO.); saffron, lemon and almond cakes.

Ottolenghi: roasted red & golden beetroot, from the first cookbook.

Misc internet: Japanese soufflé cheesecake with yuzu caramel sauce, to use up half a tub of cream cheese and some egg whites. Delighted by this as a Novel Experience; not super likely to make again, but nonetheless -- happy!

Eating. A has been making me lots of pancakes. I have nibbled a nontrivial quantity of garlic at the plot.

Creating. Penelope's Gloves continue: I got most of the way through glove #2, then discovered that on this one I'm doing something wrong such that I'm winding up with the hand flap at a decided and unhelpful slant. And then I frogged back to the top, and rewound the yarn, and redid, and the same thing is happening again! DO NOT UNDERSTAND but deeply displeased.

In other string news, I have been gently working out what I need to do to join the two chunks of netting I have already made. I think I understand the principles but I am not entirely sure how to achieve the required tensioning.

Making & mending. I did most of the changing a punctured inner on my bike! (Got A to do the handling-the-latex-track-pump bits.) A then also narrated me through their process of unfucking the dynamo front light, which had been Not Working; the magic trick was probably unplugging all the connections, cleaning out the literal cobwebs, and then plugging things back together. (Possibly the multimeter scared it into behaving.)

An overdue Admin: the LRP job: updating the catalogue of sigils with which people mark their arrows. This involved working out how to replicate a stylised fox face drawn in orange highlighter. I am quite pleased with the result.

Growing. ( Read more... )

Observing. THE BAT.