vital functions
Jul. 17th, 2022 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettReading. mindfulness for bpd, Blaise Aguirre & Gillian Galen. Have now finished; did wind up getting some potentially useful bits from it toward the end, but I think it's frequently concise to the point of opacity or counterproductiveness.
I am now properly getting my teeth into yánasenesse, and Having Lots Of Feelings.
Writing. Moooore LRP: The Admin: The Manual. Now handed over to A to write the bits I don't know well enough to write step-by-step guides for.
Playing. Tiny Echo, a baffling short point-and-click game. This review made far more sense than the gameplay experience did.
We are also partway through Hue, which was not intended to be two-player, but I am controlling direction and Adam is controlling colour and except when I need to stop to complain about parenting and ethics in academic research we're having a lot of fun. Apparently the claim that "red" is the first colour named in any language universally is A Topic Of Ongoing Debate so my outraged squawk of Citations Please was not unfounded and also I learned a thing. (SUCH BAD ETHICS. And I have not yet got the HALF of it I am sure. We are climbing a mountain to a university, currently.)
Cooking. Banoffee pie! Using up some salted butter we'd had kicking around the freezer for ages and some caramel we'd had in the fridge ditto, which I managed to combine with some sugar and some condensed milk to turn into actual recognisable toffee that set appropriately. We're applying bananas and whipped cream as we actually come to eat it. A has decided he likes banoffee pie now.
Making & mending. We have had a great deal of success so far this heatwave with using a duvet to thermally isolate the two halves of the (ground-floor) flat from each other, and space blankets to cover the outsides of the (west-facing) windows to provide external shade/heat-reflection in addition to having the blinds (wooden slatted + blackout) down internally. Using the patio umbrella to shade the French window, which we didn't try covering with blankets, also definitely helped. External temperatures got up to a sustained 30°C; we didn't get much above 25°C inside, and didn't break 26°C on any of the thermometers. Hopefully we can repeat this over the next couple of days.
I am now properly getting my teeth into yánasenesse, and Having Lots Of Feelings.
Writing. Moooore LRP: The Admin: The Manual. Now handed over to A to write the bits I don't know well enough to write step-by-step guides for.
Playing. Tiny Echo, a baffling short point-and-click game. This review made far more sense than the gameplay experience did.
We are also partway through Hue, which was not intended to be two-player, but I am controlling direction and Adam is controlling colour and except when I need to stop to complain about parenting and ethics in academic research we're having a lot of fun. Apparently the claim that "red" is the first colour named in any language universally is A Topic Of Ongoing Debate so my outraged squawk of Citations Please was not unfounded and also I learned a thing. (SUCH BAD ETHICS. And I have not yet got the HALF of it I am sure. We are climbing a mountain to a university, currently.)
Cooking. Banoffee pie! Using up some salted butter we'd had kicking around the freezer for ages and some caramel we'd had in the fridge ditto, which I managed to combine with some sugar and some condensed milk to turn into actual recognisable toffee that set appropriately. We're applying bananas and whipped cream as we actually come to eat it. A has decided he likes banoffee pie now.
Making & mending. We have had a great deal of success so far this heatwave with using a duvet to thermally isolate the two halves of the (ground-floor) flat from each other, and space blankets to cover the outsides of the (west-facing) windows to provide external shade/heat-reflection in addition to having the blinds (wooden slatted + blackout) down internally. Using the patio umbrella to shade the French window, which we didn't try covering with blankets, also definitely helped. External temperatures got up to a sustained 30°C; we didn't get much above 25°C inside, and didn't break 26°C on any of the thermometers. Hopefully we can repeat this over the next couple of days.
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Date: 2022-07-18 06:31 am (UTC)*fist-bump of solidarity*
Good luck to us all.
FWIW, many good survival tips have been posted in the comments at https://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/933580.html
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Date: 2022-07-18 06:52 am (UTC)Insomnia this morning meant I was up early enough to take advantage of it being below 20°C to actually get the flat down to ~21°C before 7 (near the French windows, and 22.7°C on the thermostat...) -- A wasn't happy leaving all the windows wide open overnight in a ground-floor flat while we were asleep, which is fair enough. We got all the space blankets etc back up around 7.30. I am Scientifically Curious about how well it holds...
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Date: 2022-07-18 10:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-18 01:13 pm (UTC)So far we're at 36 outside and 24 in...!
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Date: 2022-07-19 01:10 pm (UTC)Sends a cool breeze!
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Date: 2022-07-18 01:32 pm (UTC)Banoffee pie! Insert heart-eyes here.
I wish we could shade our windows like that. Little box of an upstairs flat, gaaah. Hope you do okay in the next few days, especially with the not-sweating issue.
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Date: 2022-07-18 05:01 pm (UTC)We are currently still holding steady at a whisker over 25 inside and it's been 37 out for a few hours now, so I think we're good <3 I regret our solution isn't more transferable!
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Date: 2022-07-18 05:08 pm (UTC)Well, I did hang up my hippo duvet over the window and I... think... it may be helping as the sun comes round toward my office? Most of our windows don't have a way to hang anything, so we're stuck with just blinds... but for my office it does work! 30.5 indoors here, though.
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Date: 2022-07-18 06:45 pm (UTC)