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puzzle games, family health

Yesterday I messed up another attempt at the rolled hem, then gave up and pressed the whole darn thing in a double fold by hand. It worked, mostly. There’s a squirrely bit where the fold caught oddly but it’s on the inside so I’m gonna live with it. Maybe the next one will try a hand-rolled hem.

I finished Lies Sleeping. Not sure how I feel about the ending. The next one chronologically is a novella with a different protagonist, so we’ll see if it settles.

Had lunch with C, and discussed kale, cucumbers, and clay.

At work I finished setting up the server, and set IT to finishing up the infiniband configuration so we can move everything into the Ghc machine room, finally. This ticket has been open since just before winter break, I’m tired and I want it to be over. Spent the rest of the afternoon setting up a slotslot test, bringing the native python implementation back in line, and starting one of the possible approaches to addressing the path/hash collision issue.

P had lunch with M who took the photos for our wedding, at the South Indian place in Carnegie. While in the neighborhood he went to the ceramics supply shop and got some low fire earthenware that might be suitable for oven and stovetop use, some glazes to match, and a knife tool for me. He wound up on campus, and drove us home.

Duolingo Arabic is up! So we both started that. Dinner, crossword, P called his mom, then we finished The Room. There was a moment in the endgame where we feared for some serious misogyny, but they turned it around and now I’m excited to see what they do next with a rogue gifted Victorian woman in the mix. Snack, sleep.

G update: the dietician was in to see him, and they figured out thick liquids are easier for him just now than thin ones, so he had actual dinner for the first time in ages! It went well! Thickened apple juice and coffee-flavored beverage. Hospital food is wild.

Yesterday P taught an irrigation workshop at the etg, got some groceries at
the coop, came home for lunch, then went to see several of his students
walk at graduation. He got a mention in one of the student speeches; very
sweet.

I trued the ends of a linen/rayon/elastane crepe, prepped for washing,
washed it and the rest of the stack of fabric on hot, and hung everything
to dry on the line. The new presser feet arrived, and I practiced on some
scraps of flannel (difficult) and linen (easy). I will need more practice,
particularly on the starts of seams, but the potential for perfect
flat-felled seams is clearly visible. I finished Our Lady.

For lunch I made smiley tots and a quick red lentil, carrots, squash, and
peas thing with turmeric and coriander to go with. It was essentially
deconstructed samosas; definitely doing that again.

After lunch I made Katie snacks (2c puffs, 6T protein powder, shake
cinnamon; 1/2c syrup, slightly less butter, 220F, 1/2c almond butter) and I
have a good feeling about their structural integrity. New chocolate
topping; a vegan 67% from Honduras, with rum. Low acid, high nutty/roasted.

Afterwards I took in the fabric, ironed some of the corners that had become
twisted in the wind, and partially straightened the grain on one of the
bits of lawn that seems to have suffered stress from being on a bolt maybe?
Wonky in the middle anyway.

A shelf I’d ordered to go in the shower arrived, but didn’t stay up. Boo.
I’ve washed it more thoroughly and we’ll see if that helps.

I cut out a pair of lightweight sleep shorts for P, and made sketches for a
summer vest and herringbone pants for me.

Dinner, crossword, Flash, snack, sleep. I’m back on my daily flossing habit.

Wretched dreams of bad wheelchair access in buses, pulling the stop cord
only to get teleported to the middle of a busy intersection, networks of
freeways hostile to pedestrians, poor signage, sprawling malls and
convention halls.

Yesterday I redrafted the pants pattern for P. The front is good, but I
think the pivot point is off for the back. I didn’t mark a full-hip line
when he tried them on even though I know the waist moved substantially, so
it makes sense I’d need to drop it.

Mirror Dance has a TW for sexual assault, and also for disordered eating.
It’s a bit of an abrupt departure from Brothers in Arms, where they were
obviously of equal intelligence and frontability. It’s difficult to believe
that Mark would have made so many extreme tactical oversights when in
theory he was supposed to have had the same/apparently-same military
training as Miles. The response to trauma and bad field leadership all
feels natural, as does the stunted emotional maturity, but geez. Basic
competence whiplash.

I had the day off, and mostly took things easy. P drove me to the
substitute doctors office for my physical at 2. I should be taking more
calcium, walking to or from work most days, and doing some kind of weighted
exercise. I also need to file living will instructions.

While I was in, P had an Edgewood adventure, finding a coffee place and a
french bakery, and a bunch of one way streets. Not an easy place to get
around, Edgewood.

Home, very early dinner, crossword, Flash, snack, and then it was still
early but Flash was trending more toward body horror than I really prefer,
so I started season three of queer eye. Great show for helping you believe
in the world.

Another snack, went a bit overboard, mild panic attack, sleep.

Yesterday I ironed the paler flannel, laid out and cut pattern pieces, and
sewed it all together. All that’s left is the waistband and hem. I’m
getting better at this sewing stuff. Except. I totally spaced on pockets. I
might insert some into the side seams.

P went to a pruning workshop at the teaching garden, and tweaked his back a
bit.

I assembled and submitted all the seed orders for this year’s vegetable
garden. Imma fill one of the fallow beds in the main yard with sunflowers,
it’s gonna be great.

Barrayar is now at extremely compelling status. CN for discussion of rape
and rehabilitation of rapists.

I delivered a practice run of Monday’s talk to R, and got excellent
feedback. I’m glad we decided to do that — it gave me a chance to work a
bunch of the self-conscious-ness out of my system. Reorganized a few slides
and added a new pivot.

Went down a giant rabbit hole of dental care on Amazon, Amazon.co.uk, and
Amazon.fr. I would like, please, fluoride, and not mint. That is apparently
a difficult request. The France connection is because of a recent 99pi
episode about recycling. Toothpaste tubes cannot be recycled because they
have two materials bonded together, but tooth powders and solid toothpastes
that come in reusable/recyclable tins are common in France. Alas, Amazon.fr
has, like, 1000 customers. The biggest number of reviews I saw was 14. The
powders they carry are either fluoride-free woo or had pans like “made my
gums bleed” “gave me mouth ulcers” so. No.

Crossword after lunch. Snack and bed after the practice talk.

Dreamt dad-but-not-dad was cheating with a woman in the Pixies (???) and my
cousin R was visiting but totally ghosted me and also my grandparents’
house literally fell down due to soil subsidence. Yesterday was the day of
the estate sale in real life, so I’m probably having some feels about that.

Yesterday I underlined the navy waistband, sewed the fan pleats, and sewed
the pocket linings to the side fronts. Nearly ready to start the
complicated bits.

Chatted with M while I made lunch; he was interested in what my lessons
with R were like and seemed fascinated by both the concept of programming
being turtles all the way down (with a side of horrified) and the idea that
private lessons in cs is a thing (tbh I find it completely delightful as
well). M was in the midst of negotiations for a new medical illustration
collaboration project which he was somewhat nervous about for interpersonal
reasons, but they hammered out all the details later in the day and he’s
now pretty excited about it.

Work was good; fixed the colors to make it more obvious when you’re in
speak mode, and started adding a thing so you can make the response reader
shut up if you get the picture and want to move on. Learned about Material
Design and why everyone uses AppCompat instead 🙃.

P, M, and A went to Apteka for dinner, and I stayed home with the
snugglepup and watched more Lucifer. It was pretty excellent. Pup explored
a variety of cozy poses, and I got the debrief when folks came home —
Apteka is a vegan Eastern European tapas place, and while excellent, a lot
of the components are premade and everything contains garlic
non-negotiably. Alas.

Talked about books with A, then went to bed.

Yesterday I marked and started sewing a tiny hem on the petticoat. At work,
the final set of quotes for the NAS came in, so I sent a summary to T for
approval and got his thumbs-up. I continued compressing old data, added a
thing to the phone interface to let you select which features are handled
onboard and which on the server, and found a bug in the parser that’s
aggravated by the voice recognition system.

P went to a holiday/goodbye party for MAPW, and I had a quiet evening with
knitting and season 2 of Mrs. Maisel. The neighborhood parade was on, with
fireworks and marching bands, and P got stranded since the PTC & 58 had to
take detour routes so he walked home. Crossword and sleeps.

Yesterday I finished squaring the ends of the brown wool, and also three
lengths of voile I intend to use for petticoats. I sewed ends together and
secured for washing the voile and the brown wool. P went to a master
gardeners event for the figs, and was back in time for lunch. The crossword
was pretty wretched with a bunch of false starts, but we eventually got it.
Two episodes of gbbo, because I am on vacation. Buncha the Gladstone&c, too.

Yesterday P went to Field Day at the teaching garden, and I stayed home and
did the laundry and hung it out on the line. I did a little spinning, and
finished knitting a dishcloth. I gave up on The Stars Are Legion; the
pacing is terrible and it both places itself as hard sf and doesn’t bother
obeying basic physics of scale. I pulled The Essex Serpent from the library
instead, and aside from an enormous TW for abusive relationships it’s way
better so far.

After dinner I meant to watch Black Panther, but it was too late so I
watched Hoodwinked instead. Wacky, kinda puerile, uneven CG, but
entertaining all the same.