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Yesterday I made another batch of nut and seed bars, sewed the side seams of P’s pj pants as French seams, made a couple of pockets, and started inserting them. I finished reading Rise of the Dragons (short; ended quite abruptly) and started Imager by L. E. Modesitt, which is... well. It can’t decide if it’s a character story about an artist son of a merchant family, an idea story about being able to manifest imagination into reality, or a milieu story about an alternate 16th-18th? century France (guilds are a Big Thing) with stronger Roman influences and where the abrahamic religions never happened. Each scene is densely treated, and the next scene skips ahead years at a time to help keep the story moving. Persians are vilified for some unknown reason. I normally don’t have the patience for writing like that, but I want to see what happens to the main character when he figures his stuff out. We’ll see.

P handled the laundry, and we made pastry for more currant bars during a break in the afternoon. Didn’t actually make the bars, but, baby steps. It’ll keep in the freezer indefinitely.

Dinner, crossword, Voyager, snack, sleep.

Yesterday I baked the nut and seed bars. I sewed and felled the piecing in the back panel, basted the zip panel, and sewed the zip to the seam allowances. I finished Crown of Renewal (nicely concluded) and switched to podcasts. At work I did some reading on Inform7’s design, trying to zero in on how the program text is parsed, as opposed to how gameplay is parsed. Tricky to google, but I located Nelson’s 2006 whitepaper and his talk at this year’s NarraScope. I wound up down a rabbit hole about GOAL, a language for cognitive agents developed by a lab in Delft.

Home, and P had a late meeting on campus, which tends to accelerate my evening schedule. Dinner, P got home, we watched some things together, then did dishes and trash and crossword. Elementary, snack, maybe too much snack, some quality chatting time, sleep.

Yesterday I sewed the front yoke on the black shirt. I did the laundry and hung it out on the line. I did a bit of mixing in the reclaim bucket. We went to the farmers market and got nectarines (too late for blueberries), peaches, beans, a small globe eggplant , parsley, basil, tomato, cucumber, green onions, eggs, and a sourdough cookie, scone, and peach frangipane. On the way home we stopped at Pigeon Bagels and the art store. A nice treat to make up for getting out so late. There are some wooden print blocks that might make good texture tools for clay; I’m letting them marinate in my head a bit.

Home, lunch, then I made more nut and seed bars, with measurements this time. While they were baking I roasted the eggplant on the gas burner. Storm and Fury revealed one of its big secrets. Hung out with P in bed with our respective hand-sewing projects. I finished the last hem on the burgundy floral, and he finished the straps on his bike bag. Dinner, crossword, episode 2 of Gentleman Jack. The use of the fourth wall will probably grow on me but I’m not there yet.

Snack, sleep. Had a great deal of trouble shedding heat for some reason.