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Yesterday we went to the bakery, the teaching garden, and the coop. I got some new foods, including bean-based chips, rose soda, and tiny cookies, as well as brown rice syrup, toothpaste (still only one non-mint fluoridated option), some nose salve (since all my saturated fats have long gone bad by now), and some throat lozenges.

Home, lunch, then I spent the afternoon in the sewing room. I finished squaring off and cutting all the canvas panels, sewed all the ends together, and pinked the edges to cut down on fraying. Then I set them to soak in the laundry tub, since they’re pretty heavily sized and I have doubts about water being able to penetrate properly in a single wash cycle.

Snack in there somewhere, and P walked to Oakland to pick up his new glasses. Surprising heat for September; 87? Anyway snack was amazing; the new cookies are cassava based and the rose soda is strong to start but quickly grew on me.

I finished Three Body, which ended rather abruptly but I guess I don’t know what else could’ve happened. On the whole, I like the idea (which was 100% different from what I assumed at the beginning, no spoilers), but the eventual reveal was so rushed it required waaaay too much as-you-know-bob and other dry exposition, all at once. I wonder if it would have been a better story if the reader were allowed to know more before the end. I tend to dislike just reading someone’s world building notes.

Dinner, crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep. I was up at 1am desperately coughing, and took one of the new lozenges. It was effective but had some nauseating side effects; possibly too much slippery elm for my system. I think I prefer ricola for now.

Yesterday I worked from home, and got the theo class diagrams done and started some flow diagrams for LIA. Meds are magical. Dinner, crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep. More Hilda too. I like it, but I actually wouldn’t recommend it for kids — it takes an immoral approach to ads and micro transactions considering the low impulse control of the target audience, and there’s no purchase option to disable everything.

Yesterday I did better but still tired. We went to the farmers market and got plums, apples, beans, peppers, basil, cherry tomatoes, an onion, zucchini, and a tiny wee winter squash called honeynut. We went to geagle and got corn chips, nut and seed bar ingredients, tea, and half and half. Home, lunch, put the laundry out on the line, crossword, nap, snack, Elementary, dinner, some code assistance for P, more Elementary, sleep. Playing a lot of Hilda; it’s quite addictive.

Yesterday morning I was less feverish but pretty froggy so stayed home again. Pushed fluids, tried to nap without much success, watched The Worst Witch and the Get Smart remake. Which is probably what has Bali Hai stuck in my head this morning. Some fever resurgence in the afternoon but otherwise uneventful. P had a good class day but the bridge on his glasses gave up unexpectedly. The optician said they’d have to send away to repair it, so he’s going in for a proper appointment on Monday and wearing an older pair in the meantime. He can’t count fingers outside a narrow range without them, so that was pretty unpleasant. He came home on the shuttle, and we did the crossword, then dinner and snuggles. Elementary, sleep. Slept much better, I’m on the mend at last.