Promiseland

[Fetian]

Lunch is a brownie and a pudding cup, because I am an adult

[Fetian]

I think cats woke me up in the middle of the night, but I can't remember what they were doing if so. Might have just woken up by myself. I think Oz might have been taking up a weird chunk of bed and that woke me up when I tried to change positions.

Anyway, managed to get enough sleep despite that, and to wake up at a reasonable hour (with some difficulty). I hung out on the internet for a while until the scheduled Arcadia, did that and then recorded a couple other bits I owe, then went out to garden and walk around the pool. I was really considering not, because the forecast calls for a little rain today and I'm feeling just generally a little bleh, but when I opened the curtain back up after recording it was sunny so I made myself go outside.

And now I'm here! I'm going to dick around on the internet some more, do some Japanese study (still no homework assigned). Something last night reminded me of an anime I was really into when I was in high school (Excel Saga, no one reading this would enjoy it) so I watched a couple episodes of that and will probably watch more today. A lot of my enjoyment is nostalgia but a lot of it is also very funny if you're into that kind of humour -- described variably as "surreal", "dadaist", and "crack". A lot of the jokes are puns or references to Japanese culture, so to foreign audiences they come across as even more random and nonsequitur.

Cael might be starting a rebellious or loner phase, hopefully he doesn't lean into harassing the animals because of it. I'm also pretty sure he did get bigger recently, so I won't be taking him off the kitten food yet. Diet continues to go well, at the beginning of this week I cut him down to one scoop in the morning, a half scoop in the afternoon, a half scoop in the evening, and two scoops at night (totalling a cup of food, I think. I'm pretty sure that scoop is a quarter cup.) Once he's used to that again I'll combine the two halves into a single meal and eliminate the evening scoop entirely. I predict that'll be where things end and I won't have to cut it down any further.

[Fetian]

That HiSense TV post is a parable about living with chronic illness

(OP runs into a series of annoying but live-with-able issues for years before finally running into one that forces them to diagnose the issue. (Then finds it difficult and annoying to figure out what the cause is, so, still apt.))

[Fetian]

Well! Since I don't have homework I figure I can pop Inform open again and get some more of that done

[Fetian]

So there's been a weird smell in the fridge for a while that we haven't been able to find the source of despite a lot of searching and throwing away potential culprits. Finally tonight, while on my hands and knees cleaning up an old spill at the bottom of the fridge, I figured it out

Here's a rough cross-section of the bottom of our fridge

fridge1.png

Do you see the problem? Do you see the gap behind the bottom shelf and the weird ledge at the top of the little slope that should just go all the way to the back of the fridge so anything that falls back there will just slide on down to the bottom where it can be found instead of getting stuck on an extra secret mystery shelf??

fridge2.png

Anyway yeah there was some meat back there and now we know to check the bonus shelf for bad food

[Fetian]

When reading the manga for the first time, I didn't really care about Kabru at all, but he grew on me and I am loving him in the animation

[Fetian]

I don't know enough Japanese to be positive but I'm pretty sure he uses a more polite register more often that most of the rest of the cast and I am delighted

The "camera" work on him is also great, and his expressions

[Fetian]

I don't know enough Japanese to be positive but I'm pretty sure he uses a more polite register more often that most of the rest of the cast and I am delighted

(this is probably also true of the manga but I don't read Japanese, either)

[Fetian]

Specifically I didn't care about Kabru until the very end when it became obvious to me that he's super gay for Laios and doesn't know how to deal with those feelings

[Fetian]

Conversation I just had with myself:
"I should eat lunch. 昼ご飯を食べます。何を食べますか？…　ええと〜　ラメン？　ええ、いいです。"
(I will eat lunch. What will I eat? Uhh... ramen? Yeah, that's fine.)