Promiseland

[Fetian]

And test is negative

[erikavonkaiser]

Kitten! Where! When!

[Fetian]

Not yet! Looking to make it happen this month, just need to finish cleaning my room which will take a bit

[Fetian]

Speaking of that, did another couple of pomodoros today to work on it. The Big One is getting my closet cleared out and stuff that's just being stored in there put where it all belongs. Part of this will be going through all my clothes and putting them away/storing them for the season. I did get the dresser drawers that had been co-opted for not-clothes cleaned out so I can now put clothes in them

I also did my walk around the pool, since I again decided I didn't want to walk to the store -- I'm going to try to push myself back into a routine, falling out of it has made me lazy and lethargic, so at the very least making myself do something physical outside every day will help. I did a little more adjusting on the bird-feeder contraption (it is a stack of a pot, a bucket, and a mixing bowl, that is hopefully too tall for mice to jump in to, because making the nuts spicy wasn't deterring them; and it also now has a plate in the bowl for the peanuts to sit on to hopefully make them easier for birds to see/get at). The water bowl is also now in the tree since I had to co-opt the thing it was sitting on for the stack. The stack is a little precarious, and I'm worried an enterprising raccoon will show up to knock it over, but the pieces themselves aren't fragile or precious, so if it does get knocked over then it's no huge loss, I'll just have to start over on bright ideas.

Oz has been actually scheduled for an ultrasound, next month, and unfortunately as is often the case with specialists they don't have convenient times to go see them, so Erik will be taking me and Oz there in the morning, and then I'll either just hang out in town all day or take public transit back in the evening to meet ash and he, Oz, and I will go home after his workday. Ultimate plan on that will probably come down to how I feel at that point about leaving the hypothetical kitten home alone all day.

Anyway! Gonna go chill for an hour or so, またね

[knightofcups]

You should name kitten-to-come Hypothetical : )

[Fetian]

Woke up at about 6:30 this morning with a migraine, super photosensitive to the tiny slivers of sunlight coming through my blackout curtains. Made myself eat something so I wouldn't be taking advil on an empty stomach, took some advil, fixed the curtains and dug out my eye mask, went back to sleep. Woke up again at 11-something with no migraine but still feeling not great, so it's gonna be a take-it-easy day. I am going to do one pomodoro round of cleaning and then I'm going to veg, I think. I was supposed to record a missing bit of arcadia today but when I told ash I had a migraine at 7 he rescheduled it to give me a couple days leeway, so I'll get that done tomorrow

 
Return of the Obra Dinn is on sale, and it's been on my wishlist since before it came out, so I finally bought it and started playing it. The premise is that the Obra Dinn, a ship, has returned to port with zero (0) crew and you have been enlisted to go over all the evidence and clues and find out what the fuck happened, with a pocket watch that lets you travel back in time to witness the exact moment of someone's death. It's fun! And apparently made by the Papers Please person, which I didn't know but makes a lot of sense

Anyway. It's getting warm, so I'm going to go close my windows &c

[Fetian]

Did not end up cleaning at all yesterday, instead I stayed laying down for most of the day with a little watching TV with ash in the evening. By then I was starting to get a migraine again, so I was back to laying down with my eyestrain-glasses until I went to bed.

I did 100% Obra Dinn though -- a very fun murder mystery game, though it does suffer a little from a frequent flaw in that genre, where by the time you're near the end of the game you a. are getting a little worn out on figuring out the solutions to all these puzzles and b. you only have the really hard and/or tedious ones left, so the game loses a lot of momentum while you go "UGH". Very interesting game, though! All the puzzles are able to be logicked through (though I did brute-force/guess on a few of them), the story is very neat and wraps itself up nicely, and it's very forgiving (you can end the game early, and the save will have a 'rewind' option in the menu to put you back to just before you ended the game; you can guess incorrectly as much as you want and there's no penalty for it). Highly recommend, if only because it does some things very differently from other games and it's worth seeing that; but also, if you like murder mystery deduction games and/or logic puzzles, and some stylised gore/deaths doesn't turn you off, you will probably really like this one. At the very it makes it really clear what you're getting yourself in to very early on, so it's definitely worth trying and refunding if you're not into it

Okay, I need to eat some real food and then actually get some cleaning done, byeee

[Fetian]

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[Fetian]

I've watched a mouse try and fail to get up to the peanuts, so as of right now this experiment is a success, but if they're persistent they might break it

[Fetian]

But, now that I have a solid idea of how high they can jump I can get an actual not-juryrigged feeder to put out there instead of my cobbled-together mess. I'll keep watching things and see if they manage any higher jumps, and then get something when I have the money to spare