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Just took the keyboard apart and tried to put foam in it but the foam is too thick for it to close if I do that, so I'll only be able to do a tape mod and need to wait to get said tape. If I get clear tape, though, maybe the underglow will still work, which is a thing I've been trying to figure out

I also switched out the switches, but also realised that I still underbought them and didn't have enough to fill out the entire keyboard, woops. So some of the switches are still the old switches, which actually is nice in that I can directly compare them easier. Honestly so far I like the old ones better, these holy pandas feel kind of loose, they don't sound as good, they don't feel as poppy. I may find a different set to try out rather than buy more of these to fill out the keyboard. I'll see if they don't break in nice, though

But yeah, keyboard is all back together and still working, so. Yay

Should do that studying, now. I'm also behind on my attempts to read the inform documentation, but I won't be getting to that tonight, anyway

Oh! Also ash and I finally, finally finished Wizard and Glass! I am glad we read it, I am glad to finally have the whole of Roland's story, but also if I read it for the first time now, and alone, I would not have finished it and also probably would not have continued the series. I'm glad me-in-high-school is not me now

It's good, and there's nothing in particular that I would cut or trim from it -- it is in fact a book that needs and deserves to be 859 pages long (or, well, maybe we could get it down to 820 or so,) -- it's just not what I signed up for, and it's not the kind of book I really enjoy. It is a tragic love story, sandwiched between a few chapters of the story I actually did sign up for and that keeps popping its head up to remind me that I'm not reading it. I do not need the details of Roland's backstory -- I can guess those pretty accurately, because Roland is a walking trope of a man. But for the people who do care, I'm glad the book exists for them. And I'm glad to be done with it, and able to move on to more of Roland's Quest and less of his reasons for being a sadsack.

We're going to do something short as a palate cleanser and then ash wants to move on to Sideshow, the third of the Arbai Trilogy which seems to deal directly with the consequences of the ""happy ending"" of the second book -- looking forward to it! We then also need to get to the second of the Broken Earth trilogy, and of course the fifth of the ... well, it was originally a septology, Dark Tower books.

Fucking insomnia

Class done! We're covering habitual/future tense conjugations (they're the same; 'I eat rice (as a rule)' and 'I (will) eat rice' are both ごはんはたべます; 'I do not eat rice' and 'I will not be eating rice' are both ごはんはたべません) and the three kinds of verbs (u-verbs, ru-verbs, and the two irregular verbs (する and くる, which to me seem easiest to understand by considering them u-verbs that don't have a root), with a side-lesson on transitive and intransitive verbs. Oh and the は、を、で、に、へ particles.

I think we've lost a classmate, and the guy who probably cheated on his homework wasn't there again today. The guy I'm quietly cheering on is in Japan, though!

No class on Wednesday, instead we have a discussion module in canvas, and a quiz. The discussion is to pick an item we like from a list of Japanese art forms and say we like it (in Japanese), and respond to someone else asking why they like the thing they picked (in Japanese). We are free to reply to the question if we wish but it's not required. Per professor, this is mostly just to make sure we all have our hiragana keyboards set up, though she also said we could write the answers in romaji if we're not comfortable using hiragana, so.

And there's the homework assignments I mentioned -- I'm going to look at getting that started in a minute, here.

Sleep was awful last night, couldn't fall asleep, couldn't stay asleep, my neck is killing me today. After class, I sprayed my roses for aphids, took a walk around the pool, and set my bird feeder and birdbath back up in my patio area. Hopefully the wind doesn't blow the feeder back down -- I need to glue the broken bits back onto it. Maybe I can steal the old umbrella stand and finangle a way to attach the feeder to it

Going to go dick around on the internet a bit more, then look at that homework. And then video games, probably!

Arthritis is acting up, too. Season's change

Hm. Wrists hurt too much to play video games, don't have the focus to read or watch anything. Not sure what to do with myself

What video games are you playing atm? when your hands aren't being butts instead of hands, I mean

I've been playing the second Zero Escape/Nonary Games game, Virtue's Last Reward, which is half escape-room-game and half visual novel

I was really enjoying it, but one of the mechanics of the game has turned out to be a variation of the prisoner's dilemma and the characters are being so dumb and I want to crawl into the game and yell at them about it, so it's suddenly become very frustrating

Highly recommend The Evolution of Trust even if you're not a plebian fuckwit

Ugh, a squirrel has discovered that it's able to just, jump straight up onto the birdfeeder from the ground, which is super annoying, and additionally when it jumped down again it knocked the thing over and broke it even more. I have put the feeder on top of a bucket, so hopefully that stops the squirrel, but I'm bummed that it's so broken now.