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It got up to 102F today, so I slept in and went with ash to pick up drugs and dinner and then shaved most of my head and took a cool shower, watched a thing with ash before he went to bed early, and then huddled in my room to zone out to some video games. There is no brain when it is 102 outside.

There's no delta breeze tonight, either, so it's not going to cool off before tomorrow.

No stardew with Dave both because of the heat -- I didn't want to have to close my door and make it even hotter in my room -- but also I'm not super up for social anyway.

Probably also going to be an early night for me, I'm pretty tired. But more video games first

Last night I stayed up late and also smoked some weed right before I went to bed, so it's a miracle that I woke up at 11-something not feeling particularly groggy or tired. I got up to take care of some things and then laid back down to play video games for a while, and then I turned video games off to do some non-game chilling before Sor and I had our Dungeon Meshi date. It was a good episode -- should be the penultimate, and I'm looking forward to how they wrap the season in the next episode but I am not looking forward to not having any Dungeon Meshi every week for however long. This one got into Senshi's tragic backstory, which does a nice job of highlighting where his morals and values come from. And then some silliness to balance out that seriousness, which was very fun

Then we talked A Lot about keeping sperm as pets and whether or not it would be possible to find viable sperm in a frozen caveman's testicles (I have not been able to find any research done into the subject of caveman testicles in general let alone their sperm, viable or otherwise) -- this came up because they also watched the recent Smartypants episode that posited that instead of trillions of tiny, flawed sperm a man should just ejaculate one giant perfect sperm, and, well, the conversation led from that. It was terrible and hilarious.

ash had therapy but wrapped about the same time Sor and I got off our call, so we hung out and ate dinner and watched a game grumps, and then finished Sara is Missing, and now we can move on to Simulacra, or a different game before we move on to Simulacra.

Dad's trial was today, the result is apparently that he's now only required to attend one AA meeting a week (I guess he was doing multiple) and has another trial in seven weeks. So, that's that, for now

I'm going to do more video games, now

Just watched a player run by followed by every single enemy in the area

Annoyed! I was on my way to fight a boss and I guess I was close enough to it when a group of randos killed it that it counted as me killing it? And marked it off on my questlog and now it won't spawn again for me because I don't have that stage of the quest anymore. So I just don't get to fight that boss

I thought you needed to have done damage to an enemy for it to count you as being part of the fight, you know, to give out XP and shit, but I guess not??

Luckily this delve has like, six bosses

Ugh, the internet's gone down

Been continuing to play ESO! I am farming for a set and it's going okay, I need a couple more weapons and a necklace. And then there's actually also a set I want from a different DLC but I'm doing Summerset right now and shan't get distracted from that

I also got the sushi DLC for Cooking Simulator on sale and have been playing that when I want a little more, mindless repetition sort of gameplay. It is, very janky, and if I hadn't gotten it on sale I'd be pretty pissed, but as it is, eh. Hopefully they fix things, but as things currently stand the fanbase is Not Happy with some decisions they've made and it's a real bad look for them to put this out right before they'll be trying to get people to buy Cooking Simulator 2. I'd imagine they had less resources to put toward it what with said sequel being worked on, but if you're going to have to cut back this hard for it then maybe just don't put it out? It just doesn't exactly get me excited for more of their content, you know? That said it is an interesting departure from their other content which I'm sure did actually take a lot of work even if it's not necessarily apparent on the surface -- it just, kind of has phone game vibes. A little bit.

I am having fun with it, though, when I'm not frustrated. I did start my game over with relaxed mode turned on so I didn't have to worry about being timed and penalized for having to deal with the jank

Last week I bought a fancy indoor/outdoor thermometer (and humidity gauge and atmospheric pressure gauge and &c) and it finally arrived today, so I set that up. Reviews said it reads indoor temperature as 1-2 degrees warmer than it actually is, which seems to be true (guesses are that the power source is making it think it's warmer than it actually is, which is, dumb design if so), but I'm fine with just mentally subtracting a little from it. What I really wanted was the outdoor temperature, of course, and that also seems accurate enough. Also nice is that it has a forecast feature that I think will come in handy, but it takes a while for it to be able to predict weather patterns accurately, and when it first started forecasting it predicted that it was going to stay 92 all night because it had at that point never known another temperature.

I hung it on the wall first but then decided that that might fuck with it because that wall gets a lot of direct sunlight, and put it on a shelf on the other side of the room and that seems to be working. The screen does have an annoyingly limited viable viewing angle, I can just barely make out the numbers from my bed and the same when I'm standing near it, I need to crouch a little to properly see it. But it's not like I need to be constantly monitoring it, so long as I can see it when I'm actively seeking out the information that's fine.

Oz has been hanging out with us in the living room more, which is nice. She's still a little nervous about being out there, but maybe she'll get used to it. She's still having a bit of trouble eating, but she is eating.

It's the weekend! Not a whole lot planned, but I think the household in general is glad to be through it and into a new week. Erika and I are going to play ESO together either Sunday or Monday, which will be fun, it's been a while

Anyway, gonna go eat some more and hang out until bed

Fun fact about me brought to you by today's NZ Taskmaster is that I am very slowly memorising pi

Every so often I just add the next digit to what I already know. I'm up to 3.14159265