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Well! She's already graded it and gave me 5/5! So I'm all good

mek wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:58 am

I did eventually come up with asking "sensei" to "please repeat that", asking "a friend" to "please disembark the train at Manlove station", and asking "sister" to "please call dad".

（先生）　もう一度言ってください。
(I have been practising this one so that when I need to ask her to repeat something again I can do it in Japanese)
（ともだち）　マンラブ駅で電車を降りてください。
（お姉さん）　父に電話してください。
(I really wasn't sure how to say "dad" in this one, because I think the word the textbook gives is for referring to someone else's dad, or your dad when speaking directly to him, but is unnatural for referring to your own dad to someone else, but I also don't know if anything changes if you're referring to your dad to someone for whom he is also their dad. I went with the word that the internet said was appropriate for referring to your dad to someone else, but then I also was unsure if any of that sort of thing also applied to the word for sister! The internet suggested that you use this for referring to your sister in whatever context so I went with it.)

Not suuuuuper happy with my history comment, especially the reply to another student, but it's done.

I'll probably go back before the due date and see if there's anything else I could reply to

So Erik's moms are, I guess, replacing their TV, so they offered to give us their old one, and since 'replace the TV' has been on our back-burner for, uh, years now¹, and also, hey, free TV, we said yes.

The new TV is I think 75" diagonal and came with a stand and a surround sound system. We've got it in the house, but ash and Erik are resting before they put it into place, and then when it is in place I'll plug it all in and get everything set up. Then at some point, I'm going to have my dresser -- which is currently at the end of my bed, with my TV on it -- moved over to along the wall next to my door, and the library table the old TV was sitting on brought in to take the dresser's place. It'll be nice to have a surface to put consoles on so I don't have cables going across walking paths at juuuust high enough to trip you and ruin everything. I've complained about this previously when I tried to work out a way to set up the PS4 in a way where cats won't be able to fuck it up.

So! For that, I need to:
-Move everything that's currently in the spot the dresser is going to go, and find new places for those things to live
-Remove the drawers from the dresser to make moving it easier
-Clear the floor on the path it'll get moved along
-Take everything off the top of said dresser, including TV
-Have dresser moved, replace drawers
-Library table brought in, replace TV, set up consoles and wires

For right now I am also going to rest, and play some Death Stranding.

_{¹Since we stopped using it to stream directly and instead got a roku stick to stream from, we haven't really had any problems with it, but back when we were using it for that it was failing to turn on the backlight sometimes, and was just generally really laggy and gave the impression of being 'about to die'. The lagging I understand getting fixed by just using it as a dumb TV, but the power issues getting fixed confuses me. Anyway, replacing it naturally got deprioritised, especially since when we looked for replacements we had trouble finding ones that didn't look like perpetual privacy violations.}

At some other point in the distant future, when I am able to save up money again, I want to save up to get a murphy bed made for my room. I'd love to have more floor space in here

That's of course very expensive, but not ludicrously so. Just need to pay off current debts and then I can start saving for it

(I also want to get a carbonator to make homemade sodas with, which is also expensive but a much closer possibility)

New TV setups always have weirdnesses you have to fight and figure out, but after some finangling I got the new TV working enough for us to watch some Steven Universe before ash went to bed. Right now I'm eating dinner and then I'll go back out and finish setting it up.

That was way harder than it should have been, but! It is done, and here it is:

 
Our new (to us) big-ass TV with dolby 2.0 "surround" sound. We have two more speakers to set up that will take some input from other household members, and a subwoofer that probably is not going to get set up. It sounds pretty nice! The TV is honestly kind of inconveniently big, but I'm not going to whine about a free big-ass TV. We'll get used to its oddnesses, or we won't and we'll say fuck this and put the old TV back.

I would like to find an option for the front speakers that doesn't crowd out the cat tree

Cael has hiccups