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Oh I also need to look into getting this latest covid shot

We have a new fridge! Not sure if I mentioned but the gasket on the old fridge wasn't gasketing anymore and replacement gaskets cost upwards of a hundred dollars, so ash bought a new fridge. A real new fridge, not a refurb like the last two that each lasted like a year.

So today was a bit of getting ready for the fridge delivery and installation guys to arrive (removing perishables from the fridge, frex), then standing around while the delivery and installation guys delivered and installed the new fridge. By then it was getting late in the afternoon so I just played video games until around dinner, then ash and I watched a Worst Cooks and a Tamago2474, and then ash went to bed

Tonight was Satisfactory with Dave and it was pretty productive! I put down a train station at the west leg and then connected both ends of it to the rest of the rail lines. I also painted the west leg according to the auspicious beasts, which involved making a custom swatch because there isn't a good white paint by default, and that was interesting because it turns out custom swatches don't work quite like you'd expect them to, but it did end up working. But yeah, we haven't done very much to the west yet so it took a long time to get traintracks all the way back to an area we'd already established. There's some edits to how that ended up going that I want to do but it'll work for now

Next time will be putting conveyors all over the west leg. What is that thing they say, the first 90% of the work takes 10% of the time and the last 10% takes 90%? I'm feeling that with how much the last bits of the Skybridge is stretching out -- after conveyors are set up on the west leg, I'll have to paint the east leg, set up a train station there and connect it to the rest of the rails, set up a couple trains to go from the west leg to the east and back again, and of course put conveyors down on the east leg. And then that's it! Unless I decide to run lights along the skybridge walkway like I've been considering but that would be a bonus, it will be finished when I do that.

Tomorrow I need to sort out this insurance stuff, I need to get some cleaning done, I have the end-of-chapter Japanese quiz, and I have a game night with Erika and Dave. So I really should go to bed soon but first I need to eat more

Quiz done! And last week's homework graded, 100% on all three (despite conjugating 多い into the negative incorrectly -- I think I've had a minor mistake on everything I've turned in so far and she's either not noticed or marked a correction down without reducing my score, so that's very cool). Still need to do this week's homework, which as mentioned (I think) is kanji-writing-practice (20 times each) and a couple of workbook pages (conjugating and using potential verbs), but it's also writing out my Chinese Zodiac animal and element and uploading that to the canvas (I am a fire rabbit) -- I guess just to get a little culture lesson in (I can't say it's really much practice using the language because copula sentences like this are very basic stuff)

Probably do all that tonight after ash goes to bed. For now I should have a lunch, and I'ma play more video games

Game night with the lads! Erika, Dave, and I played PlateUp! for about three hours. We did a murder restaurant and only lost several times. It was a lot of fun and I'd be down to overtime that restaurant with them

Afterwards I hung out with ash for half an hour, we watched a Queen Coke Francis on the met gala. Now I'm going to eat dinner because it's gotten pretty late for that. I predict more video games and youtubes will be in my future, but I do want to at least write out the answers for my homework even if I don't pull out the tablet to get them onto the actual workbook pages

I have been playing Moonglow Bay, which is a cute little voxel-style fishing game set in a shitty little town that's been having a bad time of it due to superstitions about monsters in the nearby ocean. Your character is mourning the (presumed) death of their spouse plausibly to one of these monsters, and your kid shows up to convince you to turn things around and start living your life again. You thus take on the mission of improving the town by stimulating the fishing-based economy and proving the monsters aren't real, while also making friends with the citizens. You do this half by fishing and half by cooking the fish into tasty dishes and selling them (or giving them to people who you want to be friends with). It's super fun

I was a little worried because all of the negative reviews for it are about it being a buggy, unplayable mess but I haven't run into anything gamebreaking. It is very slightly janky in a user-experience way, but nothing that has really turned me off the game. I also was hesitant to recommend it until I got to the second boss battle (there are boss battles) because I saw people complaining about it being Super annoying and really turning them off the game, but I had no issues with it aside from it not being super duper clear what you need to do (that's my main gripe with several parts of the game, but I have just kind of stumbled through those parts without issue).

It's currently $2.49 on steam until the 24th and I absolutely recommend it for that price. It's normally $24.99 and I don't think I'd recommend it for that much, but I'd feel comfortable paying $15 for it. Maybe the length will turn out to justify the full price for me, who knows

73 outside. 80 inside. 2:30 AM.

Miserable fuckin' weather today, it was hot but also overcast and I spent the day feeling tired and gross. I ended up napping through the afternoon

ash and I did a Game Grumps, then a Worst Cooks, then an Any Austin, and when he went to bed I played some more Moonglow Bay and did a lot of spreadsheet organizing -- I'm keeping track of the fish I've caught/donated/heard of, details about them, and the requests people have made and the ingredients I need for those requests. Now I'm taking a break from video games to watch a Gamefee and eat more dinner. After that I want to do my homework so I can just focus on cleaning tomorrow and over the weekend, and then probably there will be more video games

Yesterday it was overcast and hot but still not really that humid, today it is overcast and hot and also 60% humidity

Kind of funny how the fawn's stress response is to freeze

Class was a bit rough again, just because I'm pretty low energy, I think because of seasonal change. Today was one of those days I could have just slept forever, but I did not. I unfortunately did not do much of anything until class time, though

Problem Student (who at this point probably doesn't really deserve that epithet but we'll just continue with it anyway) is continuing to 'you can also say x' to a bunch of stuff the professor is explaining and I think she's starting to get tired of it. She mostly does a 'yes, that's also fine' but today actually explained that we're focusing on more polite forms, generally, so giving super casual alternatives is not actually all that appropriate

She was getting a little impatient near the end of class in general. Today was another one where most people wouldn't respond to questions and I and one other student were doing most of it. It's also really clear, again, that most of the students aren't paying attention when they haven't been called on, like we had one exercise where it's

Student A: Asks a question
Student B: Answers the question

Student B: Asks a question
Student C: Answers the question

Student C: Asks a question

etc, so if you have been called on to answer the question it would therefore follow that you are about to be asked to ask the next question, right? So there shouldn't be enormous silences after answering a question where the professor has to call your name multiple times to get your attention, right? Like you can't pretend you're not here, you literally just responded to a prompt a minute ago

And yet.

We had that and we also had students just having no idea what we're doing after getting called on, despite many students having already done the thing before them, including Problem Student who was asked to conjugate something and instead just read the prompt. He also never seems to have his book out and/or ready

I'm struggling with the material myself because there's, at this point, so many things to keep in mind at once. For this grammatical feature conjugate the verb like so and then expand into the long-form like so and then bla bla bla, etc. My spontaneous production and audio comprehension both continue to be bad, also. At least the current features we're learning are pretty easy

 
Inspection tomorrow, so my focus tonight will be on cleaning my room. The inspection is in the early afternoon so I'm going to do the actual getting ready for that tomorrow morning (like moving stuff from under my sink to not under my sink).

Oz has been doing really well with food the past little bit, touch wood. I think one of the reasons she was preferring to eat food off of fabric instead of out of a bowl or off of a plate was because the kibble would slide around while she was trying to eat it, so I've moved her food into a little sauce dish and that seems to be working for her. I already knew that too much food at once was a problem, but an eighth of a cup doesn't seem to be and I can refill it multiple times a day. Too-high walls is also an issue, so just a small bowl also doesn't work, but these are like little plates with just a bit of a wall to keep stuff in

But yeah, she has to be reminded it's there sometimes but otherwise has been eating out of it fine, and needing to be reminded that she has food available is not new to it

 
Alright, going to chill for about fifteen and then get some cleaning done.