English makes compound nouns like 'firefighter' (one who fire-fights) but there was a bit where we just decided to do it backwards because we felt like it, resulting in compounds like 'pickpocket' (one who picks pockets, you see the difference?)
I love that that was a thing and I love that there's a set of terms from the time that survive today, just a handful of words that were made backwards
It Oz birthday! Everybody happy birthday to Oz!
Y'all heard about this secret chord that David played?
Geppetto (2000) is so much better than people give it credit for. Lee and I watched it tonight and it's genuinely a really good movie with some very fun songs! I do think it falls in to one of my favourite genres, which is comedies that people for some reason cannot tell are making jokes. Like they laugh at it but think that the movie is not trying to make them laugh, they think the movie is just stupid? But no, you are experiencing humour, actually, the movie is in fact in on the joke
Anyway
We also watched the Boulet Brothers' Holiday of Horrors which was pretty mediocre. The best part was how short it was -- not in a 'my favourite part was the end credits' way but in a pacing, these stories genuinely only needed to be as long as they made them, way. They were very punchy, basically two-sentence-horror-stories adapted into a-few-minute-long shorts.
Though we did spend the entirety of the first story trying to figure out the relationship of the characters, because it was clearly written for a much younger actor in the role of the main character and the story ended up very confusing with what was clearly a thirty-year-old woman being upset at having to live under the roof of her new stepdad
And we watched a couple Digimons -- we are at the Dark Masters plotline!
Oz had a very rough morning today, and we're going to try not giving her human food for a while to see if that might be causing her trouble. It will be really unfortunate if I can't give her bits of my dinner anymore, but obviously if even the tiny amounts she usually gets is making her sick then that will have to be that. At least she has wet food she likes, now, so she'll get that as a treat. We are completely out, now, though, so hopefully my new order of it arrives soon
I am going to play Digimon World Next Order and watch youtube until bedtime
Another grey day and another day where I went back to sleep shortly after waking up, but after that Lee and I got some raking done in my patio area, so that's more or less cleaned up. Now that I have a little money again this month I'm going to get some gardening supplies I need -- one of the roses got knocked over by some wind we had a few weeks ago and needs supports to go upright again, and while I'm at it I'll set up supports for my other non-climbing roses as well.
We watched Mean Girls this afternoon -- I've never seen it before, but I am familiar with most of the jokes which made for an interesting watching experience. I also could help but compare it to Heathers, as another 'nerdy girl gets adopted into popular clique but ends up on their bad side' plot. Lee says Mean Girls is in direct conversation with Heathers, as kind of an update on it to 2000s popular-girls-behaviour, though I would also call it more down-to-earth and broader-focused. It was an alright time
We also watched some creepypasta parodies and the new Milo Rossi video, and then it was bedtime.
Oz's wet foods arrived. She has been having trouble eating all of a can at once -- she's a bit like me where she'll eat for a bit and then stop for a bit and then eat some more, repeatedly, but only if I'm there. If I'm not, then she'll just eat for a bit and then go lay down, and I think forget the food is there until I remind her. Unfortunately I do not have time to sit with her for an hour in the afternoon while she finishes her food, so I've started giving her half the can in the afternoon and now the rest of it when I come into the bedroom for the night. Hopefully this works, when I tried it with the last can she didn't want to finish it and then wouldn't really eat anything at all for the rest of the night, I think because I refrigerated the can between meals and she didn't like it cold. This one I gave to her room-temperature and she seems fine with it, and I think that's alright because it's only a few hours between meals (I think the can says to refrigerate after 12 hours).
Bit of a downside is that I get to smell it until she's done, and today's can was sardine chunks. It took a little persuading to get her to even try it, but now she's eaten most of it, so that's good.
Alright, I was guarding her while Cael was in here because I didn't want him to bother her while she ate, but he's gone and she's not eating so I'm going to go to the bathroom. I think another video games and youtube night to round off the weekend
Oh damn the Knowledge Fight podcast just ended
Incidentally if anyone was wondering about the biking streams: From what I've been able to gather, my phone network throttles the kind of connection I would need to be making with the camera, basically preventing streaming over it. I haven't done research into a solution for that, yet, beyond the surface-level, because it definitely would require buying something for it and potentially some kind of subscription. So that's been kiboshed for now
I picked Plague Dogs up again last night, since I finally finished a book and it's one I already had on my phone. Started over from the beginning because I don't remember where I left off. I'm enjoying it, but I find it really hard to focus while reading it because Richard Adams' writing style is so, flowing? So I'm jumping back a lot to reread what I just read.
I was really amused that this edition opens with Adams explaining that one of the character's Geordie dialect was toned down for American readers (but still might be gibberish to them, so here's a couple pages of definitions of some of the slang used). It also opens with A Lot of animal abuse, so you definitely know what you're getting in to right away. I'm honestly really enjoying the tragedy of knowing what's going to happen, having seen the movie. But I also know this isn't a book basically anyone I know would enjoy, so I won't be going on about it very much.
But between the Geordie thing and Adams' creation of Lapine for Watership Down, he seems to have been pretty interested in language, and I like seeing that
What I've learned from having a bike is that while I really enjoy riding it recreationally, using it for transportation is too much of a hassle and I end up just walking. I do still want to learn to skateboard, but since I haven't yet I also can't use that for transportation. So I'm going to try getting a kick scooter and see if that makes getting around easier on myself