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Spending time with a cat and a dog.

We just celebrated our cat’s 2nd birthday with a new laundry basket. (For us. She wanted the old one, so we had to let her keep it.)

We also adopted a dog recently. She is in recovery from heartworm treatment and trapped in bed rest, so she gets very bored and lonely.

Playing Valheim again with the boys.

I play games weekly with two of my best friends since high school. We started this early in Covid with Divinity: Original Sin 2. We’ve also played Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, and a few others. Recently we’ve begun playing a new Valheim world to see the Mistlands, which none of us have played through yet.

Reading more Discworld and science fiction.

In the year or so since I last read a Discworld novel, I’ve read a lot of science fiction. I found many recommendations for new authors online, especially on Hacker News, and I made myself try to read at least one novel by any new-to-me science fiction author I saw. Among these I found some of my favorite-ever books as well as some extremely disappointing ones. This made me want to read something of more predictable quality and tone, and Discworld is probably the most consistent series I know of, so I picked up four (!) new Discworld novels, two borrowed and two bought (I don’t plan to read them all right away). I’ve started with Pyramids.

now making

A new version of this web site.

Phase 0: Set up new domain
Phase 1: Add a new /now page and a new /about page
Phase 2: Move catalogue over to its own domain
Phase 3: Add a new /uses page and a new /ideas page

RG 1/144 #04 MS-06F Zaku II (and other gunpla).

I have a few gundam plastic models; I was gifted one by a friend in 2022 and found it quite fun to build. Previously I’ve only ever bought HG (High Grade) kits, which I believe are the lowest grade currently being sold. The higher the grade, the more complicated the build.

Recently I went to a new (to me) hobby shop and found RG (Real Grade) kits, so I bought one for about the same price as an HG kit. This kit requires more dexterity than any of the HG kits I’ve built in the past, and I have quite shaky hands. I lost one piece that popped out, but fortunately it was a particular piece with 6 spares, I think. The spares have a different part number, but they look identical to me and seem to have worked as expected.

Mead.

It’s been a while since we finished the last mead and I haven’t had anything fermenting. I got the itch and decided to improvise a recipe with what I had on hand:

24 oz mixed honey, indeterminate quality
8 oz maple syrup
8 oz mixed maple/agave/sugar syrup from Trader Joe’s
1 cup raisins
1 apple I didn’t really like the texture of, diced
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp clover
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp yeast

We’ll see. Subsequent batches are coming out more focused!

Inspired by nownownow.com.