The rest of vacation, before I forget
Jun. 11th, 2023 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonFour social things beyond the usual:
A few useful but inefficient things, like getting spiral binding put into our new book of crossword puzzles. I closed a lot of browser tabs, in several cases by buying the thing I'd been staring at for weeks and weeks. Moved the bedroom dressers and cleaned up all the sticky dust behind them (yech). Cooked a bit more than usual. Read a long book, though I didn't love it.
Actual Birthday: the bug is taking me to a Cure concert in a week, and surprised me with a small stack of Cure CDs to go with that.... including a ripped CD of the unreleased songs they've been playing, which I just listened to and looked up all the lyrics to tonight. So good. That was a great present. There are some really fantastic posters being released on this tour, too. At any rate, I went with the bug to get lobster sandwiches at an excellent hole-in-the-wall seafood shop that Lion introduced me to ages ago. So expensive, so delicious. I worked out, I replied to people on Facebook, I got a quick squeeze from the squirrel as it dashed from one thing to the next. Then the bug and I did our usual check-in.
There were two medical things: one good news (my allergies are NOT so bad), and one bad news (Hypercube's asthma, which is technically allergic bronchitis, is worse than before). We had tried to decrease some medications, but now we'll increase them all again.
One nerdy thing: I made a bunch of progress on learning vector art / Inkscape, and got far enough on tattoo designs to order a couple of them custom (in temporary form) from Momentary Ink. I expect to iterate for a while before I find something I'm sure I like having on my skin. The vector art is really fun -- it feels way more powerful than Photoshop, etc.
All of this is slowly giving way to anxiety about going back to work tomorrow, and some about the current Reddit shark-jumping. I'll miss scrolling Reddit at night. But my to-read shelf is pretty full too, and I'd like to actively read that down before Christmas, so it's pretty clear that a stint in meatspace will be good for me.
- Virtual chat with another FI Googler who's more cynical about working than I am. An inheritance situation; I felt envious and also not envious.
- Coffee with meat_and_breath to discuss tattoo designs and introduce her to the newest dispensary in my square.
- Coffee with randysmith across two coffee shops! There's a new passionfruit pound cake at the second one we went to.
- Iced tea with a circusy Xoogler who wanted to talk philanthropy, circus and life.
A few useful but inefficient things, like getting spiral binding put into our new book of crossword puzzles. I closed a lot of browser tabs, in several cases by buying the thing I'd been staring at for weeks and weeks. Moved the bedroom dressers and cleaned up all the sticky dust behind them (yech). Cooked a bit more than usual. Read a long book, though I didn't love it.
Actual Birthday: the bug is taking me to a Cure concert in a week, and surprised me with a small stack of Cure CDs to go with that.... including a ripped CD of the unreleased songs they've been playing, which I just listened to and looked up all the lyrics to tonight. So good. That was a great present. There are some really fantastic posters being released on this tour, too. At any rate, I went with the bug to get lobster sandwiches at an excellent hole-in-the-wall seafood shop that Lion introduced me to ages ago. So expensive, so delicious. I worked out, I replied to people on Facebook, I got a quick squeeze from the squirrel as it dashed from one thing to the next. Then the bug and I did our usual check-in.
There were two medical things: one good news (my allergies are NOT so bad), and one bad news (Hypercube's asthma, which is technically allergic bronchitis, is worse than before). We had tried to decrease some medications, but now we'll increase them all again.
One nerdy thing: I made a bunch of progress on learning vector art / Inkscape, and got far enough on tattoo designs to order a couple of them custom (in temporary form) from Momentary Ink. I expect to iterate for a while before I find something I'm sure I like having on my skin. The vector art is really fun -- it feels way more powerful than Photoshop, etc.
All of this is slowly giving way to anxiety about going back to work tomorrow, and some about the current Reddit shark-jumping. I'll miss scrolling Reddit at night. But my to-read shelf is pretty full too, and I'd like to actively read that down before Christmas, so it's pretty clear that a stint in meatspace will be good for me.
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Date: 2023-06-12 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-12 07:45 pm (UTC)It's over in Cambridgeport.
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Date: 2023-06-13 02:09 am (UTC)I was going to ask if it was Alive & Kicking; I'm not surprised to have been correct. :-D
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Date: 2023-06-13 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-16 01:49 pm (UTC)Thanks to LogosByNick who taught me how to stretch a design around a circle (whoa), this is where I am at the moment:
I'm getting it custom-made as a temporary tattoo by Momentary Ink right now, so that I can see if the scaling is right and how it feels when it's actually on me.
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Date: 2023-06-16 01:59 pm (UTC)I look forward to seeing how it works for you!