A sleepy week

[flexagon]

I may have somewhat wasted last week? Monday I was supposed to be on a podcast, and I spent a while preparing for that, but my fellow guest didn't show up. So that was a waste of time that also threw me off my rhythm of doing all my email and admin on Mondays. Then I listened to a ton of audiobook hours for a couple of days, got super sleepy for a while (like fighting-off-a-cold sleepy), never quite did get through all the email, and then it was the weekend. This, anyway, is how it felt.

Small things:

• My Canadian ginger, which I'd given up on last year, has shocked me by poking up from the ground! Four of the five plants seem to be up. I planted bunchberry and that really does seem to be gone, but I'm also reading that it's a "herbaceous perennial" that would die back to the ground in winter and begin to grow again in May. It's not May yet. I think it's dead, but... now I'm a little less sure.


• I got to see my friend R who lives in California, and who had taken the train out here for a work trip. We hung out, he tried the VR headset, we had dinner and took a walk. Nice nice. I enjoyed the soup I cooked for that evening, even though the recipe has too many steps and there's got to be an easier way.


• I modified a tank top, adding some mesh stripes to it. Then I scrolled through a friend's Pinterest board for a long time, getting ideas for applique and cut-out T-shirts. Now I have too many ideas, and have discovered that shopping gets really tempting if I search for "athletic goth" styles on Pinterest. Of course it does.


• The bug and I successfully chose between two quotes for attic insulation.


• I did a little volunteering, cleaning up trash in my neighborhood on Saturday morning. I'm still not sure how best to interact with the town, but I met my ward's councillor, and have definitely learned that people still smoke.

I'm only two songs away from completing the campaign in Beat Saber, and I have a workaround for the crash I was getting with DDR software. So this week I'm hoping to start playing DDR slightly more in earnest. It's daunting enough that I'm probably going to time my practice and do the whole "first 20 hours" thing.

Must make a better to-do list. Tomorrow.