: Finished Reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman ๐ I am kind of addicted to this โฆ
: Finished Reading: Plague by Graham Masterton ๐ Well, this definitely was a break from reading โฆ
: Finished Reading: How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford ๐
: I got myself a library card the other week. Then idea started when I went with my sister and 4-year โฆ
: ๐ฎ A Short Hike (2019) This was on sale recently on the Nintendo eShop so I grabbed it. Played for an โฆ
: Finished Reading: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig ๐ I kind of feel like this is the book โฆ
: I’ve played a few hours of #Factorio 2.0 this week. I’ve bought Space Age but since โฆ
: Finished Reading: Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman ๐ Time to have a break from this series โฆ
: Finished Reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman ๐
: Finished Reading: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman ๐
: Walking home the other day and there’s leaves on the ground. Some of them were oddly white
: ๐ฎ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011) Thoughts I know Skyrim is eight hundred and seventy four years โฆ
: Currently reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman ๐
: Finished Reading: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman ๐ Flew right through the second โฆ
: Finished Reading: Looking After Your Autistic Self by Niamh Garvey ๐ Another book that I’m โฆ
: Finished Reading: The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi ๐ I am still thinking about this one โฆ
: Finished Reading: Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone ๐ This is book two in a series and I read โฆ
: Finished Reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ๐ My new Kindle Scribe came with a few free โฆ
: I’m behind on posting my thoughts about books I’ve read recently. Mostly, this is โฆ
: Finished Reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐ I’m not sure if this was quite as amazing โฆ
: New idea for wardrobe organisation I’m not sure if it’s an autism thing, or a depression thing, or just a me thing, but I โฆ
: Currently reading: The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi ๐
: Currently reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ๐
: Currently reading: Looking After Your Autistic Self by Niamh Garvey ๐
: ๐ฎ Reigns (2016) Downloaded this from Apple Arcade because I was looking for a simple game that would โฆ
: Finished Reading: Fast. Feast. Repeat. by Gin Stephens ๐ Interesting book, and itโs helped me to โฆ
: Currently reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ๐
: Currently reading: Wastelands by John Joseph Adams ๐ Gonna try and slowly make my way through these โฆ
: Currently reading: Fast. Feast. Repeat. by Gin Stephens ๐ I heard about this on a podcast and โฆ
: Finished Reading: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster ๐ Bit of a case of reading the โฆ
: Nintendo Direct - Thoughts I got round to watching the Nintendo Direct that came out a week or so. โฆ
: Currently reading: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster ๐
: Finished Reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers ๐ โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This series is just cosy โฆ
: Currently reading: Cheer Up Love by Susan Calman ๐
: ๐บ Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99 (2022) I watched this after listening to the episode about โฆ
: I really like the new Apple Watch Pride Strap. The fluorescent colours are very pretty. (I promise โฆ
: One of my fidget toys - a big squishy ball with tinsel-ish stuff inside. My sister and I were โฆ
: Finished Reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris ๐ Like when I read the first edition years ago, โฆ
: I’m looking forward to seeing actual videos of the new Apple Watch pride strap. It looks nice โฆ
: ๐ท Blue sky and green trees today
: My little niece had her first sleepover at my house yesterday. I probably got about 2 hours sleep โฆ
: DNF: You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney ๐ Meh. I’ve been on Reddit too
: Currently reading: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore ๐
: My little bike I should have bought a bike ages ago! I bought this little folding bike from Halfords a few months โฆ
: After having a really rough time at work over the last several weeks, my boss suggested I move my โฆ
: Currently reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers ๐
: Redoing my todo list for non-work stuff Trying out a new way of keeping a todo list for non-work stuff, inspired by Plaintext Productivity. โฆ
: Finished Reading: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett ๐ The Witches are definitely my fave Discworld โฆ
: Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris ๐ I’ve read the first edition but not โฆ
: ๐ฎResetting my progress on Vampire Survivors today. I think the pretty lights and dopamine will do me โฆ
: Todo.txt, Notepad++ and AutoHotKey Recently been getting oddly excited about using todo.txt, after I discovered โฆ
: ๐ฟ The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - โ โ โ โโ Finally got around to watching this (with my sister and โฆ
: A notebook to save you from infinite scrolling. - Invidious The life tracker system is a โฆ
: Goodness me, today’s Knotword had me stuck for a good while!
: Before and after. Finally giving my poor long-neglected succulents another try. I can’t โฆ
: Spent some time with my sister today and as part of our talking we pretty much both agreed that we โฆ
: Thinking about interoception today. When I was little I was super skinny, I guess it would have been โฆ
: ๐บ The Traitors (2022) - โ โ โ โ โ Watched Season 2 of this across a span of a few weeks just now and it โฆ
: The nice Irish lady who does the VoiceOver for the mindfulness videos on Silvercloud is some good โฆ
: I’m going to give One Album A Day - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die another go. I โฆ
: Currently reading: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett ๐ A re-read because Granny Weatherwax is awesome โฆ
: Finished Reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells ๐ Enjoyed this. I’ll be on the lookout for โฆ
: Had my first talking therapy session today, then drove to the nearby park for a little walk. โฆ
: Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase Thoughts ๐ฎ I finally got around to watching the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase from a week or two ago. Here โฆ
: My phone case was intact about a week ago. Now it’s crumbling before my very eyes. I โฆ
: Goodness me my first talking therapy appointment is on Monday! That turned up much faster than I was โฆ
: I don’t know if this is the case in every Ikea but at the one here the display for the scented โฆ
: Drafts is brill so I'm trying to use OneNote the same way at work I’m trying out using OneNote at work the way I use Drafts at home. I’ve finally โฆ
: Currently reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells ๐
: My sister told me about Longdog on Bluey yesterday and we spent the most intense half an hour โฆ
: The Lion of Gripsholm Castle popped into my head today and I had to go and read about it again so I โฆ
: Went out for another go on my little bike again today. It’s been so long since I’ve been โฆ
: PlateUp! Thoughts ๐ฎ PlateUp! (2022) I’ve played a bit of this on the PC and bought the Switch version last week. โฆ
: Finished Reading: The Fold by Peter Clines ๐ Enjoyed this quite a lot. I read ‘14’, the โฆ
: Stinge Watching and why can't we have TV Playlists Stinge Watching Is the Opposite of Binge Watching When I find a new show I really like or Iโm โฆ
: Had my talking therapy assessment appointment this morning. I was feeling a bit unsure about it โฆ
: Using Drafts to post 3GoodThings to Mastodon, and add to a running list in Bear I like being part of the 3GoodThings group and hashtag on Mastodon. It’s a little bit of my โฆ
: …and shortly after that last post I figure it out: you need to have ‘wait for โฆ
: I think I should be able to make a Drafts Action that will add some text on the bottom of a Bear โฆ
: I’m not really feeling paper Bullet Journalling at the moment. Just… not feeling โฆ
: Hearing test done and the person who did the test basically said my ears ain’t right. So now โฆ
: I think I’m starting to ‘get’ Drafts. It’s actually doing the same job as โฆ
: I try to post ‘3 good things’ on Mastodon as often as I can. I’m challenging โฆ
: ๐ฎ Two games that I’m looking forward to this month: PlateUp and Balatro, both on the Nintendo โฆ
: Got out on my little folding bike this afternoon. So much fun! But I’m so unfit I need a nice โฆ
: My Weekend This weekend has been nice. I haven’t really done much but I’ve had this feeling of โฆ
: Finished Reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff ๐
: Just got a Daft Social account. No idea what I might do with it but I like it for some reason.
: Tomtoc 9L Sling Review What's in my Bag I got one of these a few months ago for work. I was using a bigger backpack before this and I wanted โฆ
: Also re-did the way Micro.blog and Mastodon cross-post. Now it goes Micro.blog -> Mastodon โฆ
: Woo, my blog now has its own custom domain name: http://jaymys.place ! I guess this is officially a โฆ
: First time out on my folding bike today. It's so cute haha. But it also feels fine, like, I โฆ
: @3goodthings ๐ป My WFH set up (I should work from home more often) ๐ฅคGinger beer ๐งฆ Nice socks (like โฆ
: So the plan now is: one more swab, my left ear is probably going to need hoovering out. Then a โฆ
: Got rather upset, got sent home from work, rang 111. Got an appointment this afternoon. So last week โฆ
: Still can't hear anything! GP surgery rings me at 10:30 while I was at work, said appointment is โฆ
: @3goodthings A day of doing not much at all as it's been cold and very windy, and I'm still โฆ
: Currently reading: The Fold by Peter Clines ๐
: Finished reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ๐ I liked The Long Way to a Small โฆ
: @3goodthings it's been a while, let's have a go. ๐ Weekends ๐ฅOodies ๐ฅ Baileys Ha, guess what โฆ
: Ear infections are still undefeated. I still cant hear anything. I got new drops yesterday so โฆ
: Iโm posting this again because I remembered about it today, watched it and I still think itโs โฆ
: Currently reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff ๐ OK, I think this is one of the actually good โฆ
: New Oodie today! I'm basically living in my old one at this point and would do well to wash it โฆ
: Wordle Sorry for Wordle-tooting but look at how Tetris-y I did today! (also Iโm furious that it took โฆ
: Discovered PokeDoku https://pokedoku.com, a daily Pokemon-based puzzle, while watching Northerlion. โฆ
: Had an ear infection for over a week now โน๏ธ. I miss my airpods! My hearing is affected and I canโt โฆ
: I ordered a folding bike last week. The local Halfords don’t have it in stock but it’s โฆ
: If you're trying to do #DryJanuary but you're also poorly, does whisky count as medicine?
: blog post: #Factorio review / ramble https://jaymy.micro.blog/2024/01/12/factorio-review-ramble.html
: ๐ฎ Factorio Review/Ramble Someone at work asked me what Factorio was about once, and I said something like ‘it’s โฆ
: Currently reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ๐ About halfway through and I’m โฆ
: Messing around in Procreate to try and get more familiar with using it, and maybe use it to draw a โฆ
: Week 1 of #DryJanuary accomplished! I went to my sister's yesterday and she offered me a glass โฆ
: Currently reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff ๐ I am trying out this self-kindness thing and โฆ
: Knotwords (iOS) Review / Thoughts ๐ฎ Knotwords (2022) - โ โ โ โ โ Knotwords is a nice iOS puzzle game. I like that there’s no โฆ
: ๐ต My “jam” at the moment is Boris Brejcha. I don't know a damn thing about electronic โฆ
: My key organisation I’ve been trying to keep things minimal / useful when it comes to what I carry around in my โฆ
: In the spirit of being more gentle with myself: none of that business with the GPs was my fault. โฆ
: GP appointment cancelled this morning. Originally called to make appointment in mid-December because โฆ
: Default Apps 2024 Recently been trying to keep things simple and since I bought an iPhone 13 a while back to go with โฆ
: Going to try and read 25 books this year. One book a fortnight seems to be about right when I'm โฆ
: Tree, decorations and lights all put away. House is back to normal. Donโt get me wrong, I like โฆ
: Does anyone happen to know where in the UK you can get B6 hardcover #notebooks? Either dot grid or โฆ
: I started my current #BulletJournal on the 1st of January 2023, and I'm about two thirds of the โฆ
: First attempt at making an ambigram. This was pretty fun!
: Currently reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ๐ Read book 1 a couple of times. โฆ
: I think I'm gonna try doing #DryJanuary next month
: Time for a new #introduction post now that chosen a new instance for my account. Hiya, I'm a โฆ
: Lego bonsai tree - my first Lego in years and years This is what I’ve spent a very pleasant chunk of my day today doing. I haven’t had Lego โฆ
: Currently reading: You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney ๐
: Trying out an Apple One subscription. I’ve used up all my free iCloud storage so I had to do โฆ
: Currently reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff ๐
: I think I should try and get back into blogging again. I used to like that a lot when I was at uni. โฆ
: My 2023 Nintendo gaming trends ๐ฎ Not surprised to see Tears of the Kingdom the top but I AM a little surprised that Vampire โฆ
: ๐ฎ Been getting caught up reading some Factorio Fact Friday blogs. Factorio 2.0 looks like it’s โฆ
: Tomtoc EDC Sling Thoughts I bought this bag a few weeks ago. I think I’ve just had a bit of a ‘thing’ about โฆ
: #MyJam https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uFzPW2mlg28&list=PLh4Eme5gACZHaNOYGUuj_wFO0IR5x54Ad&index=16 โฆ
: Lamp-post with hedge climbing up it. I can see the very top of this on one my usual walks and took a โฆ
: Images loading on here have been super slow the last few days. Not sure if itโs something going on โฆ
: ๐ฎ Vampire Survivors (2022) - โ โ โ โ โ I played this for about 7 hours on Steam, then saw that it was on โฆ
: I'm a bit obsessed with #VampireSurvivors on the Switch at the moment, and can't get the โฆ
: First three weeks on Sertraline (Zoloft) I’m coming up to the three-week mark of being on Sertraline (which I think is known as Zoloft โฆ
: #Wordle 787 4/6 โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐จ โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Guess number 3 though, wow!
: #3GoodThings 1) First day back at work after a week off. I thought I would be really nervous but โฆ
: Finished reading: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett ๐ I feel like getting back into Discworld again so โฆ
: #wordle Wordle 784 5/6 โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐จโฌโฌ๐จโฌ โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉโฌ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Good one today! I mean getting it in 5 isnโt โฆ
: 3 Good Things - 7 Aug ๐ Had a GP appointment today, probably long overdue to talk about depression/anxiety. Been given a โฆ
: I have a week off work and I think I want to try and spend the time with the mindset of doing some โฆ
: So this arrived on Friday, my new Kala KA-B baritone #ukulele! Have been having tons of fun with it โฆ
: The case for โduskingโ: In a world of light and noise, embracing the dark can be healing - Big Think โฆ
: The case for “dusking”: In a world of light and noise, embracing the dark can be healing โฆ
: #wordle Wordle 777 3/6 โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐ฉ ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Solved pretty quickly, again another day with lucky guesses
: A walk near where I live. This is just a strange spot because you’ll be walking down a quiet โฆ
: #Wordle Wordle 776 2/6 โฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Appreciated the nice gentle one today after a couple of tricky โฆ
: #Wordle Wordle 772 2/6 ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Very lucky/easy today. Not that I time myself but I bet this is โฆ
: Today Iโm quite strongly considering getting a baritone #ukulele. I like my little Makala Dolphin โฆ
: Ah bless her! #AnimalCrossing #HollowKnight #ACNH
: #wordle Wordle 771 4/6 โฌ๐จ๐จโฌ๐ฉ ๐จ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ There we go, a 'guess the remaining letter' โฆ
: Finished reading: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price ๐: โฆ
: Finished reading: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price Unmasking Autism by Devon Price ๐ The first chapter actually made me cry because it seemed to โฆ
: #Wordle 770 3/6 โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ ๐จโฌ๐จโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ love it when you can just sit and think for a bit and figure it โฆ
: ๐ฎ Messing around with Island Tune makers for #AnimalCrossing and made this. Canโt wait to hear โฆ
: ๐ฎ Messing around with Island Tune makers for Animal Crossing and made this. Can’t wait to hear โฆ
: #Wordle 769 2/6 ๐จ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ So lucky! Really pleased with this today
: After a crummy two days (actually ringing in sick to work which I never do!) I think #3goodThings โฆ
: #Wordle 768 4/6 ๐จโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐จ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ will do for me
: Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar ๐ - โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ โฆ
: Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar ๐ - โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Technically a โฆ
: First post! I’ve been on Mastodon (@jaymy@universeodon.com) for a little while, but checking out here. I โฆ
: #Wordle 767 2/6 โฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Heck yeah
: #Wordle 766 4/6 โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐จ โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ ๐จโฌโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Had me stumped for longer than I care to admit!
: And leading on from that mopey last post, #3GoodThings! 1) The people I work with are actually โฆ
: I need to stop coming home from work feeling *exhausted*. I know Iโm probably not looking after โฆ
: #Wordle 764 4/6 โฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ โฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ ๐จโฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ not bad
: #Wordle 763 3/6 โฌโฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐จ๐จโฌ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ the other day it looked like somone lying on a bed, maybe today it โฆ
: @3goodthings #3goodThings Itโs Friday, Iโve got three days off and Iโm having a takeaway What else โฆ
: #3GoodThings @3goodthings 1) My car is fixed! 2) I had to drop my car off at the garage this morning โฆ
: Iโm going to try and get myself out for a walk today. Feels like recently my world is shrinking down โฆ
: #3goodThings @3goodthings Itโs been a while since Iโve done one of these posts, Iโve had a bad cold โฆ
: #Wordle 753 2/6 โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Woohoo!
: #Wordle 751 5/6 โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌ๐จ๐จโฌโฌ โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐ฉ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ Had visions of it being one of those days where youโve โฆ
: #Wordle 746 3/6 โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐จ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ช
: @3goodthings #3GoodThings 1) Some more nice heavy rain today. Still waiting on some thunder and โฆ
: #3goodthings @3goodthings I forgot to post this yesterday evening so this for yesterday really: 1) โฆ
: Been fancying playing #CitiesSkylines for a little while. Launched a rocket in Factorio so thought โฆ
: So, from today I won't be wasting time on Reddit on my phone anymore. That's good I guess? I โฆ