🎮Resetting my progress on Vampire Survivors today. I think the pretty lights and dopamine will do me good at the moment

Recently been getting oddly excited about using todo.txt, after I discovered plaintext-productivity.net.

My work laptop is super locked down though so I can’t install any apps (can’t even get Sleek off the App Store) so it’s Notepad++ and AutoHotKey all the way (I’m thrilled to bits that we’re allowed to use these at least!)

So you can download a user-defined language to colour code your list in Notepad++, it turns out there’s already a hotkey in Notepad++ to sort alphabetically. I wrote a couple of lines in AutoHotKey to mark things as Done and to include the completion date. And then I completely cheated and downloaded a very fancy AutoHotKey script that has a GUI and everything.

Only thing is, that doesn’t make much use of priorities (which I want to use), and the colour-coded text in Notepad++ is easier to read. So I’m using this to quickly add stuff occasionally, and also to archive completed tasks.

I want to write myself a little script that will be able to add/remove/cycle through priorities, and figure out how that fancy script is doing the archiving. Then I’ll have a little toolset in AutoHotKey that will work alongside my little Notepad++ setup, and then I’ll get loads done!! Or at least I’ll get loads written down, and it’ll be nice colours.

🍿 The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - ★★★☆☆

Finally got around to watching this (with my sister and my niece). It’s exactly what you expect it to be. Dumb fun, my niece loved it

A notebook to save you from infinite scrolling. - Invidious

The life tracker system is a journalling method I developed to help me optimize and document my life. It’s one of the lowest friction ways to start the habit of journalling. Just wanted to share this with you guys, hope you found it helpful. I’ll see you next week

I love videos like this that show how people are using their notebook in an easy-to-emulate way. I like bullet journalling and part of the fun is browsing around looking for inspiration, and I wish there was more stuff like this, rather than the beautiful painstaking decorative art-based ideas that you see an awful lot of but realistically are never going to attempt to emulate

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 explain how there’s a flower on one of them because I’ve hardly watered them for months and months. I hope I haven’t upset it too much.

Spent some time with my sister today and as part of our talking we pretty much both agreed that we are both autistic. It’s not something we’ve ever discussed with each other in any real way.

We chatted about how we’re rubbish in social situations, except for those rare times when you can fake it and it actually seems to fool everyone. And about how hard things hit us when we’re told we’ve done something wrong.

Thinking about interoception today. When I was little I was super skinny, I guess it would have been looked at like an eating disorder or something. But as I remember it, I was just never hungry. I think I still get this nowadays, maybe when I’m feeling down, or stressed or overwhelmed. I just genuinely don’t want to eat anything.

I think I have a similar issue with being thirsty too - I sort of… like the feeling of being thirsty? It’s just this feeling in my mouth and it’s fine. I have to remind myself to actually go and drink something. I often have some system on the go to help my track how much I’m drinking throughout the day because otherwise I’ll give myself a headache.

I don’t like to feel cold so I’ll wear an extra layer etc to keep warm, and then I won’t notice that I’m too warm until I make myself ill.

And lastly it’s emotions. It seems like I’m rubbish at recognising them. I have wondered for a while now if I can’t tell the difference between feeling excited and feeling anxious. I don’t think I’m really able to spot that I’m feeling stressed or overwhelmed until it’s too late.

📺 The Traitors (2022) - ★★★★★

Watched Season 2 of this across a span of a few weeks just now and it was awesome! I’m looking forward to the next series.

I’ve always thought this game (Werewolf or Mafia or whatever you want to call it) is really interesting, I think because quite often I don’t have the social skills to be able to come up with any theories of my own so I’m always really intrigued by what happens. It’s kind of annoying how everyone will always seem to go along with the loud people, and mistrust the quiet ones. Even though the quiet ones are the ones with the right ideas quite often!

I watched this on my own but I think I’ll have to arrange something so that I can watch along with someone else when the next series comes along, so that we can talk about it. I think that will be way more fun

The nice Irish lady who does the VoiceOver for the mindfulness videos on Silvercloud is some good ASMR 😊

I’m going to give One Album A Day - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die another go. I treated myself to the ebook to go with it cos I think I’ll enjoy browsing that

Any reviews or thoughts may or may not end up here! 🎶

Currently reading: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett 📚

A re-read because Granny Weatherwax is awesome 😊

Finished Reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚

Enjoyed this. I’ll be on the lookout for the rest of the series. I usually wait until ebooks are 99p on Amazon before I buy them and I don’t think these have ever changed price, plus they’re pretty short.

But I enjoyed reading it and I want to read more!

Had my first talking therapy session today, then drove to the nearby park for a little walk. I’m quite scared of driving so getting to the appointment was good, going to the park was like a victory lap

🎮 I finally got around to watching the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase from a week or two ago. Here are my thoughts:

• Grounded - meh
• Ender Magnolia - Vague Hollow Knight vibes. Doesn’t mean I’m excited about it though. Might be worth keeping an eye on
• Arranger - I like puzzle games but this looks kind of annoying
• Unicorn Overlord - don’t think it’s for me
• Monster Hunter Stories - Nah. I do like how it looks though
• Epic Mickey - Never played this when it originally came out. It looks like the old platformer that it is though. Always feels dicey on a Nintendo system next to Mario games
• SMT V - I do fancy trying one of theses games one day. Maybe.
• Star Wars Battlefront - not for me
• South Park: Snow Day - nah
• Sword Art Online - heck no
• Gundam Breaker 4 - I mean I’m not gonna buy it but it does look pretty cool
• Super Monkey Ball - Aaah never got into this game back in the day! Might check it out one day, it does look like fun
• World of Goo 2 - The first World of Goo got me a bit frustrated after the first few levels. I do like this developer though so I’ll keep an eye on it
• Fantasy Life I - AAAAAAAAHHHHHH I NEED THIS. God I loved the one on the 3DS
• Another Crab’s Treasure.- looks very polished… and it’s a Souls-like you say… I feel it’ll either be great or absolute rubbish
• Penny’s Big Breakaway - nah. Too much going on, like Sonic
• Suika Game Multiplay - OMG this is going to consume my parents' lives
• Pepper Grinder - looks very pretty. Can’t gather much more from that trailer though
• Pocket Card Jockey - this is the same as the mobile game based on the DS one, right? I didn’t get my head round it when I tried it on iPad
• The quickfire stuff - nothing grabbed me
• Nintendo Online retro games - nah
• Endless Ocean - seems unique and cool but… I don’t think I get it

In conclusion, I’m going to have to buy the Suika Game multiplayer DLC for my parents. And I’ll continue to be excited about Fantasy Life.

My phone case was intact about a week ago. Now it’s crumbling before my very eyes. I don’t think I’ve done anything to hurt it 🤷‍♀️

Goodness me my first talking therapy appointment is on Monday! That turned up much faster than I was expecting. I wanted to make a decent bit of progress on SilverCloud first and I’ve done like 1.5 modules. So I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend.

Feeling a bit weird about it, especially as it’s face to face. Kind of nervous about driving there (I’m nervous about driving anywhere), but, like, I’ve never done anything like this before. I don’t know what to expect

I don’t know if this is the case in every Ikea but at the one here the display for the scented candles is absolutely spectacular, and I can’t figure out why they’d put so put money and effort into £5 candles 🤷‍♀️

I’m trying out using OneNote at work the way I use Drafts at home. I’ve finally memorised the global hotkey to create a new home (it’s the Windows key + control + N…. I think haha) and any time I want to start writing an email or making the beginnings of a powerpoint or something. I open a new note and start writing.

I really like that I don’t have to think about where I want to start writing, it’s just hit a hotkey and go for it. It even makes a little skinny docked window alongside whatever window I was just using which is handy. I’ve got it set to always add to an ‘Inbox’ section in my notebook. And the general understanding is that every few days I can go through there and check the notes, delete the ones I don’t need any more and file the ones I want to keep elsewhere in my notebook.

Of course I’m missing the big part of Drafts which is being able to send that text anywhere super easily and have it automatically remove the Draft. Copy and paste is a poor substitute here haha. And having to manually delete will probably turn into a pain in the arse and I bet I delete something important some day.

But so far I’m enjoying being able to just type out some words without thinking about where I want to type them first. You know… I wonder if there’s any genius trickery that can be done with AutoHotKey to move the text from one program to another automatically…. 🤔

Currently reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚