Currently reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
My sister told me about Longdog on Bluey yesterday and we spent the most intense half an hour watching episodes we’ve seen dozens of times before, while my niece chilled out drawing and not playing attention in the slightest. Had to switch the TV off when we both got headaches
The Lion of Gripsholm Castle popped into my head today and I had to go and read about it again so I thought I would share:
The Greatest Castles in Sweden: and the Story of the Gripsholm Lion - Exploring Castles
Went out for another go on my little bike again today. It’s been so long since I’ve been on a bike and considering the fact I fell off the last time I went out, I thought I would just practice the absolute basics. So spent a nice 30 minutes in a quiet part of the street just braking, putting a foot down, getting the pedals in the right place, setting off again, and repeating. I was a bit surprised to find that I wanted to be in a middle-ish gear for all of this - I didn’t think I had the leg muscles for it
PlateUp! Thoughts
🎮 PlateUp! (2022) I’ve played a bit of this on the PC and bought the Switch version last week. My first thought when I tried it on the Switch was that it looked a bit rough and ready. I’m not sure why but the graphics looked okay on PC, and then just a bit rough and unclear on the Switch (maybe I hold console graphics to a higher standard? 🤷♀️)
Finished Reading: The Fold by Peter Clines 📚
Enjoyed this quite a lot. I read ‘14’, the previous book in the series years ago and I’m kind of wondering why I waited so long to read this one. If there’s one thing that 14 had over this book it’s the way that the story suddenly took a 90 degree turn and headed off somewhere you weren’t expecting. And because that twist was there in 14, it kind of couldn’t be as powerful in this book. I thought the main character Mike and his souped-up photographic memory was quite a cool idea, and it didn’t feel as though it made him too unbelievably superhuman.
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 I’m digging into the newest season of a favorite series, instead of getting hooked and then blasting through all the available episodes, I’ll slow down or even stop watching so as to prolong the pleasure…or to delay the end. Binge watching gets a bit much for me, I just find that I’m not properly watching anymore after maybe 3 episodes of anything.
Had my talking therapy assessment appointment this morning. I was feeling a bit unsure about it because mostly I’ve been feeling alright recently, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to say. The lady was really nice though, went through some questions and things, and now I’m set up with SilverCloud and I’m on the list for some talking therapy. I little bit wonder what most of the point of the questions were because I think I was going to get recommended the same thing regardless? I dunno
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 self-care routine, my version of keeping a gratitude log I suppose. I’ve been thinking recently that I would like a way to be able to post to that group (and to the hashtag), but also to have the three things be added to a running list, something that I could look back on now and again.
…and shortly after that last post I figure it out: you need to have ‘wait for response’ ticked to bring the focus back to Drafts ready for the next step
I think I should be able to make a Drafts Action that will add some text on the bottom of a Bear note, but will also send that text plus some extra bits to an Ivory post. I can get both parts working on Mac, but when I run the Action on iOS it’s as if it runs the first step and then doesn’t bother with the second step. Hmmmm…
I’m not really feeling paper Bullet Journalling at the moment. Just… not feeling motivated to pick up the notebook. I think the pendulum is swinging back towards being organised digitally.
I’m getting into using Drafts a little bit, plus I’m dabbling with Bear, and I use iOS Reminders already. So I think I’m going to play around with getting some sort of workable setup there.
And then as soon as I’ve got something that works I’ll get bored and go back to pen and paper 😂
Hearing test done and the person who did the test basically said my ears ain’t right. So now I’m being referred to ENT, possibly for a scan? I feel like it’s going to be a wild ride, this.
I think I’m starting to ‘get’ Drafts. It’s actually doing the same job as the Daily Log in a paper bullet journal: you know you want to remember something, but there’s a big cognitive ‘cost’ to figuring out the best place to note it. Drafts and Daily Logs both want you to just dump it there for now, get it out of your head, and think about what you really want to do with that thought later.
I try to post ‘3 good things’ on Mastodon as often as I can. I’m challenging myself not to repeat them, plus I think it might be nice to have all of these in a big list to look back on from time to time. I wonder if there is a way to automate this?
🎮 Two games that I’m looking forward to this month: PlateUp and Balatro, both on the Nintendo Switch
Got out on my little folding bike this afternoon. So much fun! But I’m so unfit I need a nice cup of tea and a sit down now
My Weekend
This weekend has been nice. I haven’t really done much but I’ve had this feeling of actually enjoying things again. Being excited about things and having the energy to want to do them. It’s lovely. I hope I can make it stick. One of the things I did was buy a couple of domain names. Wasn’t really intending on buying two but one was super cheap so who cares. Mainly I wanted to get myself a ‘proper’ domain name for my blog so I paid for the name for a year and set it up to point at my micro.
Finished Reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff 📚
Just got a Daft Social account. No idea what I might do with it but I like it for some reason.