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
🎮 Factorio Review/Ramble
Someone at work asked me what Factorio was about once, and I said something like ‘it’s this game where you’re a space engineer who crash lands on an alien planet. There’s not much there except raw resources that are randomly placed, and you build a factory to collect those resources and turn them into other things, to eventually make a rocket and get off the planet. It’s quite chill though, you build stuff and then you can just watch it go, and you can design the whole thing the way you want.
Currently reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 📚
About halfway through and I’m enjoying this the same way I liked The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet the first time I read that. Books about people being generally nice to each other! Maybe there’s a time and place for them but it’s working for me at the moment
Messing around in Procreate to try and get more familiar with using it, and maybe use it to draw a little more in future.
Week 1 of #DryJanuary accomplished! I went to my sister's yesterday and she offered me a glass of wine and I said no. That was alright.
Currently reading: Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff 📚
I am trying out this self-kindness thing and have been for the last couple of weeks. I have started talking out loud to myself sometimes even, saying things that are a bit reassuring or encouraging when I’m feeling a bit of a mess. It is sort of nice.
I’m still not convinced that it will sink all the way in and help me accept myself and actually believe that I am a worthwhile person but… I dunno… it costs nothing to try?
I can sort of understand how you might be able to learn to ‘reprogramme’ yourself a bit to think that you can rely on yourself, and then that might give you a bit more confidence and stuff and things would improve from there. But there’s that assumption right at the start that you can reprogramme yourself like that, and I’m not super convinced. If thirty-something years of experience has led to the impression that I can’t trust people and that I don’t belong, it seems a bit of a stretch that a few months of work could undo all that. Like it’s a bit wishful thinking, you know?
Knotwords (iOS) Review / Thoughts
🎮 Knotwords (2022) - ★★★★★ Knotwords is a nice iOS puzzle game. I like that there’s no subscription, you buy it once and that’s it. It’s a kind of crossword combined with anagrams sort of word puzzle. Every day there are 3 new puzzles to solve: Daily Mini which is quick and easy, Daily Classic which starts off quite small and simple on a Monday and gets more difficult as the week goes on, and Daily Twist which gives you an extra set of clues in the form of telling you how many vowels are in each row and column.
🎵 My “jam” at the moment is Boris Brejcha. I don't know a damn thing about electronic music but this is awesome for focusing and I actually got stuff done at work while listening to it.
Each track never really goes anywhere and I find it kind of hypnotic
My key organisation
I’ve been trying to keep things minimal / useful when it comes to what I carry around in my pockets or bag. Recently I’ve re-done my keys. I have 3 little command hooks stuck on the wall in my kitchen. The first hook has my front door key attached a Nite Ize Cinch-A-Lot Mini Stretch Strap. If I’m just going for a walk, that’s the only key I would need so I just grab that and put it in my pocket
In the spirit of being more gentle with myself: none of that business with the GPs was my fault. It's annoying but I've done well to keep things going at least. And I went to work afterwards and survived that so that's something too
GP appointment cancelled this morning. Originally called to make appointment in mid-December because I didn't think my Sertraline was working. Rescheduled to the 18th. I tell them my medication will have run out by then. Receptionist says she'll see the GP about it.
I check on the NHS app and the prescription is there but it's dated 01/01/1900. I can't get to the pharmacy until Monday. Will they actually fill it I wonder?🤔
Very helpful to my anxiety on what was also my first day back at work!
Default Apps 2024
Recently been trying to keep things simple and since I bought an iPhone 13 a while back to go with my iPad I’m more and more sold on using Apple stuff so there’s a bit of a theme here! I think some of this will change soon as I do want to get a bit more into blogging and that will involve trying different things out, and it’s been on my mind for months that I kind of want to buy a macbook.
Going to try and read 25 books this year. One book a fortnight seems to be about right when I'm in a half-decent habit. Want to try tracking and writing a little bit about them on micro.blog too, instead of GoodReads
Tree, decorations and lights all put away. House is back to normal. Don’t get me wrong, I like having the space back and of course you’d be fed up if things didn’t change back but it always feels like New Year just dumps you like ‘that’s it, show’s over’ into the long, cold dark beginning of the year
Does anyone happen to know where in the UK you can get B6 hardcover #notebooks? Either dot grid or squared. I've got a nice Scribbles That Matter one at the moment but they don't seem to do B6 any more and that seems like such a nice size to me
I started my current #BulletJournal on the 1st of January 2023, and I'm about two thirds of the way through it, so I'm just going to keep going with it. I estimate it will last me until around March.
Seems like a bit of a shame to not get that nice fresh start like last time in the new year but at the same time, good chunk of it not used, plus I can't seem to find any notebooks like this one any more and I like it
First attempt at making an ambigram. This was pretty fun!
Currently reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 📚
Read book 1 a couple of times. Really liked it the first time, thought there was something a bit off about it the second time. Still made me feel quite cosy so I’m hoping book 2 will be similar in that regard.
I think I'm gonna try doing #DryJanuary next month