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Woke up to a very classic autumnal bluster that made me just as glad to not have to venture outside, given the humidity. (One local on Bluesky: "It's a rainy day, and VERY warm. Expect individual ecosystems to form in your rain jacket this morning. Un-zipping the armpit holes for ventilation is a MUST this AM" Another local's response: "This is the sort of weather report I want. Not “plan for this temp or that precipitation”. I want “don’t straighten your hair, and make sure you have good armpit ventilation.”")

And our friendly local meteorologist measured 20.5mm of rain overnight--hardly drought-ending, but still very appreciated.

I don't know how widespread this sale is, but at least on Kobo Canada, the ebook of Margaret Eby's You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible is currently $2.99.

I've bought this book twice, when after reading it in ebook I really wanted a hard copy. Have I actually cooked from it? No. (No one is shocked.) But for a second rec,

runpunkrun reviewed it in a more informative way last month. (In comments there,

jesse_the_k noted that this subset of cookbooks--which includes other excellent books such as The Sad Bastard Cookbook--is called "struggle cooking".)

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Still sick, TGIF. Managed to stay up until my regular bedtime last night, so that's a good sign, but my throat and sinuses are so so so much worse and it's taking a lot out of me now, in the daylight. I FEEL sicker, even though I don't think I actually am, and following my usual sore throat trajectory, it's probably going to take fucking WEEKS to shed this cough. Which is doubly unfortunate, since I've got tickets to a play that my mom has been looking forward to for months tomorrow, and I will have to bail if I can't get things under control. Hopefully my brother can go, in that case.

Finished watching September to Remember (what a great go-home show, though I am obviously biased) and the first half of last week's ROH (ALAN'S BACK!!! and getting squashed by the beast mortos lol), very excited to start the All Out rewatch over the weekend. Maybe it will heal me~~

We'll be putting the dog down on Tuesday. It's sad, but time.

9. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows?

Can't believe it's already been three years since Better Call Saul officially pipped Six Feet Under for the #1 spot, where does the time go??

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1. I am still mostly waiting for people to get back to me with things, so today was another fairly slow day at work, though I did get started checking one file I was provided. Overall I do feel like we're making really good progress on this.

2. We've entered into some nice overcast weather that's really feeling a bit like fall. I just checked the forecast and it should stay in the low 70s for most of the next week.

3. Gemma enjoying the sun on another, not-overcast day.

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Still sick. Still working. Throat is worse, because of all the coughing, but I'm not nearly as woozy and weak as I was last night, so that's probably good. Also stayed up a couple hours later than I did the night before (finished Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (cute!) and the second hour of September to Remember (it's a goddamn tragedy that all the cameras missed Excalibur's amazing kendo stick catch, biggest pop of the night) and ordered pizza (leftovers tonight!)), even if I still ended up sleeping so much that my back was aching come the morning. Come on, body, get it together. I gotta exercise or something.

Might be losing one of my techs because somebody is offering him more money. Ugh. Please don't leave me with the general shop guys!!!

Difficult conversations about the dog have begun between my mother and brother. It's sad, but... she's in rough shape, and has been for a while now. They can't all be nice like my Bub was and just casually slow to a stop when it's time.

Gonna try to do some laundry tonight; wish me luck!!!!

8. How Much Time Do You Spend in Nature?

Does the walk home from work count? There's kind of a big abandoned lot that I pass.

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1. Today I had a meeting about one aspect of the upcoming system change that led us to discover something major that IT had totally misunderstood. Me and the other non-IT guy were pretty freaked out about it, especially when the guy leading the meeting kept insisting that this was the way the new system works and there is 100% no way that it could be changed, and also kept insisting that all of us were in the wrong for not having realized this before because of course it works that way, not the way we expected it to work. But in the end it turns out that the system can work the way we need it to work, and also that previous mockups show the fields we need, so I don't know where it went wrong between then, but I'm glad that we discovered this misunderstanding now and can fix it. Very glad that I am working on this project now, too, because there is just too much of a disconnect from the IT side, since none of them understand anything about how a retail operation actually works or what we need the system to do. They just know how the systems work, but not the reason we need them to work a certain way. (And they were supposed to learn more about the workings, but still have not.)

2. We had a nice evening at Disneyland. Especially nice after a stressful afternoon at work!

3. Chloe knows the cutest poses.

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We haven't been to the parks for about a week and a half since Carla wasn't feeling well, but since we usually go so frequently it felt like we hadn't been in ages lol.

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Aaaaaaaand I'm sick. Currently freezing and shaking my way through work with my throat full of glass, but I don't know how much of it is actual illness and some unholy combination of period and weekend screaming and that bag of chips I ate last night sitting poorly. Toughing it out! I just took a week off, and I'm trying to take it easy/keep to myself, answering my little emails as they come in. I'll bail later if I have to, but I'm still trying to make good impressions here.

Only managed to make it through the first hour of September to Remember before crashing out last night, which should have been my first clue that something was amiss, but I just chalked it up to ongoing sleep deficit until I woke up mad chilled and achy. Besides, I made sure to stay up long enough to get to the important part: the C&C/FTR faceoff about which all I have to say is that, while the botch is unfortunate and I hope he's healing up well, Christian dropping BECAUSE I'M RICH and immediately shattering Dax's nose into bloody dust is kind of an all-timer amazing mic drop of a moment and I am honoured to have been present for it. Also: very telling just how long he let Adam ramble on for before finally interrupting to grab his wrist. Also also: it's absolutely Cage & Cope, for a whole host of reasons.

7. How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

There are the ones on the left, who have lovely dogs and a nice yard, but occasionally run equipment to maintain said nice yard so my mom bitches about them incessantly, and there are the ones on the right, who constantly have loud screaming matches with the windows open and once their truck exploded in the night. Mom has no problems with those ones, oddly; just their big dead tree that she is convinced is going to fall on my bedroom one day. I am fine with not knowing my neighbours.

Okay, back to work. Or maybe I'll just quietly read at my desk for a bit? Cough cough.

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1. Got my hair cut this morning. I feel like I just got it cut, but somehow it has been a whole month. As muggy as it's been, I've definitely been feeling it the past few days, even though my hair is very short, even when it's needing a cut. (Sadly, my hair is so thin these days that very short is the only thing I can do that doesn't look terrible.)

2. My afternoon was basically just a string of meetings, but I actually didn't really have much else on the to-do list, since I am still waiting for others to pass things back to me, so that worked out fine.

3. Carla got another couple boxes of the Spider-man blind box lego figures and this time got all the ones we were missing! We still ended up with a ton more dupes, though, so now I am offering these ones as well as these ones if anyone wants. Totally free to anyone in the US, just let me know.

4. Molly loves that top corner of my bed so much. It's her favorite.

merridia

I HAVE RETURNED FROM MY ALL OUT ODYSSEY. Saw four live wrestling events, three movies, two plays, and did three escape rooms for good measure (nix and I remain undefeated!). My feet are busted to hell and I am full from the crown to the toe with the spirit of amazing graps that I will be posting about VERY EXCESSIVELY in the days to come as I watch back all the shows I was in attendance at. Gonna really milk it, it's gonna be so obnoxious, you're all gonna be so sick of me!!!

Also I got to keep my chair from All Out?? How the hell did I land those tickets, man. WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH AN OLD MAN YAOI CHAIR???

Goals for today remain modest: get settled back in at work (I at least managed to empty my inbox yesterday), get something nice together for supper, and then settle in with a rewatch of September to Remember. My bedroom is an absolute disaster after the way I left, but I needed eleven goddamn hours of sleep last night because I got stuck in the Toronto airport overnight and now I'm bleeding, so care for the self comes before care for the self's immediate surroundings. Tomorrow is another day!

6. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People?

I just spent Saturday with over 12,000 people, I think that'll do me for a while.

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torachan

1. I decided to stay home today. Pretty much all the tasks I've been working on are now at the step of waiting for someone else to get back to me so I can do something else, so if I'd gone to work it would have been sending out reminders and poking around a bit of stuff here and there, and I just didn't feel like it. Even though taking three weeks off earlier this year knocked down my PTO balance enough that I don't need to worry about it maxing out immediately, it will max out before we take our planned trip next year, so I've got to use some days here and there to knock it down a bit more anyway.

2. Since it's not a usual day off, I didn't have any usual chores or errands on my to-do list and mostly just read and played Donky Kong Bananza (which I am still enjoying a lot). I did take a midday walk, which was much nicer in our neighborhood than at work, since we actually have a lot of shade if I stick to certain streets, which I was able to do since I was not going anywhere specific, just walking to walk.

3. I finished up another puzzle this morning, the first of those new Disney ones we got. It turns out they have rounded corners, which I wasn't expecting. Carla did the whole border, so I didn't actually have to deal with them, but since they're just a bit curved, I don't think it probably makes too much of a difference in difficulty.

4. Ollie's such a sweet guy.

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It's autumn! Or spring! Happy equinox!

And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating! May the coming year be sweet.

It's not actually in honor of autumn's arrival, but we have a chicken marinating in the fridge for tonight's supper. ( food chat under the cut: very little more about the chicken, a bit about apples, and a bit about breakfast [read: banana bread] prep )

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