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Sep. 2nd, 2025 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarlingoneWell, at least the moving-out funds arrived. I have acquired home internet ($50 a month ouch but I am greatly enjoying it), and a bookcase (well, a cubecase, you know what I mean), and other assorted odd bits. Somebody keeps drinking my milk if I put it in the fridge which is annoying but I could probably do to drink less milk anyway. Leia is supposedly going to start mailing me my stuff sometime this week.
I've picked up the giant cable sweater I'm knitting for Leia, and am trying to reconstruct what I was doing with it, since the pattern is very little help. My Ravelry notes are more help, but apparently I didn't write down that I was using KFB instead of lifted M1 on the shawl collar, so it came out with some funky yarnover-like holes and I had to pull out everything I did yesterday.
I've fallen off crossposting Subjugation here but we are still posting weekly chapters -- chapter 6 just went up Sunday, Poe is having a very bad time in First Order custody. I'm kind of flagging on the rewrites though. We've finished rewrites up to chapter 42; I was hoping to finish the whole thing and switch to daily posting but maybe we'll keep the weekly schedule for a while.
I've also been trying out a couple of new things now I have my own room. I picked up a dip pen with some calligraphy nibs and a tiny bottle of ink; I've gotten as far as figuring out how to not make the calligraphy all blobby, but I don't have a desk (or a chair, for that matter) and I'm concerned about spilling the india ink on my bed eventually. It's an interesting exercise though. I'm mostly doing tengwar because I'm not super familiar with calligraphy hands for the Roman alphabet.
A friend bought me a copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition but I haven't started it yet. I've also picked up Paleo Pines on Steam sale, which is a dinosaur ranching simulator with badly uncanny valley humans, extremely cute (and reportedly scientifically accurate) dinosaurs, and absolutely horrendous pacing. Also I just discovered that the maps of the different areas you can access are all oriented such that when you walk off the right-hand or left-hand side of one map you enter the bottom edge of another map, which is disorienting me so badly I haven't booted the game up since; I know I'm probably odd about video game map directions (Breath of the Wild's Hyrule being in the southern hemisphere according to sun direction and then the sequel changing it to northern hemisphere also bothers the hell out of me), and Paleo Pines has the sun rising in the west anyway compared to the ingame map, but. Dude. I can't. That's my emotional support internal compass, or something.
I'm pondering whether to rejigger my icons here; I've gotten out of the habit of actually using them anyway. Also while I could probably afford some paid time I do need to pinch my pennies; I never have heard back from the state disability office so I'll need to figure out finances eventually. Since the rent here is capped at 30% of my income (currently $0), I could hypothetically live on a single part-time job. I'm definitely waiting until I get the rest of my cookware and figure out how I'm managing food though. But the home internet will broaden my options there.
I keep meaning to try to post here more often and I can't think of anything much to say. My housemate across the hall continues to talk to herself all day and play Walker Texas Ranger reruns all night. One of the other roommates keeps turning off the AC every time she passes the thermostat. Someone has been drinking my milk if I leave it in the fridge. But these do not really make a post even in the old "three things make a post" format.
I've picked up the giant cable sweater I'm knitting for Leia, and am trying to reconstruct what I was doing with it, since the pattern is very little help. My Ravelry notes are more help, but apparently I didn't write down that I was using KFB instead of lifted M1 on the shawl collar, so it came out with some funky yarnover-like holes and I had to pull out everything I did yesterday.
I've fallen off crossposting Subjugation here but we are still posting weekly chapters -- chapter 6 just went up Sunday, Poe is having a very bad time in First Order custody. I'm kind of flagging on the rewrites though. We've finished rewrites up to chapter 42; I was hoping to finish the whole thing and switch to daily posting but maybe we'll keep the weekly schedule for a while.
I've also been trying out a couple of new things now I have my own room. I picked up a dip pen with some calligraphy nibs and a tiny bottle of ink; I've gotten as far as figuring out how to not make the calligraphy all blobby, but I don't have a desk (or a chair, for that matter) and I'm concerned about spilling the india ink on my bed eventually. It's an interesting exercise though. I'm mostly doing tengwar because I'm not super familiar with calligraphy hands for the Roman alphabet.
A friend bought me a copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition but I haven't started it yet. I've also picked up Paleo Pines on Steam sale, which is a dinosaur ranching simulator with badly uncanny valley humans, extremely cute (and reportedly scientifically accurate) dinosaurs, and absolutely horrendous pacing. Also I just discovered that the maps of the different areas you can access are all oriented such that when you walk off the right-hand or left-hand side of one map you enter the bottom edge of another map, which is disorienting me so badly I haven't booted the game up since; I know I'm probably odd about video game map directions (Breath of the Wild's Hyrule being in the southern hemisphere according to sun direction and then the sequel changing it to northern hemisphere also bothers the hell out of me), and Paleo Pines has the sun rising in the west anyway compared to the ingame map, but. Dude. I can't. That's my emotional support internal compass, or something.
I'm pondering whether to rejigger my icons here; I've gotten out of the habit of actually using them anyway. Also while I could probably afford some paid time I do need to pinch my pennies; I never have heard back from the state disability office so I'll need to figure out finances eventually. Since the rent here is capped at 30% of my income (currently $0), I could hypothetically live on a single part-time job. I'm definitely waiting until I get the rest of my cookware and figure out how I'm managing food though. But the home internet will broaden my options there.
I keep meaning to try to post here more often and I can't think of anything much to say. My housemate across the hall continues to talk to herself all day and play Walker Texas Ranger reruns all night. One of the other roommates keeps turning off the AC every time she passes the thermostat. Someone has been drinking my milk if I leave it in the fridge. But these do not really make a post even in the old "three things make a post" format.
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Date: 2025-09-02 08:08 pm (UTC)Good luck with managing the rest & navigating the new housemates. And, yeah, sensible to wait a bit and see what you have left to play with & what you most want/need before deciding whether that should be a Dreamwidth account or whatever. <3
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