25 june 2024
Books
I finished Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. It was actually amazing. I'm incredibly impressed by her ability to make me see images of contexts I do not know (something I'm not typically very good at). I was a bit afraid, at the beginning, of getting lost in proper names, but I finally got the gist of it (it may or may not have me search for a map of Gethen, which helped a lot.)
Vague spoilers (skip this section if you don't want spoilers)
I must admit I would have loved a HEA. It was fairly obvious from a few chapters before that it was probably not going to happen, and that ending got me frantically turn pages with a "no, no, nooooo" in my head, and it probably delivered a more emotional/memorable ending this way... but I would have loved a HEA.
What's next
I think I'm going to give Cal Newport's Slow Productivity a try - I'm a bit wary, considering what I read about this book, but the title makes me very curious/interested. We'll see. (Worst case, it's a short book :D )
I did manage to call my doctor's office to move an appointment that was planned during Wikimania (which I plan to attend) - victory! And I also did manage to pat myself on the back for doing it despite it being hard than berate myself for it being hard.
Watched half of Bridgerton S03E05 (will watch the second half with lunch). I really do like Penelope, but I wish Eloise would stop brooding for a minute :P
More meta-commentary: I was thinking under the shower that I really really
like the TTBP/feels workflow, but that I'd like a bit more features on the web
display front. And also: I really really like the tilde.town internal
integration of feels, and I don't want to lose that. BUT looking at the code
the other day, I can get the best of both worlds! I can roll out my modified
TTBP engine for my stuff, and still rely on the global TTBP to continue
working, as long as I don't touch the internal file structure. Mmmmmh. I sense
some additional Python hacking in my near future (including integrating my
current "paginated.py" in said personal fork, rather than relying on thinking
about executing it after modifying/creating a post.
SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. (exciting!)
Work was okay, I guess - didn't feel like I achieved much, but I talked to people, and I have (unrelatedly) more understing of language variant handling of wiki titles.
Other than that, went to the burrito popup place for lunch, and my hunch was correct: I enjoyed the same food better as bowl than as burrito.
Still managed to do the 5120 steps (don't ask me why that number, Garmin got stuck on it, it seems), although I was just shy of 5000 when coming back after our evening "let's have my steps" walk.