04 august 2024
Essentially mix of excitment and anxiety at the perspective of Wikimania + the
additional stress around Other Stuff. We'll see. I should probably start packing
so that I can do last minute laundry tomorrow if necessary. Aaaaaa!
Considered going for an AlphabeticalZürich walk, and decided against it due to
tired. I did plan the next one, though, and it's on the 72, so it should be
reasonably accessible.
Got a haircut today!! It had been two years. I took an appointment on a whim
last night at around midnight for this morning - I initially wanted to target
Monday morning, and realized they were open on Sunday too. I'm not necessarily
a fan of being part of the reason why people work on Sundays, though, so I don't
feel great about that. BUT my hair will not look like weird tentacles in my back
if I end up on any picture during Wikimania. So, there.
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03 august 2024
Sports / running
Tried on my new shoes & socks this morning on the run. It was mostly good, but
my feet muscles were definitely not having the same feel as usual. I went a bit
further away today, just to check the next bridge over the Sihl, and with the
vague plan of "maybe I'll push a bit after the 30-minute mark". The 30-minute
mark came and I still stopped, though. I was a bit further away from home, but
that was fine.
Feeling a bit bleh. I need to pack to go to Katowice/Wikimania next week, and I
need to do laundry before that, and it's 13:00 and I don't have lunch
plans/ideas yet. I also need to get some food to survive the week-end, and
making a plan for that feels like something I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO. I guess
I'll just go to Migros, grab a bunch of stuff, probably something quicker for
today's lunch - but for that I need to go shower first too. Bleh. I'm tired and
cranky because I'm not getting enough sleep, and it's my own damn fault, and
grmbl.
Okay, it took the whole day, essentially, and a significant amount of
self-loathing, but I fed myself, I did the batch of laundry I really wanted to
make (and it's even folded and in the closet), and I went to the supermarket and
got food.
Today's moods:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/dinosandcomics-finished/940-boyfriend/viewer?title_no=657052&episode_no=941
and
https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2024/08/03 (this one's in French)
Blizzard modified the WoW pre-patch event so that it's both less frustrating and
easier to get rewards, and I'm quite happy about that.
I almost bought some cacti today, but I have no idea how to properly care for
cacti and I'd be devastated if they died early. So I guess that first I need to
read about how to care for cacti.
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02 august 2024
Writever
Well, it's officially August 2nd, but I did finish July Writever. So here are
the last entries!
Writever July 28th
The word for July 28th was "Decenter".
As the climate change is becoming a more and more pressing issue, more and
more ludicrous ideas are gaining traction. The latest I've seen is the
Decenter project, whose goal is to modify the orbit of Earth around the Sun so
that it's a bit further away (and colder) and somewhat off-center (to get a
longer cold season). And to take the opportunity to offset a bit more to
compensate for the CO2 production necessary for such an endeavour,
obviously...
Writever July 29th
The word for July 29th was "Speaking".
"Sasha and I aren't exactly on speaking terms anymore.
− Oh, what happened? Did you fight?
− Quite the opposite! We got matching My-Mind-To-Your-Mind implants, so
speech became mostly useless between us.
− Only mostly?
− Yeah, puns are still much better out loud."
Writever July 30th
The word for July 30th was "Survey".
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a librarian. More than the books themselves,
I think I had a fascination for the Dewey system, and finding the right code
for every book.
Later, I found tremendous joy in inputting and organizing all kinds of data,
from my sticker collection to samples at the lab.
When the new exploration mission started recruiting, I applied for the survey
cataloger job. The day I got selected is still the happiest day of my life.
Writever July 31st
The word for July 31ts was "Black".
Most colonists adjust pretty well to the underground facilities. A lot of
effort has been made to give a good day/night cycle, and the progress around
sun-substituting lights have been impressive (the people working the 'ponics
even need sunscreen!)
But we haven't found a way yet to get stars look like anything else than a
bunch of lights projected on too black a screen. Turns out, nightlight is much
harder to get right than daylight.
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01 august 2024
Busy day for a public holiday! Went for a long walk for AlphabeticalZürich (I
still need to transfer the pictures to the computer). Had a fairly late lunch,
and hurried to the gym (note to self: never ever again go to the gym that close
after a meal. Stomach was NOT impressed.). Lifted weights, was okay. Talked to
S. on her last day of work with us, which was nice, but also a bit sad. And had
dinner at Brasserie Fédéral with C. and A., had a really nice evening.
I'm still feeling a lot of anxious energy, but it did me good to keep myself
busy. And now I'm home, with all windows open (dealing with window optimizing is
also adding to the anxiety, tbh), listening to the August 1st fireworks in the
background.
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31 july 2024
Quiet day today. Mostly I continued watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo (the
scene where she sees the whale in the large meeting room made me meeeeeeeeelt),
and I played a fair amount of WoW. I'm not convinced by the current event setup:
having an event every hour and a half that's essentially done in 10 minutes
feels quite punitive :/ but I still did manage to do the three quests. Also I've
read these are weekly, not dailies?? To be confirmed tomorrow.
I had a nap at 3PM today, with a 20-minute timer. And I did wake up super
refreshed. I think I need to consider naps more seriously.
I dragged my ass (and my feet) to a running equipment shop this afternoon to get
Proper Running Shoes, because I'm getting annoyed by the blisters under my foot
arches. Got good advice, tried a pair of shoes that gave me the impulse to
SPRINT in the middle of the shop when trying them (WTF, I'm not a person who
sprints!), and now I have running shoes that go faster, or something. Almost
looking forward to trying them.
This evening I treated myself to a trip to the ice cream shop, I got the
banana/brownie/caramel and the salted butter caramel ones, both were delicious
(as usual) and made me feel better (I was feeling a bit blue.)
Writever
I'm awfully late on the end of Writever, so I'm going to try to finish before
going to bed. I won't finish before August (which is in 15 minutes), though,
it seems!
Writever July 26th
The word for July 26th was "Play".
"Pff, technology is really getting worse and worse. In my days, things were
much more intuitive. This new holoviewer you gave me is full of buttons that
are completely opaque to anyone who hasn't spent hours watching the tutorial,
because there's not even a written, let alone paper documentation coming in
the box. Not to mention, watching the tutorial requires starting the thing;
and I don't even know how to do that!
− Have you tried pressing ?"
Writever July 27th
The word for July 27th was "Group".
Space exploration brings some more or less expected issues. Aliens, fine.
Stupid behaviors in the vicinity of c, and in wormholes, nothing new.
But the chemists are really unhappy with the discovery of fractional atomic
number elements. Worse: they won't fit neatly into groups, because they're all
over the place in the periodic table.
The current consensus is to call them "foramenvermites", add a new table below
the f-group and be done with it.
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