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.