I may or may not have cried of relief at the results of the French elections this evening. I can breathe again. It's not over, it's never over, but, at least for now, it seems the worst has been avoided, and I'm very happy about that.
We went at friends for the afternoon/evening and it was very pleasant :) although more food (and alcohol) has been consumed than usual, so I may have a few Regrets tomorrow.
Went to the gym this morning, it was pretty good. I did
I'm particularly happy that I did NOT push the 12.5 for the last to sets of my bench: this would not have been safe, and I'm definitely feeling my muscles enough already, I didn't need to push more (the last rep at 10 was HARD.) It was the right decision, and I did manage to silence the voice telling me I should absolutely push harder and stop being lazy.
I forgot Writever yesterday, so let me catch up today!
The word for yesterday was Joy.
I always found joy in seeing the seedlings pop from the soil after planting them. Seeing seedlings appear on this particular soil, the soil we reclaimed from a wasteland that hadn't seen a hint of green in years, makes me feel something beyond joy. I'm going to call that exseedlaration.
The word for today was Convictions.
"We got raided again, the muffalos ate half our reserves, Alex is close to mental breakdown, and to be fair so am I because I ate without a table again. How can you stay hopeful?
− You don't stay hopeful. You use your convictions as a lighthouse, the strong belief that you can make a difference every day to make things better for you and your fellow colonists. Hope is not a feeling, it's acting for a better tomorrow."
Went for a 25-minute run this morning, keeping the slower pace I found on Monday. And, it actually went well. The past two runs were "... okay, it seems I can actually NOT hate this". It's a bit hard to make my brain shut up on the whole "... you're making exactly 0 effort, what the fuck are you happy/proud of", but having reasonably precise HR measurement on the Garmin seems to be enough to call it on its bullshit. Fingers crossed that it continues being enough.
I'm also almost done with my "running audiobook", namely How To Invent Everything, by Ryan North, and it's a 12.5-hour book, so that's a neat way to have some idea of the amount of time I ran overall in recent memory.
Somehow I'm very happy that my town "botany" plant is a fern. It just makes my heart go "wheeeee!".
Had a nice game night, we played The Crew and coinche, it was fun. And I did manage to get 2 scoops of ice cream instead of 3 at the ice cream shop, which I'll count as a victory (banana brownie + jogurt redcurrants is a winning combination.)
Started the day in a small wiki edit rabbit hole about art history, of all things - saw a thing on Mastodon about Claude Mellan, a 17th century engraver; went to Wikipedia, saw a "citation needed"... and fixed that (including the actual statement needing a citation.) Obviously this also included "how do I make a reference to a book chapter" template side-quest, and all of that. Fun, but now I need coffee :P
That was a surprisingly productive day. I submitted two patches, learnt stuff about an extension and an API to do something I wanted to do (but hadn't dug into yet), and I fiddled with a third bug, for which I hope to be able to make some progress tomorrow. Oh, and I closed this week's deployment task since it was all good. And all of that while fighting some fight about some administrative stuff. A good day, overall.
I had opened a Bookwyrm account a week or so ago, to try it as an alternative to GoodReads. First time I tried, the import was temporarily closed, so I could not import my stuff to test. Today, the import work, so I gave it a try. I do get that the decentralized nature of the network makes it Hard™ to have a single "source of truth" for the items (books, authors, collections) of the catalogue - and, in all fairness, GoodReads is not perfect on that point either (I may or may not have asked for librarian status on GoodReads for this exact purpose of merging things that are supposed to go together.) But it feels like it makes the whole system, at the very least, very very clunky to use? I don't know if I'm missing something obvious, or if it's just Not Usable For My Brain (wouldn't be the first thing) - I asked on Mastodon, we'll see.
The word for today's Writever was "build".
Compiling light ##### 100% Testing light ##### 100% Compiling planets ##### 100% Testing planets ##### 100% Creating all living things ##### 100% Testing all living things ##### 100% Compiling eternal life ## 40% - ERROR - Build failed - Missing ';' at line 9210912093
Went to training with Paula this morning. The circuit was
I am: tired. But I'm excessively pleased by the fact that I can still deadlift 40kg, I didn't think I still had that capacity. And, turns out... not only I do, but I could have lifted heavier.
But, I should definitely have showered just when I was coming home rather than having lunch first. Because my whole afternoon kind of got fucked by "... but I need to shower first", and I'm still in my bathrobe at 5PM. Oops.
Prepared the tax declaration documents, wooo! Always a bit brain-complicated for REASONS, but there, it's almost done (I only miss a paper that I asked for.)
Writever today is "Margins"
"Isn't it weird that life on Ægir is entirely aquatic, and that nothing apparently ever got the idea of conquering their continents?
— It's not that weird if you consider the geology of it. Here on Earth, our plates are well behaved, we have continental margins between the continental and oceanic crust, so the transition is, in practice, reasonably smooth. On Ægir, it just... drops abruptly. Or, from the Ægian perspective, their world is surrounded by huge walls.
— It's still weird they went to space before exploring their surface.
— And as weird for them it took us so long to explore the depths of our oceans..."
I'm cheating a bit: this is a bit longer than the one I posted on Mastodon, due to my server's character count constraints. But, I like it better this way :)