No brains today; try back tomorrow.
Jul. 23rd, 2012 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateI seem to have gotten into a sleep schedule that involves waking up to use the bathroom at around 3:30 in the morning, (possibly because both Thursday and Friday nights it started pouring about that time, and it was either wake up and close the window a bit or get rained on) which is all very well, except that last night it was not only time to wake up in the middle of the night, but time to wake up and worry about all the things that are wrong with the world instead of going back to sleep. I'm pretty sure I didn't get through most of them before I finally managed to shut my brain off again, but in consequence when I did want to get up at 6:30 to go in to the aquarium I was right in the middle of the next sleep cycle, and I've been staring blankly at things all day waiting for my brain to turn on. At this point, I'm fairly sure it's a lost cause.
At any rate, in the absence of grauwulf, I went out to the second-nearest cheap chinese place (the nearest one has terrible dumplings) for dinner, as I'd done a little price comparison the last time I was at the grocery store and determined that actually (in the absence of chicken bones to make broth from) it is more cost effective to buy a quart of egg drop soup as take-out than to make my own. And for an extra fifty-five cents I can get wontons in it, because I am decadent. (We will not mention the order of steamed dumplings. I am trying very hard to be fiscally responsible, as between the air conditioner, fixing my car, and the latest round of grauwulf's tuition, we have run through almost three months of disposable income in about one. I regret none of these things, but there are a lot of cool-but-expensive things I wish to buy which would not presently be a very good idea.)
Speaking of things I don't need to spend money on, I am two (ridiculously long) rows away from the end of this stupid shawl I've been working on, and about 3 yards away from the end of the yarn. Unless anyone out there has an skein end of knitpicks shimmer in "blue glass" (I'll take any dye lot) that they would like to donate to the cause, it's starting to look like my jewel-tone blue shawl is going to have a pondweed-gray/green edge. phoey.
Anyway, in my lack-of-brainness and lack-of-yarnness, I ended up playing Okami which was kind of fun until I got to the stupid bitey blooming onion creatures in the ruins (ok, possibly no one else will recognize them from this description) which you can only hit occasionally, and only if you manage the right brush stroke thing first. And this is the point at which it is too hard, and not fun anymore. I shall have to see if I can go back out into the woods and level up some more before coming back to this bit, but not right now. With luck, not tomorrow either, as if my brain regenerates I will be contemplating display cabinets and tearing apart the dining room to make space for them. Or at least space on the table to lay out plotting cards while I have the house to myself. Ideally, both. We shall see.
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At any rate, in the absence of grauwulf, I went out to the second-nearest cheap chinese place (the nearest one has terrible dumplings) for dinner, as I'd done a little price comparison the last time I was at the grocery store and determined that actually (in the absence of chicken bones to make broth from) it is more cost effective to buy a quart of egg drop soup as take-out than to make my own. And for an extra fifty-five cents I can get wontons in it, because I am decadent. (We will not mention the order of steamed dumplings. I am trying very hard to be fiscally responsible, as between the air conditioner, fixing my car, and the latest round of grauwulf's tuition, we have run through almost three months of disposable income in about one. I regret none of these things, but there are a lot of cool-but-expensive things I wish to buy which would not presently be a very good idea.)
Speaking of things I don't need to spend money on, I am two (ridiculously long) rows away from the end of this stupid shawl I've been working on, and about 3 yards away from the end of the yarn. Unless anyone out there has an skein end of knitpicks shimmer in "blue glass" (I'll take any dye lot) that they would like to donate to the cause, it's starting to look like my jewel-tone blue shawl is going to have a pondweed-gray/green edge. phoey.
Anyway, in my lack-of-brainness and lack-of-yarnness, I ended up playing Okami which was kind of fun until I got to the stupid bitey blooming onion creatures in the ruins (ok, possibly no one else will recognize them from this description) which you can only hit occasionally, and only if you manage the right brush stroke thing first. And this is the point at which it is too hard, and not fun anymore. I shall have to see if I can go back out into the woods and level up some more before coming back to this bit, but not right now. With luck, not tomorrow either, as if my brain regenerates I will be contemplating display cabinets and tearing apart the dining room to make space for them. Or at least space on the table to lay out plotting cards while I have the house to myself. Ideally, both. We shall see.
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