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jazzfishLet's see. Still writing (mostly just on Wednesdays with Steph), still playing the viola and starting to sometimes feel like I'm beginning to get the hang of it. Still less than thrilled by job but hey, they pay me. Still looking for a better (closer to downtown, less frustrating) apartment. Settling into getting used to the idea of having a stable living situation, and being able to think and plan about what happens next.
Finally got the cats on all wet food all the time. They've been on dry food for long enough that wet food has been "okay this is a nice treat but where is my REAL dinner?" It's taken a couple of brands to get to some that they'll consistently eat most of. I say "some" because we had one that we thought would work but after a week that turned into "aww, the humans bought a case of our favorite food, now we can't like that kind anymore." Mixing it up seems to be sufficient.
Apple has deigned to offer new normal-sized phones, so we'd intended to go pick those up this weekend. In addition they now give you some amount of credit for your old phones, which seems like a win-win proposition. Unfortunately the local stores are sold out of new normal-sized phones for the next couple of weeks. And the easiest way to get credit from the old phones is to exchange them at the time of purchase, which precludes ordering online. So, new phones once I get back from Niagara.
I did go ahead and pull the trigger on a new laptop, though. I may go to my grave defending the hardware setup of Taranis, my current laptop, as The Best Ever. It's got a CD drive, a Magsafe power connector that detaches safely when you accidentally kick the cord rather than yanking the laptop off the table, and it's got a software Eject key that is intensely stupid but can be remapped to be a proper Delete. Sadly newer models of Macbook have removed the optical drive and replaced the useless Eject key with what I think is a Power key that I can't remap. And all indications are that Apple is getting serious about moving to USB3 for power ports with the new models that ought to be out this fall. I figured, I may as well get while the getting is no worse, and if the new laptop lasts me five years like this one did then it's a fine investment.
And this Friday I fly out to Niagara for a week of gaming. I'm not really feeling the get-up-and-go urge, which seems ... odd. I suspect I'm pulling in on myself again. Eh. Will sort that out once I'm back from Niagara.
101 in 1001 update (the list)
Completed:
32) Find a dentist and get a cleaning etc. 2016-03-08
67) Run Night's Black Agents, with or without an Ashen Stars mashup. Begun 2016-03-24.
72) Get savings back to six months' living expenses. 2016-03-15, though it's gonna drop back below due to laptop purchase.
74) Get an RRSP set up. 2016-03-07, through Tangerine (formerly Ing).
82) Stabilize or replace Taranis the laptop. Ordered 2016-03-31.
In progress:
24) Write to three dozen new people (2/36).
41) Write, revise, & submit story #3. In progress, though it's possible that my 'progress' to date has merely got me to the point where the story really starts.
45) Learn to play "Baby Elephant Walk". Getting there. Eventually I need to decide if I'm going to find a different arrangement.
54) Read or purge one-quarter of the books currently tagged "unread" in LibraryThing (18/60). Read Signal to Noise by Silvia MG. Read and purged The Beginning Place by Ursula K Le Guin. Read Slow River by Nicola Griffith. Read and purged The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks and Holes by Louis Sachar. Read Starpilot's Grave by Doyle & Macdonald and Stories of the Raksura 1 and 2 by Martha Wells. Read and purged Eye of the Heron by UKL. Read Philip Knightley's Kim Philby bio.
64) Play 50 18xx games (27/50). 1867 and 1889, 2016-01-03. 1846, 2016-01-10. 18Neb, 2016-01-23. 18PA, 2016-01-24. 1849, 2016-01-31. 1817, 2016-02-21. 1849 and 1846, 2016-02-28. 1846, 2016-03-06. 1817 and 1846, 2016-03-19. 1830 and 1889, 2016-03-25.
65) Play 20 different 18xx titles/scenarios (11/20). 1889, 2016-01-03. 18Neb, 2016-01-23. 18PA, 2016-01-24. 1849, 2016-01-31.
69) Play in an RPG campaign. Holly has made vague noises about running Apoc World...
78) Move to a less frustrating apartment. Still looking.
Finally got the cats on all wet food all the time. They've been on dry food for long enough that wet food has been "okay this is a nice treat but where is my REAL dinner?" It's taken a couple of brands to get to some that they'll consistently eat most of. I say "some" because we had one that we thought would work but after a week that turned into "aww, the humans bought a case of our favorite food, now we can't like that kind anymore." Mixing it up seems to be sufficient.
Apple has deigned to offer new normal-sized phones, so we'd intended to go pick those up this weekend. In addition they now give you some amount of credit for your old phones, which seems like a win-win proposition. Unfortunately the local stores are sold out of new normal-sized phones for the next couple of weeks. And the easiest way to get credit from the old phones is to exchange them at the time of purchase, which precludes ordering online. So, new phones once I get back from Niagara.
I did go ahead and pull the trigger on a new laptop, though. I may go to my grave defending the hardware setup of Taranis, my current laptop, as The Best Ever. It's got a CD drive, a Magsafe power connector that detaches safely when you accidentally kick the cord rather than yanking the laptop off the table, and it's got a software Eject key that is intensely stupid but can be remapped to be a proper Delete. Sadly newer models of Macbook have removed the optical drive and replaced the useless Eject key with what I think is a Power key that I can't remap. And all indications are that Apple is getting serious about moving to USB3 for power ports with the new models that ought to be out this fall. I figured, I may as well get while the getting is no worse, and if the new laptop lasts me five years like this one did then it's a fine investment.
And this Friday I fly out to Niagara for a week of gaming. I'm not really feeling the get-up-and-go urge, which seems ... odd. I suspect I'm pulling in on myself again. Eh. Will sort that out once I'm back from Niagara.
101 in 1001 update (the list)
Completed:
In progress:
24) Write to three dozen new people (2/36).
41) Write, revise, & submit story #3. In progress, though it's possible that my 'progress' to date has merely got me to the point where the story really starts.
45) Learn to play "Baby Elephant Walk". Getting there. Eventually I need to decide if I'm going to find a different arrangement.
54) Read or purge one-quarter of the books currently tagged "unread" in LibraryThing (18/60). Read Signal to Noise by Silvia MG. Read and purged The Beginning Place by Ursula K Le Guin. Read Slow River by Nicola Griffith. Read and purged The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks and Holes by Louis Sachar. Read Starpilot's Grave by Doyle & Macdonald and Stories of the Raksura 1 and 2 by Martha Wells. Read and purged Eye of the Heron by UKL. Read Philip Knightley's Kim Philby bio.
64) Play 50 18xx games (27/50). 1867 and 1889, 2016-01-03. 1846, 2016-01-10. 18Neb, 2016-01-23. 18PA, 2016-01-24. 1849, 2016-01-31. 1817, 2016-02-21. 1849 and 1846, 2016-02-28. 1846, 2016-03-06. 1817 and 1846, 2016-03-19. 1830 and 1889, 2016-03-25.
65) Play 20 different 18xx titles/scenarios (11/20). 1889, 2016-01-03. 18Neb, 2016-01-23. 18PA, 2016-01-24. 1849, 2016-01-31.
69) Play in an RPG campaign. Holly has made vague noises about running Apoc World...
78) Move to a less frustrating apartment. Still looking.
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Date: 2016-04-04 02:56 am (UTC)The iPad, even without a hardware keyboard, fills a similar proportion of my on-the-go needs to the extent that I've stopped bringing a laptop for most sub-week trips and even some longer ones. With more and more of what I would have done in apps on the laptop now perfectly reasonable in Google Docs/Sheets, even my phone can cover some of the use cases....