I'm thinking back to that big storm we had where the dogs had me up three times during the night, and then all the postal route, and trying hard not to fall asleep when I got home, but still going to bed 'too early', ending up waking in the middle of the night anyway... I tried really hard not to go to bed too early last night, and still was up for a few hours around midnight.
My husband made this 3D model (and the pencil cups, and the extra large paper clip, as well) and here it is in action. It is Deco Desk Snail at printables.
desk snail and Extra Large Paper Clips
Pancakes, to use up a bit more of my blackberry syrup
Esme was still asleep, and Mark doesn't eat breakfast
but the dogs were very happy I made food, as they usually get some
Mark assisted some with helping me figure out the cord routing on my television up here - so it works again. It turned out to be one loose plug in the back of it. It gets no reception, but I can see the collection he has downstairs and pick from it - which I can do from my computer, as well, but it's not as comfortable to knit in the desk chair as it is in the bed. Then we got Esme a game on Steam I'd been looking at, but didn't think it would work on my computer. He asked why - and I have been having driver issues with two of the other games I did used to play.
So, based on his 'you shouldn't be having problems' *sigh* I went and looked up the error codes and found the right commands to put in the user interfaces and finally, yes, got both of those games running. I don't really play games that often, though. I've been tuning in to Stardew Valley a bit more since their update, just to see the new crops and because I find catching all the fish a worthwhile challenge while juggling all the crops and animals every day. I'm also playing it in French. One of the first things I asked Esme about the new game was 'Can you play it in Spanish?' since she starts Spanish class next month in school. I hear Mark let out a huge guffaw from the other room that was one of my first questions about it. I went and found a tutorial on how to change the language (from the Options screen, under the Play, then pick español)
If we hadn't had that strange issue with the truck yesterday (I put it back on the charger down here, but it is likely to need a new alternator) these next two days, today and tomorrow, would have been nice and restful. I felt like I was on a good roll, except for the sleep thing - which can only work out with time and mindfulness about it.
Hoping Saturday will not be an issue, or the mechanic will finish up the last bits on my mail truck and it will be driveable while he replaces this part. If we can get it started with the charger here it can get to work for me - (getting home is maybe need a jump, maybe it will start, and no stops on the way home etc.) or definitely get us down to the mechanic to exchange vehicles. Not a worry I wanted on my brain but as I told Esme sort of it's not one thing it's another and you just have to figure out how to work with every item as it comes up. She was a big help yesterday walking some of the cords and things up with me to the vehicle, which was a ways up the driveway and around the corner and almost in Grandma's yard. Then she learned how to test the voltages, and how to untangle the extension cords, and how to hook the charger to the vehicle, how to take it back off, and what the required voltages were that we were testing for. She said she enjoyed getting some more car knowledge.
Duolingo: did Welsh, French, Spanish, Greek, Danish (one round each) and Portuguese (mobile, full 50xp) , then put a border on and tied up this dishcloth
It's 9:30 am... off to do my rounds on two Duolingo profiles (computer and phone) and decide when to do the Russian program, tie up the dishcloths and weavings that I had made the past few days.. garden, clean up my art supplies desk perhaps, but probably also get sucked into Stardew Valley again for a bit as I planted a bunch of summer squash seeds (courge d'été in French) and that is a new crop. In my real garden I was going to start putting to rights those back two beds that I couldn't use before the long garden hose was bought. But, that was yesterday, before the truck issue took up the entire afternoon. I don't know how much I'll get to, or if we are going to try to do anything with the vehicle this afternoon, either.
No comments:
Post a Comment