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My phone is not alerting me to voicemails :|
I have now attempted to make macarons twice, since I had egg whites that needed using. The first time turned out a failure because I misread the directions - well, I still got almond cookies out of it, they were just completely flat - and the second time, chocolate ones for Halloween, turned out much better. Not perfect, certainly, but they have fluff! Progress! Hopefully attempt #3 might actually have a foot... though I am thinking of buying an actual reusable piping bag from the local baking store beforehand. Ziplocs are pretty awkward to use.
Halloween was pretty quiet for me, but I did play a little of an old horror game, Cosmology of Kyoto. The game does NOT fuck around on the horror front - there's gore (sometimes a bit much for me) and it's there almost as soon as you start the game. Though it is awkward to play, and even in DOSBOX, there are some issues - for example, there's a text parser in a few places, and you can't see what you are typing into it. (The text parser seems kind of broken anyway; even a simple 'yes' or 'no' gets the wrong response half the time.) It's a delightfully creepy vision of Heian-kyo all the same, and the introductory music is awesome. I also figured out how to get other games working on the Windows 3.1 setup, so I might be playing more abandonware soon.
Donated blood a couple of weeks ago (inspired by any recent kidney-related author bullying kerfuffles? yes), and thankfully it went smoothly. My iron was once again quite high despite me doing nothing in particular for it and being a vegetarian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I haven't even been eating a ton of legumes recently because I've been on a pasta kick. Ah, well, glad it's not an issue for me.
Closest rink to me is reopening this season :) I will check it out and see how it feels. It's not usually that crowded, so crossing my fingers that it stays that way.
I got a couple of writing projects out of my drafts and into the world (a long post on Akiko Suzuki & my detailed YOI timeline - just having the ages has been so helpful already), and I finished my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
rareshipsonbingo card, so having all of that done and posted feels pretty great :D I've been doing planning on another project, and I feel ready to dive into it now while I finish up my current fanfic WIP.
Halloween was pretty quiet for me, but I did play a little of an old horror game, Cosmology of Kyoto. The game does NOT fuck around on the horror front - there's gore (sometimes a bit much for me) and it's there almost as soon as you start the game. Though it is awkward to play, and even in DOSBOX, there are some issues - for example, there's a text parser in a few places, and you can't see what you are typing into it. (The text parser seems kind of broken anyway; even a simple 'yes' or 'no' gets the wrong response half the time.) It's a delightfully creepy vision of Heian-kyo all the same, and the introductory music is awesome. I also figured out how to get other games working on the Windows 3.1 setup, so I might be playing more abandonware soon.
Donated blood a couple of weeks ago (inspired by any recent kidney-related author bullying kerfuffles? yes), and thankfully it went smoothly. My iron was once again quite high despite me doing nothing in particular for it and being a vegetarian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I haven't even been eating a ton of legumes recently because I've been on a pasta kick. Ah, well, glad it's not an issue for me.
Closest rink to me is reopening this season :) I will check it out and see how it feels. It's not usually that crowded, so crossing my fingers that it stays that way.
I got a couple of writing projects out of my drafts and into the world (a long post on Akiko Suzuki & my detailed YOI timeline - just having the ages has been so helpful already), and I finished my
rareshipsonbingo card, so having all of that done and posted feels pretty great :D I've been doing planning on another project, and I feel ready to dive into it now while I finish up my current fanfic WIP.