Skating has taken over my brain this week
Feb. 16th, 2026 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaZ and I had a nice visit with my parents. He wasn't feeling great for a lot of it, unfortunately, but I wasn't exactly objecting to sitting around and watching hours of figure skating with everyone, or putting up some long Youtube videos. Since I am the one with the mystical knowledge of how to VPN into Canada, I also streamed other random events for my dad and Z, which was more fun than I initially expected. The one event where the skiiers look like they're jogging uphill much of the time seemed incredibly exhausting. Humans enjoy doing such weird things, haha.
(CBC has their own commentators this year instead of Belinda & Olly. They are better than Tara and Johnny - not to damn with faint praise - but they are also behind on rules that were changed in 2018 and think it's beautiful and romantic that someone with severe injury issues was basically told he had to come back to try to win a medal. I do find it amusing how much they kept hammering Berulava on his shitty lifting technique.)
The figure skating has sure been up and down with some surprises. I was so happy for Ellie and Danny in the pairs team event - landing those throw jumps! - and while they weren't quite as on fire today, the pairs free as a whole was great. Delighted for M/K, especially given how distraught Ryuichi seemed after the mess-up in the short! Now to emotionally prepare myself for the women....
Otherwise, we've been doing a few boring things around the house (had to chlorine shock our water, that was a process) and had a quiet Valentine's day with each other. I also bought the game Dead Letter Department and had to return it a couple hours later because it gave me a migraine, which is a first, even after turning off the annoying flickering in the accessibility menu. I think it was a combination of the effects + the core gameplay loop being to read a bunch of text that is often tiny and/or hard to read. Thankfully Steam let me have a refund even though I was slightly over the two-hour limit. To be honest, I was unimpressed with the ending I got anyway, which was basically a 'you lose' screen after struggling to read something that was intentionally made unreadable, so I don't think I would have played more even if it didn't turn out to physically pain me to do so.
(CBC has their own commentators this year instead of Belinda & Olly. They are better than Tara and Johnny - not to damn with faint praise - but they are also behind on rules that were changed in 2018 and think it's beautiful and romantic that someone with severe injury issues was basically told he had to come back to try to win a medal. I do find it amusing how much they kept hammering Berulava on his shitty lifting technique.)
The figure skating has sure been up and down with some surprises. I was so happy for Ellie and Danny in the pairs team event - landing those throw jumps! - and while they weren't quite as on fire today, the pairs free as a whole was great. Delighted for M/K, especially given how distraught Ryuichi seemed after the mess-up in the short! Now to emotionally prepare myself for the women....
Otherwise, we've been doing a few boring things around the house (had to chlorine shock our water, that was a process) and had a quiet Valentine's day with each other. I also bought the game Dead Letter Department and had to return it a couple hours later because it gave me a migraine, which is a first, even after turning off the annoying flickering in the accessibility menu. I think it was a combination of the effects + the core gameplay loop being to read a bunch of text that is often tiny and/or hard to read. Thankfully Steam let me have a refund even though I was slightly over the two-hour limit. To be honest, I was unimpressed with the ending I got anyway, which was basically a 'you lose' screen after struggling to read something that was intentionally made unreadable, so I don't think I would have played more even if it didn't turn out to physically pain me to do so.
