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May ended up being a busy month for me! I went to visit my workplace in-person again (riiiight before Covid cases creeped up enough that they started telling us to cancel in-person meetings, lucky me) for three days, and I visited my parents while I was at it. We went on some nice nature walks - that was still when the greenery was lagging a bit up here, so it was nice to just see all the brilliantly green trees and grass after what felt like an extra three months of winter. My mom and I also binged the first season of Let's Make a Mug, Too, which is a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Please Come Tourist in Our Town and Spend Money There Show Please show, but the Cute Thing is pottery and my mom was interested in that. And the tourism sections 100% worked on her lol. So maybe we will go there one day and I'll get asked to play translator :)
Unfortunately, my dad got sick the last morning - not with The Plague, thankfully - but he was feeling better by the end of the day.
That week at work ended up feeling like one of those video game levels that are meant to teach you a new gameplay concept. For instance, I ended up having to write a SQL query (can I SQL? Yes. Am I good at SQL? No) with some help to pull data from the database, process it to strip out sensitive data, and then finish processing it with my existing analysis code. Not my easiest work week, but I learned a lot, and now I'm set up to pull more data and deal with it whenever we receive an update.
Between all the travel time and the nothing to do in the hotel at night, I ended up reading three books in a week, including one academic nonfiction and one easy literary fiction. I am coming to the conclusion that I don't like literary fiction that much.
My Memorial Day weekend was pretty slow; I catsat for Z, as he went to go visit a friend a couple states over. Did some writing, some Creatures modding, figured out what I wanted to bid on for Sunflower Auction, played a couple of games I had downloaded (they were not good and I gave up on both pretty soon), and stayed up too late watching a very legal stream of FAOI. I also thought about going skating, but we're down to one accessible rink this time of year, and it turns out that on weekends it's a 2.5 hour bus ride one way, and did I feel like spending five hours on/waiting for buses to go skating that day? I did not. So I just fiddled some more with my skates instead. Maybe this week.
Bad news is that I now have no idea when we are moving. Apparently there is some issue for the people who are vacating our new place, and now we are moving 'sometime in June, who knows when', so I'm glad I hadn't scheduled movers to haul the furniture I'm taking. Looks like I'm not going to be planting much this year, though :/ Luckily for me, the new management company has once again forgotten I exist, so they haven't asked me about showing the place or when I'm moving for weeks now. You'd think after all the fussing about how they needed me to sign a lease so they could show it to the bank, they'd... at least have given me a lease to sign. IDK what they're spending their time doing, because they sure don't seem to like to spend it on their tenants.
Unfortunately, my dad got sick the last morning - not with The Plague, thankfully - but he was feeling better by the end of the day.
That week at work ended up feeling like one of those video game levels that are meant to teach you a new gameplay concept. For instance, I ended up having to write a SQL query (can I SQL? Yes. Am I good at SQL? No) with some help to pull data from the database, process it to strip out sensitive data, and then finish processing it with my existing analysis code. Not my easiest work week, but I learned a lot, and now I'm set up to pull more data and deal with it whenever we receive an update.
Between all the travel time and the nothing to do in the hotel at night, I ended up reading three books in a week, including one academic nonfiction and one easy literary fiction. I am coming to the conclusion that I don't like literary fiction that much.
My Memorial Day weekend was pretty slow; I catsat for Z, as he went to go visit a friend a couple states over. Did some writing, some Creatures modding, figured out what I wanted to bid on for Sunflower Auction, played a couple of games I had downloaded (they were not good and I gave up on both pretty soon), and stayed up too late watching a very legal stream of FAOI. I also thought about going skating, but we're down to one accessible rink this time of year, and it turns out that on weekends it's a 2.5 hour bus ride one way, and did I feel like spending five hours on/waiting for buses to go skating that day? I did not. So I just fiddled some more with my skates instead. Maybe this week.
Bad news is that I now have no idea when we are moving. Apparently there is some issue for the people who are vacating our new place, and now we are moving 'sometime in June, who knows when', so I'm glad I hadn't scheduled movers to haul the furniture I'm taking. Looks like I'm not going to be planting much this year, though :/ Luckily for me, the new management company has once again forgotten I exist, so they haven't asked me about showing the place or when I'm moving for weeks now. You'd think after all the fussing about how they needed me to sign a lease so they could show it to the bank, they'd... at least have given me a lease to sign. IDK what they're spending their time doing, because they sure don't seem to like to spend it on their tenants.
