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The past few days have felt productive, even if I ended up needing to do some work-work over the weekend as well. I:
I haven't played it much yet, but I also finally installed Coffee Talk after having it sit around in my wishlist and then my Steam list forever. I... somehow either managed not to pick up or forgot somewhere in that timespan that your coffee shop is on a fantasy AU Earth, so I was a little startled when the third line in the intro was about elves.
I recently grew worried about my baby plants, and Dr. Google diagnosed them with Not Getting Enough Light. Unfortunately, we have no south-facing windows, and I balked at the idea of spending more on grow lights than I spent on the seeds, so instead I've rejiggered their setup so they're getting more sunlight and carrying them back and forth between the east and west windows during the day. And since it's been so cloudy, I have been giving them some early outside time. It's only been a few days, but it's working - they're mostly no longer floppy, and the tomatoes and eggplants are juuust starting to grow their first true leaves. As someone who has never started seeds before, it's been kind of interesting to poke through all the advice and see the fights between the 'you can't possibly start good plants inside without climate control and grow lights' people and the 'I start seeds inside on a windowsill in England and they grow plenty' people and the 'I just start chucking them outside during the day as soon as they sprout, stop spoiling your plants' people.
Outside, I've put up the garden fencing - hopefully it will keep out our adorable bunnies and any deer that come by - and planted my first direct-sow seeds! Haven't spotted anything coming up yet, but fingers crossed for the root veggies. My potted mints have also started regrowing.
I went to another ENT appointment last week. I had to get a tube up my nose again, but thankfully this time when I told her that the last one had hurt, she gave me extra anesthetic - and it didn't hurt at all! Just felt weird as heck, haha. She showed me the video afterward, so I got to see my vocal folds in action, which Z was jealous of. They didn't close completely when she asked me to make sounds, which is not good, but they closed more when I put more power into it, so she had some suggestions of her own related to that. She also explained some things the other doctor had glossed over; overall, it was a much better experience than my first visit there.
(The one weird thing was that she tried to tell me that tea dehydrates you - you should have seen her face when I told her how much I drink a day. It's mostly not black tea, even! I was so puzzled about this that I hit up Google Scholar on the way home, and no, there are randomized control trials that couldn't find any sign of dehydration in people drinking more caffeine than I do. It doesn't even seem to be a voice thing, because studies of moderate caffeine intake on singing found zero effect, too. So I remain confused about whether she was misinformed on this one thing or what.)
- posted a new YOI AMV
- got the draft of my
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con_txt animated vidshow up - finished the penultimate chapter of my precanon YOI WIP; am editing it tonight
- worked on my Heart Attack draft
- went away from the computer to exercise and enjoy our beautiful chilly, cloudy spring greenery
- ...and also pull some weeds, blegh. We have an invasive that's edible, so I made pesto with it.
I haven't played it much yet, but I also finally installed Coffee Talk after having it sit around in my wishlist and then my Steam list forever. I... somehow either managed not to pick up or forgot somewhere in that timespan that your coffee shop is on a fantasy AU Earth, so I was a little startled when the third line in the intro was about elves.
I recently grew worried about my baby plants, and Dr. Google diagnosed them with Not Getting Enough Light. Unfortunately, we have no south-facing windows, and I balked at the idea of spending more on grow lights than I spent on the seeds, so instead I've rejiggered their setup so they're getting more sunlight and carrying them back and forth between the east and west windows during the day. And since it's been so cloudy, I have been giving them some early outside time. It's only been a few days, but it's working - they're mostly no longer floppy, and the tomatoes and eggplants are juuust starting to grow their first true leaves. As someone who has never started seeds before, it's been kind of interesting to poke through all the advice and see the fights between the 'you can't possibly start good plants inside without climate control and grow lights' people and the 'I start seeds inside on a windowsill in England and they grow plenty' people and the 'I just start chucking them outside during the day as soon as they sprout, stop spoiling your plants' people.
Outside, I've put up the garden fencing - hopefully it will keep out our adorable bunnies and any deer that come by - and planted my first direct-sow seeds! Haven't spotted anything coming up yet, but fingers crossed for the root veggies. My potted mints have also started regrowing.
I went to another ENT appointment last week. I had to get a tube up my nose again, but thankfully this time when I told her that the last one had hurt, she gave me extra anesthetic - and it didn't hurt at all! Just felt weird as heck, haha. She showed me the video afterward, so I got to see my vocal folds in action, which Z was jealous of. They didn't close completely when she asked me to make sounds, which is not good, but they closed more when I put more power into it, so she had some suggestions of her own related to that. She also explained some things the other doctor had glossed over; overall, it was a much better experience than my first visit there.
(The one weird thing was that she tried to tell me that tea dehydrates you - you should have seen her face when I told her how much I drink a day. It's mostly not black tea, even! I was so puzzled about this that I hit up Google Scholar on the way home, and no, there are randomized control trials that couldn't find any sign of dehydration in people drinking more caffeine than I do. It doesn't even seem to be a voice thing, because studies of moderate caffeine intake on singing found zero effect, too. So I remain confused about whether she was misinformed on this one thing or what.)
