Candace

Came home today! Ended up meeting A when she got home; some fucking asshole rang me at 6:30am - and turned out to be a wrong number so it wasn't even a useful call! - so I uh. Didn't sleep that well and slept in fairly late. So yeah, they got in just a couple of minutes after I finished breakfast, whoops!

Her husband dropped me home, though, so that was very nice of him! I wasn't really looking forward to taking the train, though of course I would've. But got to avoid changing trains in town where there are Many People, yaaaaay~

Haven't really done a huge amount other than that. Went out and did some chook maintenance stuff after tea with Mama, since it was so hot yesterday and they needed their water topped up anyway. Played some Terraria, too. That's pmuch it.

No computer stuff today, didn't have the brain for it. Maybe tomorrow! (Have some moving-stuff-around plans with Mama so I may turn into a pancake instead.)

But now, I'm go nap in my bed yessss. Best couch! Magic couch! No other couches compare! Also my dragonite is a GREAT pillow, better than A's squirtle I borrowed last night! (Not that squirtle is bad! Would happily use it again! Just, dragonite more comfy, yesss.)

Went into town and met up with A today! It was a lot of fun! We derped around poking at stuff a lot, particularly art stuff, which is always fun! :D

And then there was multiplayer Terrarira when I got home! Which was ALSO fun! Just, both of those things in one day was a lot.

However! I did manage to get an SD card, and it booted as an install device and... um. Pretty sure the entire computer is running off the SD card, and it can't see the freaking internal SSD. Which is a problem! So tomorrow there will be Some Research. But also I'm going over to catsit for A overnight - she's going for a family Christmas thing that's too far away for a day trip - so idek how much I'll actually get done. Still! Progress has been made, which is always nice! :3

Also even if I don't have an actual fix tomorrow I'll get to poke around the new desktop environment and see if I DO actually like it, which is also important! (The place I have it set up for installing the OS is also not great for actually using the computer, simply due to the fact that if I'm installing an OS I want to have my desktop on as well so I can Do Computer while waiting for shit to download/unpack/install, heh.)

Anyway, bed now. Am very sleepy! Hopefully I can get to sleep without pulling the blanket out since I'm... not gonna be here tomorrow night and who knows what the weather will do... it's Quite Warm and I suspect I will melt in my usual doona.

It came!!! :D :D :D

( Extremely geeky linux rambling here )

Anyway, the keyboard-computer bit is pure white, so I'm thinking it'll be called Reshiram, since I've been on a pokemon kick for a while. Though maybe Kyuurem since the screen is black? Not sure. Will think about it, since I'mma reinstall the OS it's not something I have to decide yet!

Other than all that, really not much today, hahaha. I did washing, and cleaned the catboxes, that's about it. Also fic reading and some Terraria. But mostly new! computer!!! And attendant geekery.

Wow I'm suddenly really tired. I wasn't until like. Five minutes ago. Which given the time is actually pretty weird, heh.

Anyway! I forgot to say yesterday, Sushi has been banned back into the cone full time, because he licked his tail enough that part of it was a raw pink colour, siiiigh. It healed up again pretty quick, so I don't think it was actually raw, but we're not gonna let him do it again! Nope!! We'll see how the tail looks tomorrow, since that's when he's supposed to be fully healed, but I'm guessing I'll leave it on another day or so to be sure.

Honestly didn't do a whole lot today, annoyingly. But I DID get to play multiplayer Terraria for a couple of hours, so that was fun! Had to finish early because of my father's bday dinner, though, which was also great!

( Food rambles )

Other than all of that, mostly just reading today. Some solo Terraria this evening too, but that's about it. According to the tracking new computer should be here tomorrow! It maintained it was gonna come today until mid-afternoon, even though that was clearly not gonna happen (it wasn't even in the right city yet!), but hopefully tomorrow is accurate! Am excite!!! :D

I went shopping with Mama this morning, as planned. Got Mama her present! Also got part of a present for my father, too, so that's a start! Still no idea what to get for Sibling though orz orz orz

And then this afternoon took Sushi to the vet! He REALLY didn't want to get into the carrier, and once we managed to get him in there he sulked the entire way there, through the vet visit, and back home. Sigh. SO DRAMATIC, SUSHI.

Anyway, turns out we were there a week early (I put down the wrong date on my calendar, whooops), but the vet saw him anyway - luckily there wasn't another appointment, or if there was they were running super late - and she's super happy with how he's healing! He's allowed to have the cone off for a bit, too, though not overnight yet. This pleases him omg. He apparently also groomed so much fur out of his coat Mama had to get the vacuum out! Which is! A lot!!! :O Bet he's feeling way better now!

I played a bunch of multiplayer Terraria when we got home, too, which was super fun! :3 Still getting our asses absolutely smashed in the expert mode game, heh. We beat Plantera in the standard mode game though! :D

Also! I think I will be getting a new raspi to replace the shitty laptop - the 500+ kit and the official portable screen are a little more expensive than a super cheap laptop, but much much shinier. And probably better made. You know. On the balance of things. :D Will talk to Mama about it tomorrow - will probably be partially paid for by them as a Christmas present - but feeling pretty secure in the decision right now. :3

So we FINALLY heard back from the window people. Our windows are currently scheduled for the 19th... OF JANUARY. :|

So we've got PLENTY of time to get things organised, but wow it would have been nice to not have to rush as much as I did! It is in fact a lot more annoying to go through things now that they're moved rather than as part of the moving process! SIGH.

Still, today I got rid of a bunch more old paperwork, so that's something! The sensitive information has been torn up and put in the chook coop, which is gonna destroy it WAY quicker than waiting for room in the compost bin. Pretty pleased I thought of that!

Tomorrow, I think, I'll pick up my knitting, and-or the jigglypuff. Weather's warm enough that I don't want to pick up the blanket again right now, I'mma need it soon. Probably. Though maybe I should start it, so that I can summon the nice weather... We'll see how it goes, anyway. Definitely need to take a break from sorting things, and coincidentally I'm done with the hanging files (at least for now), so yeah, making stuff!

Today was actually nice and warm and summery! I mean it's only the third of December it's not like that's late, it's just been so cold for this time of year that it's really! Really! Really nice. :3 I've been in short sleeves and three-quarter pants all day and haven't even needed my blanket!

Today I attempted to sort through my old stamp collection so I can get rid of it, since I haven't looked at it for at least twenty five years, but Mama did some research and it looks like some of them might actually be worth something - not a lot, but enough that selling them wouldn't be a waste of time. Soooo gonna have to go through them again and actually do research this time nooooo it's gonna take FOREVER. Still, at least I did part of it, and most of the international ones (maybe all of them but I'm not gonna bet I didn't miss any) are separate, and... bleh. I'm gonna end up hyperfixating if I work on it too much I know myself it was already a struggle to not go through things and try and fill out the stamp album. SIGH.

I did get rid of some other stuff, too, so at least my tidying up project got somewhere today. A very slow process, but it's something.

Went through a bunch of old high school stuff today. I got rid of some of it! That's something! Find it difficult to get rid of actual creative writing stuff, even if I also can't fucking read it because cringe factor. Let's just say there were a LOT of exclamation points in some of the stuff I skimmed and leave it at that... >>;;;

Still, I was able to shove stuff into one folder instead of the two it was inexplicably in - maybe it'd be too thick for everything that was in there? But it's fine now, so. :3

Many, MANY more things need to be gone through, of course; I'm going to try and continue to do them while we don't have word about the goddamn windows. This waiting in suspense thing is really annoying! But also it's December, somehow, so I need to start thinking about Christmas stuff, and if I'm going to make any presents. Probably not? Maybe something for A, but I can't think of what. I also can't think of what for like. Anyone but Mama, who told me she'd like a calendar. (I have checked the cool shop's online page and none of the calendars currently there are suitable for Mama. Alas.)

Anyway, that's all stuff to worry about tomorrow, right now is for going to bed. If. You know. I can make myself disturb the cat on my lap... (Tortilla is VERY cuddly tonight!)