pshaw_raven | Right To Your Door

I got sidetracked while I was sick and went from milk bread recipes to moon cakes, and wound up reading more about snow skin cakes than I ever intended. As much as I'd like to try making them, they look like they require several specialized purchases - not just the molds, but certain kinds of rice flour, filling ingredients, etc. So I think I will just plan a trip into Jacksonville at some point and buy a box, rather than investing a bunch of money in equipment I may only use once a year. I don't want to end up like people my mom's age who have plates and stuff that they only use at Christmas or something, and otherwise it sits around taking up space.

Obviously there's nothing to stop me making moon cakes whenever I want, but Fox may not like them, and if he doesn't, I'm certainly not going through all that effort just to make a treat for myself.

Another day of waiting on FedEx, also. Steam started offering refurbished Steam Decks, and I'd been saving up for one for a while, so I went ahead and grabbed a refurb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, but every day, it just goes back to the depot. Yesterday it even said "delivery not attempted." I thought about trying to redirect it, but the page for selecting a location has none. Like there are no FedEx locations anywhere in the world - it's a blank map. I'm not sure what to do at this point aside from contacting Valve, which I'll do if it doesn't arrive today. I'm not holding my breath, either. They're up front enough to actually put on the tracking info that they didn't try to come here, and didn't even contact me using my contact info which is listed on my FedEx account ... even Amazon will at least shoot me a quick text if they think they can't get their trucks down our road. And UPS is the king of DGAF and the brown trucks will show up in all kinds of conditions. Dunno what's making "the world on time" have cold feet.

Maybe UPS is so fearless out here because Fox went and pulled out a stuck delivery truck once using the tractor, LOL.

Anyway. I'm going to try to catch up on more household stuff today and then look at starting running again tomorrow. I'll be a week behind on training, but not a big deal. The "long run" I missed was an hour forty-five, so it looks like it was a scale-back week anyway. And the weather coming up looks more like our normal summer heat rather than the murderous climate-change fueled suffer-fest we were dealing with.