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Here We Go Again
Oct. 6th, 2024 06:22 amLast night Milton was a hurricane, yes, but it still looked like kind of a disorganized mess. Apparently he got his act together overnight and it now going to hit Tampa as a category 4 storm, then take I4 across the state to rake Orlando. We'll be on the north/northeast side of this one and honestly I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
We replenished our gasoline supply recently, so today I'll assess whether we might need any other supplies. I doubt it, I think we're decently well provisioned from Helene, but the cats' dry food is coming via Amazon and scheduled to be here Tuesday, while Milton is right now looking like a Wednesday daytime storm for us. I may tag along to Fox's PT appointment and pick up a small bag of good kibble at Walmart, along with some comfort items for us. I'm getting to the point of wanting to do some Stress Baking so I want a bottle of milk for making shokupan.
It's raining right now, actually. I haven't checked the digital rain gauge since I got up, but we were forecast to have more or less continual rain all week. The good news here is that after all this passes, our overall temperatures drop and it starts genuinely feeling like fall.
Yesterday afternoon, we dismantled the old trash shed and rebuilt it - mostly. Fox wants to rebuild the doors, but the walls and roof are back up at a new height to accommodate the new can. The trash can shed also serves as a safe place for the generator, should we need to hook it up. Battery backup systems that would run on our solar array are expensive but we've been looking a lot more seriously at one and starting to budget for it.
I started writing out "Lora" as a story - beginnings are always awkward for me, so I basically wrote a placeholder opening and I'm getting into the meat of the story. It just reminds me how much I had cut out of the comic to save space and length.
I've also finally managed to make some progress in Baldur's Gate 3. I got stuck for a while on a big baddie, but in my wanderings around this area, I also found a room with several smoke powder and firewine barrels, so ... barrelmancy time. Because if strategy doesn't work you can always blow stuff up.
Rain World's older save files were gone off my computer, so I ascended one the other day and installed the Downpour DLC. I haven't started one of the "new slugcats" campaigns but I did start fooling around with expedition mode, which is said to be hard but looks like fun. Video Cult said they had something special for us later this month, but with The Watcher scheduled to come out in March, I'm curious to see what they've got, especially since they told us to save up our money? Giant slugcat plush maybe?
We replenished our gasoline supply recently, so today I'll assess whether we might need any other supplies. I doubt it, I think we're decently well provisioned from Helene, but the cats' dry food is coming via Amazon and scheduled to be here Tuesday, while Milton is right now looking like a Wednesday daytime storm for us. I may tag along to Fox's PT appointment and pick up a small bag of good kibble at Walmart, along with some comfort items for us. I'm getting to the point of wanting to do some Stress Baking so I want a bottle of milk for making shokupan.
It's raining right now, actually. I haven't checked the digital rain gauge since I got up, but we were forecast to have more or less continual rain all week. The good news here is that after all this passes, our overall temperatures drop and it starts genuinely feeling like fall.
Yesterday afternoon, we dismantled the old trash shed and rebuilt it - mostly. Fox wants to rebuild the doors, but the walls and roof are back up at a new height to accommodate the new can. The trash can shed also serves as a safe place for the generator, should we need to hook it up. Battery backup systems that would run on our solar array are expensive but we've been looking a lot more seriously at one and starting to budget for it.
I started writing out "Lora" as a story - beginnings are always awkward for me, so I basically wrote a placeholder opening and I'm getting into the meat of the story. It just reminds me how much I had cut out of the comic to save space and length.
I've also finally managed to make some progress in Baldur's Gate 3. I got stuck for a while on a big baddie, but in my wanderings around this area, I also found a room with several smoke powder and firewine barrels, so ... barrelmancy time. Because if strategy doesn't work you can always blow stuff up.
Rain World's older save files were gone off my computer, so I ascended one the other day and installed the Downpour DLC. I haven't started one of the "new slugcats" campaigns but I did start fooling around with expedition mode, which is said to be hard but looks like fun. Video Cult said they had something special for us later this month, but with The Watcher scheduled to come out in March, I'm curious to see what they've got, especially since they told us to save up our money? Giant slugcat plush maybe?
