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Onward and Upward
Nov. 2nd, 2020 08:35 amI'm about to go try a short run on the treadmill.
Saturday afternoon I took the bike out for a short two-mile ride down to the intersection and back - it was fun! The handlebars have gotten loose and they need to be raised. You should see the bruising on my right knee from that. Anyway, the weather has finally turned here and it's nice a cool today. By the end of the week it may get too warm to have the house open for several days, but it's always a relief to be able to open the windows and air things out.
I have a ton of frosting left over from making Fox's birthday cake, so I'm going to try freezing it and using it in December as the filling for a Japanese-style roll cake. I'd like to try a matcha roll, and then drizzle the whole thing with a dark chocolate ganache.
Today's one of my typically busier days, but my goal for the week is to finish out the October drawing prompts and get back to regular comics. I've also lost a week of training, but I don't think I'm in too bad of shape for tackling the virtual Dopey Challenge next month - although maybe I should reserve judgement there until after this run, considering this stupid strained muscle.
Fox also upgraded my phone to a Pixel 4A, which is nice in one sense but then there's all the upgrade bullshit. I am kind of upgrade-phobic after having so many Apple upgrades blow up on me. One catastrophic upgrade to iTunes once wiped my ENTIRE music library. So with the phone I've been trying to re-log in to things that require two-factor authentication. Steam and Discord have been particular pains in the ass, and it may be smartest to simply delete their apps and reinstall them from scratch. Happily Fox is aware of these problems so he didn't do a factory reset on our old phones yet, so I could still get info off mine. Steam seems okay now but Discord is still freaking out and won't let me log in. If I can't get it reset this afternoon I'm going to just delete and reinstall.
Hollow Knight progress: Acquired the King's Brand and accessed the Abyss. Picked up Shade Cloak and Abyssal Shriek. Fell down the Abyss shaft like half a dozen times platforming back up because I'm so awesome at this game. Next up - go poke stuff I couldn't get to previously because of the Shade Gates.
Saturday afternoon I took the bike out for a short two-mile ride down to the intersection and back - it was fun! The handlebars have gotten loose and they need to be raised. You should see the bruising on my right knee from that. Anyway, the weather has finally turned here and it's nice a cool today. By the end of the week it may get too warm to have the house open for several days, but it's always a relief to be able to open the windows and air things out.
I have a ton of frosting left over from making Fox's birthday cake, so I'm going to try freezing it and using it in December as the filling for a Japanese-style roll cake. I'd like to try a matcha roll, and then drizzle the whole thing with a dark chocolate ganache.
Today's one of my typically busier days, but my goal for the week is to finish out the October drawing prompts and get back to regular comics. I've also lost a week of training, but I don't think I'm in too bad of shape for tackling the virtual Dopey Challenge next month - although maybe I should reserve judgement there until after this run, considering this stupid strained muscle.
Fox also upgraded my phone to a Pixel 4A, which is nice in one sense but then there's all the upgrade bullshit. I am kind of upgrade-phobic after having so many Apple upgrades blow up on me. One catastrophic upgrade to iTunes once wiped my ENTIRE music library. So with the phone I've been trying to re-log in to things that require two-factor authentication. Steam and Discord have been particular pains in the ass, and it may be smartest to simply delete their apps and reinstall them from scratch. Happily Fox is aware of these problems so he didn't do a factory reset on our old phones yet, so I could still get info off mine. Steam seems okay now but Discord is still freaking out and won't let me log in. If I can't get it reset this afternoon I'm going to just delete and reinstall.
Hollow Knight progress: Acquired the King's Brand and accessed the Abyss. Picked up Shade Cloak and Abyssal Shriek. Fell down the Abyss shaft like half a dozen times platforming back up because I'm so awesome at this game. Next up - go poke stuff I couldn't get to previously because of the Shade Gates.
