Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

Yeah, slept most of today. But!!! I finished the varigated thread! On the last of the max length lines, too, so I'm on the downward stretch for this direction! \o/

Um. Lots of halloween events in stupid games I play, which I guess is nice?? Do like that dragcave has jigsaw puzzles this year, I do like them. :)

Anyway, back to bed for me! Yes.

Spent most of the day with A, which was very fun! :D Didn't do anything spectacular, but I did get some snacks, nomnomnom :V

Did two more lines on the blanket! Down to the last varigated thread! :D Hopefully only two more max length lines this direction, too, but will find that out tomorrow when I chalk the next lines. Still, I think this direction is more than halfway done now, yay! :D

Nothing really else, honestly. Other than I am very sleepy and need another nap, hahahahhaha

Went on a walk with Mama this afternoon, and we saw so many goddamn rabbits. Had to have been at least twenty, though some might have been doubles (since we walked for a while and then back again). Just so many. UGH.

Really need them eradicated but of course it's difficult what with trapping being illegal (too high risk of getting something similarly-sized but native), and it being too goddamn dangerous to shoot them in this particular patch of parkland. I feel like an obvious solution is live-trapping and letting go anything other than ferals, but then you've got the problem of what to do with all the corpses, which given selling wild-harvested meat is also illegal is... difficult... SIGH.

Anyway it sucks. I should definitely look into it more though, might be something I can get involved in maybe??? Dunno. Have put it on the to-do list, but not right now I need to go to bed.

Between that and the fact I really needed to shower since I'm meeting A tomorrow, I only got one line done on the blanket, but that's still better than nothing! >: It's another max length line, too! Got another two chalked out, too, and it's still not quite at the point of getting smaller, but SOON. Yes. >:

Yeah, I hit max length with the quilting today! \o/ Gonna be a few more rows of that, but goddamnit, it can't get any longer and that's excellent! :D :D :D

Almost out of varigated thread, too; done with all the stuff that I bought, so I've just got... well technically four more threads, but I've only got a tiny bit left of one since I used most of it today, so it's more like three. May or may not get finished with them tomorrow! :O :O :O Then to solids, yes. I have. Many many solids to get through hahahaha. No chance I'll use everything up with this project, nope.

Other than that, pretty quiet day. Did some cleaning of various routine types. No work on the chook run thing, due to weather again.

Aaaand brain is going splat so it is CLEARLY past time to go the fuck to sleep, soooo I'mma do. Yes.

Soooo since we have Window Guys coming to give a quote next week, Mama's had a bee in her bonnet about cleaning my room up. Which is. Um. Possibly fair. >>;;;

Anyway, since my father was using the area we're making the chook run thing in to varnish some stuff today (which is important too, we're not at all mad about it), she got me to tackle that instead. Which. Bleh. But! She helped, and by helped I mean folded my washing and found stuff and did all the vacuuming so yeah, really helping! Which was nice. And I managed to at least put some stuff properly away, though I should. Really work on that more. Yes.

And now my floor is very clear and clean, which is nice! It's not gonna last but it's nice! (T-minus something something until Sushi plays gravity with stuff on... probably my display cabinet again. But maybe the bookshelves.)

Other than that, I did three more rows of quilting! Whee! Probably two more until max length? Hard to say for sure until I draw the lines, but it'll probably be tomorrow! :O Am hype!!!

In a true strike of fate, I got my health care card this morning! When I had to go to the doctor to get my new meds script! \o/ This means the doctor's visit is free! (Otherwise you pay up front and get a certain amount back, which is a) annoying, and b) still requires you to pay extra money, bleh.)

It ALSO means my meds are cheaper, not that they were breaking the bank as it was since they're generic and also our medical system is halfway decent. But still, is nice!

Anyway, did that, and then got a BUNCH of snacks at the supermarket - I've been utterly out for over a week, it's been sadtimes for me - and then came home and just passed the fuck out. Sigh. Not that we'd've been able to work on the chook run thing anyway, given the weather - it wasn't raining excessively, but enough that everything would be wet and slippery and someone (likely me) would end up injuring themselves.

I did another couple of lines on my quilting project, too. Only two, but they're getting so goddamn long that that took like four hours orz orz orz. Still not max length! Soon though. Soon. And then they'll get smaller again!

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

We tried to work on the chook coop thing again! It... did progress? But not far. Fuck this fucking kit, I swear. (Also Mama is SO SURPRISED at how small it is, and is like, I don't think it's matching the measurements on the website. Me: No it totally is, it's just that you thought that meant something bigger than it actually is.)

Anyway, might try and get some more done tomorrow, though it'll depend on how late my doctor's appointment is and when I get back from getting meds etc. etc.

I did also work on the quilt tonight! Got three more lines done, which is half the number of lines as yesterday, but more than half the work. They're still! Getting! Longer!!! Getting through thread, too, which is part of the goal! Looks like we'll be running out of variegated stuff sooner than I thought we would, I thought it'd last one whole direction, but looks like not so much. Oh well! Still got a fuckton of thread to use, I'm not worried about that so it's fine. :3 (Hopefully after this we'll at least be down to two boxes of thread, though I'm not gonna be mad if it's only one... :D)

Also! Managed to brush both cats this afternoon, which is extremely handy given it's shedding season again. They're still gonna be shedding every-fucking-where, but at least some of it is contained! :3

Working on the chook coop again today, and. Wow. Just. UGH. Part of this thing is EXTREMELY ANNOYING and I ended up nopeing out of it for today because frustration levels too high. Nope!!!!

Will try with a different approach probably tomorrow (depending on weather).

I DID get a bunch of quilting done, though, so I'm happy with that. It's looking pretty good! Definitely amateur, but as I AM an amateur, that's fine! I don't actually care about stuff like 'gaps should be exactly half the stitch length', or even. You know. Super consistent stitch lengths in general. I mean, they should be ballpark the same, because I want this thing to STICK, but that's a practical consideration rather than aesthetic. The thing's big enough it's gonna fade into the background anyway, so I really do not feel bad about not caring. XD;;;

I also went for a walk to the shops with Mama, and we got extremely useful staples, milk and cordial. I continue to combat dehydration! Not the best at succeeding, but I also don't lose majorly, so it'll be fine... Having non-gross things to drink does help a lot though.

Did a few things, today!

Helped Mama out putting together this chook run kit thing she got - the idea is to replace the run we have so it's less. Completely terrible to move around in. Not sure if it's gonna be big enough, but it's something at least! Very fiddly to put together, but should be okay.

I also started the quilting part of the blanket! Doing sashiko-style, and it's going pretty well! Faster than I was dreading, too! Still going to take a while, but I might end up doing the entire pattern rather than just bare bones... Will see how it goes; since I'm going on a diagonal the rows are getting longer, and I haven't reached max width yet, so might take forever after all. Still, it's encouraging!

( Home repairs/improvement updates )

...anyway. Yes. House stuff is happening! Slowly, but still! Happening! :D

Also my toof is pmuch better. Which is great! :3

Yeah, dentist today. Bleh. I mean, they're nice and they do good work but. Well.

It's like I said at tea time, on the one hand the anaesthetic's worn off. On the other hand, the anaesthetic's worn off...

One was a really deep one, and that's the one that's hurting. Bleh. It's not too bad, I don't even actually need painkillers for it, it's just annoying. Also I'm hungry and there's a couple of jaw movements that are painful, which is. Not a great combination. :( I did eat tea, and I had a boiled egg and a lychee pudding cup a couple of hours ago, but stomach says MOAR. Bleh.

Clearly it is time for sleepy sleeps, and hopefully my toof will have settled down in the morning!

It's done! It's finally fucking done! \o/!!!!!

I had to work pretty late to get it done, honestly it was a little much for one day (for me), but I was SO CLOSE so of course I pushed myself and got it done. Eeeee, done! Hopefully I never have to do that again omg. Particularly not on this scale!

Still, yay! May or may not start the actual quilting tomorrow; I've got the dentist again with a couple of fillings and it'll depend on how motivated I feel as much as anything hahaha.

Other than that, went for a walk with Mama, which was nice! I wore my new shoes and got a blister, though, which I was pmuch expecting. Hopefully once I get my feet used to them / shoes worn in I'll get a callus that'll fucking stay, but given how often this happens I'm not gonna count on it. :/ At least these are all season shoes so it won't be like my goddamn sandal calluses that need to be acquired every fucking year...

No post last night as the internet went down and I said fuckit and went to bed, hahaha.

Both yesterday and today mostly just working on the blanket, nothing too exciting really. Still not done, but I'm getting much faster, which is something! Hopefully I'll get it fully basted tomorrow, but we'll see, it's uh. Still a lot.

( Blanket rambles. )

SO IT TURNS OUT I TOTALLY FUCKED UP THE BASTING

By which I mean. The blanket was turned 90 degrees from where it should be. So the new top didn't fit.

So yeah, had to pull it ALL OUT omfg ARGH

...yeah I sulked a bunch about that. Because. No. Goddamnit.

Anyway Mama did help me re-fold everything this evening once I'd sulked enough to face it, but I've still gotta start from scratch again. :|

But hey at least shopping this morning was successful! Mama got the doona covers she was looking for, and I got some new shoes! (AND they were super cheap!) Gonna have to wear them in a bit, but they definitely fit better than the previous ones, whee! Don't need to worry about them falling off my feet at all!

Also heard from A about a possible tech thing I could help out a friend with - unless it's a MUCH bigger project than it seems I wouldn't charge for it, but it'd be something else to put on my resume, which is extremely important right now too hahahaha. So we'll see how that goes!