It feels like today was FOREVER, but it really wasn't.

Anyway, big thing I (and Mama) did today was totally redecorate the chook run for the chooks! We filled the big holes in with dirt, and put cardboard down, and also an old tyre in a corner, and then filled everything up with sugarcane mulch! So that should make them a bit happier! :3 Still haven't finished the chook run thing, but I had the idea to put the tyre in yesterday, so we did that first since it took uh WAY less time than we're guessing finishing off the thing will take. Given how much longer every single step has taken than we thought.

I also wrapped my whole two presents for people this year. Organised!!! And I did manage to finish up a tube of wrapping paper, plus a sheet of stickers, so that was good too! :D ...I did do this instead of working on the new computer, though. >>;;; Yes I may be avoiding the annoyance of setting it up somewhere it can get ethernet. Gonna have to do it tomorrow though, I'm going catsitting on Saturday and want to have at least a couple of days for testing before I go! >:

Also I opened up my big bag of dried apples. It is. So dangerous. But I think I've eaten less than I did the first day last time, IIRC, so that's something!

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.)

I am at A's place!

Turns out doing an overnight is actually an EXCELLENT test run of new computer setups, because I've ALREADY figured out quite a few things I need to change/prep for:

( Lots of nerdery goes here. )

IN ANY CASE. In non-new-computer-related news, I did do some other stuff today! I got Mama to drop me off at the place I got my parents snack-presents from last year, and got my father some more of the freeze dried strawberries he absolutely adored. (And some licorice for Mama, too.) I also got some snacks for me, of course!

Still nothing for Sibling, though. :/ I had to walk past somewhere that sold game stuff on the way back, so I poked my nose in there, but nothing stood out. I thought if nothing else I could get some MtG boosters, but they were all out of the newest set! Boo! And since I don't keep up with MtG stuff I have no idea what sets are still legal for pro-level play soooo I didn't want to go back to one of the other sets. The rotation stuff is. Confusing. :/

I also saw the Stardew Valley board game, but it was Extremely Expensive so I didn't look at it in detail. Just. Nope. I am not a board game player, really, and that's the only reason you'd spend lots on a game like that I think. Not just a cool merch thing hahahaha. (Also I have some extremely cool fanart that was much less expensive AND super pretty, so, you know, I'm fine with my priorities.)

A's cats are super cute as usual, too! Kitty is of course Made Of Grump, but that's her usual state so it's fine. I have eaten all of the salami here AND there were fresh peas so I ate all of those, too... >>;; Also had a random pie for tea, and it was beef and CHEESE! :O Amazing! And so delicious!

I did, however, forget my toothbrush & related stuff, so WHOOPS. I'mma just hope that one night of scrubbing with my finger (and flossing if there's some in the cupboards) will be okay, heh. If I was here longer of course I'd just go buy one, but something to keep in mind! (Also less annoying than forgetting my hairbrush. Or underwear. I know this from experience! |D)

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

Few things happened today!

Worked on the chook run thing some more, it's... kinda? Sorta? All together frame-wise?? The door sticks but it is technically all together. I think. (I mean. We're more or less out of parts so it should be but I'm not gonna be convinced until it's actually done...) Just got to put the chicken wire on, now! :D

Also my lemon tree has SO MANY TINY LEMONS it's really cool! Hopefully some of them get big and ripen!!! Also did some gall wasp management with a veggie peeler, which does seem to work better than just cutting things... :3

Bought my new computer! :D :D :D Hopefully it'll get here soon!!! (The tracking says it'll be here tomorrow but that is uh. Extraordinarily fast and thus probably wrong?? But who knows maybe!!!)

Also went to the shops for cordial and also got fancy ice cream, it is very tasty. :9 :9 :9

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

Not a whole lot today, really. Played Terraria with people, which was nice! Not very long this time, 'cause people had to go to sleep earlier than normal, but this is what you get when you're playing with people over the internet! Freaking time zones...

Played some solo Terraria too, and went for a walk with Mama... poked around online looking for present ideas, too, but no dice there. :/ So I said I'll go with Mama out shopping tomorrow morning, bleeeeeh. Dislike! But also a good idea, so.

Also, Sushi goes to see the vet again tomorrow, so we'll see how she thinks he's going! Hopefully he'll be free of the Cone of Doom, but we'll see hahahahaha. She said it'd be ~2 weeks for that and it's only been a week and a half. But also Sushi would LOVE him some freedom from Cone of Doom, he is so very very sad about it.

No work on the chook run thing today, because weather. Damnit, weather! We're getting SO CLOSE!!! Maybe tomorrow...

I DID do some knitting today, though! :D Plus I de-furred a pillow that's been a favoured Sushi-bed which was. A lot of fur. Mama's got an extremely handy tool for it - it's meant for de-pilling clothes, but it works great on furry stuff, much better than its actual intended use. Pillow is still fairly pilled, but very very little fur left. :D

Also helped out with putting the Christmas tree up, which is of course making me realise how little time there is until Christmas, fffff. Time, why are you like this???

...speaking of, time to go the fuck to sleep. Yes.

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!

So, Mama and I worked on the chook shed thing this morning, until Mama Needed a break (she got lightheaded, I suspect because she'd also mown the lawn this morning and only had some toast), and it's... getting there? We attached the last pole and put the door hinges on! Maybe we'll finish some time this year!

I also went through more of my stuff and got rid of some more things! Lots of HS-era stuff. Also sorted some more stuff into art binders, so I'm able to get rid of two hanging files in my one hanging file drawer, which is nice! Not that they were big ones, but still. Progress! (The biggest one at the moment is manuals/warranties, which is uh. Well. I HAVE gone through it and done a cursory search, and I DID throw some stuff out, but... Probably need to do a more involved one at some point. A lot of it's manuals for stuff I still use though, so it's not a high priority.)

Anyway, probably back to the hanging files tomorrow, I just kinda ran out of brain. So many decisions!!! Did some colouring in after that, and then Terraria this evening, where I'm just building minecarts across the map and that kind of extremely simple work, which is good when out of cheese error. Yes.

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.

Yup, another multiplayer Terraria game today, was very fun! I died SO MANY TIMES, but in my defence exactly zero of them were from lava, and I was. You know. Submerged. I just think it's super unfair for enemies to drop down on you when you're already in lava. :/

Other than that... Sibling was over, helping my father with some stuff. Went for a walk with Mama. Did this month's jobsearch paperwork. We still haven't heard anything about the windows...

Anyway, somehow it got late, so now I'mma go nap yesss.