Saturday: Quarantine Day 1

I know it's not technically a quarantine, and I'm seriously thinking about popping down to the grocery store tomorrow to get things to make curry.  But it's still day 1 of staying inside more than usual.

It also didn't hurt that today was Achievement Hunter's 12 hour livestream, since they had to cancel all their live shows.

That was good to have in the background while I pushed on with the puzzle.

 The good news is that I have a new third puzzle that I can start when I finish this one.

And I finally figured out what the headless thing I've seen in the nearby list is.

• Everyone should get paid sick leave.
• And I guess maybe they do in NJ?  Cool.
• At least this is better than the UK.
• This should be the second biggest news story this month.
• A good dashboard.
• Huh.  I have all the hardware necessary for this.  I guess I have a project for tomorrow.

Friday: That point where you stay like two and a half hours late at work, and get a result, and that result is you're working on it a lot more next week.

Stupid bad convergence not solving the problems I was hoping it would solve.  Grump.

I guess this is a thing.

• Kepler wrote a novel?
• I've been trying to read all of these bios.

On that topic, I realized something while making lunch this morning:  In the Egypt game, Cleopatra has to eventually become queen.  That probably means she's going to go evil and be part of the evil cult.  Which makes this game the first/second game to have the main female background character be secretly evil.  Shitty trope.

Wednesday: Back to work.

It seems like I have a giant backlog of things to do.  Ugh.

Finally found this guy.

And encountered more random cryptic shit.

And...drove a boat to attack enemy boats?  This seems familiar.

• This seems like simple math.
• Target delivers now?  On one hand, this would keep me to a shopping list.  On the other, that seems extra lazy.
• I should try to make posters like this.

Monday: Working remotely still means no fun.

:(

Flying tomorrow continues no-fun, and being back in the office Wednesday tops it all off.  Plus, today was a constant telecon/slack/messages day.

Have I posted the weird tea stuff from Stardew?

Team Stardew is pretty fun, although I wish there was a way to go off and grind our characters a bit.  And we all died on the same day, on the same level of the mines.

Flower dance.

And another legendary.

Sunday: Wrapping up fun times.

Tomorrow is back to work.

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Saturday: Birthday

And I finished my book.

Wednesday: Travel

Travel is never lots of fun.

Airport monte cristo isn't great.

How do you remove all flavor from something that's just sugar + salt + fat?

Arrival tacos helped.

This guy's back?

Huh.  What?

Saturday: A busy day

Woke up early, and discovered it was the rainiest day ever.

So I decided to go see Weathering with You.

Never fits in frame.

It is not as good as Your Name was, but that's an unfair bar to compare it to.  Probably the best movie since, though.  Shinkai is very good at making things be very sad before resolving them.

And there's a Pizzaria Uno next door, so I have lots of thick pizza.

I've missed thick pizza.

Maybe a third of hell is done?

Then I defeated the Sphinx.

And watched this wolf butt spin around in the floor.

Tuesday: Back to work.

Which means getting up too early, spending a lot of work time figuring out the state of things from last week, and generally being unhappy to not be on my couch.

But there was a new Legends of Tomorrow, so that helps.

I guess one of my eggs had a new baby in it?

I was trying to figure out why someone scribbled on my orange sticker, and then I saw that it was a crow.  That just raised more questions. 

Monday: Sleepy

To the point where I fell asleep on the couch this evening.

A happy looking Pokemon.

 I got a new puzzle today, too:

All the pieces are the same kind of shape, and I'm not sure if that makes it harder or easier.

Friday: I need the weekend to catch up on things.

And I plan on going to see the Star Wars this weekend too.

And there's all this new Pokemon stuff to do.

 Plus Stardew updated again, and I still have Assassin's Creed to finish.

And I completed the sky on this puzzle, but still have the ground.

I kind of want to get a new puzzle this weekend, too.

• I want yummy pasta.
• Yummy yummy pasta.
• Yeah, this doesn't help.
• Neil Peart.

Thursday: Puzzles

There was a raid convenient when I left work today.

And then I got distracted when I got home, and worked on my puzzle.

I completed more of the border and the area around the moon.

I should be able to get it done this weekend.  I color sorted things, and that helped a lot.

• Star Wars.
• Big trees.
• I think I could use this and this to put together an instagram to rss reader interface.

Monday: New Beginnings.

But I'm going home tomorrow.  I've been away for a long time, and it'll be good to be back in my bed, with my couch, and with all my stuff again.  It would really be nice if everyone lived closer together, but that's probably not happening anytime soon.

I did find a shiny Eevee.  Shame it's crappy.

• Have I posted the dev blog for Stardew?  I keep wondering if I should get the xbox version as well.  Maybe just move the base to the main TV?
• The first chapter of Sarah Gailey's new book.

Sunday: A lazy vacation day.

Always a good thing.

Everyone woke up late, and then had pancakes.

Haunter was not our waiter.

Followed by getting squishy jiggly cheesecake.

This place is far away, but seems really good.

I had super sweet coffee.

 And then more being lazy, which is always good before slowly working back into a "doing work" mode.

Sushi dinner.

I then stayed up way too late reading my book, and JFC, can't anyone get a break in this story?  Not everyone needs to end up dead or exiled or mauled.  Geeze.

Friday: An ending.

Greek lunch.

 I should find a good Greek place.

Haunter at pre-dinner cider fest.

Cider is good. 

• This store is finally open again.
• Sure, fine, I guess.
• Somehow I ended up on the wiki page for Mycenaean Greece.

Thursday: It seems like forever since I was last at home.

I did get my rework of my Stardew farm mostly done today.  I think this new format is far more efficient.  Being able to use a workbench helps a lot, too.

Delibird is too big to photograph.

Tuesday: New Year's Eve

Lunch at Mighty Fine.

Then a lot of cooking and prep work and decorating.  LOTS of all of those.

Including blowing up 59 balloons.

 It's a lot of balloons.

But through the magic of coordinating colors of swaggable decorating cloth, they were able to be suspended to provide a festive NYE feel, with somewhat of a "old-style ship" feel.

I also decoratively stacked the wine glasses.

 It was loud due to kids, but all-in-all a nice end to a reasonably good year.

And there's a new splashscreen as well.

Monday: Escape!

Healthy lasagna with spinach and lemon ricotta.

Lemon ricotta is really good here, and probably in similar use-cases.

This sounds like a superhero.

Then escape room, where we solved all the puzzles with only one small hint in the bonus "extra-hard" bit.  Not bad, but we probably could have sorted it out if we had thought clearer about it.

I don't even know who this guy is.

Heatmor?  Whatever.

Then planning and shopping and cleaning for NYE.  One side benefit: getting bbq:

Yummy delicious bbq.  The brisket cooled a lot between the store and home, but that isn't really that big of a problem.

• I saw this chair yesterday, and kind of really want one, but with a back.  I 100% prefer to sit in my office chair crosslegged, and this would make that much easier and more comfortable.