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.

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.

Wednesday: 2020.

That seems like a made-up fake year.

I'm glad that my book review published last night.  It's a thing that's far too late in coming, but I plan to keep up with: every book I read this year should be listed, along with a rating on the "Dog Rates" scale of 10-15 / 10.  They're all good books.  I'm thinking about adding movies and music, but I don't want to clutter things up too much.

 Also video games?

Finally found a prismatic shard and got my galaxy sword.

Visited Caroline's weird tea world.

It this part of the same thing?

 I don't remember.

Married Abigail.

It's possible I rate romance interests based on proximity.

Discovered that auto-grabbers auto-grab things in coops.

Which is ground breaking.  I've reorganized my farm based on this information, and it's super efficient now.

Anyway, a new year:

Started with New Year Tacos.

 Delicious.

New Year Raid.

Green.

New Years New Restaurant Dinner.

 Tasty.

New Year Escape Room Box.

Mysterious.

Tuesday: At this rate, I'll have zero things to do at work by the end of the week.

Given that there have been like two people in the office this week, I've had a lot of time to test and fix things.  Maybe if things go well tomorrow, I'll take Thursday as a science day.

An old squirrel picture.

One of the neighborhood squirrels likes to hide on car wheels.  I've seen it three times, once when it dashed away from my car.

• I just thought this was funny.
• But I guess there's a song?
• Gawker is still being murdered.
• I should go look at gargoyles, once it cools off.

Oh also, Tetris:

Invictus is now easier?

And I probably need to send in my joycon to be repaired, because it's frustrating to almost sell my pickaxe every day in Stardew.

Friday: I figured things out at work, but it took all day, and I need a weekend to recover.

I did stay late to work on my FITS reader utility code.  It's now close to what I want it to do.

In any case, I've been staying up late to play Stardew this week.

Julie's right, you probably can finish the community center in the first year.  The things I didn't get:  Catfish, Cabbage, Truffle, Sunflower, Apples*3.  Buying a tree early seems like the strategy if I do another run.

You can get weird mushroom trees?

 Scenes from Stardew-Christmas:

I sold the wine I was going to give Harvey, so he got one of my speed-up coffees.

And then Sebastian came in with a freaking full Glow Ring, making me feel bad that I didn't try at all.

Abigail Is Weird, A Series.

That is quartz, Abby.  Don't eat rocks.

Nope.  I don't.  Because I have a job, Abby.

I think I already made a joke about this.

I mean, duh.

So I think I'm getting married to Abigail, is what I'm saying.

 

Even if she does play her flute, at night, in winter, next to a river.

No, Emily.  You hang out with Haley, and I don't like her, so you're not part of my Farm Adventure.

This was suppose to be another double entendre quote, but with Robin.

• They have the good ramen in Honolulu again?  :(
• Dan Didio is bad at writing.
• 
  

Wednesday: Testing time.

The least fun part of algorithm development and implementation.

Did I ever discover what befriending the Bear gets you?

• Cops suck.
• I apparently got the right degree, but then got the wrong job.
• I got Ninth House, but it's pretty easy to skew the results.
• Sarah Gailey on magic items.

Wednesday: An actual work day.

Tomorrow I should go through review comments, and do the fixes and make it work.  It also feels weird that today was the one week point.  I really wish companies were actually working on VR telepresence that was usable.

Most of the work was done at Epoch, where I saw this really nice crow.

Later, Giratina.

 And I also had some time to catch that last damn fish and get a regrade in Stardew:

Yeah.  Three donking fish and I'm only 3/4 candles.

And the whole town was happy I finished the community center.

And I got an award.  There was also a fight.

Resulting in Pierre opening his store for every day, as he now owns the product monopoly.

And second place.  Again.

• Seriously, about damn time.
• Area 51.

Tuesday: New rule: no playing Stardew until 6am.

Which I wouldn't have had to do if Marnie would have just gone to work one dang day and sold me a stupid chicken.  But nope!  She decided to take two days off, and then go to the Flower Dance, and not sell me anything to put in my stupid empty coop THAT I BUILT LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO, MARNIE.

But yeah, I probably shouldn't play for that long again.

The problem with getting a book delivered is that I now have to decide if I want to read it all right now, or save it for my travel book for when I visit Austin.

• And I finished my Crunchyroll show, and WTF, Bell's grandfather was actually Zeus in disguise? WTAF?
• Ellsworth Kelly stamps.  They didn't have any at the post office when I went there to pick up a package today.
• Some neural nets can be thought of as differential equations, and those can be thought of as classical mechanics.
• Geometry.

Monday: I think this technically means I've beaten the game.

Although I think I have to go for 100% completion.  I kind of wish it had a NewGame+, so I could carry over some stuff (like, even just my greenhouse would be nice) and start kind of fresh, but I think I'll just stick with my main game.

Besides, I'd kind of feel weird about marrying someone else now.  On that topic:

I finally got married in SV, beating the end of year two by one week.

I think someone should have told my new wife, however.

"Yeah, sure!" And then I ran off to reorganize the greenhouse and plan out the farm for the next year.  Then: fishing and clearing the quarry.

Oh.  OH.  OOOHHHHHH!  😲

 I wasn't expecting that.  Another thing I wasn't expecting:

WHAT?

WHAT!?!?!  I'm married, Abigail!  I have a purple star when I talk to my wife, which I'm pretty sure means that she's still in to me.

Let's check in on the other main married family in town.

Um

wow.  I somehow don't think Demetrius has the purple star going for him.

JFC, Demetrius!  Does anyone in your family not hate you?

Good to see you're taking things seriously.  Are you even in charge of the trees and rocks in public?  I assume the mayor would make the rules about that.

Then, on the first day of the new year, after giving me that blushing wink face above, Leah ambushed me as I was leaving our house.

The Art Show!

The Art Show!

The Art Show!

I knew she had an art show event that triggers after you reach an N-heart relationship.  I guess the show can only happen when it isn't winter, so if you turn on all the dating things to rush your relationship before the end of year two, you get things out of order, and the Art Show happens after you get married.  Which leads to the weird ambush.  And this letter:

"Leah!" I shouted from outside.  "I was right there!  You couldn't have told me this while we were having breakfast?"

Nope.  Because the game assumes we didn't just have breakfast.  In any case, I then went on my way to do some fishing at the river.

Where I was again ambushed by my wife into a surprise picnic.

Where her ex showed up, telling her she should leave town and go back to the city.  Excuse me, Jerkface, but we're married now, and I'm committed to keeping that purple star.  I punched Jerkface out, and then Leah said we should flee the scene of the crime, but that we should find someplace "more private".

You know we're married, right?

• So Gannett's going to go bankrupt because all their money is going to pay the people who bought them out, isn't it?
• I didn't know that Niven was an awful person.  Guess I'm glad I've never read any of his crap.
• I had the thought today to look up other books that I might like based on the books I've liked so far this year.  Here are three that I should probably look into, once I've burned through my backlog.
• Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
• The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin