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Hanging out with my goblin cat and trying to enjoy my time off without letting the anxiety of being unemployed set in.

Have to do a release of Summit. And a lot of cleaning around the house.

Im working on a music video for some pop star I’ve never heard of and can’t remember the name of. But they have a pretty massive actress involved so its big as far as music videos go. Long ass day though and it’s hotter’n’hell out

Waiting patiently for new Vans to arrive.

Chores chores chores. Changed and washed the bedsheets, all the kitty litter, garden, saw a small ground mammal that was not a squirrel, worried about a friend, ate lunch, planned dinner, did husband put the blanket in the dryer? I suspect not. I should ask.

Watched Attack of the Clones today

Made baked potatoes and antipasto salad while family did a few chores. Played Wingspan. Now playing Sushi Go. Will do an art later. Only thing that would make the day better is if it was cool enough to go for a walk.

Not much this morning. Just on my laptop with a coffee next to me downtown. For this afternoon though, probably just getting back into language learning to keep my brain active.

This evening though, gonna do a run by the lake shore. I'm also gonna message a bunch of friends I haven't talked to in a long time, because I have been pretty bad at reaching out and hanging out with people this year.

Rolled down 80km of Italian alps today on the Alpe-Adria cycling route. Probably the nicest part of the route. Between Villach and Carnia including some 50+ km of the most beautiful rail to trail I've been on. With good weather as well. Honestly amazing day.

Norway's constitutional day today, so started the off at 8 with canon shots from the castle where the royal families resided in the 11-1200's followed by a speech from the mayor, then a parade through the city for the annual retelling of some of the towns heroes and legends from throughout history, and then hotdogs and ice cream and coffee in the sun before going home for breakfast and cake, and then the children's parade through the streets from home just before 13. Now it's gaming time while I listen to the party of the celebrating russ next door in the background.

Well, this morning, I'm nursing a hangover, and learning an important lesson about making bulk cocktails: water them down, because there's no need for ice if you keep bulk cocktails refrigerated. Also, the pumpkin spice espresso martini recipe I'd made several months ago came out annoyingly viscous.

But it was delicious otherwise, and I'd ended up drinking an entire bottle on my own last night. Luckily it was only ~50 proof.

Putter around in the garden while the pups and the hens frolic in the yard, then off to work this afternoon. Work is a doggie daycare/boarding/training facility and it’s a rather slow weekend, so basically it’ll be some cleaning but mostly 8hrs of chilling with a pack of dogs what’s going to be a lovely spring afternoon. I have no complaints.

Breakfast time. Than gotta go to the social centre to prep it for its 12birthday.

Sulking as my mother cleans my room to try and fix my mess. Now I can't do my plans in the order that they go into, and I can't do them out of order because I overthink.

I'm hard addicted to the Subnautica 2 EA, that's been eating up most of my free time!

I didn't have much expectations and I have to say it's blown my socks off story, gameplay and graphics wise. It's just like I opened Subnautica 1 for the first time again and I'm all for it.

I washed my dishes! Life has been grim lately. They had stacked up. Kitchen is clean now. And maybe I feel a bit better.

I got a few chores to do, then I'm going to sit down and do an experiment: I'm going to convert a guitar I just got got from a steel string guitar to a nylon string guitar.

It's an a 3/4 size, all mahogany acoustic, and it sounds good, with good definition in the mid range, and nicely balanced highs and lows, it's just a bit harsh for my ears. I already have a beautiful 3/4 size that I like, so I think this conversion could mellow out the tone of this new guitar, and give me a sound I don't already have.

I'm also going to change the nut, saddle, and pins from cheap plastic to bone. That should help, too.

It's Sunday. I will clock in to work at 10am. Working 8 hours, massaging 5 people. It's painful & my back will start to hurt like hell after the second client, I'll be absolutely deliriously in pain by the time I get to clients # 4 & 5, unable to articulate thoughts into words, and the pain won't go away until I wake up the next morning. Clock out at 6pm. Meeting a friend tonight to carpool to a beach 2 hours south of here, then I can sleep & wake up at that beach then enjoy a week there.

Just finished a LAN party. I'm the chairman of the nonprofit that arranges it. Everything went smooth. So smooth I had bad anxiety the day before we started lol. The aula we rented is cleaned, and the extra chairs and tables we rented have been picked up.

Before the pandemic we used to have close to a 1000 guests. But unfortunately big LAN partys are dying, so this year we were only around 70.

I think we'll keep a smaller size, but aiming for a bit more than 100 next year. Because at this size, it's still really fun without all the extra stress and workload that comes from arranging a really big party

I'm going to start a new homebrew experiment making watermelon cucumber hard seltzer with lemon zest and a splash of apple juice. It probably needs sweetener after the sugars have become alcohol to bring back the watermelon flavour and maybe some mineral salt to give it seltzer character.

National holiday, so celebrating with family.

Making music. I’ve started working on a new EP, probably around 5 songs, that I plan to release within 3 months.

Just got back from our camp where I'm doing renovations. It's only accessible by boat so all supplies have to be loaded in the trailer, brought to the boat, loaded in the boat, brought to the camp, then unloaded onto the dock. Makes for slow going, but the peace and beauty out there make up for it. Today, I'm going to church, picking up groceries for the week, then heading back to camp.

I'll continue sorting LEGO bricks. I'm almost done with Light Bluish Gray, of which I currently have about a cubic meter (probably even more) in the living room. I've got half of that again already sorted in storage.

Update: just finished the last box and put it in the car. Two weeks of sorting Light Bluish Gray are finally over!

Hot sweaty, course 2 of 3 about entering a structure. A good day all in all.

Made the mistake of trying Deadlock. It's invite only right now but there are communities that will let you friend someone for an invite. Anyway I figured it was good since it's Valve. And uh unfortunately I was right. I haven't slept properly in a week

Well, it's bed time here, but in the morning I'm going on a road trip to get another preventative rabies shot. I didn't build up enough antibodies from the 3 shots last fall to work with raccoons and foxes and such, so I'm giving it another try.

It's a 5-6 hour round trip, but another wildlife center is running a discount program, so it saves me $500 or so, even with gas taken into account.

I've been recovering from bottom surgery, still on my first week of being home from the hospital. Moving around has been hard, so I spent today watching TV (Dropout's GameChanger and Invincible S4), speaking to friends online or who visit, and doing some hand sewing. Well, plus my surgery maintenance.

I’m gonna try and make a dent in some songs that I’ve been working on. For one I’ve got the rhythm tracks all done, just need to see what else I need to add, like synth layers, background fx…it’s an instrumental, so no need to worry about vocals on this one. The other one I’ve only gotten about a third of the guitars done, and I really need to write drum and bass parts before I go any further with it. The lyrics are almost done, but I want to focus on the rhythm section first.

I’ll go through creative cycles where I’ll write/record every day, and then find myself going for weeks struggling to find the motivation. But I took some time off work specifically so I could focus my energy on music. So that’s what I’m gonna do.

took kiddo to a birthday party at the museum, did therapy, rode bikes to the park, bought ice-cream it was alright i guess .