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kaberettThis morning I accompanied A to St Pancras to wave them off to NixCon, via getting brunch just over from the Eurostar, and paused for my own purposes at buns from home in KGX to get myself treats.
Unfortunately, this evening I went "... it really has been a while since my last dose of the anti-CGRP migraine preventative, hasn't it", checked the calendar, and realised it was due last Tuesday. ( Read more... )
tada for the week
Sep. 20th, 2026 10:54 pmkaberettReading. gingerschnapps remarked, pre-event, that Daggerbound (T. Kingfisher) had been released, which I had somehow missed (somehow here meaning "because it wasn't announced via the Patreon???"), so this week while I have mostly been Lying Very Still with Very Little Brain I have reread Swordheart and consumed Daggerbound. They are extremely World of the White Rat books; I had a correspondingly good time.
Watching. This afternoon we had an episode of Farscape while I was bleaching A. It was extremely an episode of Farscape (2.11, Look at the Princess part 1).
Playing. We finished our second play-through of Tukoni: Forest Keepers; I successfully acquired the rarest achievement sans spoilers; but we still had two hidden achievements left. We have now spoiled ourselves for them and will be going back to complete them at... Some Point.
A is away for a bit next week so I have downloaded my own copy of Color Bus Trip so we can bus together long-distance without anyone having to engage in screen-sharing bullshit.
Cooking. Most of my cooking of note has absolutely been today, but let the record show:
- the standard Kaiserschmarrn recipe, with the addition of ~3 tbsp of ground
Mohnpoppyseed, is extremely good actually (and it didn't hurt that the grinder had a little tiny bit of cardamom hanging around). went v well with the redcurrant and raspberrysoupjam-that-didn't-set. - we enjoyed smitten kitchen's summer squash pizza, which behaved very well on the Netherton Foundry spun iron baking sheet that was my (belated) birthday present from my mother; subbed fake Parmesan for Gruyère, skipped the breadcrumbs, and put non-grated frilly-edged pattypan squash slices on top instead; will happily make again (combination of new iron and new baking sheet worked really well for making pizza crust I was happy with!)
- I have also made a ridiculous amount of bread.
The experimental (veggie) sausage/fennel/lemon/bay/onion pasta Accompaniment did not alas work out as well as I was hoping and I am not sure what I could tweak to make it be More What I Wanted next time, other than drowning it in significantly more olive oil.
Eating. SQUASH from the ALLOTMENT good GRIEF. Raspberry and redcurrant jam ditto! The last of the Excellent Bonus Field Cake (one of my team spent IC currency on a huge box of baked goods; the Linzer cookie situations were excellent and we finally got around to the sticky toffee apple pudding).
Exploring. ... to make a hollow laughing...
Growing. Have I made it to the plot? lol. But the patio tomatoes and the lemongrass survived, and the poblano chilli merrily continues to ripen its various fruit, and having fed it the Trinidad Perfume is abruptly putting out many more flowers!
weirdest vaccine side effect this time around
Sep. 19th, 2026 09:47 pmkaberett... is the part where the Site Of Worst Pain has been alternating between hips + wrists on the one (as it were) hand, and ankles + shoulders on the other.
I have also reestablished that I really, really shouldn't plan to do Any Things At All the day after a vaccination, good grief.
vaccine get
Sep. 18th, 2026 11:34 pmkaberettOtherwise today has been largely wrangling Lost Objects and also Laundry; in service of the former I have also dug out the point-and-shoot digital camera I got shortly after moving to London, with the intention of establishing whether the Object Photographs it produces are significantly better than the phone camera...
embodiment: still so much work
Sep. 17th, 2026 10:59 pmkaberettGot home from event on Monday evening. Spent most of Tuesday asleep. Spent most of Wednesday asleep. Diligently did not Do Exercise on either of those two days. Did not spend today mostly asleep but did spend a bunch of it so absolutely Flattened that the Internal Wailing about why do I even botherrrrrr was... loud.
Turned out! it was a migraine! and I do with my thinking brain know that I would be more tired and sore if I had in fact not spent those two days mostly asleep (and today mostly horizontal). It is also a really useful reminder of how easy it is, still, to tip me over into Absolutely Not, Everything Too Hard, No More Walking. But! Also!
(Following application of prochlorperazine I did actually manage to lie on my back and wiggle my limbs some. The outdoors was nice; I am regretting not having put the catnip on, however...)
vital functions
Sep. 15th, 2026 10:01 pmkaberettReading. There was An Event, and unsurprisingly I did not alas finish Proto before it went back to the library. There is a Significant queue for it, and it's £4.99 in ebook, so I am contemplating simply buying a copy of my own so I can have the maps that begin each chapter up on the laptop and the actual words on my ereader...
Playing. ... Color Bus Trip continues.
Admin: the LRP.
Cooking. Very little, on account of Being In A Field.
Eating. Realised! I could get the crêpe place! to make me a savoury crêpe I wanted to eat! and promptly had two of them within twelve hours (plus the sweet one I originally went for with dinner).
What were my other highlights. Hmm. The Quaker Protein Porridge pots were remarkably acceptable, to the point that I was a bit sad when they ran out (having had Oats Without Sugar I was feeling surly about going back to the Added Sugar). Blackberries out of the hedgerows (not my favourite flavour thereof). Yuley's has changed the pizza bases they're using and I think I prefer the new ones?
Making & mending. Restrung a bracelet for a friend/team member! After my first several failed attempts to tie a knot with Stretch Magic I did a lot more pre-stretching, and now they seem to be holding! (And there's two of them, and two lengths of the cord holding the beads, so hopefully if catastrophic failure ensues it will do so slowly enough that none of the beads vanish...)