on organisation, and notes
Aug. 17th, 2025 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fred_mouseHaving now acquired a uni laptop for study, I'm handling the different parts of my life better. One of the things that I'm really starting to embrace is Obsidian.
After a couple of false starts, I've moved my daily journalling there--I've created a template, and literally the only thing I require of myself each day is that I click the button that generates the daily note. Some days I don't do more than that, but as the template has a couple of verb tags, I come back afterwards and revisit. So far I mostly haven't been adding any details, but I am copying my 750 words in there, and if then afterwards at some point I will read through those (tag: to-do/tidy) and see whether anything resonates. This is a deliberately asynchronous process, because dumping the everything is cathartic, and I won't know what is going to resonate.
One of the interesting things is that I'm capturing bits and bobs of ideas, and not really worrying about where they go. It is possible that I'll never look at them again, and that is okay. but it is also possible that at some point I'll do a search on a word, see the set of things, and make a map of content. This is not a curated garden, this is a bushland with paths.
But! it means that I have draft blog posts that I remember to go and look at, because I have tagged them as blog/draft, and thus I have successfully separated out 'I have a thing I want to write' from 'dealing with posting'. Which is probably going to mean that things will be posted in clumps (this post is going straight into the editor, which is not the current normal).
reading lists (2025-07-04)
Aug. 17th, 2025 03:47 pmfred_mousefrom the drafts archive
Bookbub: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of Summer 2025 (Jeff Somers) - supposedly a 'curated' list; I saw a number of new to me authors. There were three that I'm lukewarm about and have added to the list, and the rest I was bored by the descriptions. I suspect this is part of an ongoing issue with the way that blurbs are written, as I'm increasingly uninterested
added
- Infinite Archive (Mur Lafferty) - because it is book three in the series; and I'm interested in where it might go
- Lucky Day (Chuck Tingle) - maybe
- Hemlock and Silver (T Kingfisher)
Transfer orbit: 11 new books for July - unsurprisingly, some overlap with the previous list; the only one I could have added was already there from the above list.
Gizmodo: 82 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in July - this is really too many books. I have skimmed, but wasn't committing to reading everything. Unsurprisingly, there are repeats. The blurbs here were shorter, and yet worse. I did add a couple to the list, but I'm a bit dubious. The Arthuriana one is intriguing, but book 3 of a series; the new Rivers of London one is of interest to Artisanat
added:
- Arthur by Giles Kristian - book 3, but Arthurian
- The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
New Scientist: The best new science fiction books of July 2025 - some of the same books, with more interesting summaries. I am, however, a grouch, and added a single book to the 'maybe' list
maybe:
- Circular Motion (Alex Foster)
Over slept
Aug. 16th, 2025 11:00 pmsilver_chipmunkOverslept this morning, was supposed to get up at 9:00 but didn't til almost 10:00. Then I rushed to get ready, breakfast, coffee, shower dress, and get to my Al-anon meeting. Amazingly, I was only a little bit late.
The meeting was very good, and people were happy to see me back. I went to the diner afterward, and had a bacon, egg, and cheese on a croissant, and an iced coffee. Then I took the 13 and the 12 back, which means I had to get off at Parsons Blvd again and walk past Oldest Brother's old nursing home. Makes me sad.
Got home and went to the Starsky and Hutch chat, which was on finding fanfiction today. We chatted until just about 7:00 exactly. I ordered a Starsky and Hutch/Husky and Starch tee shirt, which I couldn't really afford now but I wanted one. Then I Teamed the FWiB, who is still pretty sick with his cough and cold.
We talked til somewhat after 8:00, when he got off to wait for a call from his brother. I puttered online for a bit, then went to the bedroom to lie down.
Around 8:30 the Kid called me, they got in to the cottage safely, and she is, unsurprisingly, angry at various things. She needs to relax a bit.
Anyway, I calledmashfanficchick and talked with zer for quite awhile. Then I got up and fed the pets, and started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. The Kid arrived safely.
3. My meetings and the people there.
4.mashfanficchick
5. The Starsky and Hutch fandom,
6. Lovely weather.
The meeting was very good, and people were happy to see me back. I went to the diner afterward, and had a bacon, egg, and cheese on a croissant, and an iced coffee. Then I took the 13 and the 12 back, which means I had to get off at Parsons Blvd again and walk past Oldest Brother's old nursing home. Makes me sad.
Got home and went to the Starsky and Hutch chat, which was on finding fanfiction today. We chatted until just about 7:00 exactly. I ordered a Starsky and Hutch/Husky and Starch tee shirt, which I couldn't really afford now but I wanted one. Then I Teamed the FWiB, who is still pretty sick with his cough and cold.
We talked til somewhat after 8:00, when he got off to wait for a call from his brother. I puttered online for a bit, then went to the bedroom to lie down.
Around 8:30 the Kid called me, they got in to the cottage safely, and she is, unsurprisingly, angry at various things. She needs to relax a bit.
Anyway, I called
mashfanficchick and talked with zer for quite awhile. Then I got up and fed the pets, and started here.Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. The Kid arrived safely.
3. My meetings and the people there.
4.
mashfanficchick5. The Starsky and Hutch fandom,
6. Lovely weather.
Update: 16 August 2025
Aug. 16th, 2025 09:04 pmdewlineI got the bins from Canadian Tire.
I'm still recovering from the shopping trip. Considering that I walked half of it in the weather I did, I should have gone directly to bed.
Came downstairs to the office, instead.
Thinking about cleaning the iCan-branded computer-mouse, particularly the scroll-wheel. If I knew where on iFixit to look...
I'm still recovering from the shopping trip. Considering that I walked half of it in the weather I did, I should have gone directly to bed.
Came downstairs to the office, instead.
Thinking about cleaning the iCan-branded computer-mouse, particularly the scroll-wheel. If I knew where on iFixit to look...
Extreme amounts of "fun"
Aug. 16th, 2025 01:12 pmazurelunaticThursday's appointment was one that I knew was going to stir up trauma. The doctor ended up listing that aspect of it as PTSD, which I guess is fair. I always have thought of it as "trauma" rather than PTSD, which is kind of odd in retrospect.
I wound up taking a small dose of my "street cred" when I realized I was starting to have a trauma response. That turned out to be a good idea. There's a follow up in a few months, and I should pre-medicate for it.
Afterwards I got the 32 oz reverse mocha from a local coffee shack. (Not one of the bikini coffee shacks.) With chocolate whipped cream, thank you very much. My first time encountering white coffee espresso in a drink. Interesting and almost floral. I had Belovedest (a bitter supertaster) try it. Still coffee tasting, but not as strongly.
Although that's also possibly due to me only having 3 shots of espresso in the drink instead of the usual 6.
I would much rather discuss the coffee than the source of the trauma and the appointment, in any event.
I wound up taking a small dose of my "street cred" when I realized I was starting to have a trauma response. That turned out to be a good idea. There's a follow up in a few months, and I should pre-medicate for it.
Afterwards I got the 32 oz reverse mocha from a local coffee shack. (Not one of the bikini coffee shacks.) With chocolate whipped cream, thank you very much. My first time encountering white coffee espresso in a drink. Interesting and almost floral. I had Belovedest (a bitter supertaster) try it. Still coffee tasting, but not as strongly.
Although that's also possibly due to me only having 3 shots of espresso in the drink instead of the usual 6.
I would much rather discuss the coffee than the source of the trauma and the appointment, in any event.