Last weekend I did the laundry and I realized that this bunch of laundry didn’t have a single pair of jeans in it. Yes, it had my jogging clothes from my various excursions up and down the various sideroads. It had six hoodies in it and more pajamas than I can recall. But no jeans. This is the first time that that has happened since March.
So I made sure that, this week, there will be at least *ONE* pair of jeans in the laundry.
But none of them will be worn this weekend because Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it works on my system (that, admittedly, I built to run games like Cyberpunk 2077).
There will be other stuff, of course. I’m going to be making a large batch of Kraft Dinner (with weenies!) to be a quick meal for the next week, I’ve got jogging to accomplish, and, of course, there will be laundry to do.
But our state is still on lockdown and Cyberpunk 2077 came out and, this weekend at least, the various siren calls of all of the things in the outside world have been silenced by CD Projekt’s wax.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured Image is “Cybercat with Cyberobelisk”. Photo taken by the Author.)
I have one more round of final exams to grade (tomorrow, they come due over night) and then I am turning off my campus e-mail notifications for at least a week. Well, I will be going in next week to work on research (provided I am permitted, we might be chased off campus for various reasons).
Then this weekend I am doing Christmas stuff – getting out any cards I don’t write tonight or tomorrow night, watching Christmas movies on tv, knitting (though this will be on stuff for me; got my holiday gifts done and sent out this week). Probably a grocery run? Maybe?
I also have by every-other-week Zoom knitting group Saturday which has kind of been a lifeline in all of this.
But mostly it’s going to be recuperating from what was the most hellish semester I’ve ever taught. (In the before-times, Saturday would be graduation, but now they just have a “virtual celebration of graduates”)Report
Zoom knitting.
It is good that these things are emerging. I never would have considered such a thing.
(And it sucks that this semester was so bad. Next semester ought to have a small amount of relief… I hope!)Report
My move went well and I’m now installed in my new apartment. My weekend will consist of some unpacking and Session 0 of a Pathfinder campaign.Report
At what point did you experience the “oh, I forgot about that” set of boxes?Report
That happened more while I was packing.Report
Also coming out this weekend: My stitches! Then begins the long, slow process of splitting my hard palate apart and filling the gap with bone and teeth.Report
Take your Vitamin C!
And chocolate milk!
Not, you know, within an hour of each other though.Report
I am, 2g/day! Last week my surgeon was impressed with the quick healing, so maybe it worked, or maybe I’m Wolverine. One time a girl told me I looked like Hugh Jackman, so I’m leaning towards the latter.Report
This was so much more painful than I expected. Good to have them out, though. Turns out that all the pain I had chalked up to my surgical wounds not being fully healed was just caused by the stitches pulling on my skin.Report
A little CP2077, a little Darkest Dungeon. MLS Cup Final is tomorrow night, featuring Sounders vs. Crew. Also trying to figure out what I want to read next. I just finished the latest Dresden novel and its quality is making choosing the next book more difficult. I started on the first Legacy of the Force book and it’s just kinda meh. Leaning toward a book about Reconstruction, but also leaning toward Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, kinda wanting to read some cyberpunk to get me in the mood.Report
Decision made: After poring over lists of cyberpunk novels and filling up my wish list on my local library’s website, I’m going with William Gibson’s “Bridge” trilogy, starting with “Virtual Light.”Report
I’m about 1/3 of the way through Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and really enjoying it. Now leaning towards reading the whole series.Report
Heading out to buy a tree, and hopefully get the house decorated. I’m trying to have as normal a holiday season as I can following the death of my wife, and this will go a long way to accomplishing it. I’ll also be assembling my annual Xmas CD, but I don’t know how many copies I’ll actually get to distribute, since we’re hardly seeing anyone.
And, the Army/Navy game is tomorrow. The only college game I actually look forward to.Report
Good luck, Slade. (If you feel like posting the playlist…)Report
Well, no tree today. It’s raining and I’m bringing a wet tree into the house.
The mix is done and here’s the playlist:
Eugene Edwards – Dear Mom and Dad
Five Iron Frenzy – Gotta Get Up
Johnny Cash – Merry Christmas, Mary
Bowling for Soup – All I Want for Christmas Is You
Crocodiles – Christmas in Hell
Don’t Call Me Ishmael – I Won’t Hesitate (This Christmas)
Field Music – Home for Christmas
Kelly Finnigan – Santa’s Watching You
The Cleaners from Venus – A Kitchen Porter’s Tale
The Happy Somethings – It’s Christmas Time (we’re as miserable as sin)
Thom Stone – Santa’s Out of Business
Ben Caplan – O Holy Night
The first 3 tracks are on for sentimental value. The last one is one of the most arresting tunes I’ve ever heard. Caplan takes a 175 year old tune and makes it his own. I wept when I first heard it. Here’s the video (if it doesn’t show up as more than a link, maybe Jaybird can edit it so it can be seen. It’s visually arresting as well.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdZGY_JDnQReport
Here you go. (Beautiful!)
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That’s a quality cat jaybird!Report
He has that facial expression because of treats. You can see my hand in the upper left part of the picture. The hand is holding treats and I am saying “LOOK UP! LOOK UP!” and he is saying “Why did you make a big deal out of getting treats if you refuse to distribute them?”Report
Mine would just “me-NOW”.Report
We finally saved up enough to enclose a screened porch into a sort-of she-shed for my wife… a room for her projects, computer, homeschool, etc. etc. I’m told I’m allowed to use the room conditionally. It is something we’ve been planning for a long time. And it was her Birthday Month (it used to be Birthday, then weekend, then octave, now Month, soon to be quarter) so we pulled the trigger. Found a young contractor just getting started (a friend of my daughter) who was reasonable and available, because… everyone in the entire world is doing home renovations.
Everything is going along swimmingly, work is great, contractor shows up every day, the usual things that pop-up are quickly resolved and the project is more-or-less on schedule. Just waiting on the ceiling insulation – that we ordered 6-8 weeks ago – no biggie, just a couple of annoying snafu’s on the supplier side. Right?
Friday the supplier informed the builder that there’s no R38C (for vaulted ceiling) anywhere in the US because… everyone in the entire world is doing renovations.
This is where being young/new will cost us in a delay… he didn’t have the juice or experience to make sure his materials were held for him and not delivered to another project… and/or making sure the supplier gave him warning with enough advance to make alternative plans.
So now I’m researching whether we can compress R49 with a baffle or whether new materials (hey, Mineral Wool is thinner!) would pass code. Code sometimes being outcome based – does it conform to the spec? Yes? Good, pass. Versus Inspectors being process based – hey this isn’t R38C… we like to see R38C here… why aren’t you using R38C?
But we don’t know if the inspectors will be jolly, it being the holiday season and all, or grumpy… because everyone in the entire world is doing renovations.Report
Open with “here are some warm Christmas cookies, right from the oven!”
“Oh… just one couldn’t hurt” and you’re golden.Report
Reminds me of security audits:
“Hey, you don’t have setting A in config file B.”
“Yes, but we have setting Y in config file Z, which results in the same outcome as setting A in config file B.”
DISA: “Yeah, ok, I can see that. This is fine.”
DSS: “No, this is a finding. The control says setting A in config file B and you don’t have that.”Report