Monday: despite working pretty late last night, I got out of bed with enough time to treat the cats, update my website, and do the last dungeon I needed for this week's Timeways challenge. Very productive at work, in spite of a constant desire to be snoozing in bed thanks to the cold. I indulged that desire on two of my breaks, and John and Goose both enjoyed the tents I made with my arms and legs under the blankets. Watched today's TotK video, plus the Grinding Gear roundtable about FFXIV 7.4 on lunch. Julie's feeling very under the weather, but she still spent some time trying to excavate the car from the snowdrifts on our street. After we were both done with work, we reheated leftovers for dinner; Julie had more of the chicken casserole, while I got back into the goulash. We watched more Bob's Burgers until I was done eating and ready to play RDR2. After the big reunion scene in the epilogue, I turned the PS4 off and switched to AC:NH for a bit. I made the "Simple Room" for the Hotel today. Just going to post this briefly before bed, since we're going to need to clean the car off tomorrow before work.
Sunday: an easy enough workday, after which Julie made a ton of cabbage patch soup. We each had a bowl while watching more Arcane, I think.
Friday: Since I didn't get much done yesterday other than shopping, today was my day for cleaning up the apartment. I cut up the vegetables for dinner, did the dishes, vacuumed, and made the goulash. This time around I added two bell peppers, two packages of pork (one sweet, one hot), and I mostly eyeballed the spices. It came out great! We continued several episodes of Trailer Park Boys, and I got to bed well before Julie did.
Thursday: my usual work-week resumed. For dinner, Julie used the leftover broccoli I'd made and made a cheese and chorizo sausage casserole. For a change of pace, we kept to our own devices, and after dinner I played more Endwalker. My session took me from a stealth sequence in the snow to the assault on a tower in the wreckage of the enemy capital, which I stopped just short of completing before going to bed.
FFXIV is selling again, and I've redeemed an online friend's refer-a-friend code, although I think rewards won’t appear until I buy actual game time. (Awkwardly, we had to ban said friend from select button within a year or two of this, and I'm pretty sure they cut off all contact shortly thereafter.) Aether is completely locked out due to congestion, so I made a throwaway alt on Goblin long enough to check out Gridania (since I expect to start in a different city on my main character). I knew ARR took a lot of inspiration from WoW, but I wasn’t prepared for for this degree of similarity; these games could be cousins. Moving through menus or through the game world is just a hair more deliberate, and the UI aesthetic is pure PlayOnline; the only hiccup I encountered was that my control scheme flipped from keyboard and mouse to controller when I turned in my first quest, and my inverted mouse Y-axis reverted at the same time.
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Steam:
Pikuniku - Aim for the stars
Pikuniku - Bad Day
Pikuniku - Clumsy boy
Pikuniku - Cresus
Pikuniku - I want to hold your hand
Pikuniku - The winner takes it all
Pikuniku - Toasted
Saturday: at the Burns Dinner again, once more at Round Barn Ranch. I think I drove us, and it was far south of the area I'm familiar with.
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PRENATAL FETUS TIME, BAYBEE