Friday: managed to wake up a little earlier than yesterday. I tried to get cute with my pathfinding on the way to the store, but my choice to move a block south to avoid bicyclists proved a mistake when I immediately swamped into heavy school-zone congestion. At the store, I decided to get pistachios again, and I also picked up the supplies to make this chicken curry recipe I found last year. I forgot that Acme doesn't really have any of the specific ingredients it calls for, and I have to guess at the most appropriate substitutions. In my notes from the last time we had it, I wrote that it didn't have enough body to stand alone without a side dish, but I recommended adding broccoli or watercress or something like that. I decided to try broccoli (because it was the easiest thing to find in the store), and once my shopping was done, I picked up Taco Bell and brought everything home.
I spent a big chunk of the afternoon working on my IF project. Apparently I'd implemented some custom activities that weren't terminating properly, so after playing for a while, you'd start getting runtime crashes. I fixed that issue, did some proactive streamlining and error-handling, but I wasn't able to add the new functionality I'd come up with because I got cut off by my weekly call with David. We talked for about an hour, same as usual. Afterwards, I should have resumed working on my project, but I found myself drawn to updating this website with my old livejournal entries. I didn't have a lot going on during the summer of 2003, but I sure tried to blog about it. I got as far as August 23 before I had to move on to other activities.
Once her work was over, I checked in with Julie, who'd been spending another day in a progression of meetings. She had pulled out her crochet stuff and spent the evening working on a new project. I made the aforementioned recipe for dinner, but the amount of broccoli I introduced overwhelmed the dish, and I added it so late to the process that it didn't really cook; we discussed some better alternatives for next time. (Steam it in the microwave first? Roast it in the oven? Stick with peppers or similarly easy-to-work-with vegetables?) Despite the errors, the meal still came out pretty well, and we continued watching Poirot. I'm impressed by just how many episodes we've come across now that I don't recognize.
While we watched (and Julie worked on her crocheting), I continued playing Hearthstone. I've been enjoying bouncing between Big Demon Hunter and Plague/Excavate Death Knight as I try to get both classes up to 500 wins for their golden hero powers; I've also managed to reach Diamond 5 in Standard, which I don't normally bother with. (I'd rather play Wild, and having gotten Legend rank once already, I feel no particular drive to do so again.) Next week they'll probably announce the new expansion along with whatever they're doing for Hearthstone's ten-year anniversary. Smart money's on "not very much," but I'm really hoping we finally get the Monk class added to the game.
OH YEAH, I ALMOST FORGOT: before I went out to go shopping, I saw a Cohost entry that Cania reblogged which was basically just a C64 chiptune music video using oscilloscope software. I had to subscribe to the youtube channel, and I bookmarked the oscilloscope's github page. Probably, nothing will come of this, but for a good hour today, I could see myself getting into trying to make chiptune music.
Thursday: another work-week began without issue. Julie had her Arrested Development trivia night, and they took an easy first place. While she was out, I had more veggie pasta for dinner and played as much of Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone as I could. I'm not sure why my browser keeps struggling with the "press any key to continue" prompts as much as it is, but it froze in both Nyvo the Dolphin and Letavermilia. After I lost interest in troubleshooting Firefox, I tried to clean up some some scrapbook files in my Google Drive, but I only finished about a third of the task I'd set for myself before I called it quits.
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Monday: on facebook, I reposted one of those old memes where you invite people to leave one memory they had with you. Some highlights: Julie's entry was "Christopher," who was a guy that came up to us once while we were eating dinner at Siam and told us that he thought we should be engaged. Nikole mentioned making toast for me even before she introduced herself, which happened at my first Select Button meetup in July of 2007. My cousin Derek described the time we were hanging out in my parents' little above-ground pool after a trip to the Derby Rec Center, and we got to experience its sudden total structural collapse. This would have been four or five years before, perhaps?
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PRENATAL FETUS TIME, BAYBEE