MAY 14

2025

Wednesday: think I might be a little behind where I want to be at work. It felt like I spent the whole day treading water. During my breaks, I've been watching basically nothing but Apollo's Blue Prince streams, as I'm still farther along than he was in those videos. After my shift, Julie made that "pasta with sausage and cabbage" meal, minus the pasta. I laid on the bed such that the blanket formed a tent, and John spent a while camped out underneath. Once the food was ready, we came out to the living room to watch more Strangers with Candy while eating. I played some Hearthstone, in which the "Embers of the World Tree" miniset has introduced a degenerate format around imbue hunter one-turn kills. Since I bought the miniset in gold, I've exhausted my stockpile of currency, but it should build up again pretty quickly.

2024

Tuesday: after posting my update last night, I made major progress on Moondrop Isle, which is good since I want to be feature-complete within the next 48 hours. My work shift was uneventful by comparison; I got all my calls out of the way for the week, and I redoubled my efforts on my projects to ensure they're caught up. After work, the ongoing situation with our sink meant that Julie wanted to just order food, and she was interested in trying the Korean/Mexican place again. Last time, we'd gotten the sampler, but I decided to try a specific taco trio. I found the process of eating them pretty unwieldy. Neither the tacos themselves nor the pico de gallo for the nachos stood out as something I really want to try again, so next time, I should see how their cheesesteak or other sandwiches perform. After eating, I fell asleep for a few hours, and now that I've posted this update, I resume my work on the game.

2023

Sunday: we took the subway up to city hall and walked over to Kook Burger & Bar for lunch. The burger tasted so good, I couldn't help but save some of the sauce for later by spilling it on my jeans. Our next stop on the day's itinerary was a trip to the Mütter Museum of medical oddities. Julie figured I'd never be willing to go myself, but I wanted to make the most of our shared weekends while we still had them.

Julie recently reminsiced about my visit to her anatomy lab in which the students performing the dissections would introduce friends and family members to their body donors. Enough time has passed that I felt like I'd handled the occasion well. Our trip through the Mütter Museum suggested that I'd been overconfident in that recollection. It didn't matter that the portrayals of skin conditions were wax models; I still found that display case ghastly.

Rather than dwell on the exhibits, I focused on the more neutral informational placards and on people-watching. Somebody on my Tumblr dashboard used to reblog "Tokyo street snaps" and other fashion content, and we saw multiple outfits that would have fit right in.

After stopping by the souvenir shop, we walked back home, and I played a bit of the new Zelda before making that goulash recipe. I spent most of my effort trying to progress into the northwest corner of the map, which the game calls the Akkala region.