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Tables, tables, tables (no chairs)
Mar. 14th, 2025 09:36 pm This time last year I was enthusiastic about a random piece of work, enjoying Fuzz playing FFVII: Rebirth, and enjoying my replay of FFXVI.
Today, I tried to track down the table I want the form to point at. I thought I had it but the dev couldn't find it. Unhelpfully, there are three tables with the same name (my fault). At this point, I'm thinking it might just be easier to delete them all and start from scratch...
Husband managed three meals today, which is positive <3 But his shoulders are sore, despite restarting the rheumatism meds.
I rang the firm that did the garden several times today. They were supposed to come out a fortnight ago to take away the rubbish and wash the path. They even rang that morning to say it would be late in the day when they came, but they would be here. That was the last I heard. I've texted a couple of times and today I took to ringing. They originally said the job would take 2-3 days, which turned into a couple of weeks - but that was before Christmas. I'm at the point where I want to say, 'Come on THIS date or give me £x back so I can pay someone else to finish the job', but the complete radio silence makes me worry they are unable to come out... I don't want to be pestering people who've been in an accident! But then, wouldn't someone call their customers to let them know...? Urgh... I also have a plot to call them from someone else's phone and see if they answer.
I had another dig into LinkedIn Learning. It's a good way to fill some time - I learn something, I make good use of the university's investment, and it saves me trying to find 'real' work when I'm on top of everything I can affect, and everything else is with other people.
Cleaned out the middle drawer tonight - the one that holds random items like the cheese grater, lemon squeezer and toast rack. And a large number of freezer bags in different sizes. I'm actually getting into this 'clean something every night' - to the point that I almost look forward to it. I may even carry it on when Lent is over. And I can live without the telly quite easily - although I did watch Skadi and Playstation Access on YT on the telly. But that's YT, not telly-telly!
What I am missing are my novels. I read some fiction last night but it's the Ursula Le Guin book 'Always Coming Home', which I'm reading because my mother gave it to me. It's an interesting concept and I really like the society at the centre of it, but I can't say I'm enjoying it. Not the way I would something by Austen, Lewis or Tolkien, any way.
As for my own writing, I've been doing thinking rather than making words. My Sweetheart character is the grand-daughter of a Boudicca-type woman. Her mother was a foundling, left behind when her mother went to war and didn't return. The rest of the settlement were all killed but she was over looked. She was found by her 'father' (not sure what he was doing there - a merchant returning home? or even just a farmer coming back from market?), who brought her home and, with his wife, raised her. She looks different from everyone else (different ethnicity? or an elf?), so her story isn't a secret but nobody knows who her mother was. All she has is a pendant that she's passed to her own daughter - it's a small glass tube with a piece of rolled up paper inside that nobody can read. But the real-world character can. It's half of a message that connects to the True King, somehow.
Tonight, I revisited Asgard with Atreus, which wasn't actually a long adventure. I'm thinking of reattempting the side stuff in Vanaheim rather than continuing with the main story - if the game will let me. I'm at 82% - definitely heading into end-game territory. But a number of the realms are still closed, so there must be an opportunity to go back and clear stuff up. When I was Atreus, I went to visit the wolves - I still feel really bad for just leaving them! I got to talk to them quite a bit.
And that was today.
Today, I tried to track down the table I want the form to point at. I thought I had it but the dev couldn't find it. Unhelpfully, there are three tables with the same name (my fault). At this point, I'm thinking it might just be easier to delete them all and start from scratch...
Husband managed three meals today, which is positive <3 But his shoulders are sore, despite restarting the rheumatism meds.
I rang the firm that did the garden several times today. They were supposed to come out a fortnight ago to take away the rubbish and wash the path. They even rang that morning to say it would be late in the day when they came, but they would be here. That was the last I heard. I've texted a couple of times and today I took to ringing. They originally said the job would take 2-3 days, which turned into a couple of weeks - but that was before Christmas. I'm at the point where I want to say, 'Come on THIS date or give me £x back so I can pay someone else to finish the job', but the complete radio silence makes me worry they are unable to come out... I don't want to be pestering people who've been in an accident! But then, wouldn't someone call their customers to let them know...? Urgh... I also have a plot to call them from someone else's phone and see if they answer.
I had another dig into LinkedIn Learning. It's a good way to fill some time - I learn something, I make good use of the university's investment, and it saves me trying to find 'real' work when I'm on top of everything I can affect, and everything else is with other people.
Cleaned out the middle drawer tonight - the one that holds random items like the cheese grater, lemon squeezer and toast rack. And a large number of freezer bags in different sizes. I'm actually getting into this 'clean something every night' - to the point that I almost look forward to it. I may even carry it on when Lent is over. And I can live without the telly quite easily - although I did watch Skadi and Playstation Access on YT on the telly. But that's YT, not telly-telly!
What I am missing are my novels. I read some fiction last night but it's the Ursula Le Guin book 'Always Coming Home', which I'm reading because my mother gave it to me. It's an interesting concept and I really like the society at the centre of it, but I can't say I'm enjoying it. Not the way I would something by Austen, Lewis or Tolkien, any way.
As for my own writing, I've been doing thinking rather than making words. My Sweetheart character is the grand-daughter of a Boudicca-type woman. Her mother was a foundling, left behind when her mother went to war and didn't return. The rest of the settlement were all killed but she was over looked. She was found by her 'father' (not sure what he was doing there - a merchant returning home? or even just a farmer coming back from market?), who brought her home and, with his wife, raised her. She looks different from everyone else (different ethnicity? or an elf?), so her story isn't a secret but nobody knows who her mother was. All she has is a pendant that she's passed to her own daughter - it's a small glass tube with a piece of rolled up paper inside that nobody can read. But the real-world character can. It's half of a message that connects to the True King, somehow.
Tonight, I revisited Asgard with Atreus, which wasn't actually a long adventure. I'm thinking of reattempting the side stuff in Vanaheim rather than continuing with the main story - if the game will let me. I'm at 82% - definitely heading into end-game territory. But a number of the realms are still closed, so there must be an opportunity to go back and clear stuff up. When I was Atreus, I went to visit the wolves - I still feel really bad for just leaving them! I got to talk to them quite a bit.
And that was today.
