- Becoming friendly (or even friends?) with my cousin. I don’t think Grandma would have predicted that being an outcome of her funeral.
- Bracket City is a fun browser guessing-game.
- My sister’s covering my afternoon inbox slot so I can work on my assignments.
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- This video of adult elephants reacting to an earthquake at San Diego zoo: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/video/san-diego-earthquake-video-zoo-elephants-digvid Honestly I have days when I think the AGIs should go ahead and zap all the humans, and instead keep the space for elephants. Maybe the whales get to keep the oceans, too.
- My chess is wobbly, but currently ok - I’m trying to change my PoV to “the game is to spot the opponent’s best move” rather than “the game is to come up with a clever move of my own”, because if I do the second and not the first, I fall flat on my face.
- Managed to get lxc up and running Windows VMs on my Linux machine, for those annoying-but-important things that still require Windows.
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- Dad’s probably going to run an ethernet cable to me to solve my internet problems.
- Dad making me lunch and texting me stupid stuff like “Your sandwich order is ready to collect.”
- My British Library Crime Classics subscription brings me the latest book from their series every month, and usually includes some goodies like a bookmark and a poster or pencil or something similar. This month my bookmark was bent, so I sent them a sad email telling them I collect the bookmarks and sadly mine was bent, and could I pay postage to receive a spare? “We’ll send you a new one,” they replied. This is what I received:
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- Lisa’s been working really hard on getting the flat tidy and ready for us to move.
- I discovered I have store credit left over on Bookshop.org, and ordered myself some books I’m interested in on a whim.
- Bookshop.org’s support is lightning-fast; I got a response to an email within seven minutes.
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- My parents and Lisa for doing proofreading for me, and handling me being an absolute basket case about my assignments.
- My new books arrived at the flat today, and me and Lisa will arrange an exchange in town later after a flat viewing.
- Dad ran an ethernet cable to me for more stable internet.
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- New books.
- Assignments are handed in.
- I have an office chair now at my desk at my parents’ house – Dad went halfsies on it with me, since he’ll keep it for his desk after I leave, and we were randomly charged £30 less than we should’ve been when buying it. Not going to argue with a random sale!
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- Have been working on some chess visualisation exercises, trying to solve (very simple!) puzzles in my head with no board - not as hard as I feared!
- Had to dig a long trench to lay an electric cable - also not as hard as I feared.
- We seem to have solved the slow leak in the heating - quite hard, but is at least done now.