- A haircut
- A talk with the hairdresser, which is something I never do, don’t exactly want to do more, but which went fine and was nice.
- Got some free bolts at the bike repair shop, which allowed me finally attach the luggage carrier to my bike again. After a tire repair, chain lubrication, derailleur adjustment and lights battery replacement, which I gradually checked off over the past few weeks, my bike is as good as new. And I no longer announce my presence with all the jangling and extraneous noises. I think I even have everything I need to repair a flat in the field now.
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- My exams will be online again this year.
- Rereading a book I enjoyed a few years ago. It’s familiar enough that I don’t have to think too hard, but it’s been a while and it’s a mystery story, so I’m having to puzzle things together a bit. So glad I’m a rereader, tbh – I feel like people who are vociferously against ever rereading totally miss out.
- Proud and grateful that I’ve got to the point that I have all my outgoings covered through the end of January, and some through to the end of February. Thanks YNAB and Beeminder!
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- Second-hand book stores and finding a (hopefully) nice book to gift.
- Independent book stores, happening upon a book which looks both beautiful and interesting and the helpful and friendly people working at book stores.
- Inquiring about back-ordering some books which I’ve been meaning to get for ages. Starting to read more books again and starting to buy books again go hand-in-hand, it seems. Also grateful for YNAB for providing me with a guilt-free budget for books.
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- Cheese on tomato
- The Elevate app. It’s helping me improve my mental arithmetic skills, which used to be good but have become very rusty.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. It’s engaging and fun.
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- Friends who are protective.
- It’s about to be bedtime, and that just sounds really nice.
- My dad’s okay with us going over for Lisa to do more of their exams soon.
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- Working with everyone at Beeminder is definitely the best working experience of my life, and I’ve worked with some pretty awesome people.
- Flexibility in my work hours. I stayed in bed an hour extra this morning with a hot water bottle under my neck, because I’ve been having a lot of neck pain (and tingling/numb hands from something going crunch in my neck) and it was fiiiine.
- People from our Free Company helped me and Lisa with a thing that was really hard for us on our own.
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- Husband is off work tomorrow.
- Daughter is doing well in classes where she’s been mainstreamed.
- Kids did well with zero electronics today.
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- Listening to music my parents loved when I was a kid. Just makes me smile.
- I can have schadenfreude about something rather than having to be involved with it.
- A secret and extravagant present arrived for my wife.
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- A small family gathering today.
- A “cake” made from a hollow shell of chocolate and when it was broken open there were lollies inside!
- Stoffel, the honey badger that can escape from anywhere!
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- A weekend of great weather in Big Sur
- Just had a cat on my lap
- Lots of color still on the trees
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- A bus being 1 minute late when I was just barely on time.
- I was testing a server at work today and did a typo in a command. I found that the server had been coded to cancel my command with the message “Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.”
- Lots of help from my manager preparing for some server upgrade testing that I need to do tomorrow.
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- Wales beat Australia in the rugby today (if narrowly).
- Watching old (Richard O’Brien era) episodes of Crystal Maze with my wife. They didn’t see them as a kid, but they’re just as into the ridiculousness of it all. (It’s on Youtube.)
- PJ day!
- A server upgrade that I was assisting with by doing testing went so well that it took only 1.5 hours out of the alloted 4.5!
- I visited a friend and spent an enjoyable hour washing his backlog of dishes while reading an ebook. (I love washing up, especially when it reduces utter chaos to pristine neatness.)
- Cadbury’s Snack chocolate.
- I might have said this one before, but I’ve realised my reMarkable is perfect for reading the PDFs publishers sometimes send as advanced reader copies – they’re unreadable on a normal ereader, but a good size on a reMarkable.
- We’re getting close to the end of the main expansion quests in FFXIV: Stormblood, meaning we’re about to unlock a bunch more dungeons and stuff. Exciting!
- Lisa’s making pancakes this morning.
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- A relaxing day today, with a movie in the cinema, among other things. Dune was a surprisingly good adaptation of the book, but a bad movie for people unfamiliar with the material.
- Electric cars.
- Someone close to me continuing a project I started but no longer can make much progress on.
- I got to walk in a forest with clusters of ladybugs
- An astounding sunset
- I got to check off a bunch of things from my to do list in a satisfying sequence
- Breakfast at my favourite cafe.
- A co-worker has written a script that turns a fiddly, ten-minute chore into a 30 second task. It’s a joy to use.
- Ginger biscuits.
- Love that I’m playing FFXIV with my wife. I take it for granted sometimes but it’s really nice and I shouldn’t forget that.
- Chill day at work today.
- Got my wife’s main Christmas present, the advent calendar, aaaall set up.
- I kept my commitment to go for a ride this afternoon
- I made it to the shipping office on time
- My daughter has decided to work on a big fear
- It’s been raining all day today, meaning that being home inside is cosy, and today I have no reason I need to leave the house.
- My cat believes that she has no reason to leave the blanket that I’ve placed for her next to my keyboard, so I’ve had company all day.
- I’ve found a forgotten USB stick that has a huge amount of free space on it.
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