- Biscuit took a bad fall while being a silly bunny but doesn’t seem to be hurt.
- Sam Costelow has been picked for the national rugby squad for the Autumn Internationals. I’ve been keen to see this for a while, based on his performance for the Scarlets. It’s going to be interesting to watch!
- The random option on playlists. Indecisive? That’s fine! Just stick the biggest most varied playlist on random, and it’ll be fine.
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- Meds. I feel so incredibly great. Happiness is not enough for me, I demand euphoria.
- My early mentor, who set me up for success about two years ago
- The cool friend I met in February
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Proceeds to play 20 rounds
It’s actually still working for me as a motivator and I haven’t been tempted to play more than one at a time, which frankly I’m surprised about. 
- Jeremy bought me two small dragon statues from the same collection as the previous two. They are so pretty! All shiny colours and each in a different pose.
- They’re cheap, so I don’t need to feel bad about a lot of money being spent on me. (I like cheap presents!)
- A client made a request that could have been interpretted as being simple or difficult, and it turns out the simple version was the one they wanted.
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- New wireless earbuds. They work separately as well as together, so I have one in and one ear for situational awareness and it’s lovely. Wireless is great too because I don’t have to pause my music/disengage myself to be able to just go grab a drink or whatever – and the bunnies can’t nibble the cable. I ended up getting two pairs to be sure that I can get a full day with them, but so far they last pretty well.
- This year’s Beeminder goals for my class stuff are working very well so far. It means that I know whether I’m on track against the final goal, instead of ending up bogged down just filling time. (Though I do have a time-based goal as well, to make sure I put in the time.) Also, kinda nice to just look at them: shanaqui/lshtm_mrsa
- I’ll see my sister @hiddenspark tonight. And ice cream will be involved.
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- An easy day at work.
- A liquorice-flavoured beer.
- Jeremy’s favourite DJ is playing in Brisbane this weekend and he managed to get a ticket.
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- My final textbook is here! Grateful once more to Mum buying those for me, as she did last year.
- Listening to music does really help with my misophonia.
- I read a book about earthworms yesterday and a book about barn owls today, and it is really nice, always, to just read something inconsequential and full of random facts.
- I should be finished with doing Beeminder goals and such pretty quickly after work for once.
- Plans for the weekend with my parents/sister, and plans with friends.
- Work has commenced on the new curtains for my office.
- We’ll be making dinner for my parents today.
- Text from my aunt to chat a bit.
- Got myself a copy of The Spare Man (Mary Robinette Kowal).
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- I saw Professor Brian Cox’s “Horizons” show.
- When I had a 10 minute wait for a train, Beeminder made me spend the time walking up and down the platform to get some extra minutes on my aerobic goal.
- Red wine.
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- Managed to fit in quite a lot of reading!
- My throat felt quite sore but it’s fading after a bit of rest.
- My parents bought profiteroles for dessert.
- Some work I needed to do this weekend has gone very smoothly.
- Hanging out with a pleasant workmate while I worked; chatting while waiting for scripts to do their thing.
- I feel relaxed and happy.
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- I had a nice refreshing weekend with lots of reading.
- There will be a new adaptation of The Dark is Rising for audio, by the BBC. I loved the version they did when I was a child, and I’m not sure they can ever beat the casting for Merriman Lyon (Ronald Pickup’s voice was perfect) or the Rider (Struan Rodger, though Luke Allen-Gale’s performance for Zenos yae Galvus in FFXIV is a dead-ringer for Rodger’s delivery). This looks to be much less abridged and will hopefully lead to adaptations of more of the sequence – when I was kid they only did Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark is Rising, rather than the whole sequence.
- It’s time for my regular weekday morning hangout with the bunnies, where I let them climb all over me, without moving to pet or restrain them in any way, while I read. (This is aimed at stopping them immediately assuming I want to pick them up whenever I go over to them. They have a well-established method of letting me know they don’t want to be picked up, and they trust that I won’t pick them up if they don’t want me to, but lately they’ve always been signalling they don’t want to be picked up… which means I don’t get to just hang out with them much, even if I have no intention of picking them up.)
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- Jeremy went to a rave and met his favourite DJ in person, quite by accident. He was glowing with happiness all the next day.
- The game that I’ve been playing as a motivator has introduced an ad after each round, so it’s even easier to resist playing it more than once at a time.
- A sunny day after a few days of rain.
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- Something secret I’m up to.
- Giggling at the title of a random track I’m listening to on Spotify: “The Folk Police”.
- A couple of people have bought me Kindle books recently.
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- Jeremy and I both woke early so we sat together with a cup of tea and caught up on some interesting videos.
- A pleasant interaction with a supermarket checkout operator.
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The two types of owls.
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- A book I started reading impulsively fits my mood perfectly.
- The word match game on Duolingo makes a nice quick break.
- Started sorting out Lisa’s advent calendar. Doing a custom one again!
- I climbed up onto the roof to clear a vine that’s growing too far over it and while there’s a lot more to be done, it was easier and safer than I had feared.
- Jeremy held the ladder for me and helped with pulling down vine that I had cut.
- Tinned food when we’re tired.
- It’s Eclair and Biscuit’s Gotcha Day! They’ve been with us four years now.
- It’s Friday!
- Managed to make time for something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
- Hippos crunching whole pumkins
- Watching one scrub turkey chase another through the branches of a tall tree. They’re so ungainly it’s always startling to see them far off the ground.
- A neighbour I hadn’t met before offered to lend me his lawn mower when he saw me cutting grass with clippers. I said no because it was a small amount of grass and good exercise, but it was lovely of him.
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