Slowing down
When you pay off your home loan, as in life, you get the chance to enjoy a new pace of living, but the lack of structure can be demotivating.
A sure thing
Sometimes a studio or publisher will luck into a game so perfect that they have to systematically destroy it in order to prove just how brilliant it is.
Nothing moves me to the edge of I'm definitely going to go out and say something quite like my obviously-Tory-voting neighbours standing outside together in a pandemic, clapping and ringing hand-bells for the NHS. How about vote for it instead, dill-weeds.
Wednesday
I've been in a dreadful mood all day. Everything has irritated me in some way. I hate days like this.
Isolation: The Mug Challenge
I picked up playing badminton again early last year, and I've been massively enjoying it
Seed casing timelapse
Charlotte's growing some seeds in our bedroom window, and one of her courgettes got a seed casing stuck on its leaves. I was hoping it would make a cool timelapse and I was not disappointed.
Fixing things you don't understand
I don't really get how any of this works. So far I've just been doing things and they've been working OK most of the time
I've been reading Aquila to Tabitha as a bedtime story the last week or so. I loved the TV show as a kid; had no idea it was a book. I've enjoyed it a lot, and now I need to find DVDs of Aquila, The Queen's Nose, Bernard's Watch, and Woof. There were so many great shows when I was a kid.
Saturday
Today I feel for anyone who doesn't have a garden. I can't imagine self-isolating without any safe outside space.
Pencil case: complete!
With this order from The Journal Shop, I think I'm done acquiring stationery. These scissors are insane.
I get a really weird validation from Jimmy Eat World's Tiny Desk Concert. My face goes super red like Robin Vining's, whenever I even mildly exert myself, and seeing someone on camera have the same thing makes me feel weirdly comfortable. Also their music has a beautiful simplicity, but it's mostly the red-face thing.
Home "schooling"
Charlotte's been doing a brilliant job of giving Tabitha educational stuff to do
A Gold Rush
Animal Crossing has a feature called the Stalk Market. You buy turnips once a week then hedge your bets on making a return.
Animal Crossing in Isolation
I'm really fortunate to be part of a group of people who are pretty much all playing Animal Crossing right now
Get Computers To Solve Your Problems
The world is in a bit of a state at the moment. People are panicking and they're scared. Far be it for me to suggest that poor leadership might be at least partly to blame. I never learn lessons from other people's mistakes so how can I expect the people who run the country to do it?
Just spent an hour and a half doing some maths with Tabitha and I get why people teach. When it works and they're getting it, it's incredibly satisfying. There is an equal and opposite counterpart to that, but let's not talk about that now.
I don't believe in signs from God, but if I did, the entire world going into lockdown a week after I buy a new gym bag would definitely cause me to cancel a membership.
