79F - 63F : Cloudy
I realized last night that I'm going to miss film club this week because it is Father's Day, so I took the films of the week off my list of to dos on habitica. That's fine - at least one of them was in Hebrew and I would have had to read the whole thing and I'm really getting tired of subtitles. I mean I know Jewish content in TV means a lot of Israeli shows, but aren't there anything in English or with dubbing available? *sighs* How about more documentaries? Everyone agreed that we liked the one documentary we watched. I'm sure you could find some of those? Anyway, it meant I didn't have anything pressing to do, so around 1am, I collapsed into bed and fell asleep. I don't think I did anything worth mentioning before then.
I woke up again at 10am having a nightmare in which I had managed to get on a plane and fly to Russia without a passport and I woke up when I was being tried as an illegal immigrant (which in Russia is subject to the death penalty for real so I was about to die when I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep).
I read LJ and DW and then tried, but failed, to take a nap. I got back up around noon and took my dogs for a walk. It was only about 72F and cloudy, so it was really pleasant. Alas, it was probably the last pleasant day we'll have until September. Nothing is coming up for the rest of this month, and next month the average high is around 89F every day. I guess it's about time for me to start up with my yearly pleas to Kevin to allow us to move to Alaska. He usually counters by offering Colorado, but it gets hot in Colorado too (just not for as long into fall or spring). I'd accept Colorado.
I did all of my reading. Then the internet went out for 4 hours, and for inexplicable reasons also wasn't working on my phone. I finished both Daisy Jones and the Six and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Then I read an extra couple chapters of The Story of English in 100 Words.
Then I finished making the chiton I had started to hand stitch in January and decided I should just machine stitch by February. It probably would have been done long before now if I had simply continued hand stitching it, but now it is done, other than the fact that I lost the brooches that go on the shoulders and had to buy a new set. It's fine; I need several sets so I'll have this new set for this outfit and eventually I'll find the old set and it will go with another chiton. I think this makes 4 chitons that I own, which means I need 3 more for Pennsic assuming that I'll also make some chemises I can wear and that I'll wear armor a good bit of the time. Really, once I convinced myself to start it took half an hour to finish the thing, and I don't know why I was so procrastinatey on the thing. I could be done by now if I had done one chiton a month since I bought the machine.
Kevin found out why he has tomorrow off. Apparently his boss has decided to make Juneteenth an annual company holiday. So that's cool of them. He knew it was Juneteenth but didn't put it together as the reason for the holiday until his boss confirmed it. So I may see if I can pressure Kevin into watching a movie with me tomorrow since he wants to start gaming on our actual anniversary, and Sunday is Father's Day.
Around 5:30 Kevin was like "is dinner almost ready?" And I had to swear because I had utterly forgotten about dinner. I offered to make mac and cheese because that literally takes 20 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half for the meal I had planned to make. Kevin offered that he had a coupon for Jimmy John's that expired today so we may as well use it. We did that. I ended up having texture issues with the sandwich and I'm not sure why. This is the exact thing I eat all the time, but today I had texture issues with it. I put half of it away to see if I could eat later. But then when I took my meds, I gagged on that, too, so I haven't tried eating again yet.
The internet came back on and I got into an argument my general position in which was "if racial discrimination is bad then racial discrimination is bad." I'm not sure how much of the ensuing argument was because SnoopFrog's native language is German and she was trying to argue in a foreign language and how much was just ridiculous, but she kept trying to convince me that as a Jew I should, in fact, be wary of her because she's German, and the trauma of the Holocaust should keep all Jews wary of Germans in perpetuity.
Speaking of the Holocaust, Jesus Fuck. The Trump campaign literally isn't even trying to pretend they're not Nazis anymore. They literally used the red triangle that nazis used for communists in concentration camps. Then their statement was exactly 14 words long, and they referenced the number 88. The only thing they could do to be more obvious is outright hang a nazi flag over his face! Since I've been asked "14 words" is a statement by Hitler used by the neonazis to sum up their position, and 88 - H is the 8th letter of the alphabet and 88 is HH or Hail Hitler. Both numbers are commonly used in tattoos and other methods of identifying each other amongst the neonazis.
Anyway, I was so wrapped up in my argument with SnoopFrog that I forgot to go to the SCA meeting or the rapier discussion tonight. Maybe it's fine. I could use a day without other people sometimes.
I decided that I'm still using Duolingo to learn Hebrew, and I'm using drops on the computer to learn Hebrew, but I'm using drops on my phone to learn more Spanish vocabulary. I may see if I can learn more than one language on duolingo, too, but there's already a lot of that. Since Victor decided to focus on French, I don't really have anyone to speak Spanish with. Not that I have anyone to speak Hebrew with but at least I hear that spoken regularly? Considering picking up Russian, too, I'm just worried about confusing it with Hebrew. I think I'm good enough at Spanish to actually communicate thoughts by now, so I may write something in my lj entries in Spanish on an occasional basis. I don't know. I wonder if I can install drops on my iPad and use it to learn some Russian vocabulary? I'd have to combine that with duo since duo teaches grammar and drops only teaches vocabulary.
I woke up again at 10am having a nightmare in which I had managed to get on a plane and fly to Russia without a passport and I woke up when I was being tried as an illegal immigrant (which in Russia is subject to the death penalty for real so I was about to die when I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep).
I read LJ and DW and then tried, but failed, to take a nap. I got back up around noon and took my dogs for a walk. It was only about 72F and cloudy, so it was really pleasant. Alas, it was probably the last pleasant day we'll have until September. Nothing is coming up for the rest of this month, and next month the average high is around 89F every day. I guess it's about time for me to start up with my yearly pleas to Kevin to allow us to move to Alaska. He usually counters by offering Colorado, but it gets hot in Colorado too (just not for as long into fall or spring). I'd accept Colorado.
I did all of my reading. Then the internet went out for 4 hours, and for inexplicable reasons also wasn't working on my phone. I finished both Daisy Jones and the Six and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Then I read an extra couple chapters of The Story of English in 100 Words.
Then I finished making the chiton I had started to hand stitch in January and decided I should just machine stitch by February. It probably would have been done long before now if I had simply continued hand stitching it, but now it is done, other than the fact that I lost the brooches that go on the shoulders and had to buy a new set. It's fine; I need several sets so I'll have this new set for this outfit and eventually I'll find the old set and it will go with another chiton. I think this makes 4 chitons that I own, which means I need 3 more for Pennsic assuming that I'll also make some chemises I can wear and that I'll wear armor a good bit of the time. Really, once I convinced myself to start it took half an hour to finish the thing, and I don't know why I was so procrastinatey on the thing. I could be done by now if I had done one chiton a month since I bought the machine.
Kevin found out why he has tomorrow off. Apparently his boss has decided to make Juneteenth an annual company holiday. So that's cool of them. He knew it was Juneteenth but didn't put it together as the reason for the holiday until his boss confirmed it. So I may see if I can pressure Kevin into watching a movie with me tomorrow since he wants to start gaming on our actual anniversary, and Sunday is Father's Day.
Around 5:30 Kevin was like "is dinner almost ready?" And I had to swear because I had utterly forgotten about dinner. I offered to make mac and cheese because that literally takes 20 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half for the meal I had planned to make. Kevin offered that he had a coupon for Jimmy John's that expired today so we may as well use it. We did that. I ended up having texture issues with the sandwich and I'm not sure why. This is the exact thing I eat all the time, but today I had texture issues with it. I put half of it away to see if I could eat later. But then when I took my meds, I gagged on that, too, so I haven't tried eating again yet.
The internet came back on and I got into an argument my general position in which was "if racial discrimination is bad then racial discrimination is bad." I'm not sure how much of the ensuing argument was because SnoopFrog's native language is German and she was trying to argue in a foreign language and how much was just ridiculous, but she kept trying to convince me that as a Jew I should, in fact, be wary of her because she's German, and the trauma of the Holocaust should keep all Jews wary of Germans in perpetuity.
Speaking of the Holocaust, Jesus Fuck. The Trump campaign literally isn't even trying to pretend they're not Nazis anymore. They literally used the red triangle that nazis used for communists in concentration camps. Then their statement was exactly 14 words long, and they referenced the number 88. The only thing they could do to be more obvious is outright hang a nazi flag over his face! Since I've been asked "14 words" is a statement by Hitler used by the neonazis to sum up their position, and 88 - H is the 8th letter of the alphabet and 88 is HH or Hail Hitler. Both numbers are commonly used in tattoos and other methods of identifying each other amongst the neonazis.
Anyway, I was so wrapped up in my argument with SnoopFrog that I forgot to go to the SCA meeting or the rapier discussion tonight. Maybe it's fine. I could use a day without other people sometimes.
I decided that I'm still using Duolingo to learn Hebrew, and I'm using drops on the computer to learn Hebrew, but I'm using drops on my phone to learn more Spanish vocabulary. I may see if I can learn more than one language on duolingo, too, but there's already a lot of that. Since Victor decided to focus on French, I don't really have anyone to speak Spanish with. Not that I have anyone to speak Hebrew with but at least I hear that spoken regularly? Considering picking up Russian, too, I'm just worried about confusing it with Hebrew. I think I'm good enough at Spanish to actually communicate thoughts by now, so I may write something in my lj entries in Spanish on an occasional basis. I don't know. I wonder if I can install drops on my iPad and use it to learn some Russian vocabulary? I'd have to combine that with duo since duo teaches grammar and drops only teaches vocabulary.
