I wonder if my pumpkins are finally ready 

No taste, no sense, no thanks.

Royal icing? That’s just wrong. 

For a region with so many apple orchards not too far out of town, I still don’t know of a place that does fresh cider and cider doughnuts. Might be local pasteurization laws or something. But occasionally local brunch or bakery spots will come through with the doughnuts.

I think it’ll get there eventually, but even just Y0 is such a good time. 

I meant to take a mental health day from work today, but then I was being all on top of things and filled out my timesheet yesterday and totally forgot about this plan, so I’m “working” today, just staring at my laptop with no good work to do, and not playing video games for many hours. This weekend is for more Nioh…

I am so jealous you get to come in so fresh to such a great game. You’re going to have so much fun.

I’ve had the worst routine of playing NMS for a good while, getting pretty far into building up the systems, and then getting distracted until another big update. At which point I feel it the responsible thing to start up a brand new game to experience all the newness from the start, and then get annoyed because I…

I’ve heard really good things about Spiritfarer, I’d love to hear what you think.

Yeah, fair. Both views of the info on it are helpful in different ways. I hope it clicks for you; it definitely took a bunch of failures for me before it really took off, but I really enjoyed the payoff. I also took some times to just fart around and do dumb stuff, which then ended up helping me out accidentally. 

Have you been looking at the computer on your ship? It records what you’ve discovered and what you've learned about but haven't found yet. I found it to be the best way to figure out what I might check out next. 

It’s wild at how much those types of changes can alter a bunch of other things. But also how satisfying the new routines can be. I used to steer clear of anything and everything bitter, but now I have a lot of bitter items that I really, really enjoy. 

Nah, doesn’t sound weird. Some breads in particular are way too much—too dense or too tough on the crust or something. There are some places where I refuse to order a sandwich because the bread ruins the whole thing.

I love this story. 

I am just plain tired these days. There’s always something new to add on to the tiredness, and very few things to help recharge the batteries. I think tomorrow might be a mental health day for me, especially since I have plenty of sick time to burn. Plus I just got done with two main projects at work so there’s really…

I’m very glad my employer can’t track my time spent on a phone. Yes, of course I'm putting in a full eight hours, naturally.

Sigh. Yes, yes, I’m sure you’re correct. I’d better go shark proof the bedroom. Again. 

Outer Wilds is amazing. Don’t spoiler/guide anything on it. 

Sorry, no returns on oregon smoke. All oregon smoke is sold as is.

Yeah, we have a hooray when the air quality reduced to merely unhealthy for a bit. Progress!