Sep. 15th, 2020

darchildre: a crow being held in one hand.  text:  "bird in hand" (bird in the hand)
The library closed early on Friday afternoon due to air quality issues* and has remained closed since, so I have not been at work for the past few days. Here is what I have been doing instead:

- I finished a sweater! Here is a picture of it! ) This is the second sweater I've made using this pattern and if you have always wanted to knit a sweater but have been intimidated by the process, I highly recommend it. The pattern is well-written and easy to follow (it's part of collection aimed at people learning to knit), it makes a nice basic everyday sweater, it comes in a million sizes, and the pattern is free. The Flax Light pattern uses fingering weight yarn but there's also a worsted-weight version if you want a heavier sweater.

- I have almost finished watching The Untamed. Which I am technically watching twice at the same time, as I started watching it on my own, then convinced my sisters to join me on our weekly streaming night. We are on episode 17 in the shared watch-through, and I'm on 48 on my own. I am being very good and not spoiling them for things but I am excited to get to send them fanfiction when we're done. (Also, because they are much more spoiler-averse than I am, I get to have the vicarious experience of them getting reveals when they're supposed to rather than, for example, knowing about the whole golden core thing the whole way through. It's exciting.)

- Yesterday I started playing Blaseball? I don't know, guys, they talked about it on Friends at the Table, I don't really know what's going on, but it's kinda fun. Anyway, go Tigers.

- I am trying to read Gemma Files' Hexslinger trilogy, but I have to read it with the Libby app (as that is the only format any of my libraries have it in) and, you guys, I am glad the Libby app exists and it's significantly better than the old Overdrive app in a lot of ways - I am happy to use it to manage my library ebooks and various library cards - but ye gods, I hate reading with it. The default font is bad to look at but if you choose a different one it destroys a book's formatting, and it won't rotate the text orientation if you read on a phone. Which isn't my preferred reading device, certainly, but the fact that it will rotate on a tablet but not a phone is absurd and infuriating. So I'm constantly frustrated with the reading experience, to the point that even though I'm really enjoying the books, I'm considering stopping in the middle of book two to wait for them to be rereleased for the kindle next month. It's a problem.





*Curbside service means having staff stationed outside the buildings all day which is Not Great what with all the smoke in our area.
darchildre: text only:  "unlimited rice pudding!" (daleks are silly)
The library website says that we're still going to be closed tomorrow. I got an email from my supervisor cancelling a meeting we were supposed to have tomorrow. But I still haven't heard from my manager who is supposed to be the person I get the official announcement of closures from, so I am existing in this weird limbo state where I'm pretty sure I don't need to do the things I normally do to get ready for work tomorrow but my anxiety won't actually let me believe it because I haven't been Properly Told and I hate it.

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