![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jun. 27th, 2021 08:03 amThings:
- It is extremely very hot today and going to be even hotter tomorrow. I am very lucky in that our house has air conditioning and my library has air conditioning, so I'm basically okay but still. I would like to write a stern note of complaint to the management.
- Because it is and has been so hot lately, I have been doing a lot of spinning. (Spinning is my less-warm yarn craft hobby, because it doesn't result in a bunch of wool sitting in my lap for long periods.) I haven't done any spinning in a while, but this week I've made some good progress on a few larger projects and I'm very pleased with it.
- I'm not allowed to buy more spinning wool till I finish my current projects, I've decided. I keep finding fiber that I forgot I had, which means that I have too much. And also that I really do need to catalogue my stash.
- The one real problem with spinning is that, if I'm watching something while I spin, it absolutely has to be something that I don't have to look at the screen very much. I can glance at the screen from time to time, but not in long stretches. Most shows in English are fine - you can get most of what you need from dialogue - and Critical Role (or podcasts) is great, since that's basically entirely dialogue. But most of what I've been watching lately has been cdramas or anime and that's just entirely unworkable.
- This morning, I figured out how to get around a block I've been having with one of my solo rpgs, which has resulted in me not playing that game. (Which is a shame, as it's the extremely rules-light equipment-light one that I can play in the background of boring mindless tasks like dishes or shelving.) Basically, I'd gotten bored with an aspect of the current adventure, but had baked it in so much to previous story that it was difficult to wholly discard and playing through that part of the adventure had to happen before getting to the next bit. This morning, it occurred to me that a) it is a solo rpg and I don't have to do anything in the game that I don't want to and b) Ironsworn/Starforged (for example) explicitly have moves that let you resolve bits you're not excited about in one dice roll so you can move on and I can do that in my game too. So I figured out two things I wanted to resolve from the boring aspect of the adventure, rolled for those, and now I am excited about what comes next again!
- It is extremely very hot today and going to be even hotter tomorrow. I am very lucky in that our house has air conditioning and my library has air conditioning, so I'm basically okay but still. I would like to write a stern note of complaint to the management.
- Because it is and has been so hot lately, I have been doing a lot of spinning. (Spinning is my less-warm yarn craft hobby, because it doesn't result in a bunch of wool sitting in my lap for long periods.) I haven't done any spinning in a while, but this week I've made some good progress on a few larger projects and I'm very pleased with it.
- I'm not allowed to buy more spinning wool till I finish my current projects, I've decided. I keep finding fiber that I forgot I had, which means that I have too much. And also that I really do need to catalogue my stash.
- The one real problem with spinning is that, if I'm watching something while I spin, it absolutely has to be something that I don't have to look at the screen very much. I can glance at the screen from time to time, but not in long stretches. Most shows in English are fine - you can get most of what you need from dialogue - and Critical Role (or podcasts) is great, since that's basically entirely dialogue. But most of what I've been watching lately has been cdramas or anime and that's just entirely unworkable.
- This morning, I figured out how to get around a block I've been having with one of my solo rpgs, which has resulted in me not playing that game. (Which is a shame, as it's the extremely rules-light equipment-light one that I can play in the background of boring mindless tasks like dishes or shelving.) Basically, I'd gotten bored with an aspect of the current adventure, but had baked it in so much to previous story that it was difficult to wholly discard and playing through that part of the adventure had to happen before getting to the next bit. This morning, it occurred to me that a) it is a solo rpg and I don't have to do anything in the game that I don't want to and b) Ironsworn/Starforged (for example) explicitly have moves that let you resolve bits you're not excited about in one dice roll so you can move on and I can do that in my game too. So I figured out two things I wanted to resolve from the boring aspect of the adventure, rolled for those, and now I am excited about what comes next again!
