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Sep. 15th, 2020 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThe 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!
Please excuse my apparently very dirty bathroom mirror. 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.
- I finished a sweater!
Please excuse my apparently very dirty bathroom mirror. 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.
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Date: 2020-09-15 06:28 pm (UTC)I'm glad you and your siblings are enjoying The Untamed!
(also: does anyone know what's going on in Blaseball?)
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Date: 2020-09-15 10:16 pm (UTC)I am sorry that the Libby app is frustrating; that sucks. I do actually kinda love my Kindle. I've been having difficulty finishing a book that I'm reading because it's a physical book, hardcover...which I love for how well it holds up with me reading a book, but let me tell you how much easier it is for me to read paperback novels that I can just hold open with one hand... or my Kindle. Yeah. ANYway...time to stop rambling.
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Date: 2020-09-15 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-09-24 08:39 pm (UTC)Thanks for linking the pattern; I've always wanted to try to knit a sweater, but it's so daunting.