technonaturalist

Had to order online from Officeworks to make sure that I only got what I needed because that place is dangerous and I don’t have spare money. I am still not quite ready for term and it’s already started x_x

It’s been about an aeon or so since I last did a garden journal (last one tagged any thing to do with the garden was bundled in with a homeschooling post from 2013 as the kids helped J plant some stuff during an unexpected communication outage). Quite a bit has changed since then.

First and only very vaguely related because it’s out there, J finally got me a new clothes hoist (the old one is collapsible and the catch to hold it open broke some years back but we were able to make do and it has been collapsing a LOT more frequently recently especially when there was a lot on it). Youngest brought the concrete bags in and had the old one dug out in about ten seconds (only a slight exaggeration), after which he and J erected the new post and left it overnight for the concrete to dry. The following day J got Eldest and I to help put the top on (I didn’t do much) and then he strung it.

Looking more like trackies at the moment but the base shape is done. Need to finish the collar and adjust the overlap and do some buttons and maybe pockets and things.

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My neck was being annoying so I got even less done than usual. And I’m not really sure how the flow on the front is going to work out.

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Have not done one of these in forever, comment sketchy inspired by this part of a conversation with @tarazkp.

ryivhnn: I’ve been scrubbing through Snaps recently and not understanding the appeal of doomscrolling.
tarazkp: Yeah - who wants to wade through a rubbish bin in the hope of finding a fresh apple?

ryivhnn: Me I guess XD Perhaps because of the relatively low volume it’s currently pretty quick and easy to find decent interaction hooks. I just…really don’t know how to micro.

I rarely get as much done as I want each session but I was unexpectedly a LOT busier than usual.

^{This was meant to be posted yesterday but shenanigans happened}

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It is not actually that complicated, I was just going to call the post “re-evaluiation” or something equally direct but then decided I wanted to use the word “contemplation” and then I got a bit carried away.

Blogging was more slogging than anything else last year. Some of it was just time management issues (glitchy brain thing, my brain violently rejects schedules and todo lists but I need them to actually get more stuff done or at least a little bit progressed otherwise what happens is I make immense mindblowing progress on whatever my hyperfocus is on before I burn out in 1-7 days and literally nothing else gets done at all) and sleep issues caused from very incorrectly trying to deal with the time management issues (pro-tip: regularly sacrificing sleep because that’s literally the only thing left that you can cut to try to gain some more time to work on things is guaranteed to make literally everything else exponentially worse, literally).

Experimenting with microblogging and apparently butterfly sketchies are the only way I can break first post paralysis (in this particular case it’s for snaps, actual snaps body text is likely to be similar but different from here as there is an actual character limit there so I can’t waffle as much).

I think it’s time to try something new.