Get Your Words Out

(Today's weather report requires the sun partially covered by a cloud with rain drops and lightning bolt. The weather changed every half hour: sun — rain — sun — thunderstorm — sun — etc. It's important that you know this.)

Reading : I've been reading a book about Montaigne, How to Live, which is excellent and I'll have more to say about it next week. I've also been reading some Yuri!!! on Ice fic. It started with a reread of Recomposed. I was reading it as it was getting posted, so I wanted to read it from start to finish once it ended. It only took me 10 months to get around to it.

Two sidenotes: (1) What a mess they've made of that series. From the win fake-out to that cancelled movie. (2) I'm so sad that I can't read more of Yuri!!! on Ice fic. I need to carefully ration it out because if I spend too much time with it, I get noticeably more depressed and anxious. Which is sad because I love Yuuri.

Eating : Whenever I get stuck on what to eat, my go-to is tofu bolognese. I have my own recipe that I find very hard to mess up, but I think there are two tips I would give to folks making any kind of bolognese: (1) make sure to balance out the sourness of the tomatoes (I usually add a bit of honey), and (2) simmer the sauce with all the ingredients as long as possible. It really gets better the longer you simmer it, but it might require adding a little less salt than you usually prefer.

Pondering : ... I forgot what it was. I was thinking just before I opened the editor that I need to include [blank] into this section and then I sat down to write this post and the thought just vanished.

Obsessing : I had a little detour into Japanese because Tofugu's Hiragana Guide is so delightfully good I couldn't resist it. (The Katakana Guide sadly isn't as good.) They also have a quiz to practice kana, which is very fun to do, so I've been coming back to it each day even though I'm not sure I really want to learn Japanese. I decided to give myself permission to play around with it until I go through free levels of WaniKani.

Recommending : I discovered tab groups last week and they're the best?! I have the desktop browser set to discard the tabs when I close it, but I tend to pile up tabs on my phone browser. A lot of the times it's because I opened too many tabs between the last tab and the tab I wanted to get to soonish, except now that there are so many tabs between them I can't see the tab I wanted to get to soonish in order to be reminded of it.

Anyway, I started some daily challenge and I was constantly afraid of closing it or not getting reminded of it on time because it's been buried. Moving it to its own tab group was a revelation. I liked it so much that I made several other tab groups and have since drastically reduced the number of tabs I have open.

Treating : Dad got treated to my help today. I wasn't supposed to be home but I needed to get a haircut and noon today was the only time that worked, so I spent the morning donating my expert painting skills.