I've lost track of the day & it's only Sunday night. [A day, fic bingo, SCII swag, and ice cream!]
In defense of my "what day is it?" state of mind, 
scruloose's job usually entails a very consistent M-F daytime workweek, but he agreed that today he'd do a 12-hour overtime shift. My internal schedule is now justifiably out of whack!
I accomplished very little with my day to myself. >.< I got a bit of work done, and I read most of a book, but otherwise it's all kinda blurry. Lots of snuggling with Jinksy!bear, which is always a plus, and Nico and her partner were over for a bit. ^_^ But while I didn't really expect to get a ton of practical stuff done, I was hoping to, I don't know, catch up on The 100 or something. (I'm now three episodes behind.)
The novel I finished reading was Paul Cornell's Chalk, which I didn't even waste time trying to rate on Goodreads. I think it's probably good? At least reasonably good? But it's so utterly not for me that I just can't say.
I see that
genprompt_bingo is currently open for sign-ups, if that's of interest. (One of the prompt categories is Carrie Fisher quotes!)
So far I've managed to resist asking for a card. As usual, the temptation is there; the whole "hey, maybe it'd kick-start something in my head!" is strong, especially since I'm continuing to write absolutely nothing. But OTOH, I don't write much gen fic to begin with (not opposed at all, but it's rarely what comes to mind), and I have plenty of WsIP lying dormant. :/
While buying the Nova missions expansion for StarCraft II a few nights ago, I made the dangerous (and not remotely surprising) discovery that Blizzard sells merchandise, to which I hadn't previously been exposed. The swag is not cheap...except that there's a massive spring clearance sale happening, and Ginny and I caved and each bought a few things. I think the undisputed highlight is a reversible Zergling plushie. It turns into a Baneling. (Banelings aren't even my or Ginny's favorite Zergling evolution, but LOOK AT IT.)
(Despite my preference for the Terran campaign in SCII over the Zerg campaign, I've had a fundamental allegiance to the Zerg throughout my almost twenty years [!!!] of being a sporadic-but-devout StarCraft player. I have never had Zerg swag before. So I'm unreasonably delighted by this.)
I don't remember if I've mentioned here that Ben and Jerry's recently announced that they're bringing Chocolate Therapy to Canada--and not even as a limited edition flavor! (Which was the tragic case with Phish Food.) Those are the two flavors that were directly responsible for the Ice Cream Sunday road trip to Maine a few years back, so this is quite exciting.
What we learned from Phish Food's brief time here was that "for sale in Canada" doesn't necessarily mean "easy to find". Kas undertook some epic searching for Phish Food during those months, which were soon enough after the road trip that the maintainer(s) at
BenJerryCanada knew exactly who we both were for a while there. *g* So it's extra lovely that Kas located some Chocolate Therapy today, just under a month after the flavor was announced.
For any other Canadians who might want this intel, Kas tracked Chocolate Therapy down in one of the larger Shoppers Drug Mart locations.
(Ben and Jerry's has also released three dairy-free flavors in Canada this year, which is fantastic news. I know so many people who can't have dairy!)
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scruloose's job usually entails a very consistent M-F daytime workweek, but he agreed that today he'd do a 12-hour overtime shift. My internal schedule is now justifiably out of whack!
I accomplished very little with my day to myself. >.< I got a bit of work done, and I read most of a book, but otherwise it's all kinda blurry. Lots of snuggling with Jinksy!bear, which is always a plus, and Nico and her partner were over for a bit. ^_^ But while I didn't really expect to get a ton of practical stuff done, I was hoping to, I don't know, catch up on The 100 or something. (I'm now three episodes behind.)
The novel I finished reading was Paul Cornell's Chalk, which I didn't even waste time trying to rate on Goodreads. I think it's probably good? At least reasonably good? But it's so utterly not for me that I just can't say.
I see that
genprompt_bingo is currently open for sign-ups, if that's of interest. (One of the prompt categories is Carrie Fisher quotes!)
So far I've managed to resist asking for a card. As usual, the temptation is there; the whole "hey, maybe it'd kick-start something in my head!" is strong, especially since I'm continuing to write absolutely nothing. But OTOH, I don't write much gen fic to begin with (not opposed at all, but it's rarely what comes to mind), and I have plenty of WsIP lying dormant. :/
While buying the Nova missions expansion for StarCraft II a few nights ago, I made the dangerous (and not remotely surprising) discovery that Blizzard sells merchandise, to which I hadn't previously been exposed. The swag is not cheap...except that there's a massive spring clearance sale happening, and Ginny and I caved and each bought a few things. I think the undisputed highlight is a reversible Zergling plushie. It turns into a Baneling. (Banelings aren't even my or Ginny's favorite Zergling evolution, but LOOK AT IT.)
(Despite my preference for the Terran campaign in SCII over the Zerg campaign, I've had a fundamental allegiance to the Zerg throughout my almost twenty years [!!!] of being a sporadic-but-devout StarCraft player. I have never had Zerg swag before. So I'm unreasonably delighted by this.)
I don't remember if I've mentioned here that Ben and Jerry's recently announced that they're bringing Chocolate Therapy to Canada--and not even as a limited edition flavor! (Which was the tragic case with Phish Food.) Those are the two flavors that were directly responsible for the Ice Cream Sunday road trip to Maine a few years back, so this is quite exciting.
What we learned from Phish Food's brief time here was that "for sale in Canada" doesn't necessarily mean "easy to find". Kas undertook some epic searching for Phish Food during those months, which were soon enough after the road trip that the maintainer(s) at
BenJerryCanada knew exactly who we both were for a while there. *g* So it's extra lovely that Kas located some Chocolate Therapy today, just under a month after the flavor was announced.
For any other Canadians who might want this intel, Kas tracked Chocolate Therapy down in one of the larger Shoppers Drug Mart locations.
(Ben and Jerry's has also released three dairy-free flavors in Canada this year, which is fantastic news. I know so many people who can't have dairy!)
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