Posts from 2024-02.
28 February 2024
#3GoodThings
📚 The array of recurring characters at the library who have now been cast as our own private soap opera. (And yes, we’re there so often we’re probably part of the cast of odd people who hang out in the library now too.)
🧁 The vegan carrot & pistachio cake in the library cafe.
😻Last week the cat was moving gingerly like she was hurt but she is racing about again now and all seems good.
26 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🌅 A rosy gold sunset lighting up red brick walls.
🎂 The teen’s birthday cake that was supposed to be delivered on Friday finally actually got delivered and seems to be going down well despite the delay.
🍦 I found more fancy ice cream cones left in the cupboard after I was told there were none.
25 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🧹 Cleaned out the vacuum cleaner so it actually holds onto the bits it has sucked up rather than sporadically dumping them out again.
👣 My carpets are now a lot nicer underfoot as a result.
☀️ Got a good dose of morning sunshine even if my fingers have frozen off.
21 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🪻Crocuses are appearing!
🇨🇦 I’ve run out of real maple syrup but that just makes me realise how lovely it was and I need more.
📖 I didn’t even realise the new Mary Russell book had been released until I spotted it on the new additions shelf at the library. Yay!
19 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🛏️ Not having to leap out of bed on a Monday morning.
❎ People who make 404 pages that are thematic and fun to happen upon.
🧽 I got all the muddy footprints off the kitchen floor last night so they won’t annoy me when I get up today.
16 February 2024
#3GoodThings
👩🏻💻This morning work-me figured out how to get data from where it was to where I want it.
🕸️This afternoon I sorted out the weird dependency loop that my personal website had got itself into and got the underlying software upgraded.
🎲 This evening I retaught myself a board game I’d entirely forgotten in order to teach other people to play it soon.
15 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🧥 Got a new cycling jacket - just what I wanted (fancier in fact) for 40% of its full price. I avoid deliberately looking for sales but it’s nice when you come across one at the right time.
🍝 Freshly ground black pepper.
🌌The peace and quiet after noisy people leave.
11 February 2024
#3GoodThings
☀️ The sun came out for the ride home from the coffee shop.
🛎️ Found a shop that had lots of bicycle bells in stock and dinged them all to figure out which one I liked best. Now I have a working bell again. Ding!
✂️ Got the fabric cut out for a new sweatshirt.
9 February 2024
#3GoodThings
🧵 I won a game of bobbin chicken. Aced it with about 5cm left at the end of the seam.
👩🏻💻Found a quick fix for something that seemed intractable yesterday.
👶 Jelly babies.
8 February 2024
#3GoodThings
👩🏻💻I thought I’d made a huge screw up in some production code yesterday but quickly realised it was just a line of debugging left in and sorted it out.
🛌 I keep sleeping all the way through the night.
💭The weird sensation of waking up and realising that the strange stuff you were just in the middle of was your brain making cocktails with random bits of your life. Partly good, partly sad, but I think dreaming is a good thing all the same.
7 February 2024
#3GoodThings from yesterday
📃I got a new shredder to replace the old overworked one and can get back to document decimation again. I even bought oil too in order to maybe not kill this shredder.
☁️ The rain finally stopped just before I went out on my bike.
🧹Brushing my hair at the perfect clean and dry moment.
5 February 2024
#3GoodThings about yesterday.
🌬️Having the option to pick a more sheltered bike path when the one along the river was super windy.
🐦 Magpies swooping around me on the bike path at dusk.
📱The Merlin app that identifies birds from their calls which meant I was sure they were magpies even though they were just flashes of black & white.