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Things better left unsaid

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This fortnight began under the shadow of some nasty mental health and loneliness stuff, of which the less said here the better.

Moving on, I have:

  • Got to sleep around 1.57 hours late on average. Despite this I did average 7 hours of sleep, though it doesn’t much feel like it.
  • Made about ten things:
    • … it to my cousin’s engagement party, organised and with a gift,
    • Four nights’ worth of D&D prep,
    • Mended some clothes, and a bag I needed to carry the inevitable stack of RPG paraphenalia,
    • Two poems
    • And the beginning of an attempt to deal with the mental stuff.

I didn’t finish reading or watching anything this week (blame social media). But the D&D game did make good use of the prep (and bag), so the fortnight ended on a high note.

A good fortnight for the wakeful

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This fortnight, I have:

  • Got to sleep about 1.3 hours after midnight on average, for about 6.7 hours of sleep a night. An improvement over last fortnight, at least.
  • Made ten things:
    • Four evenings of progress on my Lachisis Weaves project. Mostly this was testing and CI setup, so I’ve got no cool diagrams to show for it, but it does bring me closer to such demonstrations.
    • Two evenings of D&D prep.
    • An afternoon of gardening, cutting back a tree. Again, not work that’ll bear any fruit (or vegetables), but necessary to get light for them to grow in.
    • One decent chunk of fiction writing.
    • And two bits of boring life-admin stuff: getting my oven repaired, and sorting out (finally!) the other clothing order.
  • And I finished two books: Iain M. Banks’ Excession, and Peter Swanson’s The Girl with a Clock for a Heart. Excession, at least, reminded me how many of Banks’ books I still need to read…

Overall, a good outcome for everything except sleep. The D&D session went off nicely, although the PCs threw my plans slightly for a loop by running into their enemies at the shops.