Still another section to go, and lol don’t look behind it (I had to screw and re-screw the brace a few times), or too close at the dowels (I didn’t have a hammer and had to do what I could with a dumbbell). But! Lessons were learnt, and now . . . shelf!!!

Also cleaned the bathroom and vacuumed today (and scraped my car’s mirror on a pylon, ugh) so, like. Big productive.

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I wouldn’t say the BlueTooth connection with the controller is the most rock-solid reliable, turn-on-and-go situation in the world. But. Nonetheless, got me some FFXIV working on my Linux TV box.

. . . got it working only for it to do this time me? Why, FFXIV, why?

Photo of FFXIV on a TV, showing the character drawing the “Grave Misfortune” new year’s fortune.

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terrible parents around here, not even teaching their kids a proper

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First go at cooking in this tiny galley kitchen after being used to the big apartment kitchen . . . wish me luck!

Update:

Green pot of chilli, bubbling away on a stove.

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All right, buckle up kids. It’s 2026-o’clock.

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Excused out of most Christmas obligations this year, but still keen for turkey, Granny’s potato salad, and pudding with brandy butter at the ‘rents.

Small tables with plates of Christmas lunch — turkey, salad, potato salad — and glasses of sparkling red.
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So if you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I kinda like those macrame wall hanging things but I wish they came in any colour other than ‘Ballerina Farm Racist’?”

Yeah turns out a bottle of Rit and they dye just fine.

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