Julian Day

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Poet, roguelike developer, pixel artist (ish), composer. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). Editor/publisher, null pointer press. he/him
Websitehttps://www.julianday.ca
Roguelikehttps://www.shadowofthewyrm.org
null pointer presshttps://julianday.ca/press.html
Show threadJulian Day15h ago
I don't think I'd gone a year without tweaking my back since my early 30s. I'm grateful. Upper back pain sucks and is inconvenient, but lower back pain is monstrous. (C tweaked her lower back exactly once, and was like, "oh, this is what you deal with.")
Julian Day15h ago
it's a small thing but I got through the entire winter without throwing out my back, and I think the daily stretching routines are helping.
Show threadJulian Day22h ago
I grew up on the prairies but I feel like west coast weather's in my DNA. Give me a rainy day, or overcast and 12 degrees.
Show threadJulian Day22h ago

On the plus side, less to do on Sunday. I ended up getting premade hanging baskets and planters for the front, so Sunday should just be planting the vegetables and doing the window boxes and pots for the front steps.

The heat is rough. All the walking around outside in 30+ heat (even later in the evening). When I got home I had four glasses of water before bed.

Julian Day22h ago

Got compost and peat moss last night. Was a bit of an adventure. The first three places were out of compost, but I got lucky at the last place I rolled into 10 minutes before closing. They had a whole pallet out, so I grabbed four bags, lots left for everyone else.

Already 17 degrees at 6:29. Today's a WFH day, so I'm planning to go out at 7:45 and get everything tilled in and have a shower before work.

Julian Day1d ago

I finished a draft of a song today. It's a draft, it needs improvement, but it's done, and it's complete. I've spent months fighting this, not being able to properly finish a song. Strange considering I can finish poems no problem, and I used to be able to write songs easily as well.

I don't know if this will lead to anything. But it feels good.

Julian Day1d ago
The culprit. 5:35 today.
Show threadJulian Day2d ago
If my back didn't suck, I'd actually kinda love it. I never understood when I was a kid why my dad liked going out every year, planting his tomatoes, and tending to his ferns. We love what we love, and I love digging up mound after mound of potatoes in the fall and prepping them for winter.
Show threadJulian Day2d ago
Once this is all done, I just have to water regularly, no problem. It's just that initial burst of gardening that always does a number on my back. But it's worth it to get all the cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and potatoes.
Show threadJulian Day2d ago
Manitoba suuuucks because we can get late frosts (and did this year), so it's not safe to plant everything on May long. And then suddenly it's basically June and you need to get everything in ASAP to maximize the very short growing season.