• I've mostly not been blogging, because sitting and writing about what I'm doing and my thoughts about my projects for 15 minutes every day has been a great way to feel that I'm keeping a diary. Problem is that it very topic focused, and missing a lot.
• today: gaming, in person, six people, TransEuropa, lots of fun. Also, ariaflame and purrdence arrived early so we had dinner together; still struggling on finding foods that work for Thursdays (we have issues with eggs, nuts, soy, meat, dairy, some veggies). Given that I will eat meat when it is the least worst option, we had grilled (well grilled) sausages - this worked for everyone except W, who managed one. As they are the one with the very low appetite and several of the food issues, I'm going to have to do some more thinking. I used to be a good and imaginative cook. As we've slowly acquired more restrictions, my ability to be agile and innovative is failing me.
• Forecast was 29°C, not sure if it got there (I barely went outside). At the getting dressed point, I decided that that was definitely trouser rather than shorts weather (and I was right; it is still getting too cold for shorts in the evening).
• Caught up with J (one of the many J's) who came and collected the SwanCon front desk boxes from me. We sat on the porch and chatted. They've been having a difficult year being the primary carer for an elderly relative, and having a committee who are failing to commit.
• earlier in the week we brought home multiple boxes from the storage unit. I now have a ~140L craft full of yarn and fabric that will be rehomed; this is not all the sorting. The lounge is a maze of boxes and stuff.
• yesterday I set myself a small task, and then decided that the necessary pre-condition for doing that was going into the back corner of the library and poking at the kids books (picture books and chapter books). Some hours later, I'd gone through every book on the shelf, pulled about 1.5 linear metres of books that I think can be rehomed, spammed the family discord with suggestions, dusted everything, and checked every book that should have been in the catalogue. This is significant progress. And then about 9pm I did the task I'd planned to do at midday.
• weather: it feels too cold, especially for this time of the year. I respect that that is valuable, and I'll hopefully appreciate it later, but we are at the point of the year that A leaves the sliding doors open and I complain about the draft. Also that it is the wrong time of year to have doors open during the day
• I've been making steady progress on a couple of recorder pieces (Bach, Telemann) and attempting to cement one tune without the music (for all my memory is strongly sound based, it isn't high definition sound based, so I lose words and melodies really easily; I keep voices and the sensation of the orchestration. the effect is that it is hard to remember how tunes start, but once it is going I know the shape of it and where the oddnesses are, mostly)
• twenty days until I fly across country. we have no useful plans. I'm not panicking, but I am stressed.
• chickens: just the two, not as feral as the previous ones, still not that happy about being handled though.
• skating: one last lesson, I'm not signing up for the summer school because travelling and cash
• Job search: I continue to half-arse things, only applying for the cream of the crop and complaining a lot about the lack of jobs that suit my skills. I continue to not want to work, but not want to not work either.

Book tag numbers:

• 2011 - down to 21 books that haven't been seen since that check. At least three are books that I loaned that haven't been returned; I'm going to deal with that when I've run out of books to check.
• 2019 - 246 - (down ten from yesterday). there are a lot of music books to go through, and youngest's shelves. Plus some I've definitely lent to people. There will be a steady progression on either replacing or discarding.
• 2020 - 40, plus four that have the tag 'hugos 2020' - I might get rid of that because I've not been consistent.
• 2021 - 23 - nothing obvious here that can be fixed at this point in time
• 2022 - 9 books, mostly the collections of poetry that I managed to lose soon after acquiring.
• 2023 - 3, one of which I spotted yesterday while looking for kids books, so that will be (hopefully) dealt with tomorrow