July 21, 22: Routine, Errands, Walking, Oculus, TV, and Games

[Well, dang it! I got a pretty solid early start on my post this morning, but I took it for granted, got going with other stuff, and now I’m cutting it close! 😱]

Passed out about seven thirty last night and then up again at friggin’ four for another hour short. 😡 Although I’m still having some trouble focusing, I did, at least, power through the whole day without crashing.

Did the usual morning routine and worked on my post for the day. Still felt weird, like I’m off by a day, but I realized it was Thursday, so after I got that stuff done, I headed into town to run my bad habit errands. Not too bad with that, went lickity-split and I was already back in time to post at ten. 👍

I’ve really only got one primary self-pressure right now, and that’s to sit down and work at the computer. Unfortunately, I’m in that weird spot where when I try to pick a task to work on I just get a flood of “but then there’s this” or “and you need that” and I can settle on one thing, get myself all churned up, and then just give up. 😢

Still, I was determined not to laze and/or sleep the day away despite my inability to self-discipline and it was a gorgeous summer day out, so figured the doggy would enjoy a walk (and me too). FitBit does say I went a full five kilometers, but I kind of know that’s generous (I mean, that’s the reason why I use two different apps to measure), so I’m going to call it a proper* walk (with an asterisk 😛).

This is certainly my kind of weather! ☀️ I think it was a bit warm for the dog, but it seemed like he still enjoyed himself even if he had slowed down significantly by the time we were heading back home. The wind was a little intense from time to time (making getting good bug pics difficult), but it was a relief from the heat of the day and I still got a couple. 😁

I realized that I forgot to get my usual sky photo at the end of the drive, but I got some anyway (couldn’t help myself). Looks like they’ve split the field this year; got corn on one half, but I’m not sure what the other half is. Looks like straight up grass…might be to help replenish the soil, but I don’t know.

He did stick to the shady spots, but come on, that’s a smile; wouldn’t you say? 😀

Got some kinda’ fly there, but I was more interested in showing you the flower. They usually are just all white or sometimes have a dark, almost burgundy bit in the center:

Here’s a typical all white one:

But check this one out!!! 😲 It’s got a bright pink center!

Saw quite a few butterflies, but with the wind they were hard to get a shot of. This one, though, found a berry it liked and I got a couple good shots:

Sure, it’s just a stink bug, but it’s a part of the ecosystem too. 👍

The pond was hopping with dragonflies and I did see a turtle 🐢 getting a good munch on. He wasn’t having his picture taken, though. 😢

Seems like we hardly saw any dragonflies at all last year, but I saw tons today. 😄 The don’t sit still for long, but I captured a few:

While I’ve been resisting the temptation to delve into VR, I did give in today in opposition to laying down and taking a nap. My controller is still messed up, and now that the new chapter of Moss has come out, I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get a new one (Quest 3 not coming out for another year or two). So, I was somewhat limited in what I could tolerably play and worked a little on some Puzzling Places.

Hung out for a while listening to music over on Pizza Discord and joked around for a bit. Then it was getting on towards time for Wenche to be finishing up with work. I decided to help get dinner started and we made pasta and meat sauce.

I went down to the RedBox and got us a couple movies to watch since she’s been working the last six days and has a three day weekend (so it was her Friday). The Xbox didn’t want to play the DVD, though, at first and it took a while to figure out that it needed an update (which itself took a while).

I did finally get it going, though, and put on The Bad Guys, a new DreamWorks animated movie. I was enjoying it, actually, but I just couldn’t help it. I fell asleep twice, woke up, and tried to keep my eyes open, but the next thing I know, it’s morning and I missed like half of the movie. 😭

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Well, went in to get my dShitty statistics photo and despite restarting the browser and trying several different times, I only got a blank screen:

I think it’s safe to assume that my income is still negative, as I received the obligatory eleven SIM per recent trend. 😡

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I guess I spoke too soon regarding my Rising Star Ego remaining low, or at least jinxed myself into getting some drunks. I just did the one mission today, as usual, but I decided to be proactive and get ahead on my Ego before the drunk fans expire and set a lesson going for now.

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A couple more days of waiting out the clock on HashKings, so not really all that much to say about that.

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I had Death splinter focus going that I’d set the day before, and for a second I did consider playing, but didn’t happen. Got nine brawl battles to enter this time, though! 😮 Need to get on that right quick before time runs short.

Claimed and staked my SPS drop for the day. Man! It’s going to be weird not saying that…only five days or so left! I moved some more vouchers out the other day, but still just poised waiting for a pop in the price.

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