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Bread Day

A 76-post collection

Wednesday, Mor BREAD!

My cunning PLN has worked! Miss Chaos is slowing down on her ravenous sourdough consumption. She appreciates how much firkin work goes into each loaf. And there's food-with-instructions lying around so she's not starving.

She's just incredibly lazy.

Pan-fried toast is easier than a lot of meals she could be making. Faster, as well. The bread to make the pan-fried toast is a little bit more of a trial.

So I'm happy to do the second batch on my only while I direct Chaos into baking her loaves. I'm going to score an initial into hers so we all know they're hers. Just for fun.

And speaking of fun, I have a story to record, two videos to edit and post, a story to write, a rant to write, a chapter to finish, an argument with Cursor to have, and a doodle to draw. As well as wrangling bread.

Today is packed.

Tuesday, Shrink Day and Mor Bread

On the plus side, the kids like my bread. On the minus side, I have to make way more bread. Starting today.

I'm going to get Miss Chaos to do the majority of the nonsense. Because she eats a majority of the bread. And get more flour next shopping trip.

Maybe three batches of bread will last an entire firkin week. Or maybe the spawn will view it as a challenge. Only one way to find out.

So far, Miss Chaos views

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Friday, Mor Bread and Education

I have taught Chaos how to shape a loaf. We'll be trying again in about five hours when it's time to shape the next one. I might have to puppet her hands since watch-and-learn didn't quite cut it.

Today, I'm making another video, and passing another one on to TubeTube. And doing all the usual nonsense. When I get around to arguing with Cursor, I'll be focussing on the rest of the interface.

And believe me, working on Cursor feels a lot

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Thursday, Bread Double Play and Stuff

I spent a lot of time debugging game layout in Cursor, yesterday. The plus side is that I have most of the layout organised. Today, amongst the many other things I have PLN'd, I am double-dosing the bread ritual. I have the starter incubating as the first loaf proofs.

I'm going to be juggling timers today. One for the oven, one for the dough. And tomorrow, I cook even more bread.

All so the kids and I have enough bread for our

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Wednesday, Surprise Bread Deficit and Further PLNs

The good news is: the kids really enjoy my bread. The bad news is that I have to make WAY more of it to see me through the week.

So I'm preparing one batch of dough today, making another batch tomorrow while I'm baking the first tomorrow, and baking the second one the day after.

I'm also doing a story video, today.

And the usual nonsense that y'all will see on my various socials. I'll get it done, for sure. The system

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Sunday, Bread and Nonsense

My time manglement skills are in full "flower" today. I did get the dough prepped with the help of Mayhem for the last fold and tucking away in the fridge.

I have calculated that it takes me around 20 hours to make bread from 'go' to 'whoah'. That's not counting the prep and bumbling about time so it probably is closer to 22 hours. No wonder it takes me two freaking days to have lovely golden butt loaves.

I should be able

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Friday, Bread baking and Catio cleaning

We're doing bread shaping experiments today. I need to sort out the catio, today. One of those is dependant on Mayhem being conscious. The other is waiting on my own impetus.

Inertia is my copilot.

Today, I also plan on learning ANOTHER editing program to make subtitles. May it not also need jiggery-pokery to do text boxes and the other things.

Here's my last method to make subtitles:

  1. Dial up the subtitle part of the Titles menu
  2. Copy in enough text to
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Thursday, Bread and Physio

Here is my cunning PLN:

  1. Start one loaf off [X]
  2. Make offerings whilst loaf continues process
  3. Bake loaf
  4. Go to physio
  5. Go process the second loaf and do things for creativity purposes, huzzah

I can make a start on the new cord for my cane, but I can't get to the tricky part until I have the entire week to do it.

We'll see how I go.

Starting with today's offerings. Huzzah.

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Saturday, Parkrun and Bread

I don't have to get up early tomorrow, so I have time to bake. Yay. With all good fortune, I should have bread and be able to face tomorrow.

Beloved and I still haven't found the end of Book 5.

Whilst I wait for bread milestones, I am going to get brave and fling a thing at someone. And fiddle around with Zrhythm to see if I can make it go.

I can do this. I have the technology. I can at

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Monday, Backup Reads and Bread

Long story short - I didn't want to stay up past midnight for all of the folds.

Time management is a lack-of-skill of mine :D

Four hours plus six hours plus wandering time would have equalled me putting the dough to rest at somewhere close to two fucking AM.

I put the dough to rest after the first fold. I'm doing the the rest of the three folds today, and then the first loaf after that. We will see how I feel

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Sunday, Game Night and Bread

I am going to have a long day. Because I need to make bread.

I can't put it to rest in the fridge until it's done with the fourth fold, and there's six hours after the starter's done incubating. Which takes four hours. So that's ten hours hence. More or less.

I'm getting to bed closer to midnight. Yikes.

At least I had a nap after VTTRPG.

We have a new player - who got bit by the newly werebat Kobold Rogue.

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Thursday, Bread and Nonsense

Once again, it's too hot to work outdoors where the power tools are. It's even hotter than it was yesterday. I've got my first loaf in the incubator and the Dutch Oven preheating.

The PLN today is:

  1. Bake my bread
  2. Set up for the next loaf
  3. Go fetch more meds and a calendar
  4. Bake my second loaf

And somewhere between steps 3 and 4, I will be making my offerings. Probably partially between 1 and 2 also.

Right now, I'm finishing up

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Monday, Shopping and Bread

Finally got the dough ready for a baking day, but I also need to get a few things here and there, so... shopping first.

I am definitely going to spend some of my mad money on Steam cards. Chants of Sennar and a few other little treats shall be mine. Muahahaha...

Then all I have to do is engineer the time to play them.

One thing at a time.

Tomorrow, I think I'll be helping Chaos make her kit bread. Needs must

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Monday, Lurgi'd and Bread

I did not bake bread yesterday. I kind of have to do that today. I may be doing so at a rate slower than an arthritic snail.

But there will be bread. "Twice proofed" since it spent 24hours in the fridge rather than 8-12.

The first loaf is incubating while the oven preheats and the Dutch Oven gets heat sunk into it. I have everything lined up for the inevitable bake.

I'm keeping up my fluids and planning a lot of rest.

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Sunday, Lurgi, and Bread

I was doing all right until about 2PM yesterday. That's when my nose started running like a tap and my throat started hurting like I'd been gargling thorns.

I am not a happy camper.

Mayhem's making a sorta-chicken soup with available materials when I wanted to venture out and get things. It's probably a good idea to stay in and keep up on my fluids.

I'm either overheating or freezing. My head's full of fog, and I am currently in terror of

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