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Saturday, No Parkrun Because Ankle

I have a maximum of two hours to do things before I have to spend twenty minutes with a cold pack on and under my ankle. Plus I have bread going on. I thought one batch would be enough, and it looks like the kids are back to predating upon it.

Mayhem's off to work this Monday, so I may have to get Chaos to contribute to the bread supply.

I have NO idea how I'm going to deal around shopping time. I'll figure it out when I get there, I guess.

Onwards to what I can manage of my offerings, before I have to collapse about it.

Friday, New Routine and Bread

On the advice of my physiotherapist, I have a new way of working. It's a cycle of about two hours and twenty minutes. Two hours sitting up and doing things, twenty minutes with a cold pack juggled around the ankle. Ten minutes under, ten minutes over.

It's... workable.

I have enlisted Mayhem to help me bothering the bread. Just in case I have other bullshit going on.

The starter's incubating, I measured everything but the salt [my bad] and all is more

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Thursday, Physio and Catching Up

Getting all my nonsense for the household cost me money and energy. So I'll be catching up on my videos at some point today.

I take off at a quarter to ten so I have a hope of writing some ADT before I get on with the rest of my daily nonsense.

I honestly don't know how I'm going to deal because my right heel has started stinging for no apparent reason. Fun times.

Adorable has a headcold, Mayhem has signed up

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Wednesday, Rant and Shopping Due

My USB power hub expired last night. Fun times. Now I have one of those added to my list. I have to stop off in several more places than originally planned.

I have my knees and ankle re-enforced, yay, but as I was getting my doses together, my right hip decided to add to the fun times.

...yay...

My PLNs include fortifying my funds with a visit to the local Cash-4-Cans place. Just to have that little bit extra. If we need

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Tuesday, Patreon Stuff and Ankle Gambits

Today's theory is that my regular walking shoes are too heavy for my fragile, sprained joint. Which is why I might be getting nerve janglies when I put that thing on a cushion or up on my knee.

So far, so good.

I still can't sit up at my computer for extended periods of time, so my PLN for relief is (drumroll) taking napnaps.

I did make some arts, yesterday, but the protocol I used to share it with myself made it

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Monday, Video and Ankle

I woke this morning [third time's the charm] with the sincere belief that my sprained ankle had finally healed. I could get back to doing my heel stretchies.

No.

I could not.

I aggravated my sprain. So I might be another week in the bracer. Powers alone know how I'm going to get the shopping done because it's always a Leyland's Tour.

I might have to do the driving and take a helpmeet to do all the running around.

Today, there shall

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Sunday, Anxiety Spike Issues

Dealing with issues does very suck. I got myself some mondo anxiety, I got the persistence of the nasty ankle, I got a firkin Bad Air Day going on...

I'm exhausted without even having started.

And I'm more inclined to call it a day early. It's been a terrible night and I'm looking down the barrel of a terrible day.

Fingers crossed things get better as time progresses.

Onwards to the offerings.

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Saturday, Parkrun, Bad Ankle, and Sundry Nonse

I had to sit out parkrun because my ankle is still playing up. I may not be on my feet next week but I can hope. Thanks to that, I got the idea of gaining a camp stool to hold my bad foot up in relative comfort.

It's working gangbusters, by the way.

That, and some tabletop gaming took up a lot of my day. I don't mind. My social battery got a top-up and I am grateful.

Other business included getting

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Friday, Ankle Versus Video

I have five chapters to read for posterity, a couple of videos to edit - one for PeerTube, one for YouTube, and now that I've figured out how to keep my foot elevated... I also have Cursor to fight with.

I'll hold out for as long as I can, as my arrangement does things to my hip. Win some, lose some. I might have to sit out parkrun because ankle. Fun times.

...I'm going to catch it from my Physio because of

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Thursday, Whoopsy Doopsy

My search for instructional videos on my ankle brace was a wash. Fortunately, the interwebs had a clear picture of the thing being worn. Powers know the firkin packet didn't have anything like a clear picture.

(grumbling about the way things are and who sells confounding gear minus a single sheet of paper)

I was so impressed by the ease of improving Beta 1.01 that I got into trying to make the tutorial. Big mistake.

I spent all of my remaining

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Wednesday, Rants and Stuff

The good news is that all I have to do for the videos is edit the subtitles. It's a lighter load this time.

I tried to get Cursor to do things yesterday and all I got was the Cursor answer to the Spinny Wheel of Doom. Looks like I wasn't logged in to the website that makes it go. Grr. I'm still counting it as working on Pseuducku.

And I have a thing to write for the rant today. I don't know

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Tuesday, Patreon and Nonsense

I have things to share with the nice people funding a fraction of my lifestyle. I have video content to catch up on making.

I have a game to refine, including making sure that the popups stay within the game board space, minimising whitespace, and making certain the highlights are present. Then I push that as Beta 1.01 before wrestling with the tutorial nonsense.

I have an ankle brace that came without instructions, so I'm working out the best way to

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Monday, Backup Reads and Improvements

I didn't get to doing art assets yesterday, so I'll be doing those today. As well as the usual output of offerings for the temple of notes.

I'll be running the prototype efforts past the fam first and update when that's both hunky and dory. There's two ideas to do it - one: lighter backing behind the bird, and two, a 'halo' around their outline. And do the problem ducks first, then do something with the numbers as well.

With very good

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Sunday, Supplies Needed

So. After the Archive finishes going through the stories, I am offski on a mission. Part 1 - getting my meds restocked. Part 2 - looking for a thing that Costco is aiming towards not stocking any more. If Costco still has it, I'm getting extra. If not... then screw them. I'm looking for alternate supplies on the interwebs.

Costco's giving me fewer and fewer reasons to keep coming back there.

Remember, businesses, enshittification is your enemy.

Further plans for Pseuducku include

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Saturday, Parkrun and Other Sundries

Adorable introduced me to a cute little game called Dragoncraft which definitely gives off Kickstarter game vibes. It's complicated and has a lot of pieces and needs a lot of setup. That's what Kickstarter games look like.

It was fun all the same. I was figuring out how to game the game long about halfway through the play session we had. Chaos joined in just after we started and stayed still for the entire sesh, so win for board games... but not

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