Went for a good 2h walk in the forest this morning. I am beat but it was so beautiful!!
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forest walking… an ideal setting for gathering IF ideas…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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It was my friend’s cat’s birthday on the last day of May, and we all wished him a very happy birthday! He’s such a big boy now, and he was so itty bitty when he was rescued from the parking lot- small enough he could cuddle up into the palm of Jo’s cupped hand. Now he’s huge and loves to just flop and hold onto Jo’s arm, or sprawl over Jo’s leg or back. All of Jo’s cats are rescue kitties, which makes me really happy to know that someone’s taking good care of the little guys.
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Beautiful sunshine so I walked to all my errands this afternoon rather than hopping in the car.
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It’s done! No more performances from me! It’s all. I’m exhausted. I’m so happy. I’m bawling because there are no more performances. It’s sad, and happy. And sad.
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went and got an eye exam for new glasses. my prescription wasn’t actually that different from before but it turns out the blurriness i’m seeing anyway is because i have astigmatism (again, after it went a way for a few years). got an rx that corrects for that so hopefully i’m not so uncomfortable driving at night!
then i got new glasses from zenni (one an exact replacement for my current frames since unfortch they don’t just replace the lenses for existing frames, but i might donate the old one) with a 40% off sale going on until tomorrow (june 2) so a $150 pricetag for 3 pairs + clipons became $90 
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Well, this one is a bit more of a mixed bag- my kid didn’t clean paint up properly off of the floor, and I slipped in it, and nearly gored my head open on the tiles. It was a catastrophic fall: limbs askew, head slamming backwards- I just barely managed to turn onto my side and throw my arm out so I didn’t crack open my head on the ground, but I have thoroughly bruised my lower back and thighs, not to mention the heel of my dominant hand took the brunt of the impact, hard enough to split the skin open and I am currently bruising/hemorrhaging beneath the surface of the skin as we speak. I have dosed myself on painkillers, am clutching an icy cup, and superglued the split together, etc.
It’s good because thank God I didn’t split my fucking head open. I’ve had major head injuries like that in the past, and the bleeding is so profuse its almost impossible to staunch, and I could have died if I’d landed with all of my weight on the back of my neck/head like I had been falling- I just barely managed to turn over at a safer angle, and like, my backside is thoroughly bruised, but I’ll live- there’s way more damage capacity there. I’m also glad I didn’t fall face first, because if my glasses had broken and cut my face, I would have had to go to the emergency room, facial injuries bleed so damn much and I already have a propensity to nosebleeds. I don’t even want to think about the possibility for dental damage, or taking another chunk out of my tongue on accident.
And I’m really glad that I bought more Tylenol recently, cause before we only had overkill prescription painkillers that could have aggravated the bleeding, and I’d have had to sit here and tough it out until I could get my braincells back in order to hobble to the shops. Good grief.
Not good that I fell hard enough to have skin burst open / split at the seams, but good that I fell in a less lethal way, and nothing seems to have been broken.
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That fat little juvenile mourning dove had come to visit my place recently- the trails aren’t too far from my house, and it’s been raining nearly every single day for the last two months, so he was just chilling on our balcony to warm up and fluff up a bit. He sniffed around at the lettuce plants and meandered around the potted stuff we have up there, but he was a very polite young man and did not attempt to eat any of the young plants we’re growing out before the hoard of bunnies can descend.
Who I can only presume to be his mummy, a beautiful mourning dove with a dark fletched mark near her eyes and more of a warmer pink-y hue to her feathers that lives in my backyard, in comparison to her pals, came up to where the little guy had been sitting and hanging out and dropped off a broken bracelet. She just looked at me while I picked it up, and then fluttered off to where the grass has grown out a bit by the fence line.
It’s a broken bracelet- it’s missing the part of the closure where it’s supposed to clasp onto, though the chain pattern has a larger loop near the end tail so I can just jam it into there to close the bracelet. I have an old earring from highschool that’s missing a pair (broken, it’s been years) and I hooked it onto the chain as a cute charm bracelet, and it looks super cute! Another special little gift from the birds. Here is the complete bracelet:
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Wow!
Also nice that it combined with that other part into a complete bracelet.
Good for me today:
I managed to do a walk in the early morning which I had planned for a long time, for my health. Also some animals came very close to me without fleeing me, less than a meter away from me (several birds and a rabbit) which was great.
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Oh my god that’s horrible! Take care. Sending best wishes to you.
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A combination of good timing and continuing to NOT hallucinate (yay) meant that I was able to get a proper look at the fluffy little cygnets on this morning’s outing with my social run group. They are swimming now and adorable 
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My TADS game is up to 53 rooms. Yikes!
I am have the narrative started and the end of the game written down. So I have a start and a finish and the general plot of the game. Even my thoughts on NPCs and the antagonist are coming along.
I doubt that it will be complete and polished for this year’s IFComp, but maybe…
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Why is that bad?
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Tabitha made a funny comment that made me realize it is kind of hilarious that I didn’t spill any of my bubble tea when I fell, and I think it’s largely due to the fact I didn’t let go of the cup because I usually hold my phone in the hand that death gripped it, despite falling like this:
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Well, at least in the moment of crisis you decided to prioritize the important thing. I mean, you can totally get another head, but bubble tea? Precious.
I do this kind of thing ALL the time. Like, the other day I dropped a knife in the kitchen. No problem, right? It hits the floor and then you pick it up. But no. In that moment I decided to try to CATCH THE FALLING KNIFE. I cannot tell you why my brain farted this out as the correct response to dropping a knife. Luckily, it only cut me a little as I caught it by the blade. I mean, WTF?
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Falling knives are so scary, I always end up skittering and leaping around like a ridiculous pony while trying to dodge cutting my toes open on the knife, but damned if my brain doesn’t shriek ‘GO GRAB IT’ and then I’m just flailing between fighting both instincts like a rat on the good stuff in Rat Park.
I’m pretty sure the only reason I didn’t drop the drink was because I typically hold my phone in said hand, and had just placed it onto the table- my phone’s like, as expensive as a month of rent, so when I’ve fallen down like sliding down stairs or tumbling down onto the ground, I usually end up keeping it out of the danger zone reflexively.
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@anon66621404 Nice that you got not too badly injured. I mean you could have died or gotten severe injuries, including the brain.
@AmandaB My former boss did something similar: Her cactus fell down and she reflexly caught it (like you). Ouch!
In a supermarket I once nearly slipped because I stepped on a grape. Only nearly, but since then I know that slipping/falling can happen to anyone.
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Yes, I’m glad that my injuries aren’t as bad as they could be! I’m bruised over about a quarter of my body, and the split seam on the heel of my hand has held up with the superglue holding it together- but I could have easily broken my neck or cracked open my skull from how I fell. I’m pretty proud of myself for all of the practice I’ve done in falling safely (because I have joint damage in my ankles that leads to instability/weakness) coming in handy- I broke my own fall and rolled over just in time to avoid breaking my head. It’s a good skill to have in general, with the slipperiness of ice in Canadian winters, but especially handy for someone like me, who is pretty accident prone.
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Making connections between rooms can be a bit convoluted and often requires testing, both in Adv3 and Adv3Lite. Probably was a major chunk of effort to achieve that many rooms. 
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