and believe me i am still alive

[ironymaiden]

this was a very busy week.

Tuesday was the first class of my certificate course. i'm enjoying it and the other students so far - the level of interest and commitment is much more my speed.

so many meetings at work, lots of balls in the air and things changing. mostly good, i think. it looks like our product launch is going to happen from home. i've suggested that we should all get branded pajama pants.

my student status gets me access to the pro version of zoom, and it's turned out to be the best solution for the knitting group on Thursdays. this week i ironed and cut fabric. previous weeks i've been spinning but i expect to be knitting more soon...at work we've been talking on and off about doing quarantine shopping. mine was buying yarn to knit a blanket.

Friday night RPG is on Discord, and that's working well except that C can't seem to get a headset mic to work with his computer to save his life. it's maddening to have to sit in another room. (we've tried multiple headsets, both wired and bluetooth. even running from his phone. i don't know, shit just breaks when he touches it.)

i've finally got the mask measurements dialed in so that i can work assembly line style instead of doing one at a time and fitting. tomorrow i should be able to crank them out.

we got takeout brunch from Hattie's this morning. what a simple pleasure.

i should have been in the bath by now, but Clone Wars is on the tv a lot in our house right now - Voyage of Temptation is on and i have to watch the whole thing every time. i ship Obitine as hard as Anakin does.

Comments

[annofowlshire]

That is a gorgeous and ambitious blanket!

We’re going to have to run games from separate rooms as well, as my ‘computer’ is an iPad and my headset/mic options are a bit more limited. Kind of annoying, but I also hate wearing a headset so not as annoying as it could be, I guess :P

[ironymaiden]

it turns out that i am *very* used to sitting beside him at the table and i hate not being able to see or touch him during game.

[annofowlshire]

Understandable. G is the GM, so it’s kind of good I can’t see his enormous monitor screen.

[flexagon]

Haha, Zillian folks have also been asking for branded sweatpants. :)

[ironymaiden]

i ended up igniting a thread in slack - someone else suggested snuggies, then comfy socks. it turns out at that at one point (well before my time) there were in fact comfy socks with branding on the soles.

[buhrger]

Obitine
not being particularly aware of Clone Wars, i first parsed this as Obi-Wan + Palpatine, which generated serious squick. google corrected me.

[ironymaiden]

oh, yeah. (i admit that i am reading some Sith Obi-Wan fanfic right now, but there are no sexy vibes with Palpatine. serious squick indeed.)

i highly recommend Clone Wars as absorbing comfort tv. lots of episodes, bite-size length but with story arcs. it has a great companion in Rebels, which is set a few years before Star Wars.

while there is a "final season" airing now on Disney+, it will be done soon, so you could consider both Clone Wars and Rebels as series that have ended. it took me a while to warm up to Clone Wars but once you get past the awkward theatrical release it is pretty great. really redeems the idea of the prequels by giving the characters time to breathe. Rebels hits its stride even faster and benefits from mostly original characters.

[jesse_the_k]

branded pajama pants is brilliant, and that blanket will make whoever touches it warm two ways.