theandrewhickey

I'll go though it, bit by bit, in the first comment, but you might want to experience it cold.

CW for just about everything except animal abuse since there are no animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8AsxmLnoic&t=8s

Quite well read, 4 parts, about 3 i/2 hours.

andrewducker

1. Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time: (tags:drone war Ukraine Russia death )
2. The stamp duty hike didn't backfire. That's the problem: (tags:tax UK housing )

purplecat

Reading I'm still reading Frazer Hines' Evil of the Daleks but I also started reading Modern Control Systems because I really need to know more about Control Systems particularly since, via a convoluted set of circumstances, I've inherited a PhD student who has papers full of phrases like "Lyapanov Equations" and I wouldn't know a Lyapanov equation if it introduced itself in the street. I am currently stuck on the first equation in the book which describes a spring damper system. I do not understand this equation and I've been returning to it and intervals for three days and have consulted wikipedia. I think I need a more basic "modelling physical systems using differential equations" book before I move on to control systems.

Listening Starship Alexandria in which Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Newman (two authors I have not read, but intend to) review books and films that I often haven't read. In this case Piranesi which sounds interesting but not so much so that I think it will earn a place on the to read pile.

Watching I am still snowed under by marking, so still nothing.

cosmolinguist

It's probably not good that I'm now sad that Adrian Chiles doesn't know how much I would love to talk to him about baseball, is it.

He's *also| a fan of a low-budget team that no one wants to go see that isn't that good but weirdly kind of is sometimes!

(Being me, I had also noticed how weird it is that Brits use a lot of language from baseball without seeming to know why they say that.)

rmc28

I have about 15 minutes before I need to go to a school meeting, and I haven't updated in ages so:

Hockey

The inaugural season of Kodiaks 2 finished mid-May: we played 20 games and won 1. It was a bit last minute, but we managed to confirm enough ice time to continue with two teams next season, in time to submit our intention to the league by the 31 May deadline. Trials are next week and the week after, the WNIHL annual meeting is in early July and the next season starts in September. We had end-of-season awards, which I was late to due to having a pre-existing booking for formal hall with uni friends, and as manager I got a lovely personalised mug with a photo of the team from our last game, along with a card that made me all mushy and sentimental.

My summer training is still four times a week: uni x2, Warbirds and Kodiaks. Though summer ice for Kodiaks means we have to get a minimum signup from players and coaches to run, two weeks in advance, so it doesn't always happen.

Since the season end, I've had a couple of games with Warbirds, and a friendly with Huskies against Warwick Panthers. Warbirds won one and drew one, Huskies won. That's a nice feeling.

Media and culture

I finished all available seasons of Ted Lasso and very much enjoyed it, looking forward to the new season dropping later this summer. Tony and I have started watching Spider-Noir (we chose to watch in colour, and I am loving the colours). I've started watching Dollhouse with Owen, which is very very 2009.

A conversation about hockey musicals led to the discovery of "Score! A Hockey Musical" which can be watched on YouTube, but I cannot recommend the experience. The music is catchy but the lyrics are dreadful, not even "so bad it's good", and the musical itself can't decide whether to be serious or slapstick.

I thought idly last week, we haven't been to the ADC in a while (I only managed a couple of the plays on the list I made in March) and discovered an amateur production of Come From Away on last week and this. I took Charles last Saturday afternoon (the Huskies game was in the evening) and am meeting a couple of hockey friends to see it again tonight. It's still a very good musical, this is a very good company, it was nearly sold out when I got tickets and deservedly so. I cried, and will probably cry again tonight.

cosmolinguist

Things I wanted to get done today that I didn't do:

write that review of the gender-affirming sex toy for a sex blog
apply for that job

cosmolinguist

I woke up early today and quickly spiraled into despair about how it was raining again, about how it was still gray, and about how it was actually cold enough that I should have grabbed long trousers or maybe a hoodie when I got dressed (but I didn't think of this in time and then got too busy at work so just stayed slightly uncomfortable).

But, to my surprise (if only because I hadn't looked carefully enough at the weather forecast, it brightened up into an afternoon of vivid blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Eventually the clouds disappeared, leaving just the perfect sky.

It's ridiculous how much this helped my mood.

It was all I could do to make myself go to circuits instead of just riding my bike or sitting outside. But I'm glad I did: there were only four of us there. And I'm glad of the endorphins.

purplecat

A glass door looking out onto a garden where scaffolding is visible. Plaster around the door is missing.

This is one of our new windows. Actually, as is probably obvious, this one is a door onto the garden. Plasterer failed to turn up today. Apparently he had had a fight with his missus. I'm not convinced I could get away with that as an excuse for failing to turn up to work.

andrewducker

1. Russia's elite factions are growing restless: (tags:russia war ukraine politics )

cosmolinguist

Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday.

I was in bed by 9:30 -- by which time D was already asleep, several hours earlier than usual for him! It made for a nice cozy night though.

I slept until about 7 this morning, and as resentful as I am about losing my weekend to this, it was nice that I could just take it easy, lie in bed (which I normally never do) and read and drink water and be very gentle with myself before actually getting up somewhere between 9 and 10.

And it was a quiet day, but not a bad one. Drizzly weather kept me mostly indoors but I caught up on some stuff I'd wanted to do: laundry, changed my bedsheets, answered some emails...

I made dinner, and talked to my parents afterward -- pretty painlessly this week, luckily.

I'm in danger of revenge bedtime procrastination because I don't feel like I got a break this weekend, and because I'm having the usual low-mood migraine-hangover. But I've done my bedtime rituals and I'm hoping I do get to sleep: tomorrow morning I get to investigate all the emails and stuff that I missed while I was sick Friday afternoon, and I really hope my work laptop is behaving with the USB docking station because it wasn't working for either power or data on Friday morning... Plenty of problems for Monday-morning Erik.

cosmolinguist

I had to go to London on Thursday and it was so horrible that I've had a migraine ever since lol

I really thought that "calling" in sick yesterday afternoon and going right to bed where I fell asleep for another five hours, and then sleeping another seven or eight at night like usual, had dealt with the worst of it. But no, I've been very up-and-down today too: I went to transgym, but couldn't stay awake after. I walked the neighbors' dog, with D, but have been flopping around on the couch ever since. I took dinner out of the freezer and put it in the oven but then the stabby headache came back.

I can't read/listen/concentrate (I've sort of read my reading page here, but not properly). It's very boring.