Things I did today

I enjoyed finishing the rest of Minecraft: The Island, and took a 2 mile walk around the greenway. I shot more photos and found other subjects to stage and shoot in the future. I also enjoyed a day free of the news. I found it hilarious that after over a month of strict stay-at-home orders for the county in which the greenway trails had 300% or 400% more people than usual, the day after the stay-at-home order was lifted and we're now under the state stay-at-home order, which allows for gatherings of 10 people or less the greenway trail was almost empty. I made another round of carnitas and am now down to 3 lbs of frozen pork and some frozen vegetables, I'll be making a grocery list this weekend to buy on Monday. After dinner, I watched a movie as I didn't want to start a new book, and didn't want to break my streak of no news.

Today was chores and reading. Got laundry cleaned and folded, ran the dishwasher, started on a grocery list as I'm now all out of fresh produce and oat milk and down to one bottle of wine and three boxes of tissues. On Monday, I'll order a grocery delivery. I read halfway through the book Minecraft: The Island, by Max Brooks. What a very cute and entertaining book! I'll likely read the rest of it tomorrow. It's a nice break from the more serious reading I generally do. It's been nice not looking at the news nor much of Reddit, both things that seemed to seep in little at a time. Today's crossword was much more fun, though I've never heard of the games Ghost or Set. I'll have to look them up and see if they're worth playing.

I didn't fall asleep until after 1am this morning, which I despise. I always aim to get at least 7 hours of sleep, and hope for 8. But since I needed to deploy at 7am, I had to make sure I was up and relatively awake at 6:50 to start preparing for the deploy. Luckily, it was easy and I only had three tickets. The rest of the was full of documentation and the DBA and I finished the day with documenting over 50 tables or views, over 20 reports, and a few stored procedures. I was disappointed in my performance for today's mini crossword. I forgot how to spell Paulo and tried to spell is Paolo, I was attempting to recall what four letter river Napoleon would have crossed, and I was stuck on Francis being either a historical figure (What would Francis Bacon's predecessor be?) and luckily I had watched Pitt's sketch on SNL (which was excellent!) because I had first guessed 'micro' for 6 across. Better luck next time.

I caught up with a few friends and solved crossword puzzles and found another book to read, Clearly I need more practice.

I created more documentation for the 20+ exam reports I've written and worked with the DBA on more architecture. Some friends of mine made tentative plans to have a video call, then when my brother asked if I was available, I decided to speak with him as the group of friends have already twice made plans to only forget or change their minds. I'm really glad that I spoke with my brother - not only is he great to talk with and I really miss him, but the group of friends texted back and forth while I spoke with him and decided to not meet at all. I would feel really terrible if I had told him that I already had plans, and then they bailed! I'm still practicing photography and gotten more into photo editing as I'm starting to see a vision for my photography that I don't quite capture with the camera, either due to lack of lighting (only so much you can do in an apartment) or lack of proper camera knowledge. I haven't gotten back to piano, but it's not for la

Worked all day on documentation, spoke with my mother, catching up on things that her school is doing, played GeoGuessr and a round of competitive crossword and a round of collaborative crossword, worked on photography and cooked a meal of Picadillo. I'm exhausted, surprisingly have a headache, and I'm heading to bed. More tomorrow!

I didn't time my crossword playing yesterday and did not notice I played Sunday's crossword last night. So, I found the Washington Post mini crossword, which I think was just terrible! The user interface was bad, and the clues also sucked. Why not make the board/clues area bigger instead of making the player have to scroll? Also, that's not how you spell adz, apparently. All other references seem to spell the tool as "adze", but I hadn't heard of it anyway, so I wouldn't have noticed - I used the down clues to fill out 1 across. Ok, apparently you can spell it 'adz' or 'adze' depending on preference. Still annoying. The clue for 7 across was "body" and the clues I had filled in so far had the answer for 7 across as "T_R_O", so I was lost, thinking of the whole body or a body of work. I was annoyed at the clue for 2 down as well, "Fizzles out". The rest I knew, though my first guess for 6 across "Half o