Arts & Crafts
OK, it's really time to get moving on my cape. I'm away for one weekend and have events most weekends. It and the shorts shouldn't take long. I just need to sit down and do them. And I'm struggling to do that. Fours days in a row of stuff to attend distracted me from the cape. Right now, I feel like I just need to finish something to get that motivation to finish other things.
Decluttering & Minimalism
I'm starting a digital declutter because Google keeps complaining about the space I don't have. I'm going through old notes and trimming them. I'm also changing their file types to further reduce the space they consume. I don't want to pay for storage.
Gaming & Streaming
On Thursday, I decided to replace my keyboard with a more expensive 60% keyboard that was on sale at Canada Computers. It's also really quiet. The cheap one I got from Amazon constantly added extra letters and it got very annoying. The new one is also rainbow backlit. It's by Corsair and has buttons I've been missing like the print screen one.
If I return to streaming in the fall, I'll only do weekend mornings. I find weeknights too much with work and life. Before noon on weekends I'm often just gaming anyway.
My Minecraft base is coming along. I have a waterfront and a place for my lighthouse to be moved to. I've carved out the bay a bit and I plan to add a harbour of some sort. I found river pieces and connected them all.
Goal Setting & Tracking
Arts & Crafts: Complete the cape. (0%)
Decluttering & Minimalism: Chip away at digital files. Do the door. (50%)
Gaming & Streaming: Get a new keyboard. (100%)
Lifestyle & Sports: Attend the Highland Games. Get my car keys fixed. (50%)
Music & Songwriting: Do recorder maintenance and practice. (0%)
Reading & Writing: Work on the screenplay. (15%)
Lifestyle & Sports
This month's oracle card is Leonard Cohen.
I have twice attempted to get my keys fixed. There was no business at the first location and the second wasn't open despite Google having hours for them. I guess it will be a next week task. They are overdue as one was broken early on in the life of the car and the other's silicone has disintegrated:
The Glengarry Highland Games were held in Maxville on the weekend. I took in some dancing, marched in the parade, and sampled the foods. I was happy to see that there are Black people in my clan. There is such a small percentage of Black Scottish people in Scotland. It was lovely to see them accepted because, unfortunately, it's not always the case. Of course, there were a lot of brunettes and gingers at the games. So many gingers in the Highland Dancing Championships. I watched quite a bit of that as the arena was the coolest place to be in the extreme summer heat. I was going to stay longer, but when I attempted to go back to my car to just place a few things inside, well, it took me so long that I decided going home to a shower and air conditioning was the better plan. I think they should have some misting stations set up next year if it is hot like it was.
I regularly play sports with trans women and I'm so tired of all the ridiculous crap said about them. They are some of the kindest and coolest women I know. They're also way girlier than I am. I'm beyond tired of a certain writer I once looked up to. She spreads so much hate instead of seeking out the healing she can afford multiple times over. I hope the boxer sues her, but I have a feeling she won't. Her strength isn't just physical, but her character is also Olympian.
Music & Songwriting
I have so much that I want to learn and I love so many different genres that I struggle to focus on one instrument, one course, or one goal. I need to acquire some sweet almond oil for my recorder before I can do maintenance on it. I honestly thought it would be easier to find sweet almond oil for this, but it looks like it will be an Amazon thing. There always seems to be something. It might be back to ukulele for a bit.