hmm, it's been another week or so! it's sunday night, so i'm getting ready to go back to work tomorrow. this weekend has been somewhat chill, mostly compared to last weekend, when our friend from out of town came to play a show and we stayed up late every night and also had a dinner party.
side note: thankfully, someone came and fixed our leaky ceiling before we were planning to host, so we didn't have to cancel our plans.
i went to a new eye doctor for the first time last monday, and they scanned my corneas and told me that i had the most extreme astigmatism they had ever seen. i already knew that my corneas were mis-shaped, but that fact coming from an opthamologist impressed me. thankfully, my vision is surprisingly good given this, and i got what i needed treatment wise, but i also got a referral to a specialist and some colorful print-outs of the current state of my eyeballs. (see below for an image of one of the scans; for reference, most people's eyes look much more like a circle...)
on friday, we went to a show at ely center that our local friends were playing. they did a really cool collaborative performance about exoplanets, including live analog video, guitar, and spoken word. normally, i'm not a big spoken word person, but the performance was really well done (the person spoke like a retro computer-generated voice) and the content was fun (a story about an exobiologist encountering an organism, which reminded me a bit of solaris).
today we met up with some family and went to a museum. it was very cold and windy, and after coming back inside it felt like all my mana had been drained.
let's see... what else has happened?
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andrei put up some dichroic film in the windows in our apartment, and it does cool things when it catches the sunlight (see photos).
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i made a blog post about my mystery objects for zine club! this also involved taking photos of all of the objects. and i have begun work on the next object...
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i started playing cyberpunk 2077 and set up a comfy video game area in my studio. i like to play open world rpgs when the weather gets cold and dark (last year i played baldur's gate 3).
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we watched the first half of david lynch's mulholland drive last night, and will likely watch the rest of it tonight.
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i finished reading cryptonomicon last week. i liked it a lot overall but the ending was a bit underwhelming. i still haven't started another book yet... thinking of starting gene wolfe's book of the new sun series.
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it's cold and the leaves have almost all fallen down. it's also been windy and sometimes rainy. it feels like a good time to stay inside, but i will probably have to do some outdoor work for my job this week (we are pouring a concrete slab for some equipment to sit on). luckily i thrifted a bunch of sweaters and scarves, and i got some new insulated work pants and work boots.
ok, that's all for now. see ya...
