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Day 4 - must have been Sunday. I did a *lot* of dishes, and cleaned out almost all of the Disgusting Things In Jars. Also made a rēwana bread/brick using my kūmara bug, having made every possibly blunder along the way except that I didn't in the end burn it. It's tasty enough though. At the last minute before cooking I even rescued some of it as a bug to continue (something I was meant to have done a few steps earlier in the process, oh well...)

Then in the evening I made dinner (chicken baked in soy sauce, pineapple juice and ginger, with rice and greens on the side; icecream with chocolate for dessert and a wee sippy glass of port. There's a special name I'm sure for these, but I just find them delightful, it's like a grown-up sippy-cup slash straw but made of glass and for port so you know it's definitely for grown-ups not babies. Also they look like headless cats sitting up, the tail being the sippy straw) and went on a Zoom dinner date with the friends I usually visit each Sunday.

Day 5 - another day of wrangling people's technology. Also budget stuff, sigh. Our budget is to the bone as it is; obviously we'll be saving on conference travel this year and a few other natural consequences, but there's a limit to what you can cut without cutting vital services. Oh well, senior management's going to do what senior management's going to do.

Did I mention I was crocheting? My headset is Of A Certain Age and the cheap earpiece covers chose last week as the perfect time to start disintegrating. I thought it'd be simple to sew some cotton over them, then my brain went to knitting, then someone suggested a crochet pattern. I haven't crocheted since I was about 10 so thought "That should be easy!" then watched the video and went "????!!!" Searched on some more videos however and figured something out. My wool, a black mohair blend, is lovely and... a bit tricky for a beginner really because not quite even, but that quality also makes mistakes completely invisible. So by the weekend I'd completed one earpiece cover, and as the other now feels cold and hard in comparison I've started on the second.

At some stage thought I smelled smoke and walked up and down the street in the rain to check no-one's house was burning down, but it must have been either someone's woodburner or someone's joint.

Spent the evening developing a descendant language of Ancient Greek for some random worldbuilding I'm doing with a sibling, as you do.

Day 6 - Random day off because it was planned for last week, I worked through it instead to troubleshoot, and even though I'm not finished the troubleshooting I got tired of putting it off.

Sleeping in until 10am is glorious. The sun coming out after days of rain is even more glorious. Went for a long walk in the sun (as did many others!) Had a lovely chat with a sister. Did a bit of gardening and a bit of dishes. Set off my smoke detector cooking dinner (meat and rice and stuff wrapped in grape leaves).

Learned that-- Well, look.

I don't think you can fully understand about Briscoes unless you were born in New Zealand and have lived through a lifetime of opening the newspaper every Tuesday to find that, once again, Briscoes is having a sale.

Until last week the lockdown was announced, going into effect last Thursday. A meme very shortly went around touting Jacinda as "the woman who finally ended the Briscoes sale".

Until day 6. Tuesday. It was announced that certain businesses can sell (online only) essential items like electric blankets, heaters, etc. Businesses including Briscoes.

You may admire Jacinda. She is indeed a kind-but-badass Prime Minister. But even she cannot defeat the Briscoes Lady. It is Tuesday, and Briscoes is having a sale.
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