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#+title: Journal Week 27 2025
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* Journal Week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
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** Thursday, July 3rd
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*** Dailies
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**** DONE Meditation
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Only about 10 minutes, in the park. It's been a while, so I'll slowly build up to 30 mins of good practice a day again and just try to hang there for a few months. Might pick up a Brightmind subscription again, though I can't afford to pay for one right now.
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**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
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Just shy of 12000 on the pedometer, getting to the park and around the neighborhood.
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**** DONE Runescape
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Completed The Feud on the GIM. Just questing up a bit still, trying to get Agility XP in as well as working up towards fairy rings.
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*** Journal
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First day back from holiday visiting my family. Today I repaired the bedroom shelf, installed a longer duct on the portable AC so it can be used in the bedroom more easily as well as installed the AC-window-thing. The longer duct works alright, you can tell the little AC is a little underpowered for a duct that long and it's leaking some heat.
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#+CAPTION: /Duct, taped./
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[[../../static/images/duct_taped.jpg]]
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Things learned today:
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- Duct tape was originally called "duck tape" and the name /duct/ tape is not accounted for until 1965 --- it works wonders for taping ducts nevertheless;
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- Using wood glue on the end grain of little wooden slats is utterly pointless. Using super glue is somewhat better, but screws are still the best;
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- Sodium bicarbonate is very effective at removing pencil marks from walls;
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- An older Huion Kamvas 13 sells for like €80 on the used market here and seems worth buying;
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- Tickets to Japan Expo are way too expensive (€36 each), and non-refundable.
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** Friday, July 4th
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*** Daillies
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**** DONE Meditation
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~20 minutes breath meditation
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**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
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Slightly north of 12k steps.
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**** CANCELLED Runescape
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Just didn't have the time today!
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*** Journal
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Didn't sleep very well so I ended up staying in bed until 11 or so today. Exercise-heavy day; spent close to an hour in the gym and swam for ~30 minutes. For lunch I made stir fried vegetables with a lot of tofu, flavored with laoganma, doubanjiang and ground sichuan pepper --- I like this recipe, especially given that I'm trying to eat more protein. I highly recommend laoganma, it goes well with a lot of things, by the way~.
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#+CAPTION: /Picture of the Day!/
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[[../../static/images/cat_teto.jpg]]
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We ended up buying the Huion Kamvas for €70, including pen, stand and cables --- what an absolute steal! Two things to note:
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- The included cable works well for me, but if you want to use your own cable, mind that at least on the older versions of the Kamvas 13 the USB-C ports are artifically recessed so normal cables won't fit unmodified to screw you into buying their cables. I've heard this issue is fixed on the new Gen3 version.
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- If you use [[https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver][OpenTabletDriver]] on Linux and run into an error that says something like =ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value range is [0, 15]=, you need to =rmmod wacom hid_uclogic=. The dev would rather be a dick to people reporting this for the nth time than fix their uncaught exceptions, lol.
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#+CAPTION: /This also gives me a (small) secondary monitor for the first time in half a year, which is something I've really missed./
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[[../../static/images/osrs_huion.jpg]]
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I finally got around to hanging up the canvas print of my picture my mom got me!
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#+CAPTION: /Here you can also see the shelf I talked about yesterday --- the little triangles at the bottom are not load-bearing and don't attach to the wall (there's metal angle brackets screwed into the concrete wall for that) but do serve to stabilize it./
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[[../../static/images/canvas_framed_bedroom.jpg]]
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Also, in the process of setting up the tablet I opened up Krita and rediscovered this artwork I did last year:
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#+CAPTION: /Lone Rider/, 2024.
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[[../../static/images/lone_rider.png]]
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Accordingly, I've added an [[../art/index.org][art section]] to the website. Also, I've added a [[../links/index.org][links section]] for dumping interesting links as I come across them, do check it out~.
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** Saturday, July 5th
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*** Dailies
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**** DONE Meditation
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~25 minutes walking meditation.
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**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
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13.7k
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**** DONE Runescape
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[[../../static/images/rs_quest_doti.png]]
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This reward feels kind of overpowered, though I guess it still doesn't come close to Waterfall Quest or Knight's Sword levels of silly. The quest itself is... fine? The writing is funny and on-brand, but... The obvious comparison to this quest is obviously Murder Mystery and I think Murder Mystery is a stronger quest; Sinclair Mansion actually feels integrated in the world around it, for instance. Death on the Isle doesn't feel like it does much worldbuilding. Feels very handholdy, just putting you in an instance and teleporting you everywhere, too. But I do appreciate that we're getting a lot more quests nowadays.
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*** Journal
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#+CAPTION: /Two gentlemen "giving aura", as the kids say/.
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[[../../static/images/japan_expo_aura.jpg]]
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Japan Expo today! I'm glad we got to go in the end despite complaining about the price earlier. We bought a bunch of stuff:
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#+CAPTION: /Loot./
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[[../../static/images/japan_expo_loot_2025.jpg]]
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#+CAPTION: /Glad to add some more color to my laptop stickers./ Sticker credit: [[https://www.progress.sh/][Progress]] (logo), [[https://linktr.ee/suzubrah][Suzu]] (logo), [[https://apt-get.xyz/][apt-get]] (untz), Sauce (possum).
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[[../../static/images/laptop_stickers_june_2025.jpg]]
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Always feels good to support local small artisans. It's interesting to see how the gender ratio skews at JE --- I'd say pretty close to 1:1 for general attendants, but maybe 3:1 biased towards women for vendors, at least in the indie artist area. Overall I think that's a good thing. It's also always nice to see the variety of things and the longevity of older franchises, especially compared to something like Comiket which nowadays is extremely gacha and vtuber dominated. You don't see Blue Archive basically /at all/ at JE for instance, which I think is a blessing. Sadly didn't manage to find any Ave Mujica stuff whatsoever --- the new bandori stuff is a very good case study in "things that are big in Japan that don't get picked up in the west", as well, unfortunately. Lots of good cosplays this year; unsurprisingly there were a ton of Maomao cosplays. Below a selection of my favourite cosplays:
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*** TODO Credit sauce properly
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*** TODO Align cosplays
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** Sunday, July 6th
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*** Dailies
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**** DONE Meditation
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12 min breath.
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**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
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The weather was horrid today, so only barely.
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**** DONE Runescape
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#+CAPTION: /Stats as of today/.
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[[../../static/images/osrs_stats_w27.png]]
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Next up is /The Dig Site/, then /Elemental Workshop I/ & /II/.
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*** Journal
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**** Market
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[[../../static/images/market_pierogi.jpg]]
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Market day today~
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These pierogi are alright, but I miss the ones in [[../trips/wroclaw.org][Wrocław]]. The praise for Polish food was unanimous among our group of five; highly underrated, highly recommended.
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**** Mahoako
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[[../../static/images/baiser_sorry.jpg]]
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I've been reading [[https://mangadex.org/title/feff4eaf-01df-4a05-83f4-68bb5cdf4fad/mahou-shoujo-ni-akogarete][mahoako]]. I'm caught up with the anime now, which is about halfway through (what's been released of) the manga[fn::It appears to be on hiatus since the anime started airing]. The art in the manga is very good, I'm enjoying it. Seems like the anime is a very faithful adaptation. Excited for season 2!
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**** Hover notes[fn::Due to a funny bug I just discovered I can't name this section "footnotes" lest it be hidden, ww]
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Today I added support for footnotes[fn::Or, well, hover notes, rather]! The hover functionality requires [[../../static/footnote.js][a bit of JS]], but the footnotes themselves should work just fine without JS.
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