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Quarantine baking thus far remains... not really a thing. Quarantine crafting, though, is in full swing. I'm more productive when I have really clear constraints (usually in the form of deadlines), and apparently 'can only work on projects I already have supplies for' is enough of one? Things I have done so far:
- built two of the gunpla kits I've had kicking around for 7+ years now
- sewn three binders I bought materials for last fall
- made an umbrella swift out of stash materials
- finished a cross stitch (started a week or two pre-lockdown)
- mounted another cross-stitch, though I still need to frame it
- almost finished a basket for mail - I have misplaced the magnets I bought to go on the back, so I need to rediscover them first
- 3D-printed some stuff on my kind of garbage printer (base has already gotten damaged and needs a reprint with some edits, sigh)
- foam head, test version in scrap foam
- replaced the worn-out belt on my dryer and cleaned the ducts
- started refinishing a dresser (separate post on that later, probably, I've been taking a lot of photos)

....Look, I have ADHD and consequently a lot of half-finished and aspirational projects.

1. many
2. things
3. make a
4. list

Tada! we are here now.

Bread-baking friends, any suggestions for beginner-friendly bread recipes? Working from home means I have some extra time in my days and I am determined to spend it doing things, instead of reading too many news articles on the internet and being anxious.

I have bread flour, cake flour, all-purpose flour, a whole jar of active dry yeast, and a stand mixer with a dough hook. I do not have a bread machine or a fancy oven - just a basic electric one.

If I use Calibre to de-DRM ebooks from the library, does that fuck shit up for y'all, or is it the digital equivalent of me just photocopying an entire book before I return it (ie, not really legal, but basically irrelevant to anyone else handling the book in the future). Because Adobe Digital Editions is basically a huge pain in the ass on Linux and I would like to deal with it as little as possible, but I don't want to cause trouble for the library.

EDIT: okay this may be a moot point if I can't fucking get ADE to work on Linux at *all*

(or, more accurately, the program loads, but is convinced it has no internet connection and thus won't do anything /screams)

EDIT2: SUCCESS. I had to run winecfg, and under 'libraries', set wininet to prefer the builtin (WINE) version over the native (Windows) version. Of course ADE decided to only sort of work, and retrieved my book but would not do anything else with it, so I did in fact have to get the ADE keyfile and strip the DRM in Calibre to actually oopen it.

Posting this in my journal mostly so I can find it again next year, which will be an issue if I put it anywhere else. We had trick or treating last night, as Thursday was rainy, and probably more importantly, got very windy as the night wore on. Typically for my time-disorganized-self, I ended up putting up Halloween decorations (which is to say: mostly just lights) an hour before it started. After running out of candy last year before the night was done, I kind of panicked this year and bought frankly far too much this year, but all of it is stuff I'll eat so it's not the end of the world.

Went through roughly 140 pieces of candy, including the ones I snacked on myself. I'd guess that comes out to probably 80 or 90 kids - most took one or two pieces, though if they asked, I was giving out two (see: too much candy) - it was just too much work to tell everyone 'take two'. Three or four kids grabbed a small handful (probably 3-5 pieces) - it was rare enough that I let it go without comment. Popular: Nerds, Skittles. Not popular: Nestle Crunch (doesn't surprise me), Snickers, and Butterfinger (slightly more surprising to me?). Toddlers tended to grab the Gobstoppers, I assume because they were the smallest packaging but I was mentally like 'oh no you're too baby to eat those safely'. Next year I will probably do a more curated selection - this year it was two big mix bags that had both chocolate and non-chocolate offerings.

Reminder to me, from me: having a place for everything to live doesn't help with clutter if you never put anything back where it belongs.

(though it does make the inevitable massive clean-up binge go faster)

✒Horrible manga man~ will be Rohan at the JJBA shoot at 4 today, say hello! #dragoncon #rohankishibe #jjbacosplay #jjba

New England plant friends (@ap1ary @solem.lunam.stellae @graceduffski ) anyone know what this spiky boy is? Found him in my somewhat overgrown iris bog. #plantidentification #mysteryplant