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Thursday, March 18

I woke at 8AM and went whyyyyyyyy.

I got up anyway and did some gaming for two hours. At 10AM, I finally went downstairs to get breakfast (I had half of the leftover honey puff pancake). Chatted briefly with Nathan and Dad. Dad would have a sip of water if we asked, but he wasn't drinking that much unprompted.

Around 11:30, I went back to bed to nap, and slept until almost 2PM. But! I no longer felt like sleeping! Progress. I got up and went downstairs to reheat the rest of the honey puff pancake. It looked like Dad had eaten lunch, but I asked if he wanted anything.

"I could eat," Dad said. Okay then.

I checked the refrigerator and pantry. "It looks like your choices are soup, pork bao, or sandwiches."

Dad picked soup. I ate a few baby carrots while I waited for it to heat. M had picked up a giant bag of them for Alltoseek, which she'd been unable to finish. I've been eating several each day. Baby carrots are all right, but they take forever to chew. Maybe I should try making glazed carrots out of them. They'll be significantly less healthy but glazed carrots are delicious. :9

Back upstairs, I played more games and chatted on Discord with the Jokka community. The long thread about 'how/should we cap clan sizes' had mutated into 'how can we make things better for giant clans'. XD I think the game is just gonna stick with giant clans, though Maggie will probably implement a hard cap at some Very Large size, like 1500 or 2000.

I caught up on yesterday's entry, then wrote up today. I checked on Dad around 4PM and verified that poker started at 6:30 and we should leave for it at 6PM. I also made a Coke float. 

Well, I said I'd drop to one Coke float a day, not zero. Let's not get crazy here. 

When I ordered groceries last night, I'd checked on what ice milk/other low fat frozen desserts Walmart had, but I didn't pick anything up. First, the recommendation was "less sugar and saturated fat", so low fat is not a big help. Second, I already had a gallon of ice cream in the freezer and I'd be eating it anyway.

The sad part is that my favorite ice cream, for many years, was Edy's Slow Churned Double-Fudge Brownie. Which is reduced fat! But tastes as good to me as any full-fat ice cream I've had, so it's perfect. Except that I haven't seen it in stores for several years. I don't know what happened with it. I hunted down Edy's website. The flavor still exists, and they claim the brand is sold by a bunch of stores in my area. Including Walmart. Walmart's website disputes this claim. -_- I checked the websites for two other chains that supposedly sold it. The first was also "never heard of them", but Publix actually had some Edy's Slow Churned on their website. Not the flavor I actually want! But at least they'd heard of the brand. (Edy's has a sister brand, Dreyer's, but no hits on the first two sites for that, either.) Maybe I'll find somewhere I can get it eventually.

At 6PM, I took Dad to poker. When I got back, I was thinking, "I already have my sneakers on, so I should exercise now." The moment I got through the door, I took my sneakers off and put them on the shoe rack. Force of habit is Powerful. 

I forgot to write about this one at the time, but since I've started wearing slippers when going downstairs, the Correct Place for my slippers is now either the top of the stairs, because I don't wear them when I'm sitting down and I want to remember to put them back on before I go downstairs), or the bottom step (again, so I remember to put them on before going upstairs). A few days ago, I couldn't remember what I'd done with my slippers. So I checked the shoe rack by the garage door, and yep, there they were. I have trained myself so well to use the shoe rack that now I have to untrain myself. Alas, a mini-shoe rack for the bottom step would not be helpful.

Anyway, I put my sneakers back on (at least I hadn't gotten my socks off) and hopped on the exercise bike for 35 minutes. I watched an episode and a half of "The Dragon Prince". The latest episode is titled "The Red Wedding." I looked at the title card and said aloud, "Seriously? Seriously?!"

When I finished, I showered and returned upstairs. Instead of catching up on the day, I worked on the editing list for A Game to You. I figured I was more likely to do game-playing and journaling during Ong's stream, so better to put those off. I still have to divide up some too-complicated items, but I'm very close to being able to estimate how much work I've done and how much is left. EXCITING.

I ate a premade spinach salad as a late dinner around 8:30. Dad got home a little after 9, so I went downstairs to say good night to him. He came out of the bathroom to give me a good night hug, then returned to his bedtime routine. While I was downstairs anyway, I put away some laundry that'd been sitting on top of the laundry machines for a few days. 

When I got back upstairs, I started a 4thewords battle to catch up on the day. Before I could finish the battle, Ong's stream started at like 9:33 -- basically on time, woo! Watching the stream distracted me from doing anything useful. I wrote a bit more about the day and played some Time Princess. 

I worked on Kingslayer notes for about an hour while listening, completely losing track of time. I hurried to finish Time Princess things before reset, and then got ready for bed. I lay down around 1:30 and fell asleep at about 2AM.