30 July 2001
This weekend, I harvested and ate the first tomato from my garden. It was a little bit underripe, and I need to remember to check not only the color but also the firmness of the tomatoes before I slice into them...
But it was delicious.
There are about five more tomatoes that are various shade of orange darkening to red, and I'm looking forward to every last one of them. One of them is what we used to call a "sandwich tomato" - which is to say the tomato is almost as big around as a slice of bread, and therefore simply must be used to make sandwiches. I foresee some BLTs in my future.
It's just as well that the tomatoes are doing so well; the cucumbers are completely dead, and the squash plants aren't dead but the squash on them haven't grown in weeks, so they might as well be. I don't know what I did wrong. Do cukes need shade? Was trellising them a bad idea? Are the squash being over-watered?
I know for a fact that all the plants are too close together. Next year, I promise, I'll space the plants the way I'm supposed to, and cage the tomatoes early.
K.T.'s little Shadowrun one-shot was Saturday. It took me a while to remember a lot of the stuff that experienced Shadowrun gamers take for granted - not even game mechanics so much as flavor things, like the names of companies and the culture.
It was also somewhat amusing, because even the experienced Shadowrun gamers were unfamiliar with the decking rules (deckers are hard to fit into a regular party, because so much of what they do has to be done apart from the party - they're usually played as NPCs) and that unfamiliarity included K.T., who was GMing.
So she made the first part of the adventure just a little harder than it should have been, and our characters, after setting off multiple alarms, jacked out (it's an all-decker party, if you hadn't guessed) and scrambled to buy better programs. K.T. told me she planned to try to make the next section a little less difficult.
Work continues on as it has been. Status quo is the status quo. I'm working on the things they've told me to work on, and planning my vacation. Which reminds me, I need to get out a phone book or call a travel agent and find out what my hotel options are for my two-day disconnect. I hope it will be possible.
I asked Matt over the weekend if he wanted to go with me.
"I thought you wanted to go by yourself," he asked, with some surprise.
"Well... yeah, but I don't want you to feel like you're being left out, or that it's you I'm trying to get away from."
He just laughed.
The thing is, since I made the statement that I wanted to go by myself, Matt's been assigned to a project that's going to send him out of town for training - maybe as briefly as a week, possibly as long as four weeks, but I expect it to average out and be two weeks.
So suddenly I want to spend a lot of time with him before he has to go.
But the thought of being alone to unplug and unwind still appeals...
Hell, I dunno. It's probably a good thing that we don't have to take a test to qualify for adulthood, because decision-making would probably be a component, and I'd fail miserably.
Word of the Day:
synchronicity - the quality or fact of being simultaneous; the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality
Currently Reading:
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Current Projects:
- drawing
- Hall stuff
- garden