22 August 2025. Water was active yesterday. Stayed home. Super weird, because Mom had her day off and I was sure I was going to work with the warm weather.
THE GLASS PEN CAME IN!!! It's a little joy, but persistent. I wrote with the watery Parker Quink ink that Thi originally gave me with the Lamy Safari for Christmas 2018; Noodler's Black; Noodler's Apache/Southwest Sunset; and Noodler's Polar Purple. Extensively drafted the major plot points of SotC 3.0. Casting off the cruft of Realm of the Mad God was bittersweet, but it did make the story more realistic, which is what I'm going for.
Mom made lots of food for dinner. Savory fish and green bean patties, a quick pickle of daikon and carrots and cucumbers, a tofu and century egg soup, and a shrimp/dried fish/mango salad with lots of backyard herbs. THIS, I am starting to see, is what I crave at odd hours — crunchy vegetables and deeply seasoned bites of meat. Carbs can get so boring, especially if they're the main thing in an afternoon snack.