MsBarrows' Maunderings

Napped a lot and read and played more All Will Fall. Completed a fun map yesterday which was me sailing around on a large tanker ship until I found land. Nice little race every time the tanker stopped at mid-sea ruins, in order to refuel and/or repair it before lethal storms swept in and started tearing it apart. Eventually I did find a cluster of tiny islands sticking up out of the sea. Today I started playing this newly discovered land map.

For supper I made a thick soup using the leftover stock and shredded chicken I'd thawed out yesterday, adding finely diced tomatoes and celery, seasonings, and some rice. There's enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow as well.

Dental yuck under the cut.

July 19 - forgot to mention that my rocket backpack was delivered on Friday. It turns out to actually match my new coat even better than I thought it would; the back of the backpack is orange, as is the lining of my coat. Not that I'm at all likely to actually use it with the coat, since I got it for toting around my tablet, phone, and three pairs of glasses & their cases inside the house. So far I'm liking it, there's room for all of that plus extras when needed. And it's cute.

Had a busy day, our hot water heater kicked the bucket yesterday afternoon (which I discovered when I went to do dishes and only had lukewarm water). Brother couldn't get it to relight, so he called the service company and managed to get a service technician in today. After the guy had arrived he went off quadding, since we had both good weather and no smoke in the air.

I figured I should stay where the service guy could find me easily if needed, so not upstairs in my computer room. Our freezer has been needing defrosting since before my recent trip down south, plus it was only in the high teens today, so I decided I might as well tackle that. Service guy spent over an hour trying to fix the old tank, eventually gave up, and in ~20 minutes work uninstalled the old one, hauled it out to his van, hauled in a new one, and got it installed and running. Yay hot water again!

After I finished the freezer I took a short break, then decided to do something I've been thinking of recently; re-arrange my emergency go bag. Yes, all those fires up NW had me thinking of it. I had everything packed away in one large duffle bag, which was cumbersome and heavy. After this recent trip to Toronto I've decided to retire my old rolling carry-on; it's in moderately rough shape (broken interior straps, and the outer rubberized surface of one of the roller wheels has de-laminated from its core), but overall is still usable. So all the clothing and some of the toiletries from the duffle went into that, then everything else went into a backpack. The duffle bag has been collapsed and stored away, and my go bag is now two much more manageable smaller bags.

Also ran a load of laundry, once the new heater had supplied us with hot water again.

And yes, I also played some more All Will Fall today. I finally managed to successfully complete the starter map, and have moved on to a broken tanker scenario, which I am currently sailing around on in search of land, with frequent stops at mid-ocean ruins to salvage materials.