"new goose just dropped!"

This past weekend can get in the fucking bin.

I had planned to do a whole bunch of stuff on Saturday, that mostly involved my computer/the internet. The universe, it seems had other plans.

For whatever reason, I now get texts to tell me when there's been a power cut in the area. Sometimes that's hilarious, because I'm out of the house, and I get a text telling me it's been fixed ten minutes later. Sometimes, however, I get them during the night. As I did in the early hours of Saturday morning.

I eventually decided to be awake after the second one, as I was worried perhaps it was someone trying to get in touch with me for something urgent. Not that a power cut isn't important, but there's not much I can do, you know?

So there'd been a storm on Friday night/Saturday morning, and there was thunder, lightning, and whole shed load of snow overnight. And it had knocked the power out through various means. Okay fine.

The power hiccuped around six am, on and off, and then, dear reader, it was off till almost 4pm that day. Which meant I couldn't do anything I'd planned to do, and I had no heating, and it was not a warm day. My phone battery was running out, so I didn't dare use that more than I needed to (although I discovered my portable charger had some remaining charge in it, so I could have at least used that, if I'd needed to). All in all, it was a very stressful and tiring day.

And then Sunday was okay, to start with. I got the bus to work okay, except it was bloody freezing because it was minus temps (in °C) even at 9am.

And then it started snowing later in the morning, and it snowed quite heavily. Eventually I rang my area manager and told him I was going to have to go home because I didn't know how clear the roads were, and whether the buses would still be running come home time proper. He okayed it, but I felt (and still feel) really guilty about it.

There is about two inches of snow where I live, which I realise is not a lot by some countries' standards, but it's enough to mess up public transport in the UK.

I was supposed to do my food shop today, but I'm going to stay home instead, and I'm going to go Wednesday instead, when it will be warmer and the snow will have gone (allegedly).

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In happier news! I've been watching other people playing video games instead of playing them myself.

For some reason I can't fathom, I am still watching Ian play Sekiro. I'm not even that interested any more. I said to lassarina in a comment on one of her posts that I now find From Soft games very samey when I watch them, and they are. Sure there's elements in Sekiro that aren't in Dark Souls, but the basic everything is the same, and it's a bit boring, tbh [/hot take]

I also watched Aoife play Unpacking - she played the whole game in two sessions, and this link is to the first one. It was interesting to see how she organised things versus how Jane did it in her stream.

And then, I haven't quite finished it, but I watched Johnny playing Let's Build A Zoo on their channel. It feels very Two Point Hospital, but with zoo elements instead. (I know it's a sim game, and there's only so much you can do with that, but certain things just feel exactly like TPH and it's a bit weird). But it's enjoyable to watch. I don't know if I would enjoy playing it because I find most sim games stressful.

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And that is all I've got for now. Hopefully the coming week will be an improvement.