cosmolinguist | Fun day (Reply)

For a day off, what a busy day!

I arranged a couple of chats today, because of the day off, for the organization I volunteer with. Mostly I'm part of a group making decisions but today I had to/got to represent those decisions and attempting to answer questions about them one-on-one. I wasn't too worried about it but it was nerve-wracking. They both went well though.

Then, my new All-Terrain Cane showed up! I hadn't really known what to expect and it helped to watch this video where, among other things, the inventor talks about how he came to do this (I gotta admire anyone who'd go into an outdoors store and say "show me your blind hiking section"!) and there's footage of him using it to like clamber over rocks and walk deftly along uneven trails. I wasn't sure how a rollerball tip would work on a weight-supporting cane but of course it does when you're on grass/sand/dirt/mud/etc. I tested it out a little this afternoon on some grass/mud nearby, which I know quite well but I still got the impression that this is a useful thing to have.

Then tonight D suddenly got the idea to make and elaborately decorate a cake for a friend tomorrow. When he was still telling me about his plan, at one point he said "Sorry, I'm just excited because I have a project." I grinned; it was good to see his I'm Excited I've Got a Project face again, it'd been a little while. I could help with the ingredient-buying and cake-baking but I know nothing about fondant icing -- but luckily, his mum does! So she got a surprise phone call from him after 9pm tonight.

It got late because we already had our usual fortnightly plan to tune in to readings of "Edwyrdian Tales," so we had a late dinner after the ingredient-buying, half way through the cake-batter-making, for some fun supernatural stories.

The cake is made, the fondant is colored, the actual decoration will happen tomorrow.

Gary has been at a few points sleepily baffled by how high-energy everyone has been after his bedtime. It has been a couple of unusually busy evenings for us, at the last minute. They have been fun but I hope tomorrow I can manage to eat my dinner before 7:30!

And somehow after all this I have to go back to work tomorrow?!