Today’s deck is the Catomancy Tarot.
Big love, it even came with three different versions of The Hermit.
Balance is a theme that seems recurrent lately, today’s reading is actually advising to trust my own self-taught instincts to achieve that.
I woke up straight to building the last bookshelf I had left. The result was creating a very nice corner that E fittingly dubbed “Nerd Jail”.
The aftermath of that specific batch of sorting was that I ended up with around 7 containers total freed up which is a big chunk of the towers of containers I’ve been moving around.
Speaking of which, it was time to move them around AGAIN. The Nerd Jail is nice, sorted, and I don’t have intent nor need to move anything in it so I went on to, yet again, move all the plastic containers to the space in-between the three.
It kinda feels like a backwards thing, like I’m slightly undoing stuff, but it’s kinda necessary in the current state of affairs to have space to maneuver.
I have an idea of where the next shelves will go, but I need to clear up space, clean, and consider stuff. The sense of progress finally happening is palpable, though.
Speaking of which. There’s some Depression Tracks (what I call the tracks made by chair wheels digging into the flooring) on my PC area that I’m currently covering with a rug so the splinters don’t get on my feet. It’s more of a mid-term goal sort of thing, but I wanna call some remodelling service to get it fixed.
I’m also pondering about moving the PC to my office in order to enforce the work/life divide more, but I’m still pondering how separated I can afford to be from the PC.
After the sun came out I FINALLY coated my jacket and shoes with waterproofing spray. I had specific shoes in mind but I forgot I had new shoes for the ocassion… well, more specifically I got a pair of boots last year for my trip to Otaru, but they made it home AFTER I left.
I still feel like it’d be ideal to scratch the itch of going to Rokko Snow Park specifically so I can run a test of the fit I’m taking to Hokkaido, though.
It wouldn’t be the first time I purchase clothes in-situ because of an oversight, but I’d rather avoid the scenario and such.
Then I felt a bit of a compulsion to just go out for a bit. I say compulsion because I was fine staying home and continuing to sort stuff or even going to the office and doing some work, but I just felt a sort of “I haven’t been out for a long while” sort of malaise.
I went to Kobe. Nominally to see what they had at the doll shop there, but more specifically just to move around for a bit.
I started an audiobook on the history of salt. It has a lot of interesting bits so far, like presenting the idea that Asia and Rome came up with a condiment made out of fermented fish independent of each other, the economics that led to salt-preserved foods being better business than just plain salt. There’s actually one detail I like about how in Egypt natron was the high class salt while in other parts of Africa natron was the one used by everyday people.
It also led me to some kinda obvious realizations I didn’t notice before like uh… I didn’t know Gauls and Celts were the same, Asterix sure makes a lot more sense suddenly. I also didn’t even know what natron was, I’d seen it while doing stuff in FF14 but I didn’t know it was basically the sodium bicarbonate we use back in Venezuela, down to talking about health benefits and how it’s a cure for stomach problems.
It was nice to feel able to go through an audiobook again. When I’m stressed and I have a shorter fuse I end up feeling an “ENOUGH” sort of annoyance with stuff I normally enjoy, so it’s a sign that I’m in a better mental space than I thought.
The building’s janitor left me a tip of a trash collecting service I can call and I feel like I should grab all the junk in the balcony, put it in a pile, and call the service to just take it away.
That’ll happen after I return from Hokkaido, though.