April 13, 2025 - bloghan 42
And now, and now, I can do what I please! At least, until May starts. And also, I have to figure out what I'm supposed to do at work right now. But for now, when I get home, it feels so nice to be free. Here's what I did this past week to get to such a state (hint: it's literally just the passage of time):
Tier list of the week
This week's tier list: fiction genres. Here's the tier list:
Ordered tiers, unordered within tiers. This is sorted by most likely for me to read and enjoy at the top, and least likely for both at the bottom. I feel like this doesn't need much of an explanation, and that it should all make sense to people who have been reading this for a while. S-tier is filled with a bunch of stuff you might see in an SCP story, but fantasy should be pretty clear to anyone since I started playing D&D over here. Meanwhile, most of the stuff at the bottom is mostly on the side of "I won't really pick up a book like that often," not usually "I would never enjoy this book."
Personal updates (achievements, reflections, and antics)
I don't know how I found it within myself to get up on time on Monmday, but I have a feeling that the intense sunlight and actually completely clear sky had something to do with it. I haven't been mentioning it, but the I can hear quite a lot of birdsong from inside my place. I wonder why that sound permeates the walls so easily, yet thunder struggles. I don't mind though. Birds are my favourite animals, and to me, embody freedom the most. I admire them the most in this world. Whenever I was at a bus stop this morning, or even looking out the window at work, if a bird passed by above, I would stop whatever I was doing and watch it fly or glide along. When I got to work, I realized there were some messages from the not-manager that I had to take care of right away. He had sent them on Friday, and it had to do with some missing stuff in files I was generating every night? I also saw a message from someone on that other team that owns a project I'm "bringing in" to my team's project, but appeasing the not-manager came first. However, just as I was about to get into the crux of the issue, I got a call out of the blue from that guy on the other project's team. I was confused, but I decided to pick up. Whoever was on the other end referred to me exclusively by my last name, and I couldn't actually correct them because they never let me speak. They pointed out the errors I was shoiwng them and how they were completely irrelevant to what they did - clearly they didn't read my email, because they were not looking at what I actually pointed out. Everytime I tried to get a word in edgewise, they would just continue on talking and telling me that my errors were completely irrelevant. At the end, I finally got through and told them about what I was actually seeing, and they got a bit quiet, but quickly recovered by pulling up the things I was saying were changed. He compared it to the old version, and said "there was no changes to this," even though I could literally see so many things changed between the two on his screen. He actually had me convinced to the point where after the call I checked my work again, and sure enough there were changes. I confirmed with them again, and I guess I'll bring up the results with my manager tomorrow, but I'm not convinced that they fully understood the problem. My work rival was laughing at my inability to speak during the whole call, and he laughed even harder when I shared the whole last name thing. Whatever man... I finally could continue on the not-manager's task, but when I looked at the file he was complaining about and what was purportedly missing form it, I saw that it was... right there? What? Is today's trend going to be "people who rank above me gaslight me into thinking things aren't the way they actually are" or was this in the works since I started? Well, I told him about how it was indeed there, and maybe he was just looking at an old version, and he just accepted it. Well, ok. Next is lunch, and it's only a select few of us who go. I watch Steve, the compatriot, the fanatic, and my work rival play 'President,' while I focus on conversation with my equivalent and some of the guys from upper floors, talking about my cinnamon candy thing and stocks or whatever. I spend way longer down there than I wanted to, but the only person who came by my desk in my absence was my predecessor. Apparently, he wanted to ask about the runs I was doing for my work rival's team, because he might have discovered something that would fix it: there was a change my manager made to one version of a file that wasn't replicated in a whole bunch of others, and those "whole bunch of others" were getting picked up when I ran those things. Well, I asked my manager about them, and he said go ahead, so I made the change and started running the stuff.... and it didn't fail within half an hour! Wait, things might actually start working then! FINALLY! The rest of the work day was spent just working on making and submitting very small fixes to things: that Absconder I made for my mentor and the director needed some clean up and more precise reporting, those files I changed today got submitted, and so on. I collected feedback for D&D as well, so that's all well and good too, and I had a couple interesting convos surrounding what the players can expect coming soon. Thankfully, my work rival didin't instigate anything before he left, and I managed to leave on time with nothing really urgent or pressing going on. The bus was very very late today, and so I got back to my place later than usual too. Once I got back I mostly focused on bloghan, but I did get quite distracted by getting on call with a friend from my home city. The call moved from me speaking very illucidly to him about my emotions, then watching the classic 'Parappa the Rapper 2' video 'chinese,' then quite a lot of conversation about our plans and our mutual friends, then me hearing a Sabrina Carpenter song for the first time (I feel so seen), and a good amount of brianrot surrouing Rouge the Bat and how all the world's jewels are hers to keep. We literally just kept repeating "all the world's [blank] are mine to [blank]" for maybe 10 mintues (we brought in a soundboard effect with a snippet of 'Fly in the Freedom') and laughed for like 5 minutes straight because we couldn't stop playing the sound effect and saying "jewels." We had to leave quickly before the other one of us started another chain, and after that I got back to bloghan and the character sheet updates. After this, I stumbled into bed. Oh tomorrow's not going to be fun...
Tuesday morning was a difficult one for sure. I was struggling to get out of bed, because my sleep deficit has gotten extremely bad now. Just as I stumbled into it last night, I stumbled out of it and opened my blinds. It was blinding to look outside, and I thought it was really intense sunshine at first but then I looked closer: snow? It snowed last night??? When I walk out to my bus, I see that it's still snowing a little bit too, even though about half of the sky is blue and clear. At work, I'm just feeling the affects of my tierdness the most. I'm trying to do those runs for my work rival's manager, and they all failed, because of course they did. He came in later that day (surprising, since it was very chilly and snowy this morning), and with him and my predecessor we talked about how I probably wasn't going to be required to do these as much anymore. Apparently, the reason I was asked to do this was to verify things so that my predecessor could do a task, but he got his stuff to run all successfully. I was glad, but I had a feeling my work rival's manager would be calling soon enough. I spent my time in the morning mostly on my phone, but also checking to see where the errors were coming from. Even if I wasn't meant to be continuing with this, I'd still like to know where it went wrong. We went down for lunch pretty quick too, and once again, I just sat there on my phone, watching the game of 'President.' This time though, no conversations with others, except a little bit with my compatriot before lunch and with my Japanese coworker afterwards, both about D&D options. My work after lunch consisted mostly of dealing with a request from my work rival's manager to redo all the runs I could on the latest versions of the project files. How fun. I would encounter errors so often of people updating something in one place but not the other, and that was basically all I would deal with until I went home. That's not to say I was being productive the entire second half of the workday though. There was plenty of time spent on my phone, some spent in conversation, and I think I ended up falling asleep at some point?? At least it was nice and sunny when I left, even if it was a bit windy. When I got back I was feeling really spent, and a bit scared about my assignments; the instructors had disappeared on the class and I had a feeling they weren't going to approve my extension, meaning I have to finish all of it by Saturday. I didn't want to cook dinner, not tonight or for the next few nights, so I ordered two pizzas and worked on the reflection quizzes, sneaking in a plasma deck black stake win in between the two. The pizza was pretty good (chicken bacon alfredo and philly cheesesteak), but I didn't realize how large "large" would be. I'm going to have 4, maybe 5 or 6 dinners of leftovers! Perfect. Once I had my dinner and done one of the quizzes, I went to bed. I could do the next quiz tomorrow, and I wouldn't have to worry too much about time too. The next quiz couldn't be much worse, right?
Wednesday morning had a little snow falling from the sky, but all of yesterday's snow had already melted. Oh well. My morning responsibilites involved tracking down why my nine runs were failing, then restarting them, as well as doing that one quiz I left for today. It was actually a little harder than the last one, and by harder I mean "made me think a little more" since it was a reflection. I finished it sometime in the afternoon. I decided to not join everyone for lunch though, just so that I could do this quiz. My co-DM had told me that she wasn't going to join us because she would be "busy" tonight (you can just tell me if you have school or something, I won't mind...). There was a whole subplot to my day with the not-manager asking me to add YET ANOTHER FEATURE to the Absconder I did for him, but luckily, I could just plug it in to what I already had without making changes. There was a small error in the format that the not-manager provided to me, so he wrapped in another person to deal with that. Now everytime the not-manager wants a new feature added to that Absconder work, even more people are going to be interrupted by it. Man... Eventually, those runs for my work rival's team came back and failed again, but when I shared this with my work rival's manager, she said nothing. My work rival and I were about to go over the results, when I got an email from his manager. Apparently, they were going to get one of our more senior members to look at the errors, and once he fixed them, I should run it again. Well, alright, I can actually do other things. Like complete that quiz, learn about how twins are born, and finally, addressing another (separate) email from my manager, asking about the "bring in" task I had. He seemed confused about the emails that the other team was sending, so I decided to take it upon myself to really go in and examine just what it was they were asking us to do, and then report that to my manager instead of just doing it. Upon further inspection, it looks like that other team was giving us instructions to ignore an entire suite of warnings from our various tools, but the danger with this is that if any other teams' projects had these errors, we wouldn't see them. In the past, they were using this approach, but with the update I was doing, they decided to change their strategy, revealing a bunch of these errors in places we never thought to look. Now that other team was asking me to bring it in again. Hmmm... that doesn't seem like a good thing to do. I sent a message to my manager asking if I could just show up at his desk to talk to him about what was going on, because I didn't really want to wrap that other team in this decision anymore. Also, I don't think I would've been able to properly describe the issue to my manager over email. My work rival was adamant that my manager would just clock out befroe reading my message, since the evening was just starting, but he actually responded with "sure" in 5 minutes. Ha! My manager actually wants to see me! At his desk, we have a good 20 minute chat about what happened. He didn't get what I was saying at first, but once I brought my laptop out of the glare from his window, he realized the consequences of what that other team had done, and gave me instructions: find all the errors, talk to all the teams that had those errors, then we'll see from there. Sounds like a lot of work, but I guess this is my responsibility now. I would've started on it right away, but I had D&D to take care of. This session was more slice-of-lifey, and I got to revive all the NPC interactions in the starting town that I had to toss out for time! The players somehow daisy-chained a bunch of the side quests of the strong-willed but quirky townsfolk together, and it was a lot of fun just having them meet the neighbours and still feel like they're helping out the common folk, even if the stakes are low. I got pretty caught up in the adventure though, and almost didn't realize that we went a couple minutes overtime. We all quickly left after that, and once again, I caught my first bus but missed the timing on the second bus, so I walked home. It was sort of snowing, sort of raining, but it was really not all that present, so it wasn't such a bad walk to my place. For the little amount of work I did today (I mean for my class), I felt pretty good about what had happened. I ended up not doing all that much that night in terms of coursework, just setting up for what I would be typing in the document later, but not yet fully commiting to doing it. Leftover pizza (looks like I have about 3 more days worth) was my dinner, as was a nice little spot of 'Balatro' (man the problem is just getting worse isn't it?), and then bed. Surely, I would get a lot done tomorrow, right?
Thursday came and showed me another rainy day, and another day of work where I felt like I did very little. I don't really know what I should be doing, and I feel so paralyzed in choosing what to do. I should do what my manager said, reach out to all those teams, but I think the issue is way bigger than he thinks it is: there's a lot more teams affected than the few he told me to talk to. I could also ask the not-manager if he wanted those changes to the Absconder work formalized or if it was just a one-time thing. And of course, I've got that assignment to work on. Hmmm... maybe I should start there. But when I log in to all the the things I need to, I see that the instructors finally started responding to our questions about stuff, including my question about an assignment long past. She says that the way the assignment description was written is not the way it was intended, and that teams who did it the way the assignment doc implied would probably not get full points. Real nice of you to tell us after the deadline. I make a carefully worded response and complain to all the coworkers around me, completely distracting myself from any sort of work to be done, from the company and from school. This whole thing just felt so awful, and the whole course felt well managed and mismanaged at the same time, somehow. I have no idea how the instructors managed that, but they did. Pretty soon after I Made this realization and ranted about it wherever I needed to, it was time for lunch. One group of people played a 4-person game of 'President,' but myself, the gregarious, the fanatic, my work rival, and my co-DM started up a game of poker, but we quickly transitioned into 'Hearts.' I do really like the whole ieda of 'Hearts,' but this will be my first time ever playing it in person and against humans. The first game is just your standard game with 5 people, but the second game, I get an OK setup to shoot the moon (if you win every single heart-suited card and the Queen of Spades), and I almost get away with it too! My co-DM lets the others know about it though, and my work rival takes a couple heart cards, saddling me with a bunch of point (points are bad in 'Hearts'). The third game though, after the card passing happens, I end up with the Kind of Spades, and the roayl flush of Hearts. I'm in prime position to shoot the moon, in my third ever game of 'Hearts,' and I'm shaking with anticipation. I bait my work rival into passing me the Queen of Spades early on, pretending I blundered. Once that happense, there's no one to stop me from playing the Ace of Hearts and revealing that I'm trying to shoot the moon. They can't stop me, I know they can't, and every new Heart I lead I taunt them to play the King of Hearts, to save them. Of course, I reveal that I held it all along after collecting every last heart remaining by leading the King of Hearts. I felt glorious. This is my vitory. I headed on upstairs afterthis, relaying my successful shooting of the moon in my third ever in-person game of 'Hearts.' Man! Feels good. Literally glowing. Shortly after sitting back down at my desk, I had to get back up again. There was a meeting to attend on the new project, since my predecessor finally got someone in management to invite me. It's about time. There were so many adjustments in when this meeting would start for so long, and so many room changes too, so I wasn't even sure if I was at the right place, but my predecessor showed up right as the meeting started, telling me I was the first to show. People started to filter in, both offline and online. I met one of the newer managers (the one who my predecessor told to invite me), as well as my manager, the director, my work rival's manager, a manager on Steve's team, and some of those senior employees (including the one who called me a "good boy" weeks ago). We sat there in silence for a bit as we all waited for the director of the director to show up, since he was the lead over this entire project, but eventually my manager got tired of waiting and got us to start the meeting. The first half of it was completely irrelvant to me as it turns out htis meeting discussed some of our other projects too, not just the one I was working on, but once we got to that project... hoo boy. I'm SO glad that no one directly asked me anything. That senior employee brought up something that he was working on which would lead to our team having to delay the project for more than 3-4 weeks because of work we would have to re-do. Part of our strategy was to not chnage certain things so that we could reuse the results from the last iteration. When this suggestion was made, a bunch of people start clowning on the comment. The director's director was mad and saying things like "do we need to have a conversation about this" and another senior employee actually started swearing. My predecessor and I just sat in the corner, amused. A bunch of others in this meeting were not very amused though, but once the tension died down, the conversation naturally wheeled into other things. I was only really brought up by my work rival's manager and my own when they were talking about how we really needed my runs to pass soon, but that I couldn't actually get them to do that unless ANOTHER senior employee made a quick change to get them working. Uhhh.... I think there's more issues than that, but sure I guess? The meeting came to an end when the VP poked his head into the frame. The director said that we had to leave because more important people needed the room. As we left, the VP was taking stock of who was in the room, poking fun at how my manager was bald along the way. That was quite the interesting meeting... The rest of the day was spent doing the usual slacking off, my work rival giving me and my predecessor a trivia face-to-face (he called it "something he would pay NBA tickets for"), and a lot of extended conversation with my predecessor about some old instructors and courses we knew, including some new ones that we haven't seen before. After borrowing my equivalent's charger so that I could charge my laptop tomorrow, I left early. When I got back, I had a nice hour to relax a little, before hopping onto a call with my friends, like normal for Thursdays. This one was on the more boring side again. I was panicking and doing my assignment in the background as the other two just played rhythm games in the background. I was sort of hoping to do one of our usual activities - maybe we could finally get back to 'Danganronpa' or we could do some more 'Balatro' - ah, this was fine too I guess. I didn't realy get a chance to be involved, but I'm learning more and more that in my life, that's ok! After the call, I did a little more work, but I was already feeling real tired. I wrote a good chunk, but when I saw what the time was (nearly three hours after midnight), I just went to bed. Tomorrow's a work from home day anyways...
I woke up on Friday and just didn't want to get out of bed. I worked from bed for the first 30 minutes of the work day, where I mostly focused on figuring out why my go-to was asking me why those nightly things I had running were not running. Took me a while to figure it out - they were actually still running, which is why no one got an email about them. I sure hope they would ocntinue to run though... Eventually I got out of bed and made myself a big breakfast, then tried to do some work and some schoolwork. Work actually kept me somewhat engaged, but really the only important things was a meeting with my work rival's entire team in which I actualyl turned out to not be needed at all, and a later meeting with my mentor, explaining the new errors found by bringing in that other project on Monday, which exposed a bad practice of theirs and how it hid errors that were present in our project all along. Work was just fine today, but I wished that it wasn't so sunny out. I would rather have had that sunny day on the weekend, instead of being stuck in here with work. I didn't really do much school related stuff during work like I planned on, but I did get a really large chunk done nonetheless. I was now 2/3 done this very last assignment, and somehow it had gotten very late... surely I'm going to finish it tomorrow within a reasonable time? Which, in fact, I do! Saturday's grey morning gave way to great concentration on the assignment and after submitting it just before evening, that was that. This course was done. I don't really know how much I learned because of how worried I was about the big number I would get at the end of it, but I think I learned a little at least? After taking a quick and rather nihilistic shower, and eating the last my pizza, I decided to reward myself with probably a little too much 'Balatro' which was not worth it. I only managed to successfully do plasma deck purple stake, even though I stayed up for so long. I don't like purple stake and above because of how boring the difficulty increase is. It's just a repeat of green stake that makes even more things just completely unviable. This night, I let myself go to bed earlier. Tomorrow would be busy with a whole bunch of chores and bloghan writing.
Well, I woke up on Sunday half an hour after noon. Not a great start to the day. I didn't realize I had racked up THAT kind of sleep deficit. Geez... I haggardly walked towards the blinds on my windows, expecting another dreary day, but to my shock: a perfectly azure sky, with not a cloud in sight. The sun burned bright, and there was very little wind. The birds were chirping, and squirrels were cautiously leaping and bounding between fence posts and tree branches. Ah... it's nice to be back in the sunshine. I made myself a large breakfast once again, and spent a lot of time doing laundry and sweeping the floor. I had music playing and the blinds fully withdrawn, and you could say that I was back to living the life. Soon enough, every day will be a summer vacation again. But I still need to feed myself, so once my coloured laundry load was done, I started up the dark clothes load and headed out for the grocery store. I would've had it delivered, but I missed the best window for free delivery, so I might as well just go today instead. The walk was very pleasant, and I decided that as a treat I would get myself ice cream sandwiches to enjoy in the forseeable future weekends. The walk home was harder because my groceries of milk, bread, eggs, mandarins, and ice cream sandwiches was actually quite heavy (for me), and even as I type this, my arms are still sore. After getting back and putting it all away, a quick lunch and a hanging of all my now washed clothes, I grabbed one of the ice cream sandwiches, sat outside on this lawn chair in my landlord's backyard, and ate it in silence, under the now lighter sun, and a higher presence of birdsong. I don't really want to leave. I wish things would stay like this forever. But time is running out. Soon I'll have to go back to my home city. Soon, I won't have all these connections that I do now. But honestly... that second point is alright. I've learned how to live alone, how to be alone. I think, in whichever context I'm in, I'll just as easily figure out how to make it on my own. Also... man, it's been so long since I've had an ice cream sandwich!! These taste so good. Don't regret the purchase one bit. Once it's been devoured, I head back inside to clock in for another shift at the 'Balatro' factory. I've been spending way too much time on it that should have gone to bloghan. It's alright though! Managed to orange stake and gold stake the plasma deck, with double Stuntman for the former and Triboulet and The Order in the latter! Next up is probably blue deck... but before I can play more, or you know, write this bloghan more, I've got an appointment. One of those friends from my home city is having his birthday this upcoming Saturday, and his main friend group organized a little birthday trivia night, all about him. They reached out to me and the other girl in our little trio because "it just makes sense." What??? No??? You're all a lot closer to him than I am, why would I even be invited? I attempt to be a good sport though, and join in, but based on the questions being asked it becomes pretty clear very quickly how these people think of me: just a gimmick in our mutual friend's life. I mean... yeah? I guess? Tha tabout sums it up. This event was just really boring for me too, because a ton of the questions were about things that our mutual friend here shared with them, not me, and they were coming into this with the context of a similar event. I mean, it's alright. I'm sure everyone else had fun, but I was really wishing I wasn't invited. The digital clock on my laptop slowly ticks by, as minutes drag into hours, and I wonder when it'll all be done. I'm sure the event would've been just as fun with or without me. AH, well, what can you do? If there is one silver lining to this little distraction, there is an important lesson I learned. Well, not really learned, since I had already figured this out in the recent past, but I guess it served more as proof that I was right about it. I ended up getting last place in this trivia game about my friend. This is the person I have talked to the most in the past 4 years. Last place. If I didn't already know it (I did, but this statement is just for the whole flare of saying it, you know?), I do now: I truly am a low-empathy person. I mean, what other conclusion am I supposed to take away from this? But... I guess there's nothing wrong with being like this. It just means that over time, I will just have less people willing to be around me. But the great thing is, I've learned how to live with that! I've learned how to live all alone, all by myself, and how to rely on just myself. This discovery about myself is actually so good for me. It's ok to be me. It's ok for me to live. Yes, it means that I'll live a life not typically considered to be "a good one" but because of what I am - it's the inverse! It took me a long time to get to a point wher I could say something like "I feel great being me." For the first time ever, I feel like I've fully realized who I'm meant to be. Myself, my own, and all on my own, always. How content this feels! As soon as the call ends, I remove myself from teh group chat as soon as possible (well, obviously! I'm only a gimmick in one of their friend's lives), but I do hop on call with my regular trio once again to talk 'Balatro.' They confront me about what happened in the game, wondering how I got last place, but I think it's a bit unfair to demand more from the person who has known the subject of interest for the least amount of time, right? I wanted to stay on call with just my small group a little bit longer, maybe watch a show or play more 'Balatro,' but they have to log off early for other things. Yes, yes. Yes. I get up and cook dinner, and finally, FINALLY read a bit more 'Homestuck.' I'm just starting Act 3 now, and Jade reminds me a lot of one of my friends in that trio (not the one who has a birthday coming up). Except... maybe not the furry stuff. After just one more run in 'Balatro' I put my efforts into bloghan but... It's gotten really late. I guess this is what I get for waking up in the afternoon. I guess since I know I'm not finishing the bloghan today, I might as well start on something else before I go to bed, a justificaiton I give myself as I spent another half hour starting on the next cryptic, my biggest yet at 21 by 21 squares. Once I'm happy with the theme I've laid out, I head to bed. To bed, satisfied. Satisfied, to bed.
Future plans
Here's the results of last week's plans:
- Last assignment and last quizzes: all done!! I'm FREE!!
- D&D level ups: done too. Wasn't nearly as bad as I thought since it was the level up from 3 to 4.
- 'Homestuck': John I finally returned, and on the 16th anniversary at that!
- Ice cream sandwich: oh well I said I'd just get 1 but I got 12 instead...
- Door: no progress
This week, I've got so much I can do! I really hope I can get through all of it... I want to complete my first 21x21 cryptic, and I want to read 'Homestuck' every day this week. Also, You Watanabe and Maki Nishikino have birthdays this week, so I've gotta prep for those. On Saturday, my goal is to go to the aquarium, and also see my compsci friend for lunch or whatever. Oh and that thing with the document sleeves in my shower? I need to do that. AH and also for my club activities back in my home city, I need to do some... devious and capricous activites, shall we say? I think this week I will also finish that photo editing thing I had going a while back, start playing 'Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulation,' and some other misc things as I think about them too.
Song of the week
'Rubber Bazooka!!' (https://youtu.be/_7F7Zzo4vKw) from 'One Piece' is the song of the week. Now look. I know I didn't do anything 'One Piece' related this week. So then, why did I choose this as the song of the week? Well, it's because of how the actual piece makes me feel, and how it literally matched with my week (except Sunday and Saturday evenings, but that kind of stuff always happens to me in the evenings). It starts off with loking at success to be had soon but not yet, a little anticipation if you will. There is freedom and victory on the other side of things, I just need to get there. Then, the anticipation builds and converts itself into something more threatening. Will I actually make it? What happens if I fail? I don't know if I can do it... the feeling of pushing off something you know you need to do soon is one of the worst in the world to me. But then, as you do it, as you build momentum and get on a roll with it, and you tumble through it knowing that you're almsot there, you're almost done - the feeings of triumph finally fully realize themselves. You knew you were going to get there eventually, back when the week started, but now you REALLY know. Now, you can really celebrate, and once it's all done - well, now you can REALLY celebrate, and relish! Well, that's enough of that. I hope you give it a listen, and maybe this explains how I go about listening to music. I'm a very narrative driven person, so I hope the thought process makes sense.
Until next time
Things just keep getting better and better, don't they! Upwards momentum, followed by landing action, a hop and a step and a little foray into nonsensicality - just your typical bloghan this time, I suppose! I actually gave a little "tee-hee" as I wrote that last sentence. That's all for this time, so see you next week!
- bubbler