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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
  • Digging up a struggling lawn to make way for stone blocks and planter boxes and maybe a few plants in between here and there. Going to be attempting to make some stone blocks too with cement and stuff.

  • Might be meeting up with my weed guy for a smoke and whatever he's philosophising or excited about this time. Sometimes it's soccer, in which case I mostly just smile and wave; sometimes it's interesting socio-political matters.

  • And in between that, probably wanting to play a game or address my growing watch list of movies / series / pro wrestling but actually just mostly bed rotting and scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My son told me today that he is going to spend the holiday weekend with his mom. It’s a good thing as lately he has not spent much time with her. I’m sure she misses him as well.

So…

Having time to myself, I’m hoping to have some “fun” with a friend, finally spending the night with them. We’ll see where things go, but for now I am content with a physical sort of relationship 🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: We just made plans to spend the evening and night together. So excited! 🥰🥰

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I'm going to a craft beer festival and will try to not get too drunk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hoping to finally finish the changes to orthography of my conlang. Then I need to go through EVERY SINGLE WORD and update the spellings as required. It will be a lot of work but hopefully it streamlines everything so I don't have to keep changing it. Also changing the tense conjugations and some other affixes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ouch - I hate doing the lexicon before finishing romanisation + phonology for this reason. How large is the current vocab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Core vocab is about 700 words, because my conlang creates new words from itself easily. I could probably even cut it down to 500 if I'm clever enough (don't put money on that haha). And I did the phonology/orthography before the vocab, but when I gave it a test run, a few little things didn't work as well as I thought they would, and it's been gnawing at me for weeks. The new changes are definitely an improvement, so it's just a matter of putting in the time and effort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Working. But hope y'all have fun!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Getting out for long walks (probably meeting a few people, not sure about that), enjoying long reading and writing sessions, having a great time with my spouse. And last but not least, spend a couple hours working on a little DIY crafting project of mine: I'm making my own index card portable case/folder and tiny writing desk all-in-one, and I hope this WE I'll be ableto finish what will be my second attempt at it.

Also, doing chores but for that I cheated a little as I already started this Friday morning ;)