Status Report for May, 2024
Jun. 1st, 2024 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftears26,644 words on Alien Tastes. We're close to the end of the first book! It should weigh in at about 87k words or so. All that just to finish Molly's first day, and she won't even have gotten to classes yet! That will be the *next* book.
I learned that certificates of deposit don't just turn into money, they roll over "renewing" at a new interest rate for the term e.g. if you had a 5-month CD, you'll get it rolled over into another 5-month CD. There's a 10-day window from maturity when you can withdraw the money. CDs beat the 'standard' saving account interest by quite a bit, so learning to work with this will be a good plan, as long as I accurately forecast my monthly needs.
I have gotten my furnace/AC replaced with a heat pump! This is supposed to be more efficient overall, which is good because gas bills have been going up and up around here. Just in time for... it to no longer be winter, meaning I won't be running the heat for the next nine months anyway.
I am in the midst of a low-residue diet for a colonoscopy next week. Whee. The travails of getting old. x.x
I got and finished Homeworld 3! I wouldn't say necessarily 'instant classic' but I think it did justice to following in the footsteps of the original Homeworld, and setting the mood with megalithic structures and bombastic story. I also played through Timelie, which is a good 'rewind-time stealth' puzzle game that features a cat as an important part of the gameplay. Some really tough puzzle levels, but ultimately I didn't have to resort to a walkthrough at any time, which I appreciate.
I learned that certificates of deposit don't just turn into money, they roll over "renewing" at a new interest rate for the term e.g. if you had a 5-month CD, you'll get it rolled over into another 5-month CD. There's a 10-day window from maturity when you can withdraw the money. CDs beat the 'standard' saving account interest by quite a bit, so learning to work with this will be a good plan, as long as I accurately forecast my monthly needs.
I have gotten my furnace/AC replaced with a heat pump! This is supposed to be more efficient overall, which is good because gas bills have been going up and up around here. Just in time for... it to no longer be winter, meaning I won't be running the heat for the next nine months anyway.
I am in the midst of a low-residue diet for a colonoscopy next week. Whee. The travails of getting old. x.x
I got and finished Homeworld 3! I wouldn't say necessarily 'instant classic' but I think it did justice to following in the footsteps of the original Homeworld, and setting the mood with megalithic structures and bombastic story. I also played through Timelie, which is a good 'rewind-time stealth' puzzle game that features a cat as an important part of the gameplay. Some really tough puzzle levels, but ultimately I didn't have to resort to a walkthrough at any time, which I appreciate.
