No, I did not get enough sleep. I still did the whole morning routine complex, this time including writing new words of fiction. Yeah!
My husband and I had breakfast and talked about friends and music. Before I did my online rounds I cut his hair and then I did the dishes and listened to most of the pieces of classical music I hadn’t gotten to the past few days. I’m still missing one.
Then I went walking/running:
Those clouds you see behind me are the rest of the very heavy rain clouds that had covered the whole sky before. I got lucky that it was sunny and dry when I was out.
When I came back home the package with my new keyboard was on the doormat outside. Which was okay because I had given the mail person permission. I didn’t want to wait for them endlessly.
But before I could unpack first there was lunch:
Unfortunately, we had a bit of a grocery shopping fail, there was no sugo and no tomato paste in the house so my husband and I tried putting some dried tomato and ricotta pesto on our pasta. Well, we both agree it would have been better without.
Then I took a break, unpacked the new keyboard, then I took a shower and it was time for teaching. I had a very short teaching day but I did see a potential new student. It would be nice if they would start lessons.
Afterwards I briefly checked the ebook file for my upcoming release (have I reminded you that you can pre-order my book lately?) and uploaded it and then it was time for yet another Zoom call that I had been looking forward to a lot.
Only the call didn’t start. And didn’t start. About half an hour later I tried again and there it was. Apparently the host had been late. There will be a replay so I guess I’ll see why that happened when I watch that.
While listening to Zoom I tried my cardigan-in-progress on, decided on a length and started the next part. There is a nice small motif with cables and twisted stitches at the bottom flowing into the ribbing and that’s where I am. Once again I did the magic chart thing in KnitCompanion.
I ate dinner, finding that I had forgotten to thaw bread for me (the rest of the family likes to eat white bread while I am more of a sourdough kind of person) but since I had cut it into slices before putting it in the freezer I was able to thaw my bread in the toaster.
After dinner I spent too much time playing a silly time management game and then I started writing this post on my new, shiny and bright keyboard:
I didn’t expect to like the lights, right now I have them set to slowly ripple through all colors of the rainbow. It’s easy to turn them off, though, and I do so often.
I’m still getting used to it. Not only is the action of the keys very, very different from the Apple keyboards I’ve been using for years at this point, the keycaps also show a QWERTY layout when I am actually using QWERTZ. I’m used to it and I need it when typing German because there are no umlauts on the QWERTY layout.
I have been using a silicone cover that shows QWERTY on my laptop for many years now but if I want to know where, let’s say the apostrophe-key is, I could always just lift the cover. Well, not any longer. And since the new keyboard is so compact they put that key actually above the ‚enter‘-key. Weird.
This also shows me that I’m mostly touch-typing these days which is cool. I learned at some point when I read in a book about how to become faster at writing fiction that the first thing you should do is to teach yourself how to type by touch. I downloaded an app, practiced for a few weeks and apparently it stuck.
There was a cup of tea, my foot exercises, writing in my bullet journal, watching half an episode of ‚Word of Honor‘ and then to bed.
Today will be a long day but then that’s just a normal Tuesday around here.
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