I did not bake bread yesterday. I kind of have to do that today. I may be doing so at a rate slower than an arthritic snail.
But there will be bread. "Twice proofed" since it spent 24hours in the fridge rather than 8-12.
The first loaf is incubating while the oven preheats and the Dutch Oven gets heat sunk into it. I have everything lined up for the inevitable bake.
I'm keeping up my fluids and planning a lot of rest.
For now, I attempt to focus on my offerings.
I was doing all right until about 2PM yesterday. That's when my nose started running like a tap and my throat started hurting like I'd been gargling thorns.
I am not a happy camper.
Mayhem's making a sorta-chicken soup with available materials when I wanted to venture out and get things. It's probably a good idea to stay in and keep up on my fluids.
I'm either overheating or freezing. My head's full of fog, and I am currently in terror of
Read more »I needed extra rest this morning, so VTTRPG with the international maniacs had to be cancelled. I do feel bad about it, but I also need to get over this dang bug.
I have one loaf shaped while the oven pre-heats. Waiting on that last proof. I should have two lovely loaves cooling by dinnertime. I shall be making a sincere effort to see if the fix for GameMaker works and if not, I try the other angle.
Time and experimentation will
Read more »Mayhem's still recovering so I've got the bread underway. My scales behaved, my dough behaved, everything seems to be working out except the familial health thing.
There's another progress log entry over on Pseuducku development to see which button "reads" better for the specific purpose of knowing which ducks are used up.
When I know that, I can work on different mock-ups. Which will include finding out which ducks look better when placed in the field.
For today, I shall be cleaning
Read more »Mayhem's crook, so I have time to make bread. The starter's incubating, the chia's soaking, and everything is weighed and measured out for the folding and fermenting.
Which is a good thing because I need to make bread.
I'm finishing my stretchies up, so I'll be doing my offerings soon. Then to work on a mock-up for Pseuducku. All to test what the buttons should look like.
Let's see how far I get, today.
Luck be with me, I should have a
Read more »I was almost home from dropping Mayhem off in the far north worklands when I got a phone call. He actually had today off. Whee fun. So I had to pause my bread process [Wilson was growing in the incubator] and turn around to go and fetch the lad.
Good news - I can now not worry about bread timing.
Bad news - I'll still have to do that tomorrow
And I still gotta restock on a few things. They're a very
Read more »I have my first loaf proofing in the incubator. I managed to run a session where all four hours were combat. Well. Combat and setting up for combat. There were a lot of mobs to juggle.
So after some tea and a nap, I'm back up and ready to rave onwards. Huzzah.
After the daily offerings and bread, there's another game tonight. Assuming all goes well. Then it's back to what passes for normal and fitting my work in between other things.
Read more »I'm currently using phone data so I shall be brief.
The internet is down where I am and I'm also making bread so going fully mobile is not an option. It might be an option on another day. Time will tell.
Normal services will resume as soon as the connection does. I'm keeping an eye on it and we've complained to out alleged provider about it. Much fun not being had by anyone TBH.
I did NOT need this. At all.
Doing
Read more »I have a loaf proofing while the oven preheats. I have things set up to bake, including a timer to make sure all goes relatively well.
I have offerings to make and tweaks to engage in with respect to my leisure time on the new OS.
Last time that was fixed, I lost half my tabs.
In a few short minutes, I go collect my Beloved. All is well and we shall share time once more. Offerings will happen at their own
Read more »I will likely be up until past 10PM today. Most of that is because juggling dough and proofing my chia sourdough.
I'll be seeing how well the new scales go tomorrow.
I know from testing that one of them displays a weight up to two grams above the other. But at least they're consistent. I can manage once I figure out where the finessing lies.
It's honestly better than having a different weight every time I put the same thing on the
Read more »I just finished the furforal for today. Stretchies, foot torture, and an appointment at the optometrist. Followed by fetching some meds and then retreating home.
Because new glasses cost four figures. Ooof.
The good news is that I can pay them off at our own speed. Starting tomorrow. By the time they're made, we should have enough to pay the rest.
[Should is not is, and I quietly fret]
I have a loaf proofing in the incubator and the ovens preheating. If
Read more »I am almost out of my artisinal bread. I also have an appointment tomorrow. It takes absolute hours to do bread. But I am also about due to run out of bread.
I think I can wrangle stage one - mixing and proofing - today? I might have to spend two days baking later on.
Time, as always, will tell.
I'll figure it all out in the end. If I start the starter incubating close to now it won't be ready for
Read more »Me and my chronic difficulty with instructions are trying to install Stencyl and Minecraft in Linux. My Beloved is rescheduling so that shared time between myself and Adorable is a bit more fair.
To that end, my Patreon posts will likely be happening on Monday or the weekend. I'll see which is more amenable.
I'll pop an announcement up on my Patreon this morning.
I have one loaf in the incubator, and the other is stowed in the little fridge. I'm finishing
Read more »I have found some knee sleeves. They were in Rebel Allsports (not sponsored) and promise to not roast my patellas when they're in situ.
My knees are warm, but not uncomfortably warm, and I needed my knee bracers today. Because today's a day for bread.
I have Wilson in the incubator, the flour weighed out, and the chia soaking in the water. In less than four hours, I autolyse and commence the rest of the nonsense. Knead-hour-knead until I get to the
Read more »Just finished a telehealth call with my shrink. I have Wilson, my wholemeal Starter, incubating. They have a little over an hour remaining before the autolysing begins.
I'm pretty sure the amount of ice is responsible for my bread turning into sod loaves. So I'm back to being particular about the ice I use. It could also be that Wilson was still waking up last time and they'll be on full form sometime real soon now.
Hopefully, this time around.
I'll be
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