§ The sweet peas are finally flowering and I harvested the first few pattypan squash of the season.
Pattypans, by the way, are clearly the best variety of summer squash to grow. Tasty, prolific, relatively compact, and they look like strange little flying saucers. What’s not to like?
§ For the past few weeks I’ve been feeling like I’ve been in a bit of a creative rut so on Friday I set aside some time to mess around with the Shopbot CNC machine which always tends to spark inspiration. I ended up making a little rough chair. It probably won’t go anywhere but that’s okay. It’s the making that’s the point.
§ I finally got to try my first soup dumping at LJ Shanghai. It was great, especially alongside the spicy chaushou.
§ I finished The Wolves of Eternity. Alevtina’s chapter made up most of the second half of the book. Her long, multi-hundred-page flashback sequence tested my patience but things picked up afterwards. The handful of short chapters that make up the final bit of the book moved the narrative introduced in the first book forward in a way that makes me particularly excited to start reading the next book in the series. I’m still saving that for my vacation later this month so in the meantime, I started on another Knausgård book, A Time for Everything, which I’m enjoying quite a bit so far.
§ I’ve been having lots of fun playing around with automated rotoscoping though EbSynth after Jenn Schiffer shared a link to Joel Haver’s animation which make use of the tool to great effect.
§ Today—today!—is my one-year wedding anniversary with Caroline. It’s unbelievable, really, that it has already been a whole year.
