Today was kind of really what I needed. Little things to remind me how to enjoy life. I've been so busy working for myself and others that I forgot to spend enough effort on just having a good time. "Healing" after all is only one part of care. I didn't have the best sleep last night so I took a nap in the evening before having some "me time" as I did groceries. It was a good trip! Maybe even too good; we'll see how much of the food I end up using before this weekend, ha ha. Perhaps despite my better judgment I'm actually going to be trying a few new things -- roast fennel, and some hasselback potato gratin. I'm curious to see how those are going to turn out... A caretaker pointed out some things for me; helped me see some of the signs that I needed some space, needed some care, but most of all just needed a break. Not a long one, of course -- it's really rare that I need anything like that. But a short one, just reminding myself of that so-called "live every day like it's a vacation" energy. I'm not sure if I really need to live each day like a vacation, but I think envisioning it can remind me of some things that are more important than I perhaps have been giving them credit for. I played the weekly ALTTPR seed today, it was a pretty interesting one, fun to follow the journey through it as I got strung around. I didn't really hit "the route" but did relatively well considering most people spent over two hours on it. Perhaps the most satisfying part was taking a magnifying glass to how I've been handling Misery Mire, especially the cases where you get to just defeat Vitreous and leave behind 1 or 2 items in the rest of the dungeon (2 in this case). Unfortunately my program to time and puzzle and average that out still needs a bunch of refactoring (someday...), but I managed to back-of-envelope estimate a bunch of it and reaffirm my conviction that it's generally a good idea to just leave if you have a good amount of other better checks available. Timing-wise it's just like left side swamp (maybe like 60 seconds per item on average), a bit worse if you have only one item left (80+ seconds). Like sure, if your options are just Pyramid Ledge, Catfish, Bombos Tablet, Magic Bat, and Spike Cave, then you'd better just go back in and get those two items because all of your checks are gonna take a minute anyways, and you do pay a cost of like 21 seconds if you leave and have to come back later. But if you've got some good density left, it's not a bad skip I don't think. I need to be careful not to be =too= greedy with my efficiency though, and sacrifice too much of my long-term full clear speeds. 60 seconds per item is slow, but it's not =that= slow. Maybe I should be changing from "skip all the slow stuff" to "be a little more thorough" a little more readily after I've exhausted most of the efficient check strings available in a given seed. It's always a tricky balance, of course. Anyways...I'm feeling better! Hopefully the rest of this week will treat me alright, too. I'm looking forward to more of the fun things in life. White tea, ALTTPR, cooking. And some other important things, too.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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