Got some bad habits to try and nip if I can, but at least I'm sleeping a littttleee earlier today....maybe.  I've not been taking the greatest care of my skin/face in recent week(s) and I think I can actually tell / it shows.  Time to get back onto the train...

There's a lot of various things going on, and as about can be expected, I haven't really been able to dedicate much time to Rhythm Quest -- last time I worked on it was like on Tuesday when I last posted.  But I've been at work on other things.  Mostly, letter writing, as well as voting research.

The letter writing has been going okay.  Two years ago I had completely forgotten that I usually start on these in October, so at least I didn't make that mistake this year.  I've got 9 down in 21 days, which is rather shoddy progress, but it's something!  I'll have to just try to work on it a little bit every day.

On the plus, I'm all done with my voting research -- just waiting to cross-reference with some other voters to see if I need to change any of my opinions, but other than that I'll be happy to have that all squared away.  Always nice to have this kind of thing squared away early.  As a bonus, I scheduled an optometrist appointment that I'm overdue on as well.  Now if only I could get my dental health squared away too...sigh, there is just too much sometimes.

In =other= news, we're into the colder months, especially here in the meowmie house where it's consistently cooler inside than outside due to the shade and all.  That also means that our central heating is starting to have to put in some work, which in turn means the relative humidity has been lower.  I started just having a portable humidifier running on low in my room after an incident where I actually shock-damaged the PCB of my Cycle7 keyboard.  Apparently the ESD protection and guards against shorting have actually just not been great with that PCB in particular.  Fortunately, due to ALREADY having had PCB (or rather, daughterboard) issues, I happen to have a spare wired PCB on hand, and even if I didn't, I already have a wireless PCB coming in for it.  But I guess I'll follow their recommendations and make sure I'm always using the bottom layer of foam to avoid any further electric discharge issues.  Or maybe I could replace it with a cheap anti-static layer as some discord members have suggested.

Had the random urge to boot up Unreal Tournament '99 today but found that I actually don't have the game files anymore (or any of my old mods and mutators...).  Thankfully the mods that I most remember seem to still be available online, so I grabbed some copies of those, but I don't think I'll actually be booting the game up anytime super soon -- I'll have to like, dig up the original CD and patch it up and all.  Eh, something for a different time.

Also randomly decided that this month would be a good month to do some extra cleaning and organizing in my room.  That's taken up a good chunk of time (which I could have used to write letters instead...) but has felt good so far.  There's still more that needs to be done in that regard, but maybe I'll put a pin in it for now.

Cooking is ok, I have a little bit of a directive to try and cook slightly healthier moving forward, so I've been trying to think about which meals I can pair brown rice with, and where I can do more veggie-based options, etc.  I have quite a menu worth of stuff slated after having done a grocery run today, so hopefully that all goes well.  I actually spent a good chunk of today on cooking actually -- not just the groceries, but making lunch and dinner, then putting a whole fish in a wet-brine for tomorrow, plus dry-brining a different fillet and freezing the other half (probably to eat raw later actually).  Have to make sure to remember to pace myself when it comes to this stuff, haha...

Tomorrow's the start of another week...let's do our best again, this week.