Monday evening things

 * Don't like the news in the world (or my own country) at all. Not at all.

* Most of today's work-time was spent prepping for fieldwork tomorrow - getting the extractors set up, making a couple more set ups so I can do all 12 of a site's samples at once, lining up the light banks. Had to make a run to Mart of Wal for supplies and it was FRUSTRATING. They didn't have a couple things (you cannot get non-LED bulbs any more, I would really like to get some low-wattage incandescents because they generate a little heat, which helps dry the soil and send the invertebrates into the preservative). Also the place is remodeling - yet again, they did shortly before the pandemic - and you can't find anything, and a lot of the aisles are squeezed together and so it's hard to get around and the place is like a giant rat maze. And I can't help but feel it's INTENTIONAL, that they are doing it to trap you there to make you buy more. Well, I didn't. And I forgot the zipper-lock bags I needed but I had just enough for tomorrow's sample on hand already, and I guess I can get more when I go grocery shopping (somewhere else; there are two other choices in town but they're both small) tomorrow. 

* Over the weekend I worked more on the Moominhouse.. I have the ground floor assembled (and I keep getting faked out by the European terminology, even though I know "ground floor" is what we think of as "first floor' and "first floor" is our second floor.

It was frustrating to put together because the parts don't fit perfectly, because they're largely wood, and wood can warp, or even if you do the "okay put this under a heavy thing so it will bend and flex slightly" you don't know how much "slightly" needs to be. I hope the other floors go together better.

I also....let me think - started building Moominmamma's bed, and made a tiny frustrating vase of flowers, and assembled the staircase (which was more satisfying because it actually went together reasonably well)

I feel like.....if more of the internal parts of the walls and such were snap-lock plastic rather than wood slats, it might be an easier and more satisfying build. They don't show once you put the panels and wallpaper on them. 

* I'm not doing as much on the shawl as I intended (I was hot and tired when I got home today, it was 85 F in my office and I had to take another shower to cool down even though I'm going out in the field tomorrow and will just need to shower mid-morning after that.) But here's a photo: 

 The gold colored pin is to indicate the "right" side so I don't have to keep track of rows for now.

* I need to get to bed soon but it's still uncomfortably warm and humid in the house, and I don't feel great. All of the water that fell out of the sky in the past 2 months is now going back up and it's making it hard to breathe and uncomfortable.