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I am now less convinced that I won't make tomorrow's deadline for the "2022 in Ten Minutes" video. I may still not make it, I'm not sure; it depends on whether I can dedicate my evening tonight to finishing it.
I basically dedicated my evening last night to starting it: I got iMovie opened, created the "2022 in Ten Minutes" project, and got all the video clips and photos I wanted included put in there. I may later find there was something I might otherwise have considered vital that I forgot to include, but whatever. I'd rather get the thing done before we ring in 2023, if we can.
Shobhit and I just made burritos out of leftovers last night. He had asked me to make rice and chop an onion, thinking we would heat up lentil packets. But I suggested burritos again using the leftover eggplant dish he made a few days ago (not his usual "eggplant squash" this time, but sauteed and spiced fried pieces of eggplant, with other vegetables), and he decided we wouldn't need the onion, which I already chopped. It's being stored in water in a container in the fridge. Anyway, I was happy to have rice to add to the eggplant that is a tad too spicy, and we also added some shredded cheese. It made for a pretty tasty, relatively light dinner.
I ate in the living room with Shobhit while he watched his news programs. I didn't want to suggest any of the shows we need to catch up on because I wanted to work on my video.
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Shivvy, Shobhit's niece who's staying with us, clearly has a fiercely independent streak. Not that she shouldn't, necessarily, at age 22. I had to remind Shobhit, who got really irritated that she wouldn't let him come pick her up from the ferry terminal, that she's an adult and can make her own decisions. She insisted she wanted to take the bus, but he was afraid of her waiting for the bus downtown at night. This was at like 8:00 on a Thursday though so she really was fine.
She apparently got on a ferry to Bainbridge Island at 4:00. She didn't catch a ferry back until 7:20, which was delayed. She commented on how there was nothing to do over there, which is true, so I don't really know why she didn't bother to take any of the three other earlier ferries she could have taken back, but whatever.
I had thought we might take her up the Space Needle and on the Seattle Great Wheel this weekend. She's decided she's just going to take herself up the Space Needle at sunset time today. Okay, whatever. She also said, "I don't like wheels," meaning ferris wheels I guess. "They're too slow." I told her it's really high and gives a great view of the city but she didn't seem to care. I did tell her about the observatory at Columbia Tower, which she seemed relatively interested in—but, I just looked online and it appears they are closed for a special New Year's Eve event tomorrow. Dammit! I wonder if the Smith Tower is an option tomorrow afternoon? Shit. Just checked: nope. Goddammit. We can still do either of those things on Sunday or Monday maybe.
So at the moment the only thing I know for certain we'll be doing tomorrow is going to watch the Space Needle fireworks at midnight. If it's still open maybe we can take Shivvy to the "Teddy Bear Suite" at the Fairmont Hotel. I don't think Shobhit has been to it yet either. We'll see, I guess. We'll figure something out.
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[posted 12:27 pm]
