A quiet Saturday
Jun. 10th, 2017 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tetradecimalAt the library today, they had a little display with all these different cuttings of roses. There was a little pile of printouts with instructions on caring for roses, too. They also had a Volunteering Fair. I got the pamphlet with the names of all the organizations, but there were so many people and lots of booths where you were supposed to talk to volunteers. Being a shut-in weirdo, I naturally avoided all of this and walked out, but I may be able to figure out a good place to volunteer by looking up the groups later.
I also read a book called Pax, which was about a pet fox who is left out in the woods right before the start of a war. It was really sad, but had really cute pictures by Jon Klassen. I understand what it's trying to say about war, more or less, but I can't say I really understand war itself. I think I got a better understanding from Fullmetal Alchemist, but I understand that it was written for middle schoolers.
Here's a picture of the CD player/radio boombox that I bought today. It's too bad I couldn't get one that was also a cassette player, but I guess I don't really listen to cassettes much. Even CDs are a bit rare, but the library has a look of books on CD, and I'm not really fond of the e-book borrowing options. They skip bits during chapter changes, and they're inconvenient to queue up and resume listening. Also not a fan of DRM.
I borrowed three Poirot books on CD, the first of which is about the Styles Affair. It's timely because they're making a new version of The Murder on the Orient Express later this year. I like the red color a lot!
My archery class wrapped up today, and at the end of the class everyone got one of these little wooden medals. I think I'm finally getting the hang of shooting more consistently. It only took me a couple of hundred shots and some YouTube videos to realize that my bow string sometimes felt like it was 'catching' -- more specifically, my ring finger was sometimes pulling the string back a little further than usual, sometimes making the arrow shoot out too high.
To fix this, I've started 'leading' with my middle finger, which feels a bit foreign to me. However, my fingertips can now stand pulling the string back without a glove for at least 50 minutes (started at around 30). Hopefully, I can now be accurate enough to shoot at a range without feeling too self-conscious. In the background is my bow. It's about 20 lbs and a recurve. This is my first personal bow. I'm not sure if it would have been better to go with compound bows, since it seems to be easier to be accurate with one... but I think recurves feel more natural.
It's no longer difficult to pull back the string, and I don't feel tired even at the end of class. I think it's because of the exercises I've been doing, pulling the string back and holding.
My salt and pepper grinders and the first volume of Queen Emeraldas also came today. No salt or pepper was included... I guess you have to order that separately.
I also read a book called Pax, which was about a pet fox who is left out in the woods right before the start of a war. It was really sad, but had really cute pictures by Jon Klassen. I understand what it's trying to say about war, more or less, but I can't say I really understand war itself. I think I got a better understanding from Fullmetal Alchemist, but I understand that it was written for middle schoolers.
Here's a picture of the CD player/radio boombox that I bought today. It's too bad I couldn't get one that was also a cassette player, but I guess I don't really listen to cassettes much. Even CDs are a bit rare, but the library has a look of books on CD, and I'm not really fond of the e-book borrowing options. They skip bits during chapter changes, and they're inconvenient to queue up and resume listening. Also not a fan of DRM.
I borrowed three Poirot books on CD, the first of which is about the Styles Affair. It's timely because they're making a new version of The Murder on the Orient Express later this year. I like the red color a lot!
My archery class wrapped up today, and at the end of the class everyone got one of these little wooden medals. I think I'm finally getting the hang of shooting more consistently. It only took me a couple of hundred shots and some YouTube videos to realize that my bow string sometimes felt like it was 'catching' -- more specifically, my ring finger was sometimes pulling the string back a little further than usual, sometimes making the arrow shoot out too high.
To fix this, I've started 'leading' with my middle finger, which feels a bit foreign to me. However, my fingertips can now stand pulling the string back without a glove for at least 50 minutes (started at around 30). Hopefully, I can now be accurate enough to shoot at a range without feeling too self-conscious. In the background is my bow. It's about 20 lbs and a recurve. This is my first personal bow. I'm not sure if it would have been better to go with compound bows, since it seems to be easier to be accurate with one... but I think recurves feel more natural.
It's no longer difficult to pull back the string, and I don't feel tired even at the end of class. I think it's because of the exercises I've been doing, pulling the string back and holding.
My salt and pepper grinders and the first volume of Queen Emeraldas also came today. No salt or pepper was included... I guess you have to order that separately.