Been dogsitting the last two days- the dog is such a sweetheart.
Currently cuddled up by our feet being adorable. I think she wants
the pasta we're having for lunch. Mmm, pesto. Needs more salt
though.

Is it just me, or does salt from a grinder taste better somehow?
It's weird. Same for pepper, though that's less noticeable. It's
also weird that we use rocks/crystals for seasoning and it's
totally normal. I swear we're always craving salt.

First harvest in botany today! Uncommon rainbow pachypodium was
our first plant, on to the second. Kind of sad to say goodbye to
the first one but that's just how plants are. Enjoy them and love
them while they last, let them go when it's their time. Same for
a lot of things, really. Everything dies eventually, and that
doesn't mean you shouldn't love and care for them. It makes them
matter more sometimes because it won't last forever. Things gain
meaning when they're temporary.

Feeling sad and tired today. It's okay, not the catastrophic kind
of sadness, more the sort that's like quiet grief or something.
It's hard to describe beyond the sense that something is missing
and we have no clue what it is. Just have to push through it and
let it be felt, take more time with the little things. Going to
screw around on a Windows VM and see if we can break it to learn
what makes it work. Really would rather not use Windows at all,
but again, kind of have to learn it properly for compsci. I heard
Clippy's coming back as a paperclip emoji though. Used to love/hate
the little guy. We're not that old, but apparently we're at a point
where people have never heard of Clippy.