Aelia

1. Brain raccoons in full force in the few days leading up to this trip. In part because I got my period and being in your 40s evidently means you just lose your mind for a few days every month. (This has been going in for like 6? months. Maybe more. I swear every god that knows my name I'm going mad. The internet says this is just what peri-menopause is and suck it up buttercup.)

1b. Brain raccoons are insisting that the new music player is inadequate because it only has a handful of albums and every mashup I could find on my various drives (600-ish). The raccoons say I need to bring my ipod that only holds charge for the length of a shower as well because my comfort playlists are on there.

My music collection is disorganized enough that I don't have the brain bandwidth to organize it and rebuild the comfort playlists on the new device before leaving. My brain bandwidth is taken up with other things

2. New fountain pen owner milestone: have completely taken apart and put back together two of my four TWSBI Ecos. One had the end cap come off during cleaning today and the other had water get in on the wrong side of the plunger. For personal future reference this is the video I used -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPaXQpXOEY

2b. The TWSBI Eco is my current favorite fountain pen. Easy to fill, chunky enough for my hands, and the stub nib works nicely with my awful handwriting.

3. I am running into packing problems mostly because a third of my suitcase is taken up by the collapsible bag I'm bringing for souvenirs.

I need to write down my ipod playlists somewhere and this journal is likely to outlive whatever notebook I write them in. The ipod was last attached to a computer and new music put on in 2014, so it's a little bit of a time capsule.

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saving here while I go eat.