Cool.

(I probably should make a Spanishy sort of icon...)

So I'm currently on a food-related lesson. So far, at the point I am at, we have words for bread, apple, soup, sauce, juice, fruit, strawberry, cheese, rice, meat, chicken, fish. ...Also meal (comida) and lunch (almuerza) but I can't for the life of me remember those without looking them up.

So I start the new segment, and get dinner (which I've already forgotten) and sandwich (emparedado), and as usual I tried to come up with ways of remembering the latter. It's sort of like emperor but the vowels are different, so that won't work. And then I remember empanada, and go looking that up to see what that meant (meat pie, more or less), and then looked up emparedado just out of curiosity.

Turns out that it's also the word for confinement.

Neat.

ETA rofl. was prompted to translate the word for onion. Remembered that it started with a c ... and had a b that sounded sort of v-ish ... and had a ll ... caballo! Totally the same, sí? ... yeah, cebolla != caballo, just as onion != horse. facepalm.

I madeded a thing!

So with the flare-up in my right arm, extended driving of my chair can get awkward verging on painful. Going around the house, or from the house to the car, is ok. Going on walks with Yahtzee? Not so much.

I can do limited steering with a stick (backscratcher thing) held in my left hand, but that only works for pushing straight ahead. Bike paths are seldom straight, and anyway my chair has some steering weirdness, and I was not really able to safely steer.

I needed something that was basically a stick with a closed loop on the end, so that I could manipulate the joystick in any direction. Something like a very long wrench, except wrenches are freaking heavy.

So I made myself something.

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