The Friday Five and the beta text editor

I feel like I knew that there were beta layers to Dreamwidth at some point but it certainly left my mind completely until Denise's post a few days ago. I dutifully turned on the beta option after reading it and I like the changes a lot! The rich text editor feels the same, but the arrangement of the elements make sense and are sized well for my screen etc. I tried out the html options too, so I'm considering this a test post for the refurbished tools. The biggest gripe I had with the old editor is when using html markup it does not maintain line breaks, so if you ever go back to edit you're looking at a morass of text. That's the thing that kept me from ever sticking to html and it doesn't seem to have been fixed, so I'm probably just sticking with rich text and hoping I don't ever edit anything, as usual.

Anyway here's today's Friday Five (thefridayfive) :

1. What is on your bucket list that you want to do in the next ten years? Bit hard for me to come up with things here because I'm not much of an aspirational person. I'd love to have the leisure time to spend like a month studying tea in Kyoto or visiting the Konnichian. Or to be able to serve tea to the public without looking like a total mess maybe. Oh, I do want to someday print my own book!

2. What bucket list items have you completed and enjoyed? The only thing I really had as an aspiration and achieved was making it to Japan when I was in college, which is now a long way in the past!

3. What bucket list items did you accomplish but they weren't as great as you hoped or expected? It was never a bucket list item but was eager to be in the marching band going into high school and in the end it turned out to be kind of awful. We had one good year when I was a freshman, but for whatever reason the director lost control of the students in later years, who all didn't give a fuck, and it was just so frustrating to spend so much time and then ultimately sound and look terrible on the field. I never played music again after graduating. I'd grown to hate it.

4. What short term goal(s) are you currently working on? Cleaning my room lol. It's such a fucking project. I don't have anywhere to put these goddamn books. I need to discard something like two boxes just so I can start to see my floor but I want to read everything first, but there's literally hundreds of them... aaah!

5. What middle term goal(s) do you have, and are you working on them? I'm almost done playing all the BLM Bundle visual novels, which will finally be something that I both started AND finished. Possibly for the first time in a decade. I'm also trying to write 50k words this month, though a lot of them are in my private journal, or the VN reviews, but since it's a personal goal it doesn't matter!