三人行，必有我师(焉)

语法
还有 (X time) 就要 Y 了, it will be Y in X amount of time (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22about_to%22_with_%22jiuyao%22

词汇
球, ball; also 打球, play ball ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Link to introductory grammar (day 20)

Guardian:
又是个踢皮球的, another rubber-ball-kicker (someone who won't take responsibility, what a neat word)
全球直播线路，正在铺设中，请稍后, global livestream circuit now loading, stand by (here 球 is for planet as opposed to anything smaller)

Me:
还有两周就要他的生日，不行，还没有任何礼物。
我很喜欢在电视看他们打棒球。

语法
还是 + V for something like "even so it happened..." (middle of page) I find this very unintuitive, especially as 还是 has a zillion meanings...
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Continuation_with_%22hai%22

词汇
起, arise/start; also 起床, get up (in the morning), 起来, get up/verb complement, 一起, together, 对不起, sorry ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Link to introductory grammar, day 15

Guardian:
她和我约定了会照顾我一辈子，可奶奶终究还是老了, Grandma promised me to look after me my whole life, but she got old even so
你的脚应该没事，起来吧, your foot should be fine, get up.
就算您把话说得再不明不白，可您还是我的救命恩人啊, no matter how hard it is to understand you (?), you're still my savior.

Me:
我知道我不该再吃一块巧克力，可我还是吃完了。
他起床的时候，喝杯咖啡才能说人话。

语法
比 for comparisons: X 比 Y ~, X is more ~~ than Y
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Basic_comparisons_with_%22bi%22

词汇
还, also/still/yet (plus 还是, or/still, and 还有, also) ( pinyin )

还 to make good things just okay
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Moderating_positive_adjectives_with_%22hai%22

Guardian:
怎么样，还不错吧 (what do you think? not bad, eh?)
兄弟做得可还好？ (did I do okay?)

My practice:
你怎么样？-还好。(Xiaoge and Wu Xie meet again in LTR)
这个菜还不错，但有点咸。

Thanks for various responses to my question yesterday about what tack to take with ongoing grammar points, etc.! (Opinions still welcome any time) I am thinking about doing a grammar point and a vocabulary word per day, so that people can choose either or both to play with; it shouldn't be hard to pull up vocabulary from one of the HSK lists etc. Also maybe a biweekly or monthly review day/masterpost to catch up, as also suggested. (In the meantime, the tags should enable some amount of searching, though not ideal.) Let me know as needed how that sounds.