Today, Powers Help Me, I am going to make a button. It will not be functional, but it will be added to the layout of the 4x4 grid for later programming, bells, and/or whistles.
I am also going to make a phone call. I honestly don't know which is more harrowing.
Then I'll take the rest of the day off to mess around in Satisfactory. I'll have earned it by then.
In the meantime, my daily offerings shall be flowing forth anon.
It's raining. My left heel is in Fuck You Mode(tm) and I am trying every single method I can to move my tab hoard to the new Linux layout.
I have to rebuild the tab hoard I used to have on my laptop, but that's small beans.
I'm currently using my lappy for the instructions and going through the latest in a long line of alternatives to do the thing. I want to make sure ALL my widows and ALL their
Read more »We had some immense fun playing Candy Heist with the players thoroughly subverting my expectations of the play.
As they frequently do.
I'm spending as much time as possible with my Beloved today. Writing my offerings on the old reliable security blanket/laptop.
Tonight, I go to a place I've never been to before to go do a thing I've never done before. Little bit of anxiety over that, to be honest.
So let's get on with getting on with that.
Read more »"Can you help me? I can't sleep again. I keep waking up and pacing the floor." -- Anon Guest
Rescue Humans come with their own rewards. They also come with their own detriments. Such as chronic anxiety and sleep issues. The flip side is the hyper-vigilance that has saved far too many to be counted by now. So periodic interruptions to the rest cycle are a small price to pay.
With that in mind, Companion Thark kept any and all reprimands to
Read more »Please show us a human in Alliance space that does regular yoga to handle severe anxiety. -- Anon Guest
Human Juel was in the midst of their Pretzeling. Twisting her body around in seemingly awkward combinations and breathing in a slow and deliberate manner. Companion Mitr was still trying to comprehend the exercise.
The mat was necessary to protect her body from the harder flooring. That was clear. As to the why of turning the body into knots, it had to be
Read more »Plague news: NO NEW CASES! Seventy-nine total active cases, with twenty-one in hospital and one in the ICU.
Anxiety is at a peak here in the household as today we PLN to get some final gussying-up before we drop the big reveal tomorrow. That will be happening after household unfuckening and maybe after Chaos returns from school.
I'm still being gentle with myself until all reasons to be panicking are dealt with. One way or another. Stress is hell on inspiration.
I'm
Read more »Read more »A Companion notices that the ship's human's livesuit is picking up on wild, unusual fluctuations in hormones related to emotions and high stress. On questioning, the human informs them that, due to a somewhat negligent upbringing and poor socialization as a child and adolescent, they suffer from underdeveloped emotional maturity... that will never fully develop. That ship has sailed, and they were NOT on board.
The explanation is delivered in a calm, somewhat bored tone, with a bland facial expression. The livesuit
In sympathy with the idiots with guns protesting lockdowns, over in the US, some idiots with cardboard signs tried protesting the lockdowns in Victoria. All of those people from Victoria are enjoying a no-frills lockdown care of the nation's prisons.
Next thing you know, they'll be drinking bleach to try and cure themselves. PSA - don't drink bleach or you will die.
The Muppet's having a big concern because the plague has hit his fortress of ego former "safe space" and he's
We went out for some hardware, yesterday and... oh my glob. There were more people than I've seen in any one place for a month or more. Every single one of them was bare faced and only nodding at social distancing when reminded to.
This is how following waves happen. This is what's going to stretch this plague out for most of this year, if not the rest of it and some of the next one. I feel like my entire life
Read more »There are two kinds of parents. There's the kind that thinks their children should have the experiences that they had when they were a child, and there's the kind that thinks their children should have something better than that.
The problem with being that second kind, I've found, is that it's hard to give your children something better when you don't really know what that looks like. -- Anon Guest
Bringing up the next generation of cogniscent life is never easy. Certainly,
Read more »I will not ask what else can go wrong, because it more or less has. My car is due to go to the repair people today. That's going to cost a honkload.
Also:
I've been doing 1K a day so I have all the more time for other projects and worldbuilding for my next WIP.
Speaking of WIP's, I have made a beginning on editing Ep4 of Inter-Mission. Which means I'm one episode closer to actually publishing these mofos. If I put them out on non-game-night Fridays, I have an occasion I should easily remember.
Should is not is. In this case, 'should is not will'. It's not a guarantee, it's more of a hope.
Read more »"Just go out and do it, it's not that difficult."
"I mean, everything is difficult when you have anxiety, so yeah." -- Anon Guest
Everyone thinks anxiety is just being nervous. Just go down to the shops and buy a thing of milk, is not that easy. For an anxious person... it's more like this:
First, one must prepare for the journey. Supplies checked twice and preparations for the journey ahead inventoried thrice. Once that is done, the brave must face the
Read more »Another five days of grind are looming ahead. Another five days of slog and hoping for a decent time window to put my dreams even one baby step ahead.
I tried to have time off on the weekend and failed at that. I'm always putting aside my plns for other nonse. Other people's plans are way more important than my need to faff off.
Except...
Except I feel really worn out in the soul because it feels like I'm not getting enough
Read more »Mayhem is, once again, feeling poorly. Though he has apparently been suffering for three days, he decided not to mention anything until this morning. Showing a timing worthy of the typical Monday-itus.
He did throw up, though, which is my usual bar to pass for staying at home. Same with a fever.
Good luck for me - he's seeing an expert in digestive issues tomorrow, so we should get some form of resolution this time. Huzzah. And if we don't get a
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