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A 3372-post collection

Sunday, Outages, Rain, and Wind

Intermittent power availability, strong winds, heavy rains. Typical of a once-cyclone, now-tropical-storm.

We still can't go out for supplies because hazardous weather.

Adorable, Beloved, and their fam are about to get flooded thanks to the rain. Now that communication's restored between MeMum and I, the worry has transferred to them.

At least we can send messages to each other.

The good news is that they have plns. The worrying news is that they're cool with a lot more things than I am.

Brawk brawk, chook chook chook...

I aim to get the offerings done and maybe a little bit in the novel. The rest is up in the air.

If the power goes out, I have a hand-bound writing pad I made out of butcher's paper and sewing thread. I can soothe my chronic need to write with that.

I'd best get rattling ere all goes dark. Again.

Saturday, Alfred Cancells Everything

We started today with a blackout. Knowing that the cyclone is going to be here for a while, I kept on hunkering and bunkering. Even though I can't contact MeMum and that's a bit of a worry.

Apparently, the network is down all the fuck over her area and we'll likely get back into contact when contact is available.

I can only hope that all is well over there.

It's too dangerous for me to haul ass to her place and check

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Friday, Maybe Storm Tomorrow

Cyclone Alfred has slowed down and is dilly dally dawdling up and down the coast to the point where some people are calling it a tourist.

Weather bureau says that it should finally hit the coast tomorrow morning. Mind you, it's been "It's hitting tomorrow" since Wednesday.

Parkrun is cancelled for very obvious reasons and we're sitting put in our fortified houses. MeMum's had her place sandbagged, I know I'm springing for some corrugated iron after the storm passes. About the only

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Thursday, The Literal Calm Before the Storm

The storm was due to hit today. Though Cyclone Alfred has apparently decided to delay its arrival. My head's hurting me and I forgot to pre-dose my painkillers.

...moment...

Painkillers taken. All the glass facing the outside world has been taped and papered. We've closed all possible curtains, just in case.

I think this week's rant might be about the cyclone prep stuff. That has some amusement potentiality.

When I get to that thing. If I get to that thing. Offerings first,

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Other PLNs

We're taping and papering out windows, today. My other plns to hunker and bunker are foiled by having a dental appointment.

The day before the cyclone fucking hits us.

I have excellent fucking timing. It's a gift.

So in the middle of tape and paper [I got a bargain lot of butcher's paper from a newfound source of stuff and things] I have to extract my car from the shed, drive myself down to the dentist's [through the slings and arrows of

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Tuesday, Cyclone Shenanigans and Maybe Patreon

So. We have a cyclone about to smack into my neck of the woods. I have given yard tidying assignments to the spawn, I have a mission to go forth and acquire essentials. In this case, paper, tape, a tarp or two, and kibble for the cats.

I'll pick up some extra meat for just in case. Best to be sure than sorry.

After I return from my acquisitions, I'll be doing all the doomsday prepping I can before I settle down

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Monday, Backup Reads and Bread

Long story short - I didn't want to stay up past midnight for all of the folds.

Time management is a lack-of-skill of mine :D

Four hours plus six hours plus wandering time would have equalled me putting the dough to rest at somewhere close to two fucking AM.

I put the dough to rest after the first fold. I'm doing the the rest of the three folds today, and then the first loaf after that. We will see how I feel

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Sunday, Game Night and Bread

I am going to have a long day. Because I need to make bread.

I can't put it to rest in the fridge until it's done with the fourth fold, and there's six hours after the starter's done incubating. Which takes four hours. So that's ten hours hence. More or less.

I'm getting to bed closer to midnight. Yikes.

At least I had a nap after VTTRPG.

We have a new player - who got bit by the newly werebat Kobold Rogue.

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Saturday, Parkrun and Shenanigans

Miss Chaos earned her coffee toffees this week. All it took was me expressing my concerns. Would that that worked on her motivation to learn how to make a game.

I might have to find her some variety of McJob in order to appreciate that learning programming is the easier thing to do.

I'll ring APM if I have to.

Then I'll look into online courses to teach me how to properly use GameMaker and how much they might firkin cost.

I

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Friday, IDEK

I'll be making bread this weekend. Possibly baking on Monday. I'm chasing Chaos to keep working on Stencyl to make a thing. I'm trying to find any group of professionals who could teacher.

The one place I did find operates solely in NSW and Victoria, focuses exclusively on children and mentions homeschooling a little too much for my personal comfort.

And there's literally nowhere else.

Any other searches for programming education and ASD just leads me to job offerings and education opportunities

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Thursday, Another Expedition

Today, my shopping mission includes finding a thumb drive that can be attached to a key ring, and then getting a really visible key ring to attach to it. All the better to store MeMum's backups and keep it Obvious(tm) so it doesn't get lost.

I cannot count the number of thumb drives MeMum has lost. Giving it something big and visible might help there. Might.

But I have to wait until the pay goes through before I head offski for

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Patreon Nonsense

With the help of Beloved, I got MeMum's Kindle backed up. Since it was top priority, I left that day's story on the back-burner while the jiggery-pokery went on. It was closer to eleven at night by the time I got the basic offerings out.

So yeah, I'm a little tired today.

But I also know I can catch up on anything I missed yesterday and that includes recording some chapters for the Patreon! Woo!

I think I'm allowed to feel accomplished,

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Tuesday, Grand Tech Expedition

Today, I help MeMum fight the forces of enshittification by securing her Kindle collection. And finding a way to purchase more ebooks without giving Bezos any more money. This will include instructions about how to transfer said ebooks to the Kindle.

I expect it's going to be a long day.

So I therefore suspect that I may not have time to get any of my expected offerings out onto the interwebs. If that happens, I'll have a grand catch-up session on

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Monday, PLNs underway

Adorable doesn't have any ideas for helping me fix LMMS, but has recommended an alternate music maker. I'll be looking into that later in the day.

I now have 89 chapters until ADT is declared finished and I can take a firkin break.

Tomorrow, I'm offski to help MeMum back up her Kindle purchases, and find somewhere she can obtain ebooks for her Kindle without giving any more money to Amazon.

It has to be possible, and a lot of authors are

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Sunday, the Internet Returns

Despite getting plenty of sleep, last night, I am still tired. Most of it is a bout of depression surrounding (a) catching up, and (b) the assorted jiggery-pokery that needs must be done. All so I can get other things done.

And, as always, it depends on other people. I try looking for the answers, but I never find the ones that I can make work.

I feel so stupid.

Also, between the advertising round for yesterday's tale and writing the one

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