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Embuggerance

A 22-post collection

Monday, Leyland's Embuggerance

I have Extra Shenanigans today. (sparkles manifest with the announcement)

Because just as I was settling to bed, there's an urgent phone call from MeMum. Her power's out and she's hyper-panicking about it. She needs the number for a specific electrical mob. Which I find and give to her.

Then she says, "If I don't call back, come get me."

That... is a very strange instruction. Normal people would say something like, "I'll call if I need you to come get me." But my family were never normal people. So now I'm officially on call but I have no idea how long the call is going to be.

How long do I wait? I don't know.

And then it started raining.

I was half-asleep and all settled when this started, and to further complicate things, I have a plover nesting in my normal turning circle near the shed. Where the car had to go because it hailed recently.

FUN.

The tactic until that exact minute had been, "back out really really far so I don't run over a plover". And just picturing trying to do that in the dark over a quaggy backyard, when I'm already tired, and then hauling my arse to the other side of Brisbane on greasy roads full of maniacs... who may or may not be drunk.

Not filled with confidence.

Mum's landline was occupied so I called her mobile and got a Level 20 Panic Assumption - that someone she was on hold queue with magically knew her mobile number and was calling her. Which resulted in a shouted set of details that I already knew. She was in Not Listening Mode, which is always a joy to encounter. Not. Eventually asked about the situation I was facing and got Madam Gloom reading her soliloquy about how she's doomed to deal with every single crisis on her own.

Cue my personal anxiety. Not great for sleep. So I did some ringing around and tactical palaver with Beloved [Who had left her phone behind. Thank Grop that Adorable is literally attached to her phone] and we came up with A Plan.

Which we didn't need because Mum realised she didn't actually need immediate evacuation and could (probably) survive the night. I had to yell at her for the "if I survive" bit she pulled because my anxiety just fucking loves to play games with me given those cues.

So yeah. Shit's fucked and I might not be able to do any of my expected activities today. AND I don't know if Mayhem's due to work today. Huzzah.

Thursday, Well... Fuck

My main compy imploded because I accidentally kicked the power loose multiple times because I need a pillow for my stupid pained ankle because I twisted it getting out of the car at Costco [that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built]. So I now cannot edit the videos due tomorrow. And a bunch of other things, besides. A lot of the stuff I do for the interwebs is locked in that machine and I can only pray

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Sunday, No Streams

Two hours up, ten minutes "icing" my ankle. Lather, rinse, and repeat. For as long as I can stand doing that cycle.

I've taken loads of time to do my minimal offering output. I don't know if I can move things along quicker. I can try but...

The ankle is distracting even when I'm at my debatably most comfortable.

Add to the interesting times the fact that I'm lacking good quality time with the QPP and feeling a little lonely because of

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Sunday, Relatively Lazy Day

I'm starting to enjoy having weekends to relax in. Even though this half of it might also involve finally doing the subtitles for the storytime video on Peertube for yesterday.

It might not. There have been embuggerances this time around.

I'll get there.

And speaking of getting there, Chaos and I are getting Flu and Rona shots tomorrow. I thoroughly suspect I will be down for the count for next week.

Thoroughly prepared to be VERY gentle with myself next week.

I've

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Sunday, Unfucking Continueth

I have made some discoveries today. The yarn needle I thought I had was conspicuous by its absence. So I have to go get one, somewhere, before I finish my new cane cord.

My mistake there.

And my main email program has soft-locked me out of using it, so I have to remain on the back-up Google email until it's all unfucked.

Sigh.

I'm still in process of attempting to unfuck the program that's supposed to do subtitles for me so I

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Friday, Trying and Very Trying

I cannot comprehend the extant set of instructions for getting new instruments into Zrythm. I'm going to try some video tutorials and see how I go.

If it gets incredibly desperate, I'll sign on to the Discord and find someone who knows this shit to help.

I feel like a true thickie, trying to do all these things and failing at it.

On the other hand, I am teaching myself how to art all over again. With constant practice, I will get

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Sunday, Another Embuggerance

I have been drooling over art tablets with draw-on screens since I learned they existed. It was recent kismet that allowed the fam to be able to afford one for me.

My dream come true! Except...

It doesn't like working with my OS (:

We have to find the proper drivers to make it behave like it would if I was running a Windoze machine or a Mac. Which probably means that I need to wait for a far more experienced grackle to

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Tuesday, Patreon, PLNs and Embuggerances

I started this morning with trip-hammer sneezing and an asthma attack that the preventer is only just now dealing with. Then I had to confirm that a chair in our house really had to be thrown out because it had mould.

It did, and it did have to be thrown out. I enlisted Mayhem for help, had to clear a path [it's a big chair], and bent my thumbnail backwards in the process. Ow.

And I have PLNs to go shopping today.

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Sunday, Plans Gang Aft Agley

I was going to take a leisurely morning and tune into AMothintheArchive's story-reading stream, do my wrist stretchies, and see if I could actually unriddle the workings of Zhrythm at last.

Then I tried to start my main compy and got an embuggerance.

So my plans to have an early night and run a game are shattered. My plans to make my offerings and tool around with things are also in shards. Now I have to get dressed, go place, and do

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Wednesday, Messed Up Morning

Here's my day so far:

1AM - Wake up despite my best efforts to remain asleep
2AM - text chat with Beloved as she was getting ready for bed
4-ish AM - return to slumber
6AM - panicked phone call from MeMum about the charging level in her laptop and how the power connection wasn't working. Immediate attempt to achieve cogniscence and preparation for hauling ass and solving said tech issue
7AM - Another urgent phone call from MeMum explaining that she'd

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Sunday, Embuggerances and Attempts Made

So my internet dips out after two hours of computer use and the only way to get it back is to reboot the tower. You can imagine how much of a pain in the arse this is.

I'm working with my lovelies to try and unriddle this nonsense on a permanent basis. Two hours at a time is better than nothing, but having the entire 24 would be much better.

Doing the best I can with the little I've got.

Offerings as

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Tuesday, Embuggerance to the PLN

Mayhem's scheduled to work today. It's his designated day off. So today, I have to schlep him all the way up there to talk to the boss about the schedule. Which may take less than an hour.

I still have to do shopping at some point.

So the PLN as it stands is:

  • Ferry Mayhem up
  • Wait a maximum of an hour
  • Go do shopping regardless
  • Including disposing of my expired atrovent nebules
  • Get everything & everyone home
  • Manage the rest of
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Thursday, Attempting to PLN

So once again, I've hit a wall in trying to make Pseuducku exist. I can't make the program I'm using to make it do one thing I need to do in order to test whether or not the thing I made works.

Sigh.

I tried asking for help in the community and... the community has no help for me.

My options at this point are:

  • Track down the dev working on the Linux version and bother them about it
  • Start all over
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Wednesday, Rant Due and Embuggerance

I got a notification this morning of an NDIS meeting at ten today. So I moved mountains to be ready for that.

And then it didn't happen. Yay.

So now I'm back onto my offerings for the day after taking due care of myself for the day. Betting a dollar that the actual thing will be happening in the afternoon despite the notification about ten.

I'll get that unriddled one way or another if/when it happens.

I need to focus. And

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Saturday, Rhinovirus Embuggerance

So my blood test results were inconclusive. Just below normal, and the Doc wants another go as close as possible to blood lab opening hours.

Problem 1 - I have a rhinovirus
Problem 2 - I have to book the appointment or wait for everyone doing a fasting test before I get jabbed
Problem 3 - I may have to cancel a stream to do it.

Fun times.

So I must wait for the mild sneezies to bugger off before I book,

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