I’m housesitting my parents place for almost a month from Monday. Just thinking about tomorrow’s weather and it has me thinking… maybe I’ll take dad’s Harley out for a lil ride while I’m there. It has been quite a while since I rode.
sounds like great fun, there are some really good highways out west that make nice riding
Went out to dinner tonight.
You could see everyone’s, social battery run out at 8:30 on the dot. One guy literally got up and left.
I know we’re all of a certain age, but still…Finally caved last week and installed Facebook. There’s some businesses/organisations I deal with that only have a FB page. Decided to look up half siblings I haven’t seen in decades and actually found them. Dithered for a couple of days before sending friend requests. 2/3 were accepted almost immediately! I had an exchange of msgs with my brother and feel so chuffed, happy in a funny kind of way I haven’t felt for a long time. My nephews and nieces are adults! ADULTS!
I’m having shitty sticky thoughts after a recent nightmare, so whilst I engage in some mindfulness, here are some memes to make light of the situation. Also fun fact - yesterday a lecturer said in a talk about sheep digestive systems that the word rumination means to chew the cud. Sheep and cows are ruminants.
Ah good all Latin, condensing “to chew the cud” into “ruminate”. Funnily, it seems it’s origins beyond Latin are unknown/debated; I’m used to words being traced to PIE or another proto-language, so it’s always so interesting when a words possible ultimate etymology is unknown.
It’s okay to have those sticky thoughts after our brains decided to traumatise us through our dreams. We love you, and if you need to chat or vent then my DMs are open always. 💜💜 Sending you good vibes 💜💜
Good old Latin, good old brains. Thank you, Spud <3 I really appreciate your support!
22.5 hours to ten days of CAT. I must tidy up the house a bit for her - so she has more nests to sit in. And avoids the pots where plants died and it’s all just dried up potting mix.
Oh, and there was so much gardening I wanted to do before she arrives, because I can’t have her escaping via the balcony, but I don’t think I’ll get to it in time… so she might have to be shut off in a bedroom for a couple hours when I get around to it. Though at the rate I’m procrastinating it might only get done after she leaves.
I think Soxcat is counting down too!
Poor girl will have no idea about it, until she’s placed with great and extreme difficulty in her carrier, the slinky little gymnast… But I think she does remember me as I’ve visited her a few times. I am sure she’ll enjoy her stay.
You must really be looking forward to soxcat if you’re counting it down to the hour.
I hope you get many snuggles and cuddles from the kitty.
Tomorrow I think it going to be a really nice day but you might not have time to get it done tomorrow before she arrives.
Really wish I didn’t have such a full workload on because tomorrow would’ve been perfect to wfh/do half a day and potter around. I’m going to make sure I get some outside time at least and leave as early as I can. Weekend looks good for snuggles. I hope she will have fully remembered me by then. If not, some treats won’t go astray…
Over The Garden Wall was removed from the Internet Archive and got pulled from some streaming services and reinstated on one… now is a great time to watch it if you still have access.
I’ll pirate it while it’s still available. A lot of old torrents are dropping offline too.
I hate that every fucking media company/distributor thinks they need their own fucking streaming service.
I remember when Netflix was actually amazing, so many movies and shows, docos, and now they have all been moved and Netflix is a piece of shit company funding some asshole making true crime a dramatic untrue retelling (Menendez brothers, and others).
And now shits being removed from the net. Enshittification ugh
I fucking hate it too.
Anything not immediately profitable or would require residuals gets dumped, everything else gets hoarded until the only legal source is proprietary gated and then… possibly gets ditched anyway.
Yeah also the fragmentation and hot potatoing of ‘content’ to try and make you sign up for all of them.
I never bought into streaming and now don’t want to
Makes me sick, and thankful I have some physical media I love. I have a triple DVD of The Mummy 1 and 2 and The Scorpion King, as well as Aladdin and The King of Theives, my fav Aladdin/Disney movie. Rogue One and the original trilogy (the only ones that are canon to me lol). I just need the extended editions of Lotr and I’ll be set for life I think.
I stopped using Netflix during the lockdowns, when we noticed the enshittification encroaching. Now none of those services are worth the price of admission or subscription. 🤢
100 days learning Italian on duo and we are finally getting to the important stuff
Porcodio!
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habitually socially oblivious auntie at work sits down at my two person table and then has a conversation in a language i dont know with a person two tables away
am having dinner
what do
Is there a live translate app on your phone?
Nescio de quo loqueris. Te oportet futuere tete.
I had no idea there were swears in Latin.
I only know Romanes Eunt Domus 😂
Pretty sure you can swear in any language, or at least arrange words such as to heavily imply it.
Ok, maybe not Linear A or something
Ah but Linear B, there’s where all the best swears live
“Bitte sei ruhig, ich versuche zu essen. Verdammt noch mal!”
translation
Please be quiet, I’m trying to eat, damn it/for fucks sake
You nod your head at the right times.
Getting set up for the night.
See if I can remember how to do it. Has been a while. Looks to be clear skies though.
Perfect night for it tonight. No moon, light breeze, clear skies. Are you chasing anything in particular or just looking?
Going for the South mangelic cloud tonight. So far so good everything seems to be working :) So clear out there.
Nice.
do it in the morning too for the comet
I was hoping to but trees will be in the way :(
Sometimes I like to leave myself little notes in my notepad on my phone when I have a brainwave, here’s an example of a recent one.
This is missing something. Spring onion?
What are you a chef or somethin
Just an enthusiast
How many notes do you have?
Somewhere between dozens and a hundred. Idk. Not many are as inspired as this one
I have some notes going back 10 years. Some are incomprehensible. One of them has a single word: ”man”
lol. Like l better keep that just in case I need to remember “man” haha
I feel like we just performed a vulcan mind meld or something. I get you
A reading from the gospel of potat
DO IT
I’m loving these longer, warmer days. I can already feel the SADs melting away
My mental health had been absolutely fucked the last few months, but even generally, I tend to end up in little depression episodes during winter time, with the short and wet days and constant grey skies
The sun being up when I wake up and get home is a huge plus. Short days aren’t great for the ol’ depresso
I had to visit a client on site today.
There’s a lot to be said about being well dressed and how it makes you feel.
Not in a vain way, just feels good.
Got the results from my blood test today and suddenly a lot is starting to make sense AND there may be a way to turn things around for both my physical and mental health. Feeling optimistic. I got the medical cannabis (from online doc not doc doc, a while ago) to try and help with the sads but found it doesn’t really do anything of consequence for me so I have a bunch of weed that I’m not super interested in. Although, the indica does help with getting to sleep when I can’t get to sleep which is its purpose so that’s alright.
Also though, apparently my sugar is a little high so they want me to do a 3 hour glucose resistance blood test thing to see if I have the diabeetus (like my Dad does). My levels are nowhere near the levels Dad gets though so we’ll see.
Hey @[email protected] can you please tell me your dipping sauce recipe for dumplings. Much appreciated.
I do kewpie/siraccha/soy
Ooo that sounds good too. Thanks.
Sure for me it’s equal parts light soy and rice wine vinegar with a dash of sesame oil then throw in some chilli flakes and sesame seeds. Sometimes throw some minced raw garlic.
Thank you.
Rectangle Kookas taste better than circle Kookas.
I love all the kookas!
Agreed!
I’ve not had a rectangular Kooka. Tell me more…
I wouldn’t know, still trying to catch one…
