things have obviously popped off this week geopolitically so i’ve been pretty busy trying to bail some people out of very bad decision-making. this has gone mixed to say the least; anyways a lot of people gotta shut the fuck up about geopolitics because there have been 80 unnecessary trillion bad takes this week
Most of our next door neighbors have moved out because the landlord is converting the place back to a single-family rental instead of a rotating set of (allegedly) college students. The one tenant remaining has been celebrating having the whole house to himself with loud music/lots of bass and late-night parties.
It’s going to be a long month until he’s gone – if even then, because getting people out of your house is not a trivial thing to do if they don’t leave on their own.
Well I got COVID last week and it’s still wearing off. My best friend and roomie of seven years moved out last week as well, so I’m living alone for the first time ever ☺️/😪
On the bright side I have cut my marijuana intake in half, drank one coke instead of 3-5 per day, and managed to eat three meals, for the past half week.
I’m sorry to read that. I’ve seen in other posts you’re jew, and living in Israel. I can’t imagine how hard is it. I hope things will calm down and you’ll find peace.
Am into my second week of regular gym workouts. Have also added in some extra workouts and am feeling a bit sore/stiff.
Bear in mind the last time I did serious exercise/gym time was when I was in the army - and I left that in 1997!
No weight loss showing yet.
I know it’s going to be hard work but at 66 years old and being far too heavy, I really need to put in some effort. Alcohol intake is right down and I’m almost vegan and usually eat healthy.
General election day in Aotearoa. High chance of a right wing government that has made cutting my disability funding into one of its election promises.
With everything that’s happening in the world it feels stupid to even be upset about it, but I am.
Edit: and the result is in, we now have the most right-wing government we had in years, so worse poverty is on the cards now.
I am legally a woman now. There is no way to tell otherwise using social security infos etc.
I’ve been waiting to have my first blood test where my levels would be compared to those of women (you know for any actual relevancy in the comparison)
Yet the manager of the closest lab - whom I have known for years - deemed necessary to ask their IT to be able to override the civility and gender. And she felt forced for some reason to keep my birth sex even though it doesn’t appear anywhere.
What gets me the most is that she thought she was being benevolent when she was never asked to do that.
I regret accepting this situation and proceeding with the blood test. I should have gone elsewhere.
I’m okay. I’m trying to avoid the news cycle, for obvious reasons, which overall has probably been a net positive for me. I’m planning on switching to a new (to me) NAS this weekend, and I’ll probably also be getting PiHole set up. The latter is going to be done on a Raspberry Pi 1B+, so that should be fairly interesting. There’s a case printing for it at my local computer shop as we speak!
Edit: apparently it’s actually a regular Pi B 512MB so now I have to print another, less fancy case 😭
Here is an interesting take on geopolitics - apparently gpt doesn’t like to joke about hamas being hummus any more, because it’s a sensitivity issue to openai. This situation reminds me of that computer from demolition man that fines people for swearing, in the future. Really hope that’s not where we are heading, or where we are.
Planned surgery happened this week. Unlike the last time where they blew two IVs (currently wait listed end of October for this). Was supposed to be only one night stay but the doctor kept me a second night due to an overabundance of caution. Currently waiting for them to come check on me in the morning and hopefully finally let me go. I’m off pain meds, been walking, passing gas, and bleeding has pretty much entirely stopped. I can’t think of any reason they’d keep me here but hoping to leave soon so I can actually get some rest.
Thank you! I’m doing so much better now that I had the ability to actually sleep. One night away did wonders. Now I’ve had two and probably gonna make the trek back home today since nothing is alarming and being close to the operating hospital is no longer as much of a concern.
I’m so depressed. I’m so sick of being disabled and useless and unable to work or make any money when everything costs money just to exist even without any quality of life. Everything is getting more expensive. Rent has gone up, the insurance they now require is more costly, the bank fucked up the auto payment so we had to pay late fees, the electricity bill is ridiculous (we’re not the only one in these apartments whose electricity bill is suddenly ridiculous) and we’re already late paying it and only have a few days left before we get shut off and violate our lease, local utility help can’t help us because they either don’t have any funds or we already used them in the past year, and I have NO idea how we’re gonna come up with the rest of the 300 something fucking dollars as mom and I are both disabled and her son is a mooching piece of shit who doesn’t contribute a lick despite not being disabled whatsoever. But he’s mommy’s little baby boy, so he gets to do what he wants. God I’m so sick of this. I feel like I need a rich fairy god mother to wave a magic wand and solve all my problems. I’m in so much pain I haven’t slept for two days. I’m sick of this.
I know other people have it a lot worse than me, though… I shouldn’t be bitching, but I’m a weak and whiny little idiot of a useless weenie. Bleh. Why do I have to exist when I’ve never wanted to my whole life? It’s not fair.
I’m in a similar boat to you. I don’t have any answers, just wanted to express solidarity. 💛 You and I are children of the universe the same as the trees and the stars, we have a right to be here too, and I hope one day our lives are easier.
So sorry to hear you have to go through this. It’s OK to complain and vent, it doesn’t solve your problems but I feel it definitely helps to get it off your chest.
I wish I’d knew how to help you. But unless you live in my home country, I’m afraid I have no real knowledge about any financial assistance plans or anything like that. All I can do is offer you my sympathies and the advice to kick your mother’s son of his butt and put him to work.
But I’m sure you would’ve done that already if it were that easy :)
Finally got my Ritalin xr prescription refilled after 2 weeks of waiting for my pharmacy and finally calling them only to be told that they canceled the refill because they couldn’t source the ingredients.
… without telling me …
Ended up having the script called in to Costco who filled it that day. Love that place.
Taking OpenShift training from RedHat. On day 4 of 4 and only today do they go into using OpenShift after 3 days of reasoning how to use docker/podman which is already what I do all day anyway.
aaaggghhh
Otherwise, doing well!
This week our chickens started laying. first chickens we’ve ever had so that is pretty exciting.
Also getting cold in Wisconsin now. Had a slight frost the night before so all of the tomatoes, peppers, etc we grow are done for the year.
However, the basil in prepping for basement hydroponics finally got their roots popping through so it’s almost time.
Also, the microgreens I’m growing are 3 days away from harvest. The previous batch were delicious.
Aaaaand I’ve decided to try my hand at brewing beer. Going to pick up supplies this weekend.
The kombucha and water kefir I’ve been doing have been great throughout the spring and summer.
The world is insane. A friend of mine died of cancer. And I’ve had some kind of flu/cold for a week.
On the bright side, I finished my Becky Chambers’ books, fixed the extruder on my 3D printer and made the last plum pie of the season. I so wish this was the kind of daily life all human beings enjoy.
I don’t know what’s worse: never having eaten plum pie, or knowing it’s going to take a year to eat some again.
There are fancy recipes, but I cook as my grandma teached my mom: a rustic pie with shortcrust and plums.
The secret is to prevent the juice to soak the dough. So you slightly precook the shortcrust, and you put the half plums with the skin on the bottom (so the skin acts as a little cup for the juice).
When the pie is ready, you can sprinkle the pie with powdered sugar if you like.
chuck (foster dog) is recovering well from his rear left limb amputation. took him to the vet to get his stitches out, but they’re not quite healed, so we have another appointment next week. he was cleared for a bath, so we’re heading out to do that now!
i had my teeth cleaned today and remembered to bring my headphones. spent a majority of my appointment listening to an audiobook, which made the appointment both quicker and less stressful. 😀
i’ve been there! i went at least a decade without brushing my teeth regularly, and definitely without a professional cleaning. once you get things fixed up, stick with it! find a way to brush twice a day and floss at least once a day. it’s worth it!
disclaimer: i had to have eleven fillings and a root canal the first time i went in. it was as rough as it sounds, but i picked a dentist who would put me under general anesthesia. that was a huge help for me in the beginning. now i can sit through a single cleaning/filling, but not more than that.
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