Weird night last night, went to bed at about 19h, because I was really tired. Couldn't get to sleep for more than an hour (a totally unusual thing for me - usually five minutes and I'm gone). Then my sleep was fitful, until about 23h when I got up again. This, too, is unusual (the fitful bit).
All got sorted when I went back to bed, though, 3 solid hours after a few minutes to get to sleep. shrug Weird, like I said.
Got a light day today, which is nice: one meeting at 17h, which is inconveniently late, but I'll cope. It's the final meeting for the granting foundation I've been working for. Which is good, because it means the honorarium is coming soon, and I could use it.
Before then, though, I have to go through and score the applications I'm responsible for. That's for this afternoon. This morning, I think I'm going rally driving (virtually). Been about seven or eight months since I drove, but hopefully it won't take too long to get my sharpness back.
One thing I don't understand: cheating in video games. Like, what's the fucking point? You're playing a game with yourself. Whom are you cheating? Great, so you got a world record time with cheating. You're always going to know you didn't really do it, so it's got to be pretty hollow victory.
Thankfully, the newer rally game I'm playing (EA WRC) has rigorous anti-cheating methods. I'm down with that. I don't mind being the 357th fastest person in the game, if that's what I can actually do.
Anyway, that's my post, and I'm sticking to it. Hope your day {is | was | will be} excellent.
Did some driving. Really enjoyed myself. They've fixed the bugs in the game on launch, and it's smooth as silk now. Pretty pleased with my driving too, as I won two of three events that I entered.
I think this will become a part of my morning routine again. When I was playing DiRT Rally 2.0, I would play every morning for a half hour or so, just working on my skills.
One thing I love: I get to name my navigator now. I named mine with my father's name; he's the one who introduced me to rally (which he used to drive IRL), so having him as my navvy is awesomesauce.
That's a long time. There are local rally clubs all over Ontario, which is nice, because they put on public events a few times a year. I got to be a navvy for a misogynist dickwad with a gnarly WRX for one event. Couldn't stand him, but I'll admit he could drive like a demon. We were bombing down a snow-covered forest road at about 140 km/h one dark night, and it finished its straightaway section with a hard left just at the shore of a lake. I swear I thought we were going to launch off the snowbank and into the lake.
Had a long ass chat with my gramma last nite. She said ' Jaden you will never find happiness because all you do is plan for the next thing, always looking for something new and better. Just sit back and enjoy what you got'.
Think she may have a point??????
What yall think 🤔
I think it's the perspective of someone old and tired.
And I speak as someone old and tired. And not to be offensive to your grandmother, but for me, though, the interest of learning new things, finding new things, is what makes life worth living. So my advice would be the opposite.
It's fairly simple. I don't want to spend my time managing my OS. Finding drivers, and compatibility, and all that: you find that fun and interesting. I find it boring and irritating. When I sit down at my computer I want to do the thing I came there to do, not spend my time convincing my computer to run properly. With Windoze, I generally don't have to do that. It's not perfect at eliminating that stuff, but it's a lot less technical and involved than running a Linux distro.
Yes, I'm sure you're able to do just that. Make room in your brain for the idea that not everyone is capable of that, or wants to be capable of that. While I've no doubt that the sign I've hung out here will draw the Reply Guys like no one's business, you're not going to get me to change my mind. I know what I enjoy doing, and maintaining my OS is not among it.
I built - from scraps - my first PC at 14, in 1980. I'm not indigitate (think illiterate, but for digital stuff). I just don't want to. That's not where I get my entertainment from computers.
I'm very glad you get the enjoyment you do out of Linux. Long may it continue. But make room for the idea that we don't all enjoy computing in the way that you do, and that that is okay.
Or (tl;dr version): Damnit Jim, I'm a linguist not a mechanic!
I need a girl to explore my vagina like they are going on fucking safari. I want her full-on diving into my pussy and living there I want her to disappear into the bush..
Wow, a lot of unintended privilege in this thread. Not you, Eniko, but in the replies.
I'm at 0-1. I live and eat alone. Having a disability that prevents walking with heavy loads, I have my groceries delivered. Delivered groceries do not generally offer single-servings of vegetable or fruit, and larger quantities tend to go bad before they get used, because see above re: disability. It's rare I can cook twice in a day.
Which waste I cannot afford, because I am on disability.
So most days, I eat chicken strips from the microwave. They're $10 for a supply that will last me five or six days. Sometimes, for a treat, I'll make tuna mayo sandwiches, or toast with marmalade. I live on less than $100 of food in a month in general. Once a month I might treat myself to a shawarma with onions and tomatoes, if it's been a good month.
So I see your "healthy diet", and raise you late-stage capitalism and a poverty diet as one of those useless mouths they talk about.
I am not interested in your suggestions for how you'd look after this in my shoes. Saying things about that will only confirm you have no idea what shoes I wear. Thanks for your attention to this paragraph.
TRANS FRIENDS:
Would you be willing to let me share pictures of your transition timeline on my blog?
There are so many of us that feel like it will be impossible to ever be ourselves. I want to show what social transition, HRT, and/or gender-affirming surgeries are capable of doing for us because I know that would have made a difference for me once upon a time.
If you can reply or send me a direct message with your timeline or before/after images, and let me know whether you want your name/masto handle on it or if you would prefer to have no name/handle on it, I would really appreciate it! The piece in question will discuss a little bit of complicated history of the before/after transition images but then focus on the power of seeing how dynamic our bodies are and how much is possible through different kinds of transition. If you change your mind after sharing, I can always remove your images.
@JoscelynTransient I would happily, but alas I have not a single picture from my pre-transition days. Because it was all film cameras, the only copies I had were digital prints, and I got rid of most of them when I transitioned for dysphoria reasons. The remainder have disappeared over the years.
I do have a picture two years after I transitioned, but pre-HRT, if that would be sufficient.
Spending my morning learning how to pronounce the names of my Polish friends. It's a challenge, but at least their orthography is pretty regular - no weird shit like silent letters (I'm looking at you, FR and EN), letters that change value based on placement (RU, we need to talk about Г), weird diphthongs (NE, what's with "ij"?), or other tricks of other orthographies.
It's challenging because the sounds are not immediately obvious to a non-native speaker, but once you learn the orthography (aka spelling), it's pretty easy.
A short guide to a couple of bits for those who want to play our home game.
sz: sh
cz: ts
ł: w
ę: nasalized e
Anyway, that's enough to get you going. Start figuring out how to pronounce the names of your Polish friends! It's fun and rewarding.
Fair points. I'm not bothered by the loan-word change, that's fairly common in many languages. The rz thing is technically interesting, but won't maybe be all that crucial to someone just learning some names?
I mean, it's interesting to me, for sure.
cz as a more plosive sz works for me - but I'm a linguist by training. Not everyone would know what that meant if I'd said it. :)
April Fool's Day is the worst and stupidest tradition we have about the calendar. "Ha ha, we'll have a day where everybody lies and tries to trick everyone else, and it'll all be a big laugh and no one will get hurt."
It's bullshit. Most AfD jokes (see what I did there?) are cruel and mean-spirited, making fun of people for trusting you. Is that really how you want to be known?
Needless to say, you can trust there will be none of that shit coming from this account on Monday. I'm always up for actual fun, you know, the kind where people are invited to take part and enjoy, rather than some of them singled out for mockery.
Yep, I'm the mayor of Nofunnington. As everyone knows, I never do anything remotely fun or funny. That's why I hate this day. Sure.
See, that's not a prank as such, but a conundrum, which I think is, again, the kind of comedy that invites the audience to partake, rather than springing a trust violation on them.
Got a hard physical day today. Had a two and a half hour education session this morning, which went well but was tiring, and this afternoon I have an in-person two-hour meeting across town. So I have to take a cab to get there, spend two hours, then another cab to get home (thankfully someone else is paying for the cabs). So I'll be busy from 16h to 19h with my "two-hour" meeting. All in all, it amounts to six hours of working today, half of it paid.
That's too many hours in a single day for me. I'm going through CBD gummies like a woodpecker through soft pine.
It's days like these that I really feel the being disabled thing. It's humbling knowing that a six-hour day can lay me out, when most of my friends can work an eight-hour day, day after day.
So yeah, that's my day. Class this morning was excellent - it's our third-level class, so it's for the people who've already done the basics, and are talking about some of the advanced topics: polyamoury, drag, the AIDS crisis, conversion therapy, trans health care, and so on.
This class was engaged and interested, had lots of good questions, and spontaneously and voluntarily put together a reflections session for themselves after we left. A real pleasure to teach.
Rowan, by the way, I hope you don't mind, i used you as an example today, of the wonderful combinations of features that people can sometimes come up with in their transitions, namely beard and boobs both. I was very complimentary about you. It was in the context of people policing other people's gender.
It's a desperate attempt to stave off the necessary choice: immigration. Demographically, the countries of the West are getting older and older. Fewer kids means fewer people to support the elderly. Unless you bring in immigrants, in large numbers. And therein lies the rub: the supply of immigrants is decidedly browner than the supply of Western-born people.
So they start bleating about replacement theories and declining birth rates and the death of whiteness (which, afaic, not too soon).
People who can comfortably live off 30% of their income cluelessly explaining savings to people who can barely live off 100% of theirs is a phenomenon I encounter way too often.
YOU'RE NOT BETTER AT BUDGETING YOU JUST HAVE MORE MONEY.