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Mar. 21st, 2016 03:25 pmI just had a semi-planned minor surgery and am presently still stoned and sore, so I if you are expecting communications from me please expect delays.
Cut for what the surgery was (and I am posting this here and not Tumblr because it's gross and Tumblr doesn't respect cuts).
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Cut for what the surgery was (and I am posting this here and not Tumblr because it's gross and Tumblr doesn't respect cuts).
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because I'm tired, and thus most of my internet communications have been via the tablet while lying in bed. Sorry. My crossposter obviously still isn't done, and the IFTTT Dreamwidth-to-Tumblr one I was using before is too glitchy and hands-on for my current sluggish state. I may try a Tumblr-to-Dreamwidth one instead.
My main Tumblr is just snarp as usual, and my reblogging-stuff-only one is prospitianEscapee.
My main Tumblr is just snarp as usual, and my reblogging-stuff-only one is prospitianEscapee.
My father is very good at denial.
Jan. 30th, 2016 07:49 pmHere is a story about his abilities that I think is pretty interesting! And also depressing. Also that.
( Warning for death. )
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Mom got me a nice winter coat from LL Bean, which doesn’t fit, so I am returning it for a different one. Any reason I shouldn’t have them refund the money to her card and buy a coat off eBay? (I told her I was probably going to do this.) Is Primaloft actually significantly better than Thinsulate, etc? Is it possible to pirate Aerogel yet
Personal philosophy calibration.
Jan. 4th, 2016 04:32 pmI am naturally inclined to be a mean, judgmental jerk who writes people off entirely, which I do not like. I believe in the concept of a Bad Person fervently on an emotional level after about 11:00 PM, but not really in any other set of circumstances. So for the past few years, I've been trying to do like this:
If I find I'm thinking of someone as Bad, I try to nail down exactly what thing(s) they did that made me form that opinion.
And if they're justified, I go like, "okay, but what specific area of Badness is this?" And I try to recategorize the person, in my brain-spreadsheet, as "Cannot Presently Be Trusted To Make Decisions In This Area": and then there's a sub-table containing the list of things they are Bad at. If I have the mental energy for it, this table includes the dates of last observed failure of judgment, because maybe [name] has learned a valuable life lesson about [not hurting [category of person]] in between [date of last observed failure/defense of earlier failure matching category and] and [today's date].
(Spreadsheets obviously aren't the right format for this, maybe it'll get easier once I'm better at SQL.)
If I find I'm thinking of someone as Bad, I try to nail down exactly what thing(s) they did that made me form that opinion.
And if they're justified, I go like, "okay, but what specific area of Badness is this?" And I try to recategorize the person, in my brain-spreadsheet, as "Cannot Presently Be Trusted To Make Decisions In This Area": and then there's a sub-table containing the list of things they are Bad at. If I have the mental energy for it, this table includes the dates of last observed failure of judgment, because maybe [name] has learned a valuable life lesson about [not hurting [category of person]] in between [date of last observed failure/defense of earlier failure matching category and] and [today's date].
(Spreadsheets obviously aren't the right format for this, maybe it'll get easier once I'm better at SQL.)
is not something I can do. I'm demonstrably okay with buying my own medications that way - though most kratom vendors prefer Papyrus or Lucida Handwriting - but I cannot do the same to the animals.
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Dec. 7th, 2015 07:58 pmAt least, when the vessel of boiling water shattered in my hand and splashed me, the burns were not two inches lower; I would be at the World’s Worst ER right now. As it is, I cannot post pictures without landing this blog with an NSFW tag.
This is a wildly inappropriate way for karma to repay me for spending the afternoon doing volunteer nerd stuff and cleaning my parents’ kitchen.
is putting rice in the rice cooker for in the morning, even though I'm not hungry right now.
This evening's anxiety-fueled research project was pet tracking technology. Because what if Bu gets lost, like Polly did. One of these Bluetooth trackers looks like the most reliable option at the moment, and they don't seem to actually be all that reliable.
My cat thinks that he is a therapy cat.
Dec. 3rd, 2015 08:04 pmHe comes running whenever he thinks I'm stressed out. He's not really competent for the job, though. For example, he thinks that running water is a sign of emotional stress! It's clearly self-destructive behavior - he would never turn on a faucet or take a shower, he knows better.
He feels similarly about coding or writing fanfic, but he's probably mostly right about that.
He also thinks that sinking his claws into a human is how you calm them down. I know he's just trying to knead, but I'm neither wearing a thick coat of fur nor producing milk, and he's an unusually pointy cat - seriously, razor-sharp. I suspect I'm going to end up with at least one scar on my stomach as a result of his efforts to heal my wounded soul on Saturday. Cut for slightly gross:
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Nov. 25th, 2015 02:18 pmI'm going to embrace my true nature and write letters to companies complaining that their products don't have functional handles and as an arthritis sufferer, etc.
Me in summary.
Nov. 24th, 2015 06:18 pmI sent this email the other day. I feel that it basically sums up the impression I give IRL. Once you have read it, you will have officially met me.
"Okay. Black tea, chamomile, lavender, vanilla, or other?
Also, is there a beige argyle sweatervest over there somewhere? I have lost my beige argyle sweatervest and it's interfering with my ability to be a huge asshole effectively."
"Okay. Black tea, chamomile, lavender, vanilla, or other?
Also, is there a beige argyle sweatervest over there somewhere? I have lost my beige argyle sweatervest and it's interfering with my ability to be a huge asshole effectively."
ur face is problematic
Nov. 20th, 2015 01:25 pmBy which I mean my face. My face is the problematic face. I know I've been whining more about it than usual lately, but that's actually because I've actually had fewer lumpy painful crises than usual. They feel less fair now.
The reason I am investigating the Korean skin-care fandom is that I accidentally duplicated a part of "The Process" a while back, and found that it seemed to help.
What I did a couple mornings in a row while very groggy:
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The reason I am investigating the Korean skin-care fandom is that I accidentally duplicated a part of "The Process" a while back, and found that it seemed to help.
What I did a couple mornings in a row while very groggy:
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