I very reluctantly had to dislocate her to go help out an aunty with something, but now I'm back and she's a little disgruntled but not as much as before!
Yes I think sox does not appreciate her servant taking off like this either hahaha. Even if she's sleeping elsewhere or investigating bags or whatever, she still needs to keep an eye on me!
I was feeling a bit sad that Sox has been a bit saucy and aloof (more swiping/nipping, barely moving off the oodie on my bed) the last two days. But today she has come around completely after I was watching some cat videos that alarmed her, and especially after hanging around all morning. I think in the end she was just getting pissy with me because I'd been out for most of the day 4 days in a row and was lonely 🥺
Now she's back to her friendly lap-cuddling, aggressively headbutting self 💜
After the awful news out of India I decided to revisit a happier ending to a crazy situation and watched Sully. Damn near cried a few times just thinking about the goodness of people compared to what we see in the US today. Now I'm off to go watch some Mayday episodes and feel grateful for my life.
E: also, massive boo to Clint Eastwood and his anti government dickhead views for making the NTSB into some kind of villain, I guess it was just the beginning of the Trump years after all. Which is all the more sad to contrast with 2009, when it actually happened... Can't believe the GFC years feel better than what we have today.
Yo, wtf, you literally had no control over it! Sure it is frustrating for them - I get irrationally triggered by the sounds of snoring - but it is peak asshole behaviour to then make you feel guilty about it. It's not even like there are known interventions (like with snoring). They should instead be concerned for you and supporting you to get to the root of it (which benefits you AND them). Please don't feel guilty about this!!! e: as SaneMartigan says, you can be responsible for it but not be guilty. Taking ownership absolutely does mean recognising what things are out of your control and if your family just expects you to magically investigate every avenue and work it out (without even being concerned for you, wtf) that is really cold.
They can take the ability to block custom elements over my dead body! Especially as unwanted AI garbage continues to infect more and more user interfaces
I can use uBlock Origin in Iceraven on my phone, which probably has a similar-ish outcome (though it's slower at keeping up the YT ads arms race, every so often ads will slip in)
However, I instead watch YT on a Revanced patched version of the Youtube app, which blocks ads, uses Sponsorblock (skip all the sponsored segments and if you want to skip intros/intermissions/outros etc), and very importantly, lets you have background playback - I couldn't be happier with it! Especially when I want to have some 3 hour brown noise + rain video playing in the background while I doomscroll
I returned to Firefox (after years of using Chrome out of laziness) on my work laptop because of Google's manifestly (ha) stupid decision to block functionality that means uBlock Origin no longer could be installed, which means I had no way of manually adding extra filters to block the garbage AI Overview in el goog search results.
Honestly think I should just switch to Firefox on my personal computer too. I use Iceraven on my phone which is a fork of Firefox, anyway...
Went to bed in a thin thermal top, this was a good idea, looking at the cold ...
I've been taking melatonin these days to counter the lingering effects of the coffee and small amount of stimulant meds I'm back to taking. My dreams are not as clearly remembered as in the past but they seem to involve family a lot more, and combine them in very very weird ways...
Still really behind on writing although I powered through a heap of readings in one area yesterday. Read all that I really need to. Now there's just one more major area, and one minor area... And then I need to start working on slides and shut. Urgh. Looks like I won't be working much next week.
Back home. Sox is being saucy today. She better get over herself or that food will be for naught!
Speaking of food, I felt briefly tempted to have a pizza per today's thread emoji but I think I'll leave that for the end of next week when I really will need a pick-me-up after my presentation for which I have yet to make the requisite graphics let alone slides but I tend to do presentations best at the very last minute anyway.
IIRC we had few mild winters through the covid era so it's a bit annoying to go back to this. I do remember my first couple winters in Melbourne 10-11 years ago being this cold around mid June though (not in terms of perception but recorded temps) - but then April and May were substantially cooler than this year.
If money weren't an option I'd be going off to some nice Pacific island to unwind but I will probably go hang out with my crazy family in Perth for a bit while I figure out what next in life. Not that warm but nowhere near as cold as here... might even do a road trip up to northern WA to see some fam up there.
Pretty frosty week all up. At least it's not entirely overcast because that would drive me insane. I might step out for a bit and soak up some rays with my puffer jacket on.
I will NOT be getting up early on Saturday, that's for sure.
I do remember some frightfully cold June days before but certainly not a whole week of it and especially after such a warm autumn. I agree, I kind of feel like we've fast-forwarded a bit here... I don't think I could do 3 months of this. Definitely going to try and escape over July/August if I can
Tomorrow's going to be worse. But the upshot is that the sun is out!! It's worth getting out of bed for.
(Not so much when you're indoors and the heating is busted... yikes)
Happy birthday wonderful Witch of the Web! I hope work is smooth and uneventful for you and you've got some lovely warm goodies lined up for the weekend.
I'm looking forward to being done with THE DOOM THING and just enjoying a couple of weeks of normality without that bastard thing weighing on my entire soul. Plus a dinner with some awesome people next Friday and maybe birthday treats in the coming weeks!
Beyond that it's a bit murky but things are definitely going to change
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I very reluctantly had to dislocate her to go help out an aunty with something, but now I'm back and she's a little disgruntled but not as much as before!