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As much as I love a good book, throwing a weighted blanket into the mix makes it 10x more enjoyable.

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Neighbour just gave us an earful because the car was parked "crooked". It was off by perhaps 5 degrees.

Seriously?

I moved it and gave her more space, but now I'm crowding out the car to my right.



Okay, I've once again set up @Delta Chat. My previous setup stopped working because of the strict spam filters I'd set up.


It's amazing the number of cat toys that suddenly reappear when you get rid of a couch.


Fun fact: understanding an idea is not the same thing as agreeing with it.


There was a temporary outage because a switch accidentally got disconnected from power. Apologies for the disruption.



It's that time again: time to clean my #BaystateBlue #FountainPen. How many times do you think I'll have to run it through the ultrasonic 'till the water stops turning blue?

Time will tell.





There are things I need to do today, but there's a cat on me, so I guess not.

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Learning to sew was decidedly one of the best investments of my time in recent memory. I was just able to mend a jacket that I really love. It's perhaps not the neatest stitching job ever, but it's pretty secure again and not in a paricularly visible spot.

The cost? A little bit of thread and about a half hour of my time, versus buying a whole new jacket that I probably wouldn't like as much. I'll take that deal any day.

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For some reason I can't SSH from my laptop to my #Gitea server via its public interface. It just keeps timing out. It's only the laptop having this issue; my tablet and phone are doing this just fine. I was finally able to push my commits by sending them directly over the LAN instead. I've tried resetting the VPN on the laptop, but it's still not working normally.

I am officially confused.

Edit: Mystery solved. I forgot to pay my VPN provider... again.

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@Joe Figured it out. I forgot to pay my VPN provider.

Edit: typo

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Waiting on my ride home and a guy comes in ranting about "two years of fake COVID" and spouting similar conspiracy nonsense.

This man is voting as well.

If you are sane and elligible to vote please do.

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We voted last week in the advanced polls. It would be nice to be able to flush Ford today but that does not look like it will happen.


Called for a tow to take our disabled car to the mechanic. The muffler was dragging on the ground. Not only did they not send a flatbed (which they're now having to dispatch) but the snow under the car has melted and re-frozen so the still somewhat attached muffler is lodged in a block of ice...

It's going to be one of those days...

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First piece of positive news all week, the part that was dragging was a heat shield, not the muffler. It's probably not as bad as we thought. Waiting on the verdict from the mechanic.
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The mechanic's trying to price out replacement parts for us. In the meantime, since the car is still technically driveable, we've taken it home. Hopefully, he'll be able to get us a good deal.

In the meantime, I take some solice in the fact that some people pay a lot of money to get a car that sounds like this one.

(my apologies to the neighbours, though)

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@Parker51 Better. The previous crisis (of which this was a part) has been tentatively dealt with. There's still work to be done, but I'm in a much better place mentally.




For reasons I do not have the wherewithal to elucidate at the moment, my anxiety levels are off the charts today.
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@Parker51 I will be. There are some things I need to do to help ensure it stays that way.
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@Lizzie I do have a therapist I talk to about this stuff. So far today is going much better than last night.


Achievement unlocked: making a Costco run on transit.

I brought a camping pack and filled it to absolute capacity. It was a bit of a challenge, but doable... and still better than dealing with the parking there.

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still better than dealing with the parking there


anything would be, esp on a Sunday....





Is it me or does #org-mode lack a way to filter the agenda view by priority? You can filter by pretty much everything else imaginable.
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From the agenda dispatcher, you'd choose "m" for match (which lets you search for all kinds of things or combos of things). Then type PRIORITY="A" or whatever.

orgmode.org/manual/Matching-ta…

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@Lea This works, but is not really what I'm looking for (It also seems hang for quite some time).

I'm looking for it in the format presented in agenda view you get in mode a (in the weekly agenda view).

@Lea
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You can use > or < as well. But remember that "A" is less than "B", it doesn't consider A greater than B just because you think of it as meaning higher priority.
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Then you need to define a custom view as taught in the manual.
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I bet someone has written an extension for that 17 years ago or something. 😂

#org

#org


Welp, the car broke down and our emergency fund is pretty tapped out. I guess it's transit for a bit. I'm not as mad about that as you would think.




Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.

I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...

Fortunately, it's all been resolved now.

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This begs an ettiquette question: what is the correct response to the following conversation that doesn't involve being an asshole?

Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end.
Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss.
Tech: How do you know that?
Me: The ping tool.
Tech: What's that?

After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.





Due to a technical error, a large chunk of the map database was corrupted. We are currently restoring from yesterday's backup. Apologies for any inconvenience.


Okay, I'm done making pen rolls. This is the first one I actually didn't eyeball and am reasonably satisfied with the finished result. Made an identical one for Katy. #FountainPens


I have never once received an invoice from my therapist without bugging them for it. How do they ever get paid?


Learned from the last pen roll and have significantly upped my sewing game. I made this one out of an old shirt that no longer fit me. (I swear it shrunk.) #FountainPens




It's not at all uncommon for our car to sit unused in the parking lot for a week at a time. Why is it that when we get the worst snow storm in recent memory that we for one reason or another end up having to drive in it every single day?


Dear @Benny,

We have provided you with many cat toys that you may play with any time you like.

My razor is not one of them.

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Benny doesn't like this.

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Woo hoo!

I jusy fixed a seam that was going in one of the pairs of sweatpants I wear for bumming around the apartment.

Was it a neatly done fix? No.

Will anyone ever see it though? Also no.

Hoping to keep working on stupid little stuff like this with the sewing machine to build up my confidence/skill to be able to tackle stuff that actually matters if it's done well.

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