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Sep. 2nd, 2022
Due to reasons, Alex has sent a greeting card to a relative. The envelope will likely be seen by their parents, or at least their mother. Their mother being on a strict information diet about Alex's exact location, among other things, resulted a request for a ninja postal drop-off in some other location, to generate a confusing postmark. Also due to reasons (the battery is weak) my car needed exercised. Also also due to reasons, Steph came along.
We went to a pet supply store for metal litter scoops, which are a good thing to have with cats. We found a nearby post office. We were going to do a Trader Joe's run and a prescription pickup. I wanted to see if IKEA had a 4x2 Kallax in an acceptable color. Steph agreed on the principle that we could do it as a speedrun.
All in all, it took 40 minutes between car-off and car back on. This included checking out the wheelchair, touring the sweets corner of the upstairs, doing a browse through lighting and I requested a laundry basket and pet stuff detour (the shortcut got us from the kitchenwares section to lighting, and we backtracked a little). I looked at chargers. We looked at clocks a little. (All battery operated, and I want plug-in for downstairs because the basement eats batteries.) We hightailed it through the scented candles, then we went Kallax hunting. White-stained oak look was acceptable, and I liked it better than grey. They did not have any espresso brown, my actual preference. Since I've wanted this for An While, we got the thing.
Also of note: I have had a medical bed mattress folded over in the back of my Toaster, with a sack of pillows, for a while. This is due to the Great Ev Move, for reasons. We had not taken it out for this trip.
We stuffed the box in the Toaster on top of the mattress. The end hung out. We tried it on a diagonal. Still no luck. We scooted the passenger seat forward. There it went. I thought I could get a few extra inches out of it, but that turned out to be not the case.
I thought about the last time we'd tried to drive with a fully assembled 4x2 Kallax in the car. We'd made some bad decisions then. I decided we should make better decisions. "Dear, you're driving," I said. Steph is the smallest, and fit into the squished front passenger seat. I crammed myself into the driver's side rear seat, contending for space with the mattress. I was able to get buckled in. I made a second executive decision: "We're going straight home." And we did. On the way we saw smoke and a plume of water through the trees alongside the highway. It's still fire season.
In recent not-household events:
* Cloudflare is making itself the technical Main Character for doubling down on its free speech absolutism in the context of protecting some of the doxxing and dogpiling scum of the internet. Dreamwidth has made the business decision to seek other providers for the services that Cloudflare has been providing. https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/88458.html
* My reading list has pointed out that there is a Ban Management page on Dreamwidth (in addition to the admin console) and you can see your list of bans there, and can create or edit notes about the context in which you have made this ban. In me-news, I managed to establish that sometimes the note appears not to save, but this seems to be related to maybe the page retrieving the list of notes slightly before the new note hits the server. https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/banusers
* The water in Jackson, Mississippi is fucked up. Biden's declared a state of emergency, which is probably the best way to actually get appropriate help/mitigation in place.
* Whoever bet on Trump stealing highly classified documents, including some nuclear shit, please arrange to pick up your priez. The redhat(e)s are getting a lot more quiet while also backpedaling on everything they'd said about REAL classified documents that NEED to remain classified.
* Abortion access is an ugly tug-of-war and I am trying to let it radicalize me instead of leading me into despair.
* The PNW and California are still hot enough that my CA folks are complaining/worried, and locally it's tripped the hot weather warning lights a few more times. We thought we were done for the year, but nooooo ...
We went to a pet supply store for metal litter scoops, which are a good thing to have with cats. We found a nearby post office. We were going to do a Trader Joe's run and a prescription pickup. I wanted to see if IKEA had a 4x2 Kallax in an acceptable color. Steph agreed on the principle that we could do it as a speedrun.
All in all, it took 40 minutes between car-off and car back on. This included checking out the wheelchair, touring the sweets corner of the upstairs, doing a browse through lighting and I requested a laundry basket and pet stuff detour (the shortcut got us from the kitchenwares section to lighting, and we backtracked a little). I looked at chargers. We looked at clocks a little. (All battery operated, and I want plug-in for downstairs because the basement eats batteries.) We hightailed it through the scented candles, then we went Kallax hunting. White-stained oak look was acceptable, and I liked it better than grey. They did not have any espresso brown, my actual preference. Since I've wanted this for An While, we got the thing.
Also of note: I have had a medical bed mattress folded over in the back of my Toaster, with a sack of pillows, for a while. This is due to the Great Ev Move, for reasons. We had not taken it out for this trip.
We stuffed the box in the Toaster on top of the mattress. The end hung out. We tried it on a diagonal. Still no luck. We scooted the passenger seat forward. There it went. I thought I could get a few extra inches out of it, but that turned out to be not the case.
I thought about the last time we'd tried to drive with a fully assembled 4x2 Kallax in the car. We'd made some bad decisions then. I decided we should make better decisions. "Dear, you're driving," I said. Steph is the smallest, and fit into the squished front passenger seat. I crammed myself into the driver's side rear seat, contending for space with the mattress. I was able to get buckled in. I made a second executive decision: "We're going straight home." And we did. On the way we saw smoke and a plume of water through the trees alongside the highway. It's still fire season.
In recent not-household events:
* Cloudflare is making itself the technical Main Character for doubling down on its free speech absolutism in the context of protecting some of the doxxing and dogpiling scum of the internet. Dreamwidth has made the business decision to seek other providers for the services that Cloudflare has been providing. https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/88458.html
* My reading list has pointed out that there is a Ban Management page on Dreamwidth (in addition to the admin console) and you can see your list of bans there, and can create or edit notes about the context in which you have made this ban. In me-news, I managed to establish that sometimes the note appears not to save, but this seems to be related to maybe the page retrieving the list of notes slightly before the new note hits the server. https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/banusers
* The water in Jackson, Mississippi is fucked up. Biden's declared a state of emergency, which is probably the best way to actually get appropriate help/mitigation in place.
* Whoever bet on Trump stealing highly classified documents, including some nuclear shit, please arrange to pick up your priez. The redhat(e)s are getting a lot more quiet while also backpedaling on everything they'd said about REAL classified documents that NEED to remain classified.
* Abortion access is an ugly tug-of-war and I am trying to let it radicalize me instead of leading me into despair.
* The PNW and California are still hot enough that my CA folks are complaining/worried, and locally it's tripped the hot weather warning lights a few more times. We thought we were done for the year, but nooooo ...