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azurelunatic) wrote2021-03-25 09:29 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2021-03-25 09:29 pm
An excessively exhausting set of pillboxes
03:19 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
Wednesday: I slept many of the sleeps. Then I tried to haul up boxes from the basement, but was foiled by the "help" of an Escape Calico, who darted out the door as I was trying to go out with an armload of Box. So then Belovedest got the rest of the boxes as I was trying to catch my breath (stairs are Not Good, and these stairs in particular). Alex made a modified jambalya, which omitted shrimp and bell pepper and included precooked bacon ends in one of the last steps and was good enough that I had it for breakfast today.
I feel for the logistics people who are getting fucked over by the Ever Given being stuck! On the other hand, it is a very simple situation (big boat stuck) and it is bringing the internet some joy in the simplicity and the memes.
~~~
I slept many of the sleeps today also.
Ev has been moderately radicalized into being 9000% Done with Men. I am proud of her, and have taken the liberty of a) saying so, and b) showing her where some of the sharp edges of Bad Reactionary Shit In This Direction happens to be. Props toamberite for public service in pointing out some of the terves and ants and what the warning signs are.
The project of Cleaning Up Sewzb0t Parlor continues. I want to sort the supplies, store the supplies so I know what they are, clear the couch and table, clear a path to swap the corner chair with a different chair, and keep working on the quilt. Also some technology juggling.
Speaking of technology, Belovedest is making tracks with Home Assistant. The automatic goodnight routine is mostly working, save that Screen B does not always accept input from the remote. This makes Uncle Simon sad. We're thinking about a kitchen extension, in addition to the bedroom extension. Belovedest seems to have installed HA on the bedroom Raspberry Pi, and is using an ancient PlayStation webcam as the mic; the webcam is old enough that nothing has the drivers for the camera but it will work as a mic. There's a very old Pi and another of those webcams that we are trying to put in the kitchen, but there were problems (I think the wrong version) last night.
I learned a thing about the kitchen that I did not previously know!!!!! There are kitchen cabinets over the refrigerator, and when Belovedest was giving me the Grand Tour I think they said something like "and we don't use these, they don't work." I concluded (reasonably) that the fridge was enough in the way that only a Very Tol person such as Belovedest could reach up there.
TURNS OUT...
The "new" fridge (when Belovedest got it with the ex; it was a floor display model and therefore cheaper; this was in 2016 or before, so it's at LEAST 5 years old now) was so tall that it did not fit under the cupboards. So they had to cut out the bottom of the cupboard (INCLUDING THE FLOOR OF THE CUPBOARD) to make room to slide the fridge underneath. THE CUPBOARD IS NOT A CUPBOARD IT'S JUST A DECOY OMG
I got my email from WA Phase Finder just now! I am eligible!! (I got my first shot last week.)
Liberty Orchards (the maker of Aplets and Cotlets) has announced that they're closing. My favorite is the nut-free fruit smoothees, in the value pack so it's a surprise. The fruit sparklers are also nice but include banana (which is an Alex-only treat). Consequently, the rush of orders has slammed them and ordering is on hold until they can get caught up. They're due to shutter in June. I will want to learn how to make this stuff, then.
Goals for today:
* Pack bedtime pillboxes (I am out)
* Pack morning/evening pillboxes (I have tonight and tomorrow left, plus my travel ones)
* Photos?
* Sort more basement stuff?
Did I mention that I made a phone purse? I made a phone purse for the moments when I don't have a pocket upon me. It's got separate sections for my ipod and phone, because the back of the ipod is conductive enough to confuse the screen of my phone, and the phone is enough bigger than the ipod that it fits despite the anti-shatter frame of the Otterbox.
05:17 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
Welp. In the process of doing pillboxes, I was trying to get the labels off of empty ones, to use for probably beads, but most importantly to house the overflow doses because I'm not doing this on the day that my pillbox wraps, I'm doing it on a Thursday and only have enough to get to Friday because of my timing on the last one. Soooo I was heating the labels with hot water, and managed to spill one of them down my front. It wasn't boiling (fortunately) and I think I'm going to escape with just a bit of a red mark, but I'm not pleased. The last time I spilled a significant quantity of hot water on myself, I ought to have gone to the hospital.
But I have got my bedtime pills packed for the month. For seven weeks, technically. I'm pleased that I've got podcasts to listen to while I'm doing this vaguely tedious task.
07:44 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
hahahaha well *that* was fun. Apparently between knocking every-god-damn-thing off my desk, mostly with my chair, and the filling of boxes, and the sorting of bottles, and the re-ordering of prescriptions, and the isolating another set of Skittles for the bedtime med food requirement, it took two and a half hours to complete. It would probably take less time if I did it more often. It would also probably take less time if the chair mat had not helped the wheel of my desk chair fall off, and if resolving that situation had not knocked over the (by then cold) cup of water that I'd been using to de-label the prescription bottles. I wound up flinging the goddamn cup (plastic) into the (unoccupied) kitchen, because it was all just too god damn fucking much.
I sulked on the couch and Escape Calico sat on my chest while Belovedest restored the chair mat to the place where it should be (I need a new chair mat; this one is inadequate) and put the wheel back on and helped me mop up the water. That did help some. Thank you, emotional support cat. You thought you were on break, but ha ha ha guess what.
There's a running headcanon about Escape Calico: not only is she a support cat (she notices physical and emotional pain, and stops you from doing whatever it was that caused the pain, whether that is typing or being on the internet), but she is a middle-aged office worker with a name badge and a cardigan and a certain amount of smugness. So we tease her about being on break, about being clocked out, about (yesterday) just trying to go out for a few minutes while she was on break, and so forth.
09:06 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
Yep, I'm punchy, and this is the one that broke me: https://beatrice-otter.tumblr.com/post/646671411278135296
(this is about the Ever Given shitshow, and references The Miette Tweet, when I come back to this in a decade and go "...wtf")
Clearly I should step away from the computer and go curl up on the couch with a completely different computer.
Wednesday: I slept many of the sleeps. Then I tried to haul up boxes from the basement, but was foiled by the "help" of an Escape Calico, who darted out the door as I was trying to go out with an armload of Box. So then Belovedest got the rest of the boxes as I was trying to catch my breath (stairs are Not Good, and these stairs in particular). Alex made a modified jambalya, which omitted shrimp and bell pepper and included precooked bacon ends in one of the last steps and was good enough that I had it for breakfast today.
I feel for the logistics people who are getting fucked over by the Ever Given being stuck! On the other hand, it is a very simple situation (big boat stuck) and it is bringing the internet some joy in the simplicity and the memes.
~~~
I slept many of the sleeps today also.
Ev has been moderately radicalized into being 9000% Done with Men. I am proud of her, and have taken the liberty of a) saying so, and b) showing her where some of the sharp edges of Bad Reactionary Shit In This Direction happens to be. Props to
amberite for public service in pointing out some of the terves and ants and what the warning signs are. The project of Cleaning Up Sewzb0t Parlor continues. I want to sort the supplies, store the supplies so I know what they are, clear the couch and table, clear a path to swap the corner chair with a different chair, and keep working on the quilt. Also some technology juggling.
Speaking of technology, Belovedest is making tracks with Home Assistant. The automatic goodnight routine is mostly working, save that Screen B does not always accept input from the remote. This makes Uncle Simon sad. We're thinking about a kitchen extension, in addition to the bedroom extension. Belovedest seems to have installed HA on the bedroom Raspberry Pi, and is using an ancient PlayStation webcam as the mic; the webcam is old enough that nothing has the drivers for the camera but it will work as a mic. There's a very old Pi and another of those webcams that we are trying to put in the kitchen, but there were problems (I think the wrong version) last night.
I learned a thing about the kitchen that I did not previously know!!!!! There are kitchen cabinets over the refrigerator, and when Belovedest was giving me the Grand Tour I think they said something like "and we don't use these, they don't work." I concluded (reasonably) that the fridge was enough in the way that only a Very Tol person such as Belovedest could reach up there.
TURNS OUT...
The "new" fridge (when Belovedest got it with the ex; it was a floor display model and therefore cheaper; this was in 2016 or before, so it's at LEAST 5 years old now) was so tall that it did not fit under the cupboards. So they had to cut out the bottom of the cupboard (INCLUDING THE FLOOR OF THE CUPBOARD) to make room to slide the fridge underneath. THE CUPBOARD IS NOT A CUPBOARD IT'S JUST A DECOY OMG
I got my email from WA Phase Finder just now! I am eligible!! (I got my first shot last week.)
Liberty Orchards (the maker of Aplets and Cotlets) has announced that they're closing. My favorite is the nut-free fruit smoothees, in the value pack so it's a surprise. The fruit sparklers are also nice but include banana (which is an Alex-only treat). Consequently, the rush of orders has slammed them and ordering is on hold until they can get caught up. They're due to shutter in June. I will want to learn how to make this stuff, then.
Goals for today:
* Pack bedtime pillboxes (I am out)
* Pack morning/evening pillboxes (I have tonight and tomorrow left, plus my travel ones)
* Photos?
* Sort more basement stuff?
Did I mention that I made a phone purse? I made a phone purse for the moments when I don't have a pocket upon me. It's got separate sections for my ipod and phone, because the back of the ipod is conductive enough to confuse the screen of my phone, and the phone is enough bigger than the ipod that it fits despite the anti-shatter frame of the Otterbox.
05:17 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
Welp. In the process of doing pillboxes, I was trying to get the labels off of empty ones, to use for probably beads, but most importantly to house the overflow doses because I'm not doing this on the day that my pillbox wraps, I'm doing it on a Thursday and only have enough to get to Friday because of my timing on the last one. Soooo I was heating the labels with hot water, and managed to spill one of them down my front. It wasn't boiling (fortunately) and I think I'm going to escape with just a bit of a red mark, but I'm not pleased. The last time I spilled a significant quantity of hot water on myself, I ought to have gone to the hospital.
But I have got my bedtime pills packed for the month. For seven weeks, technically. I'm pleased that I've got podcasts to listen to while I'm doing this vaguely tedious task.
07:44 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
hahahaha well *that* was fun. Apparently between knocking every-god-damn-thing off my desk, mostly with my chair, and the filling of boxes, and the sorting of bottles, and the re-ordering of prescriptions, and the isolating another set of Skittles for the bedtime med food requirement, it took two and a half hours to complete. It would probably take less time if I did it more often. It would also probably take less time if the chair mat had not helped the wheel of my desk chair fall off, and if resolving that situation had not knocked over the (by then cold) cup of water that I'd been using to de-label the prescription bottles. I wound up flinging the goddamn cup (plastic) into the (unoccupied) kitchen, because it was all just too god damn fucking much.
I sulked on the couch and Escape Calico sat on my chest while Belovedest restored the chair mat to the place where it should be (I need a new chair mat; this one is inadequate) and put the wheel back on and helped me mop up the water. That did help some. Thank you, emotional support cat. You thought you were on break, but ha ha ha guess what.
There's a running headcanon about Escape Calico: not only is she a support cat (she notices physical and emotional pain, and stops you from doing whatever it was that caused the pain, whether that is typing or being on the internet), but she is a middle-aged office worker with a name badge and a cardigan and a certain amount of smugness. So we tease her about being on break, about being clocked out, about (yesterday) just trying to go out for a few minutes while she was on break, and so forth.
09:06 PM Thursday, March 25, 2021
Yep, I'm punchy, and this is the one that broke me: https://beatrice-otter.tumblr.com/post/646671411278135296
(this is about the Ever Given shitshow, and references The Miette Tweet, when I come back to this in a decade and go "...wtf")
Clearly I should step away from the computer and go curl up on the couch with a completely different computer.
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terves I am guessing = TERFS
but what is an ant?
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o.O
I would have thought the appropriate response, depending on the contents of the fic, was
a) if it's just not your cup of tea, don't read it;
b) if it is genuinely racist/sexist/homophobic/ableist write a calm online essay about how you feel this fic is racist/sexist/homophobic/ableist and that all authors should consider these issues when writing;
c) if the fic GENUINELY seemed to indicate that ACTUAL in-real-life child abuse was occurring or being planned, contact the relevant law enforcement agency or child protection agency.
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The thing that I find really disturbing about this is that grown-ass adults are going "you, internet child, need to be protected from Online Abuse, you need to be aware of These Horrible Things, this is a link to a fic that you are probably not emotionally ready to process, THIS PROVES THAT THE INTERNET IS FULL OF MONSTERS AND YOU MUST TAKE ACTION" and honestly the people doing that ought to be kicked off the internet by their ISPs.
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Oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE
The FBI today is supposed to be there for
- stopping the planning and execution of terrorist acts;
- stopping people from encouraging or planning acts of violence against Black people and other at-risk-of-being-on-the-pointy-end-of-hate-speech groups;
- stopping people from doing or planning actual criminal harm to actual flesh and blood children/minors
it's not there for "I didn't like this story"
and calling the FBI in inappropriately
a) runs the very real risk of harm to the fic author [physical harm; job loss; housing loss; scholarship loss]
but also
b) ties up FBI resources that should be used to protect people WHO ACTUALLY NEED PROTECTING, like going after people planning mass-shootings or going after violent-Neo-Nazis
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(Alternatively, a tiny leopard-print hat, affixed to the pillbox.)
I'm glad Ev's got people in her life who will look out for her like that.
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