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azurelunatic) wrote2022-04-27 12:37 am
azurelunatic) wrote2022-04-27 12:37 am
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Astrogation can be fun!
Dreams: the usual variety, a tediously mundane fight against a large and corrupting evil. This one featured a water park with a candy shop.
Belovedest was up early to meet plumbers, who needed to install a regulator between us and city water. Our water pressure was too good, on the edge of where it would start to prematurely wear out the plumbing. That wrapped up around 11:30 or so.
I headed off to a doctor appointment: routine discussion of my numbers, a vaccination in case I get an accidental needle stick (not actually likely in my lifestyle, but abundances of caution and all), and examination of a weird new thing I noticed (don't worry but keep an eye). I explained the mental difference between A Seated Elliptical For Exercise, and My Foot Fidget Spinner. With the elliptical, you have to go through a whole context switching ritual, sitting down on purpose To Exercise. With a fidget toy, you keep it where it's going to be useful and mess with it when you want to. You don't have to keep going at a specific pace, you just slowly pedal while reading or gaming, and maybe you do get the zoomies and pedal like a swan for a while. (And maybe the cat notices that one and emits a long, drawn-out beep while she considers it, then demande her place across your tits.)
Nora called; one of her blorboes is on tour in the fall. I stuffed it in the calendar.
It was trash night. I gave Escape Calico hugs out front in the lounge chair so she wouldn't escape during the bag hauling. She only tried to get away a little. It was sunny, and there were all sorts of sniffs. The dee-dee-dees sounded delicious as usual. We stayed out until it got more than sweater chilly.
One of the discussions around online has been about the things about our youth in the past that would blow the young minds of the new generation. TFV was mentioning the Earthling's recent boggle: if you didn't know something and nobody around you knew, you would just have to keep not knowing.
On my way to the appointment I thought idly that GPS was a real paradigm shift. (Automatic lookup of area maps. Knowing where you are. Turn by turn directions for somewhere you never planned to go.) Easy instructions in a voice you could choose.
Somehow my brain skipped sideways and I was contemplating the astrogation module in a smallish starship. Which had been messed with by the local 12 year old. And now no one can convince it to stop talking in uwu.
Belovedest was up early to meet plumbers, who needed to install a regulator between us and city water. Our water pressure was too good, on the edge of where it would start to prematurely wear out the plumbing. That wrapped up around 11:30 or so.
I headed off to a doctor appointment: routine discussion of my numbers, a vaccination in case I get an accidental needle stick (not actually likely in my lifestyle, but abundances of caution and all), and examination of a weird new thing I noticed (don't worry but keep an eye). I explained the mental difference between A Seated Elliptical For Exercise, and My Foot Fidget Spinner. With the elliptical, you have to go through a whole context switching ritual, sitting down on purpose To Exercise. With a fidget toy, you keep it where it's going to be useful and mess with it when you want to. You don't have to keep going at a specific pace, you just slowly pedal while reading or gaming, and maybe you do get the zoomies and pedal like a swan for a while. (And maybe the cat notices that one and emits a long, drawn-out beep while she considers it, then demande her place across your tits.)
Nora called; one of her blorboes is on tour in the fall. I stuffed it in the calendar.
It was trash night. I gave Escape Calico hugs out front in the lounge chair so she wouldn't escape during the bag hauling. She only tried to get away a little. It was sunny, and there were all sorts of sniffs. The dee-dee-dees sounded delicious as usual. We stayed out until it got more than sweater chilly.
One of the discussions around online has been about the things about our youth in the past that would blow the young minds of the new generation. TFV was mentioning the Earthling's recent boggle: if you didn't know something and nobody around you knew, you would just have to keep not knowing.
On my way to the appointment I thought idly that GPS was a real paradigm shift. (Automatic lookup of area maps. Knowing where you are. Turn by turn directions for somewhere you never planned to go.) Easy instructions in a voice you could choose.
Somehow my brain skipped sideways and I was contemplating the astrogation module in a smallish starship. Which had been messed with by the local 12 year old. And now no one can convince it to stop talking in uwu.
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In this case the only risk of being lost in interstellar space would be if the actual intended navigator got fed up and ejected the module. The child is likely being "punished" by being tasked to do the navigation, because Mom cannot even deal right now.
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It's payback for how often he boggles everyone who's been following his mother's posts, simply by getting older at the rate of one year per year.
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I still recall explaining to Ev that while yes, in Silicon Valley you often can just use the free wifi around, wifi has to have a paid for connection at some point. And gave a high-level internet backbone explanation.