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who turned off the summer?
Seems like the whole weather flipped a switch the other night. On Wednesday I had the windows open, computer sitting on ice packs to help it not overheat, and wasn't layering up at all to go to work...Thursday, wham, I'm closing the windows, pulling out extra blankets, wearing a sweater and a coat to go out.
Nothing against sweaters, but oof, me and my two smelly cats are gonna miss having a fresh breeze going through the house.
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Parents officially got COVID over the summer! They're vaxxed+boosted, no extra high-risk conditions, and didn't have any trouble staying home the full isolation period, so it went over about as well as you could hope, probably.
They had this month-long European tour booked back in 2020...postponed it to 2021...postponed it again to 2022...figured this year they would just take the plunge and go for it. Get to week 3, and half the people on the tour bus are coughing. Whoops.
More recently, my aunt got it after an out-of-town relative visited. Glad I didn't go to that family gathering. (...I've gone to others, so this isn't a principled health stance I've been taking, I just got lucky.)
In other health news, one of my uncles has cancer -- not the kind you beat, the kind where the doctors say "with treatment you have about 10 years to live" -- and it's been about 10 years since they said that. So. As of this writing, he's not gone, but there's a good chance he's on his way out.
The news arrived a few days after Disney+ got Thor: Love and Thunder -- you know, the one where Jane spends the whole thing actively dying of cancer! -- so, hey, guess which family movie-watching plan has been tabled indefinitely? (I saw it in theaters, at some point I became the kind of fan who sees every Marvel movie in theaters, but the parents are in the "we want to catch them all...eventually" camp.)
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Just as I get comfortable with "Kickstarter's not going anywhere with their Mystery Blockchain Protocol, at least not in the foreseeable future, it's still safe to run a campaign there for now," then Deviantart turns around and starts flirting with blockchain nonsense. Deviantart! You werethe chosen one the only major site making an active effort to protect artists against blockchain fraud! What happened??
...okay, okay, we know what happened. Current holders of crypto can't actually get money out of the system unless they can convince new suckers to put money in, which means "bribing sites like DA and KS to drag in new suckers" is a good long-term investment.
Still a nasty twist to wake up to.
I know no amount of comments that outline how NFTs are a predatory pit of scams is going to outweigh whatever check they're cashing from the crypto industry, but I left one anyway.
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Spent the past week or so in a real downswing of low energy and high executive-dysfunction. I have all these small, relatively simple tasks to do, but getting over the hump to actually start each one? Gonna need to go take a nap first.
(The Fluff thinks this is a great deal. He loves an extra snooze. And Fiddlesticks doesn't hang out on the bed, which makes it a nice safe territory where Fluff doesn't have to worry about defending his honor as Top Cat.)
I've been trying to put "have a nap" higher on the coping-strategy list than "chug another energy drink." Probably healthier! Not as good a deal for the to-do list.
...also, not a great state to be in when you're gearing up for a crowdfunding campaign. But it's not like I work better without a deadline. So we're moving right along.
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True story, the one thing I can reliably-and-consistently focus on right now is "writing more Moon Knight fanfiction."
Using incentives like "you can write another chapter of Fic X once you finish Task Y" has been...moderately effective.
(I like this show a normal amount, I swear.)
Nothing against sweaters, but oof, me and my two smelly cats are gonna miss having a fresh breeze going through the house.
*
Parents officially got COVID over the summer! They're vaxxed+boosted, no extra high-risk conditions, and didn't have any trouble staying home the full isolation period, so it went over about as well as you could hope, probably.
They had this month-long European tour booked back in 2020...postponed it to 2021...postponed it again to 2022...figured this year they would just take the plunge and go for it. Get to week 3, and half the people on the tour bus are coughing. Whoops.
More recently, my aunt got it after an out-of-town relative visited. Glad I didn't go to that family gathering. (...I've gone to others, so this isn't a principled health stance I've been taking, I just got lucky.)
In other health news, one of my uncles has cancer -- not the kind you beat, the kind where the doctors say "with treatment you have about 10 years to live" -- and it's been about 10 years since they said that. So. As of this writing, he's not gone, but there's a good chance he's on his way out.
The news arrived a few days after Disney+ got Thor: Love and Thunder -- you know, the one where Jane spends the whole thing actively dying of cancer! -- so, hey, guess which family movie-watching plan has been tabled indefinitely? (I saw it in theaters, at some point I became the kind of fan who sees every Marvel movie in theaters, but the parents are in the "we want to catch them all...eventually" camp.)
*
Just as I get comfortable with "Kickstarter's not going anywhere with their Mystery Blockchain Protocol, at least not in the foreseeable future, it's still safe to run a campaign there for now," then Deviantart turns around and starts flirting with blockchain nonsense. Deviantart! You were
...okay, okay, we know what happened. Current holders of crypto can't actually get money out of the system unless they can convince new suckers to put money in, which means "bribing sites like DA and KS to drag in new suckers" is a good long-term investment.
Still a nasty twist to wake up to.
I know no amount of comments that outline how NFTs are a predatory pit of scams is going to outweigh whatever check they're cashing from the crypto industry, but I left one anyway.
*
Spent the past week or so in a real downswing of low energy and high executive-dysfunction. I have all these small, relatively simple tasks to do, but getting over the hump to actually start each one? Gonna need to go take a nap first.
(The Fluff thinks this is a great deal. He loves an extra snooze. And Fiddlesticks doesn't hang out on the bed, which makes it a nice safe territory where Fluff doesn't have to worry about defending his honor as Top Cat.)
I've been trying to put "have a nap" higher on the coping-strategy list than "chug another energy drink." Probably healthier! Not as good a deal for the to-do list.
...also, not a great state to be in when you're gearing up for a crowdfunding campaign. But it's not like I work better without a deadline. So we're moving right along.
*
True story, the one thing I can reliably-and-consistently focus on right now is "writing more Moon Knight fanfiction."
Using incentives like "you can write another chapter of Fic X once you finish Task Y" has been...moderately effective.
(I like this show a normal amount, I swear.)