Any year before my 18th. The ignorance of not knowing (or caring) about adult life or what insanities exist out there is a bliss I can only wish I had now.

Temperature

The temperature is really starting to drop here. My heating is on, I’m wearing multiple layers…. And my energy consumption costs are going up again…..

Friendica

Today I found out about Friendica. It’s basically a decentralised version of Facebook, in the same universe as Mastodon and Pixelfed. It also allows you to link to Twitter and read and tweet from the Friendica interface, so you’re not tied to Musk’s algorithm and adverts. Being decentralised, it’s also self-hostable, so I might give…

Facebook Twitter

There are rumblings of Meta/Facebook making a Twitter rival. Just… no.

Operation Followup

The hospital called me today to give me an update on the lab results and check-in with me and my healing. Healing has been fine. 10 days of pain until the stitches dissolved but other than that all good. No issues. The labs showed the lump was a tumor. Not cancerous and not malignant so…

Zipper

Invested in this. This is making my life a LOT easier with zentai zipping and costume zipping.

Twitter

Oh boy, the fallout is getting worse, not just inside the company but outside too. I was chatting with a colleague at work and happened to mention the state of Twitter and he told me they had some app that interacted with Twitter and he was in the process of ripping out the entire Twitter…

Performance

So my boss and I had our yearly performance review and one of my comments was increased workload (due to us being a person down due to paternity), poor planning, a constantly moving target (sound familiar?) and friction when raising concerns. My boss’ comment surprisingly acknowledged all of this, and he did admit to “having…

Operation

So it’s been a couple of days since the operation. The pain has now died down enough to be tolerable without painkillers – or at least as frequently. I’m able to eat semi-solid food now stuff like soups, porridge and congee (look that up if you don’t know what that is). I have been able…