[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

Doing my first in-person CrossFit competition. It's a friendly meet and it's more for bragging rights than actual prizes.

I am nervous and excited in equal amounts.

Though I'm not in the hardcore "RX" division (I'm doing the dialed back "Scaled" division), I think it's still going to be hard and an immense amount of fun with some new cool people.

I just ordered a pedal steel guitar yesterday and there's a chance it will arrive today. If it does, I will be spending some quality time with my new instrument. I have a rehearsal this afternoon for a gig next week as well.

I'll be spending time with my wife, perhaps playing some video games with my best friend, and likely playing some disc golf tomorrow.

Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.

As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.

There's an anti-Nazi rally in my town, which I'll go attend because fuck the AfD.

I also have tickets for Beast in Black and Gloryhammer on saturday, which is gonna be absolutely epic.

Wife is away for the weekend so just me and kiddo. Hope to watch the latest Dungeon Meshi with her. Cook dinner (small goals, man, small goals).

Install flat free tire on wheelbarrow. Which sounds not worth mentioning. The thing is, I'm usually depressed af by this time of year. Then I miss out prepping for gardening season.

Well not this year, baybee. I've been intently focused on preventing that and am doing pretty good. The wheelbarrow is representative of that.

Anyway, more tomatoes, spinach, maybe take another crack at potatoes, basil, zucchini, carrots, cantaloupes again (I can't believe they actually worked last time), not sure what else, yet. Beans? Oh and various sunflowers. Garlic has been in the ground for two years now. The alpine strawberries should now be pretty established but I may have to get a few more. Walking onions continue to spread whether I like it or not...

Video games and cleaning my house out in preparation to move

Finishing up a bit of commission work, going foraging for some pine needles, and meeting a friend to celebrate his birthday. All in all I'm quite looking forward to it

What about you?

Probably going to do some homework, probably going to read about distribution theory (i.e. generalized functions like Diracs and their derivatives) once I'm caught up. I'm so happy to be back in school.

Also, I hope SDF's Lemmy instance renews their certificate so I can get back to posting on my normal account.

Ravendawn grind of course.

If you are easily obsessed, do not check it out.

Meeting a student for drinks, catching up on my reading, maybe make a knife.

No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.

Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.

It's going to rain. I'll be nesting. Might bake some bread. Just started playing Greedfall, so I'll probably put some hours into that.

Beyond that, I'll hit up a couple 12-step meetings, as I do. Maybe hit the Saturday farmers market?

Dunno. The main goal is to trick myself into not thinking about work for two days.

Working on a Doom mod, tryin'a keep a good number of vibe checks, and working through THC withdrawal and a tolerance break. I ain't a very exciting dude.

Lots of new trolls but they are quickly banned.

People are insulting sometimes but it's more about them than us. That's how they think they should behave I guess. Rebelling as a keyboard warrior and all. :)

I had a great weak. Started leasing a new car on Monday and have been enjoying it a lot. Work is going good. Soon warmer weather too. Things are looking nice.

Gonna go to a friend's birthday party. He's turning 18 and I'll give him a "best mother ever" shirt.

It's finally a weekend with no set plans, so I'm going to work on some art, change my oil, and maybe we'll have a fire since the weather is going to be nice. So a weekend with no plans turns into catching up on me time and getting to things I've put off for too long 🙃

Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go

A little bit of self promotion, since you asked. My bandmate and I started a tiny record label named Paraluna as a project and decided our first release was going to be a charity compilation of 80s covers named Retronomicon for Charles Levi to help with his recovery. It came out yesterday and is doing okay in sales. 100% of proceeds go to Charles Levi's medical bills. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find with a quick Google search. So this weekend is promote, promote, promote.

Hope you have a great weekend!

We're getting a 3D ultrasound of our first child tomorrow. To say I'm beyond excited is an understatement.