I'm housesitting my parents place for almost a month from Monday. Just thinking about tomorrow's weather and it has me thinking.. maybe I'll take dad's Harley out for a lil ride while I'm there. It has been quite a while since I rode.
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Just don’t start the bike at 6am like my Harley neighbour and you’re all sweet.
sounds like great fun, there are some really good highways out west that make nice riding
Went out to dinner tonight.
You could see everyone's, social battery run out at 8:30 on the dot. One guy literally got up and left.
I know we're all of a certain age, but still...
I'm having shitty sticky thoughts after a recent nightmare, so whilst I engage in some mindfulness, here are some memes to make light of the situation. Also fun fact - yesterday a lecturer said in a talk about sheep digestive systems that the word rumination means to chew the cud. Sheep and cows are ruminants. 
Ah good all Latin, condensing "to chew the cud" into "ruminate". Funnily, it seems it's origins beyond Latin are unknown/debated; I'm used to words being traced to PIE or another proto-language, so it's always so interesting when a words possible ultimate etymology is unknown.
It's okay to have those sticky thoughts after our brains decided to traumatise us through our dreams. We love you, and if you need to chat or vent then my DMs are open always. 💜💜 Sending you good vibes 💜💜
Good old Latin, good old brains. Thank you, Spud <3 I really appreciate your support!
Finally caved last week and installed Facebook. There's some businesses/organisations I deal with that only have a FB page. Decided to look up half siblings I haven't seen in decades and actually found them. Dithered for a couple of days before sending friend requests. 2/3 were accepted almost immediately! I had an exchange of msgs with my brother and feel so chuffed, happy in a funny kind of way I haven't felt for a long time. My nephews and nieces are adults! ADULTS!
Over The Garden Wall was removed from the Internet Archive and got pulled from some streaming services and reinstated on one… now is a great time to watch it if you still have access.
I'll pirate it while it's still available. A lot of old torrents are dropping offline too.
I hate that every fucking media company/distributor thinks they need their own fucking streaming service.
I remember when Netflix was actually amazing, so many movies and shows, docos, and now they have all been moved and Netflix is a piece of shit company funding some asshole making true crime a dramatic untrue retelling (Menendez brothers, and others).
And now shits being removed from the net. Enshittification ugh
I fucking hate it too.
Anything not immediately profitable or would require residuals gets dumped, everything else gets hoarded until the only legal source is proprietary gated and then… possibly gets ditched anyway.
Yeah also the fragmentation and hot potatoing of ‘content’ to try and make you sign up for all of them.
I never bought into streaming and now don’t want to
Makes me sick, and thankful I have some physical media I love. I have a triple DVD of The Mummy 1 and 2 and The Scorpion King, as well as Aladdin and The King of Theives, my fav Aladdin/Disney movie. Rogue One and the original trilogy (the only ones that are canon to me lol). I just need the extended editions of Lotr and I'll be set for life I think.
I stopped using Netflix during the lockdowns, when we noticed the enshittification encroaching. Now none of those services are worth the price of admission or subscription. 🤢
I really should have paid more attention but had bigger fish to fry.
Time to diversify entertainment into as much cheap/free non-consumer stuff as possible :/
22.5 hours to ten days of CAT. I must tidy up the house a bit for her - so she has more nests to sit in. And avoids the pots where plants died and it's all just dried up potting mix.
Oh, and there was so much gardening I wanted to do before she arrives, because I can't have her escaping via the balcony, but I don't think I'll get to it in time... so she might have to be shut off in a bedroom for a couple hours when I get around to it. Though at the rate I'm procrastinating it might only get done after she leaves.
I think Soxcat is counting down too!
Poor girl will have no idea about it, until she's placed with great and extreme difficulty in her carrier, the slinky little gymnast... But I think she does remember me as I've visited her a few times. I am sure she'll enjoy her stay.
You’re so lucky you’ve managed to stay in contact.
There’s a kitty I still kind of worry about
You must really be looking forward to soxcat if you’re counting it down to the hour.
I hope you get many snuggles and cuddles from the kitty.
Tomorrow I think it going to be a really nice day but you might not have time to get it done tomorrow before she arrives.
Really wish I didn't have such a full workload on because tomorrow would've been perfect to wfh/do half a day and potter around. I'm going to make sure I get some outside time at least and leave as early as I can. Weekend looks good for snuggles. I hope she will have fully remembered me by then. If not, some treats won't go astray..
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