Ahh nothing like spending a Friday evening watching local TV channel storm coverage. Maybe a tornado tonight? My parents were lucky that what hit last night in Major County missed them, so here's hoping I have good luck too!

Oh fucking hell, dipshit Markwayne is now the DHS head? I mean, sure, he's no longer a senator for Okiemolah, but...it's still a lose-lose for all of us.

March 1st, and hail is hitting my house. Fun.

Watching Star Trek VI after reading all the coverage of the fuckery the US & Israel are perpetrating in Iran. I saw this movie in HS, and I remember being naive enough to think that just maybe better days might be ahead. Now my old ass envies that teen for having a sliver of a glimmer of hope

How did the Trek PTB overlook the opportunity for Starfleet Academy tie-on Kleenex or Puffs because...goddamn, this sappy old woman here once again is bawling during an episode! Give me K'Leenex!

After what feels like 2 months of wrangling w/ health insurers & other hurdles, I was able to pick up my 3 meds at the pharmacy today. The head pharmacist said she was instructed that she must call my current insurer for the next month or so to confirm coverage—despite all my wrangling. Life is BS.

Why the ever-living fuck is the street sweeper out doing its thing when the wind is 30 MPH and the humidity in the teens? Goddamn, there's enough particulates in the wind without your dry brushes stirring up the stuff from the curb.

JFC, I haven't in a LONG time had a day that made me want to run into the street & let a big-ass truck take me out of the game of life, but today that streak ended. And my day started w/ a visit to a new mental health provider, which is when I started feeling DONE with life. Enjoy a pic of Buffy!

While it's cool that Tulsa is getting OK's first IKEA, I'd rather have a Buc-ee's. Sure, one day I could theoretically replace the INDIRA blanket snagged by Floof claws & stained with Ralph drool, but now I need affordable gasoline & a place to stare at cow art. www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklaho...

5-month-olds, ammiright?!?

When you're stuck in a room with a pair of 5-month-olds and are barely hanging on and in desperate need for another adult

Selling crappy raktajino at rest stops, you say? All hail Nus Buc-ee!

I think I experienced a miracle today. Was able to book a new patient appointment for a behavioral health provider FOR NEXT WEEK, and the provider accepts Medicaid and doesn't require a referral from a PCP to satisfy clinic policy. Almost cried when the scheduler told me the first available date.

Just learned my mental health provider isn't covered by Medicaid that I just started. I have to find a new provider & wait 3–6 months for an appt, & go to urgent care in the meantime to get my monthly script for my sch II med. I spent time verifying the coverage before cancelling BCBS plan. Kill me

Had a job interview today. I even slapped on some makeup for it. Now I understand why the recruiter implied other people contacted had blanched at the pay rate. I put on makeup for this? Nah, I'm good.

Ahh man, I'm 10 minutes into today's @greatesttrek.com ep, and I'm bawling listening to Tawny talk about the phone call. Thanks so much, @benjaminahr.mobi and Adam, for getting her to be the special guest for this ep! Such a delight!

Born this day: Eddie Faye Gates, educator, pillar of her community, and historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Gates has some lessons for a moment like this: witness, document, and persist in telling the truth. Read here: thepickup.com/theres-no-be...

Watched the #StarfleetAcademy ep. God am I a sobbing wreck.

Finally got to finish the latest ep of @greatesttrek.com, and as much as I'm looking forward to this week's ep of Starfleet Academy, I think I'm looking forward to this week's ep of Greatest Trek and its special guest even more? And I'll be chucking ALL the cats outside to listen uninterrupted.

Darth Vader, it turns out, is very loving and just wants a cozy lap for napping.

Ooh! Ooh! My BA is in English Writing and Rhetoric, so can I join the Starfleet Corps of Rhetoric Engineers?!?! The stylus is mightier than the phaser!

And if you're not in LA, you can purchase a ticket for the live-stream! (Proceeds from which will go to the same charity.) www.dynasty.tv/products/lov...

Well neat. The hot water pipe for my washing machine burst around 7:30. Not fun digging up a swath of snow in search of the water main, and not fun having to shut water off for the house--but I've gone without water for 5+ days twice before, so nothing new there! Fuck my life....

The podcasts that kept me laughing and sane since 2022, and ooh boy have I needed the eps these past...many months! Thanks, @greatesttrek.com, for being cheaper and more readily available than weekly therapy!

My asshole neighbors have apparently abdicated their responsibility for their 2 cats in these subzero temps, so I have 2 cats in my garage in addition to the 3 cats (one of whom I took in a few years ago under same circumstances) in the house. And the really bad weather is yet to come? Kill me now.

Nothing like attending a monthly online confab for tech writers/doc writers early on a frigid Friday morning and having the intros be a roll call of folks who've lost their jobs. Yeah, great way to kick off a snowpocalypse. Definitely recommend!

Are you an unemployed tech writer desperately seeking a job the same way I am? Write the Docs Calgary has an upcoming online event for us! Finding documentation work in challenging times www.meetup.com/wtd-calgary/...

Rage, rage against the dying of the light! And at the cat from the corner who comes over begging for food when he has plenty of food at his own house

I'm a cat bed!

Getting a new Trek show to watch? Awesome! Getting new Dadmiral entries from Ben and Adam in @greatesttrek.com episodes? Super-duper awesome!

Hell yeah

I hope getting bonked on the head 3 times by an owl while out on a walk at 5:30 AM portends good luck or some positive event in the bonkee's life. Have walked that same residential road almost every day at approx same time since June 2022, & today was the first time encountering an owl. So weird.

Buffy and I thank you very much, @steveokino.bsky.social, for making possible an order from Feline GrubHub! (The other cats are too busy sleeping away a cold, windy day to pose for photos, but they're grateful too!)

Well, the felines are officially fucked as my unemployment continues. The price of a can of Friskies went from 78 cents to 84 cents, and Floof's Fancy Feast went from 88 cents to 96 cents. Fuck all this bullshit.

Tornado possibility on 8 January. Neat. This year is just fabulous in every shitty way.

Watching "Emissary" for the umpeenth time since watching it waaay back on this date in 1993. Or at least I'm going to try to watch it. The feline overlords might have other plans for my time.

Listening to the Golden State Warriors play at noon Central time is making today seem even more...off. Are the holidays over yet? I need normal time to return.

Temp has dropped about 20°, and wind's now howling WNW. Buffy decided to come in and assist me with a psoas release because my left hip is cranky. Thanks, bub, but your extra weight is no good if I've again torn the labrum in that hip.

Boxing Day wishes to all who celebrate from Ralph, King of Boxes

Ahh man, listen to me sounding like I know what I'm doing as a tech writer/knowledge base admin AND as a yoga instructor! I've felt so incompetent lately as I get rejection email after rejection email from prospective employers. Listening to this outtake was a nice reminder I'm not incompetent.

My holiday gift to me: a badly needed haircut. Stylist asks if I'm ready for Christmas. "Sure, I guess." Stylist then asks if I have last-minute gift shopping to do afterward. That's when I admit that no, I've been unemployed since end of Sept, so no gifts could I afford to buy. Fun conversation!

Happy Solstice! Here's to more sunlight in the weeks and months to come!

The number of tech writer job postings for the military industrial complex is too damn high, and the number of those openings that require an existing secret-level clearance is disturbing.

Well hell, guess I'm not going for my 7-mile morning walk today. I just don't have enough layers for single-digit wind chill. Boo :(

Took time today to sort through a big-ass box of memento-y items from a decade-long relationship. Still can't bring myself to chuck some things, but the big-ass box is now a shoebox, so...progress?

The cat from next door is once again at my patio door begging for food and probably some assistance putting an end to his indignity.

This floofy bastard....

So Spotify tells me I'm old as fuck, a Trekkie, an NPR nerd, & like jazz? Tell me something I don't know! To be fair to @greatesttrek.com, TGG would be #1 again if I hadn't switched to consuming it using Podcast Addict. And boy howdy have I consumed a LOT of that pod these past few months!

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is a nice way to spend 17 minutes and 4 seconds when you need to not think for a little while.

My dad cut & assembled these wooden snowflakes. I told him with a few pattern mods, he could wreaths of d'k tahgs. "Are your holiday decorations without honor because you are a worthless petaQ? Bring glory to you and your house with a festive d'k tahg wreath!" I don't think I sold him on it.