Lately I have made: some food

Am currently attempting to muster up the energy and power to not care about work, and increasingly say, "I did my hours, I don't care." This will prove deeply challenging to me.

It has been deemed (by me and my doctor) that I am too stressed out right now. So. Deactivating bsky for a while. Most folk here have some sort of way to contact me. So. Later!

Book 3 of Lord of the Rings (first half of The Two Towers): complete! Now... for the challenging book.

I am back to my long hours at work, and also a lot of people being very stressed out and short on temper. For most of this next few months, I think I'll be pushing through by thinking of: 1) This will (very likely) be the last season with this office 2) Planned days to go pick up heavy things

Made shrimp curry tonight. It has become a favourite post workout meal, and mmmmmmmmm.

*glancing at Hornet* Hmmmmm... but red though.

Messy little Silksong paintings from my sketchbook from the last week or two. Sometimes you just want to draw a Little Guy

In other news I just found a podcast by a few transwomen about autojournalism, so... catnip for me!

lrt: Sorry, I tend to only post about Canadian politics infrequently and in the most inside baseball and hyper-specific ways, but that article gets into a big chunk of why. Like... okay, Canada doesn't have a 2 party system. That doesn't mean our parties or political system are remotely "healthy."

My latest for Canadian Dimension -- rejecting Bianca Muguenyi's candidacy shows that the party isn't about to fix it's deep democratic problems, and only one candidate has anything about changing the vetting process in their platform. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

My thought listening to the last couple New Pornographer albums and the preview from the upcoming one is that the more 'core' members leave the band, the more the albums become the long delayed next AC Newman album. And that's fine. I like AC Newman. I would love more New Pornographers, though.

Today I am making my first chicken bone broth. We will see how it gooooooes

I am sore. But I made kimchi jacket potatoes for dinner, so I guess shit can't be that bad?

Tonight. I shall attempt to play. Cyberpunk 2077. Or as I said it earlier, Cyberpunk '77, which I assume is a cyberpunk game set in 1977 a la Blades 68, which I now desperately want to play.

I made questionable financial decisions!

You ever think about Night In The Woods and then the entirety of the game hits and washes over you again and you just feel VERY STRONG FEELINGS.

So I think porcupine is extremely my "aggressive biking" sona but is badger going to become the "lifting at the gym" and "self-employed let's make it work" sona or, as I will refer to it, my "give 'er give 'er give 'er" 'sona?

All I want lately is to prepare meals with some sort of braised or fried thing on a bed of lentils or beans.

I'm reading A Physical Education by Casey Johnston, and it's great! I was expecting an interesting but probably light memoire about getting into lifting, getting comfortable with one's body, etc. Was NOT PREPARED for dad relationship stuff oh no was not ready.

Surviving the code orange so far. People keep treating me like a creature of legend for taking the bus and walking in it. My friends, this is when you get to break out that Good Winter Shit. You know those clothes you own that you never have the right occasion to wear? This is the occasion.

We played a weird game tonight so I looked it up and

have a little herschel doodle i did

Will Delta start doing her "wake up at 4 to do accounting" several weeks early? Very probably!

Went for a walk earlier and it was so cold my legs started cramping. So that's fun.

Decided I should finally shore up a hole in my music knowledge and listen to some Limblifter. ...wait why do I know EVERY ONE OF THESE SONGS

Sitting in an all day technical training session that shoooooooould have been like 8 1-hour sessions spread out across several weeks with reading materials in between. Losing my mind a bit right now. This place is just... guh.

Thinking about that scene at the end of Twin Peaks The Return part 15 at the Roadhouse. You know the one. Kinda plays in repeat in my head. A bit of a reverse comfort scene.

u could nominate a vcd...

I would like to go: to sleep

New New Pornographers album announced... Will this fix my mood? Unclear. But there's only one way to be sure.

I made pasta that @rourkie.bsky.social approved of so I win

> Tried barbells once > Now vibrating to try barbells again ASAP

It's one of them days.

Lord of the Rings update: The Two Towers edition. Ents... are good. Quickbeam? Quality guy right there. Would absolutely hang out and either get extremely high or eat the beat frigging pickles of all time with that guy.

*looks left* *looks right* ...I did barbell stuff. Fufufufufu.

Continues to be hilarious to me how in weightlifting, my legs can handle weights that are literal orders of magnitude higher than my arms.

Making my list of classical/jazz music I need to get copies of before tax season. So far: I have got you in my sights, David Brubeck, you and your Brandenburg Gate. And also, another variation on the Goldberg Variations? Why who could judge me for it? How could one not accrue Goldbergs?

The FanFiction dot Net forums. Look the 15-20 person FFTA community on FanFic at the time was active and REALLY SINCERELY INVESTED in giving each other constructive feedback on writing and also glowing up each other's work. It was amazing.

Have now learned that if Tyra starts meowing an hour+ early for her breakfast, I can not only silence her but also get her to come cuddle if I get up, go to the restroom, and then go back to bed. This could change everything. Until she catches on and it stops working.

Greeeeeeens

A Scribbly for Ratsnacc!

Was home sick today, so I decided to give Hollow Knight a try again after Silksong. ... folks Hollow Knight is easy

I'm going on strike against being sick (again)

Putting my nose to the grindstone because I refuse to get sick for a third time since October.

i finished heated rivalry this was a dope scene

Things I am apparently considering getting into this year: - Lifting - Maybe perfume? - Starting my own small business If you had asked me about literally any of these a year and a half plus ago I would have laughed VERY loud and long and perfomatively.

. @rourkie.bsky.social has deployed a surprise puppet ringer I repeat Rourkie has deployed a surprise puppet ringer

*whispers* You don't disrespect the bus driver. They can be an asshole and you can be angry or annoyed at them, but you don't disrespect the bus driverrrrrrr... (~o.o)~

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.