Me: I have a thought. I should communicate it Me, 15 seconds later: Any time I try to form a word it is an embarrassment to humanity's entire existence

I have only one genuinely good story I can tell about my mom. She got an obscene call one night while my dad was still out on a job. She (erroneously) thought it was him checking in by way of pulling one of his stupid pranks, so she started talking back just as dirty. The caller hung up on her.

I'm very close to creating a graph where the X axis is day of 2026 and the Y axis is number of times we communicated with each other that day from opposite ends of the house about male enhancement shenanigans.

More and more I'm getting the urge to rig up all my devices to play "you're going surfing on the internet" every time i dhcp. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBTs...

I run Pretty Serious Business Grade Router Software for the house. It's really convenient that a lot of other people running Pretty Serious Business Grade Router also play Animal Crossing, thus I was able to easily find all sorts of documentation for configuring it for friend access for S's switch.

Dear @damnslippy.slippy.me, Hope this skeet finds you well. Per our discussion earlier in regards to making dicks bigger, here is a link to the aforementioned Enzyte commercials from 2002. Best, -len www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZP...

DHL is good about actually getting packages to me, but tracking stuff on their site is always like, Your package is out for delivery and is in your area. You can expect it soon. Also, your package transformed into a falcon and flew to Wyoming and is pursuing a new career as a lounge singer.

If I had any interest in leaving the house this weekend, I'd totally be checking this out. www.global.pitt.edu/auditory-cul...

New rule: just stamp the sell-by date on the goddamn label. Don't make me hold the bottle up to the phoenix-shaped opening in the sacred pyramid chamber at just the right angle at noon on the vernal equinox in order to cast the date hieroglyphs onto the wall like I'm Indiana Jones or some shit.

Something that continues to fuck with me as a GenX-er is the fact that all these 60s/70s musicians are still around, but when I start going through all the formative music I listened to in the late 80s/early 90s, it's like lead singer: long dead. lead singer: long dead. lead singer: long dead...

I'm once again really liking combining diet coke and OJ. I know it sounds strange, but I did this a lot as a kid. Because when internet doesn't exist yet that's the sort of thing you do to entertain yourself. Got back into it recently. For slightly more normal, try (diet) coke and a bit of coffee.

Gremlin and me

Prior to social media, I don't remember saying things like "THAT'S NOT 'THE NEWS', THAT'S YOUR ANUS." But here in 2026 that's just what you have to say sometimes when blocking a sus porn account that randomly follows you. Ok now I want to say "THAT'S NOT 'THE NEWS', THAT'S YOUR ANUS" more often.

I'm getting so many emails from so many Malaysian email addresses for sex and this has been going on for weeks. People of Malaysia Who Are Of Course Real People And Not Scammers: YOU CAN GET SO MUCH BETTER TAIL THAN ME

Cold war schemes were so batshit. "Maybe we could intercept this cargo of sugar headed from Cuba to USSR and inject a chemical to make it taste like cat urine." Is this geopolitics or a 1980s Steve Guttenberg movie? Was the CIA gonna deploy a guy to make fart sounds from behind Castro's podium?

True crime vids are always like "we knew immediately something was wrong because he always replies to texts within 6 seconds." My brothers and I will never know if one of us goes missing. Half the time we don't even reply. I texted M about something on 12/23 and am only hearing back from him today.

I've noticed an interesting trend in genz youtubers the past few months. A lot of them seem to be strongly enunciating T sounds now when they talk ("imporTanT" is one I encounter quite often). I wonder if there's something specific behind that. Seems to just be younger folk newly doing this.

Me: Given the post going around, I wonder what the longest-titled song in my music collection is. Probably It's My Tail And I'll Chase It If I Want To by Oceansize Plex: At the moment it's looking like The Boy Who Ate Lasagna And Could Jump Over A Church Part Two by King Missile

Sometimes I look up at the living room ceiling at just the right angle under just the right light and it looks like Wolverine was in here doing jumping jacks.

[homesickness for whatever the fuck planet i was shot to earth from when I was born] No, I don't actually believe I'm an ALF, I just feel like one.

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I really wish I could get my fingers to cooperate so I can record this guitar part already and be done with this tune already. I've been working at it for nearly a year now. I'm so close and so far.

Punxsutawney Kitaen saw her reflection on the Jaguar, which means 6 more weeks of going down the only road we've ever known.

Me, warmer and more humid months: What the hell is wrong with everyone I know? They're talking nonstop about peeling their feet off Me, cooler and dryer months: I'm perpetually 30 seconds away from taking an orbital sander to my entire body

Hmm. Somewhere in the course of assembling the printer last week one of the threaded Z axis rods got bent. Not sure whether to blame myself or the cats. Also not sure whether to try straightening it or to just order a replacement stepper. They're not terribly expensive, but ~1 week wait.

I just realized that this movie rotted my brain so much I forgot the word "compelled." I'm still trying to get my 3 brain cells back. I know, I have only myself to blame.

While I'm happy my ankle is no longer hurting so much, I'm less happy about the fact that whilst down in the basement a little bit ago moving some small electronics around in the process of futzing with a computer I somehow twisted the fuck out of my back? Ugh.

First test print on new printer: success. At first I was worried because it looked like the first layer was going down really shitty, but it seems that was just the lighting fucking with me. First layer is perfect and super smooth. Aside from some slight oozing around a small perimeter, looks good!

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that S spent the last 4 days streaming high-brow movies from this year's Sundance, but I was just sitting here tonight and felt suddenly compulsed to watch 1990 Charlie Sheen/Emilio Estevez classic Men At Work.

"We're struggling financially; we should buy a bunch of companies. That'll fix us" is a thing that capitalismers seem to do a lot, and I'm not sure it ever results in anything but an even bigger bankruptcy. I just feel like major business decisions shouldn't remind me of my drinking problem days.

In "my brain works until it doesn't" news, I cruised along mostly fine assembling the printer, but moving on to setup, the belt tensioning mechanism was being fussy and that really threw me sideways for a couple of days. I *think* that's squared away now? Brain feels deflated.

Found this Gremlin photo from 2021. Not sure what the fuck happened here.

I wish I could stop having ideas for, well, anything. My brain's too incompetent for ideas.

Dude! He finally got it working! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO...

I continue to be amused that my psychiatry appointments are for a day but not a time. I just get a text in the morning day of that's like "hi, I'm here until 4:30, pop into the virtual chat whenever."

A less-obvious thing that throws my brain regulation sideways around the holidays is trash pickup being pushed back a day on thanksgiving, christmas, etc. I always look forward to the week after MLK day because FINALLY trash pickup gets back to normal. Unless we get a major snow storm that week.

It only just occurred to me that the worst 2 winter storms that have happened since I've lived in Pittsburgh are also mental health history bookends. '94 blizzard coincided with all the shit that formed the genesis of my mental health problems, and 2010 storm ultimately led to my bipolar diagnosis.

3D printers are getting so fancy these days. "Starting from firmware 6.4.0, a belt tuning wizard is available in the printer menu, navigating in LCD Menu -> Settings -> Manual Belt Tuning. The printer uses controlled belt excitation combined with stroboscopic feedback to visualize belt resonance."

I wish more companies made guitar cables like this with integral kill switches. I've been using these kinds of cables for about 20 years now and it's great being able to disconnect the cable from the jack and insert/remove it without impulsing the whole signal chain.

Assembly complete! I'm gonna wait until tomorrow to do the rest of the setup.

Extruder assembled. And I was finally able to tie down some of the wiring mess in the main box , so it's ever so slightly less unwieldy now.

Gigi axis assembled.

Love, exciting and new Circuit board, we're expecting you Love, life's sweetest reward Let it reflow, it floats back to you

Me: I'm going to do all the small-parts printer assembly on top of this little cabinet because the cats generally aren't interested in going there Gigi: You're interested in that space, which makes me interested in that space. Stand back, I'm gonna do some F=ma on that M3x25

Today in printer assembly is the extruder and some other stuff. Not terribly looking forward to the extruder. As much as the designs improve it's still a tedious frankenstein assembly. Less involved than yesterday's CoreXY assembly, but a lot more cramming things into a tiny space from every angle.

We're in 2026 now but I still keep writing "democracy" on all my paperwork.

PSA. I'm about to go start a tiny drip in our utility sink. If you live in an area where temperatures are getting really cold, you might want to consider doing the same as a precaution against burst pipes. This is sadly too late for all the folks who have gotten hit with this already.

Holy shit I should've gotten us new flash drives sooner. I just dumped a 5.5GB .iso onto my new one in 7.2 seconds (760 MB/s). I had no idea they made them that fast these days.

CoreXY assembly completed. That was the longest and most involved portion, so the rest should cruise a little better. And it finally looks like a 3D printer!

Installed the XY motors and belts. It's a little hard to show the routing clearly, so I included their diagram as well.