What are you up to today?
Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!
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Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!
I washed my dishes! Life has been grim lately. They had stacked up. Kitchen is clean now. And maybe I feel a bit better.
LOL. Thanks! :]
It wasn't that tall. Only about a month. But it was a lot.
It's been a month since my bro and his gal came over for BBQ. I think that's what the mold was eating.
Making music. I’ve started working on a new EP, probably around 5 songs, that I plan to release within 3 months.
Oh that's rad as hell! I just started learning music production somewhat recently, it's so hard but so much fun. I hope your EP comes together smoothly, I'm sure it'll turn out badass. What genre?
Thanks! Yeah, even I am still continuously learning new things. In fact, I recently reset my mixing/mastering workflow and started fresh, because of new stuff I learned. I do different genres, but this time it’s gonna be a prog industrial metal instrumental album.
I'd love to hear it when it's ready!
Made the mistake of trying Deadlock. It's invite only right now but there are communities that will let you friend someone for an invite. Anyway I figured it was good since it's Valve. And uh unfortunately I was right. I haven't slept properly in a week
Well, it's bed time here, but in the morning I'm going on a road trip to get another preventative rabies shot. I didn't build up enough antibodies from the 3 shots last fall to work with raccoons and foxes and such, so I'm giving it another try.
It's a 5-6 hour round trip, but another wildlife center is running a discount program, so it saves me $500 or so, even with gas taken into account.
That's a fantastic discount, my goodness. I hope this time is the one that lets you work with them!
It is! The shots are normally around 600 to 800 each, and you need 3, typically.
The clinic out there does a spring and fall event so new volunteers and anyone needing a booster can come all on the same days. One vial of vaccine holds enough to do 10 people, so instead of giving one shot and tossing the rest as would happen if we all got shots randomly, they schedule us to all come on the same days, and pass the savings on to us, as most of us aren't paid to do this work.
I tested positive for antibodies, but not high enough to safely work with rabies vector animals, so I'm due for a booster. I believe we need to get a titer every 2 years to show we still have proper antibody levels to keep working with them.
So it's a bit of a hassle, but we have so many cute critters that I can't work with without doing it!
Meatball the groundhog
A tiny baby fox they brought back to life after it passed. It's big now, and still just as adorable!
They're too adorable! That's so cool.
I'm no hypocrite, I'll chime in. I woke up at 1 am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep because my body hates me apparently. The day was pretty good other than that though, I made a run to the dump that I'd been meaning to do for months, got my hair dyed, and had lunch at a local cafe (sandwich with a yuba patty, sesame slaw, and peanut sauce. It was so good). Now I'm just chilling, I got cider and I'm listening to records (Yesterwynde by Nightwish right now). I'm gonna sleep well tonight I think!
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLS9HI_R0SyA9NQpNNo16uYpKTDxhQ7yI
I do have some Nightwish, but hadn't been aware that this was out.
Norway's constitutional day today, so started the off at 8 with canon shots from the castle where the royal families resided in the 11-1200's followed by a speech from the mayor, then a parade through the city for the annual retelling of some of the towns heroes and legends from throughout history, and then hotdogs and ice cream and coffee in the sun before going home for breakfast and cake, and then the children's parade through the streets from home just before 13. Now it's gaming time while I listen to the party of the celebrating russ next door in the background.
Same. Gratulerer med dagen.
Gratulerer med dagen 🇧🇻
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russefeiring
Rolled down 80km of Italian alps today on the Alpe-Adria cycling route. Probably the nicest part of the route. Between Villach and Carnia including some 50+ km of the most beautiful rail to trail I've been on. With good weather as well. Honestly amazing day.
I've been recovering from bottom surgery, still on my first week of being home from the hospital. Moving around has been hard, so I spent today watching TV (Dropout's GameChanger and Invincible S4), speaking to friends online or who visit, and doing some hand sewing. Well, plus my surgery maintenance.
Congratulations! I recommend Baldur's Gate Three and Potionomics for good recovery games.
Congrats on the surgery! Recovering is rough, but it's so much better after you're healed. Definitely take it easy, and don't forget to drink water. 😄
Putter around in the garden while the pups and the hens frolic in the yard, then off to work this afternoon. Work is a doggie daycare/boarding/training facility and it’s a rather slow weekend, so basically it’ll be some cleaning but mostly 8hrs of chilling with a pack of dogs what’s going to be a lovely spring afternoon. I have no complaints.
Severe thunderstorm rolled through town earlier, took the opportunity to drive around while everyone was pulled off to the sides of the road.
Couldn't see 5 feet in front of me and was constantly pelted by hail. Was pretty fun.
I'm going to start a new homebrew experiment making watermelon cucumber hard seltzer with lemon zest and a splash of apple juice. It probably needs sweetener after the sugars have become alcohol to bring back the watermelon flavour and maybe some mineral salt to give it seltzer character.
That sounds delicious 😮
I hope it turns out well!
Hot sweaty, course 2 of 3 about entering a structure. A good day all in all.
I went to six flags with my significant other today, we had a blast! I don't think I'd been on a roller coaster in nearly a decade so it was really fun to be back in a theme park (despite the food prices, which were ludicrous).
I'll probably wash my truck and then go buy some baseboard for work tomorrow. Might go to my camp spot to sit and cook by a fire in the evening.
Update: Truck washed (washed my bike too), baseboards bought, replaced the bedding for my gerbil and now eating some yoghurt before heading out into the woods to muddy my clean bike.
National holiday, so celebrating with family.
Gratulerer med dagen!
took kiddo to a birthday party at the museum, did therapy, rode bikes to the park, bought ice-cream it was alright i guess .
Worked 12 hours. About to do it again, then again
I went to a Meow Wolf exhibit for the first time, which is probably one of the best exercises in set design I’ve ever seen executed.
It's not too many pancakes, but a bit similar I am making too many Rotis today. There are many types of (stuffed) flatbread, today dahlpuri roti. I am making a bunch for the freezer as well.
Takes quite a bit of work, making the stuffing and all, so I already made the Doks Masala (Surinam style duck curry) and Madame Jeanette pepper sauce late last night to go with the Roti.
Also traditional to go with roti and doks masala is boiled eggs, patato masala and long beans. Scoop that stuff up with the roti, no fork or spoon needed, bare hands. I am looking forward serving this tonight.
I went looking for recipes, but ended up with a history lesson as well about Indian people in the Caribbean. Very interesting, and the food sounds delicious!
I make roti frequently, but whenever I try to stuff them, I get too overzealous and they all poke out and make a mess. 😄
Heh, I posted about that history a while back. In the Netherlands we have a large community of Indonesian, Dutch West Indies and Surinam people, all with wonderful culture, music and food.
I used to overstuff my rotis and have the same result as you, but after much practice got the hang of it. I also make flabreads that are much easier to make, like parathas and chapatis. Also delicious.
Cheers!
I love all the quick breads, since I can make them up quickly whenever something calls for some. It's also fun to mix in random ingredients to suit my mood. Breads are some of my favorite foods in general.
I can't understand why people still get so hung up on immigration. We have the rich and modern cultures we have because we haven't stayed in one place and kept to ourselves. We move about and share the best of our ideas with each other and find ways to make even greater things. Food, music, stories, science, and so much more. Never have I learned something about another group of people and felt I was worse off than before. Even if it isn't something I would enjoy for me, it shows me something I had never considered before.
Hear hear.
We Dutch can enjoy these cultures now because of the ruthless exploitation of Indonesia and (North) African country's for centuries and there are Dutch people still having a hard time showing immigrants any respect or hospitality, and where I live in growing numbers. It is disheartening but I am glad not to be like them.
Most of my cooking skills comes from learning from friends and family with Indo, Surinam and North African backgrounds. My sisters are all married to people from non Dutch cultures, so I am lucky there too. Also we live near the largest importer/distributor of Asian, Indonesian and Surinam foods in Europe. Very lucky.
My mother is a racist though, we don't see her.
I'm in the US, so we learn (some) about African people that were brought here and to the Caribbean. It is terrible what happened, but they came up with many great things to help them get through. They brought with them foods, music, and traditions that now feel engrained in the greater society here, regardless of one's origins.
We still have a very long way to go on fixing people's biases, but many people have much more foreign influence in their daily lives than they might be aware of.
With pending uncertainty of the effects of climate change, who knows who the next group of immigrants will be, and those people should hope that they have shown good treatment to those seeking help in the past.
Working on the customisation of my homebrew arcade machine. Solved a lot of problems this weekend and now it is the fun part. After the game overlays are set, I get to try and get the light guns mapped (without conflicts with the spinners hopefully)
Chilling after a long day of programming. Piano music helps to destress from the work.
Breakfast time. Than gotta go to the social centre to prep it for its 12birthday.
I find the light and color here to be extremely pleasant to look at.
Thanks, I surely do. I believe human brains are set to feel good around wood, greans, earthy colours so that would check out.
The type of breakfast people in movies would eat one bean sprout from and off they go.
::: spoiler spoiler Enjoy your day :::
Just finished a LAN party. I'm the chairman of the nonprofit that arranges it. Everything went smooth. So smooth I had bad anxiety the day before we started lol. The aula we rented is cleaned, and the extra chairs and tables we rented have been picked up.
Before the pandemic we used to have close to a 1000 guests. But unfortunately big LAN partys are dying, so this year we were only around 70.
I think we'll keep a smaller size, but aiming for a bit more than 100 next year. Because at this size, it's still really fun without all the extra stress and workload that comes from arranging a really big party
I'll continue sorting LEGO bricks. I'm almost done with Light Bluish Gray, of which I currently have about a cubic meter (probably even more) in the living room. I've got half of that again already sorted in storage.
Update: just finished the last box and put it in the car. Two weeks of sorting Light Bluish Gray are finally over!
U building a Lego ocean or something?
I'm currently building a moon base. At the moment it has four square meters, but there are plans for ten plus. I just moved a large box of 16x16 plates in gray to storage which will not survive the next expansion. If you build on such scale, boxes of bricks vanish fast.
The last module is 1x1m and ate about 10-12000 bricks.
Other projects in planning is "Porco Rosso" which is a restaurant located on a hill, a proper "Home Alone" house (not the small play version as published by LEGO, but built after the real house plans), a pirate island city, and, of course, my LEGO city.
Was a pretty stunning reply in my inbox after just checking the post title and the first sentence xD Nearly as impressive after going further in! Any progress pics? Best of luck!
Last displayed state in Vogelsang 2026, and a first for most modules. It has progressed since then.
Nice :) Do post the final result!
Hanging out with my goblin cat and trying to enjoy my time off without letting the anxiety of being unemployed set in.
I just finished adding a feature to https://port87.com/ that lets you turn message authentication requirements completely off for a label.
I did this specifically because all of my email accounts will reject email from my home server’s disk monitoring software because it’s not set up to send email “correctly” (no DKIM or SPF, no MX record on its return path).
I figured since I made my own email service, and you can have setting per address (each label has its own address), it would be easy to add this feature. It was not that easy. One of the plugins in the server I use (Haraka) would reject email if it failed its check. I contributed a PR to Haraka to make the failure on that check optional. Yay open source!
That's a pretty cool concept.
Just got back from our camp where I'm doing renovations. It's only accessible by boat so all supplies have to be loaded in the trailer, brought to the boat, loaded in the boat, brought to the camp, then unloaded onto the dock. Makes for slow going, but the peace and beauty out there make up for it. Today, I'm going to church, picking up groceries for the week, then heading back to camp.
My Thousand Year Old Vampire playthrough now has my vampire's ex-girlfriend sacrificing herself to save my vampire from The-Thing-That-Used-To-Be-Her-Brother
For others who also are not familiar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Year_Old_Vampire
My mom, whom I haven't seen in almost a month, is staying with me for a few days. So, a majority of my day was driving her around and taking her shopping. But, we had a nice lunch, watched The Dark Knight, and she cooked me one of my favourite meals. It was nice to get away from work for a bit and see the sun for once so I had a good day.
Noup, not really. Hitting the gym after breakfast, though gotta ad in arms and abs today as i cut yesterdays session shorter, then the grocery store for the weekly trip, later helping my wife package up he bicycle for a trip and in the evening finishing the day off with playing some Diablo 4 in the PC.
Though i think it's going to be kinda decent day actually.
Well, this morning, I'm nursing a hangover, and learning an important lesson about making bulk cocktails: water them down, because there's no need for ice if you keep bulk cocktails refrigerated. Also, the pumpkin spice espresso martini recipe I'd made several months ago came out annoyingly viscous.
But it was delicious otherwise, and I'd ended up drinking an entire bottle on my own last night. Luckily it was only ~50 proof.
Laundry, playing a few games and funny enough making too many pancakes! Well, just enough pancakes really, but any amount of pancakes at 10:30pm is probably too many Lol The craving struck so pancakes I must make!
I’m gonna try and make a dent in some songs that I’ve been working on. For one I’ve got the rhythm tracks all done, just need to see what else I need to add, like synth layers, background fx…it’s an instrumental, so no need to worry about vocals on this one. The other one I’ve only gotten about a third of the guitars done, and I really need to write drum and bass parts before I go any further with it. The lyrics are almost done, but I want to focus on the rhythm section first.
I’ll go through creative cycles where I’ll write/record every day, and then find myself going for weeks struggling to find the motivation. But I took some time off work specifically so I could focus my energy on music. So that’s what I’m gonna do.
A deep sleep.
I got a few chores to do, then I'm going to sit down and do an experiment: I'm going to convert a guitar I just got got from a steel string guitar to a nylon string guitar.
It's an a 3/4 size, all mahogany acoustic, and it sounds good, with good definition in the mid range, and nicely balanced highs and lows, it's just a bit harsh for my ears. I already have a beautiful 3/4 size that I like, so I think this conversion could mellow out the tone of this new guitar, and give me a sound I don't already have.
I'm also going to change the nut, saddle, and pins from cheap plastic to bone. That should help, too.
Heading out to a building supply store, Kent, to buy a closure for the storm door.
Having wings and diced oven roasted sweet potatoes for lunch. Rice crispy squares for dessert.
Maybe changing my sister over to all-seasons this afternoon.
Im working on a music video for some pop star I’ve never heard of and can’t remember the name of. But they have a pretty massive actress involved so its big as far as music videos go. Long ass day though and it’s hotter’n’hell out
Listening to music, mostly C-Pop
Chatting in Discord in language exchange servers
Some are Chinese and some Chinese Diaspora
Haven't really had those chats since I was in Elementary school
Lemmy and Piefed are too White-Westerner Centric tbh
Spread the word and get your friends on here. Help shape it into something better ^^,
Maybe cuz Lemmy seems to be banned in China last time I've checked.
Discord is banned in China too
Chores chores chores. Changed and washed the bedsheets, all the kitty litter, garden, saw a small ground mammal that was not a squirrel, worried about a friend, ate lunch, planned dinner, did husband put the blanket in the dryer? I suspect not. I should ask.
Have to do a release of Summit. And a lot of cleaning around the house.
Watched Attack of the Clones today
Not much this morning. Just on my laptop with a coffee next to me downtown. For this afternoon though, probably just getting back into language learning to keep my brain active.
This evening though, gonna do a run by the lake shore. I'm also gonna message a bunch of friends I haven't talked to in a long time, because I have been pretty bad at reaching out and hanging out with people this year.
Today I:
Helped My friends make characters for Beam Saber, a tabletop roleplaying game about giant mechs and the personal drama of those who pilot them,
Visited the Rat Market in Fallen London and realised I could get a Reported Location of a One-time Prince of Hell if I spent most of My actions today and tomorrow arguing with spiders, which I am currently doing,
Went grocery shopping and picked up some vegan meatballs to try,
Watched some reviews of Subnautica 2 and tried to decide whether to get it in early access this week (I am still undecided),
Started season 4 of Phineas and Ferb,
Looked at queer Sonic memes,
Failed to solve a Portal Reloaded time travel puzzle,
Researched a little history of colonisation in Australia,
And I plan to hatch a creature from a Whitsun egg in Fallen London.
Made baked potatoes and antipasto salad while family did a few chores. Played Wingspan. Now playing Sushi Go. Will do an art later. Only thing that would make the day better is if it was cool enough to go for a walk.
I've been looking for more 5 player board games for my weekly board game club, and I was looking at Wingspan! How is it, is it worth picking up?
It's our all time favorite game, highly recommend.
It's Sunday. I will clock in to work at 10am. Working 8 hours, massaging 5 people. It's painful & my back will start to hurt like hell after the second client, I'll be deliriously in pain by the time I get to clients # 4 & 5, unable to articulate thoughts into words, and the pain won't go away until I wake up the next morning. Clock out at 6pm. Take a nap. Meeting a friend about 11pm to carpool to a beach 2 hours south of here, then I can sleep some more & wake up at that beach then enjoy a week there.
Waiting patiently for new Vans to arrive.
Edit: Also playing Ground Zero. It's an indie survival horror game.
I'm hard addicted to the Subnautica 2 EA, that's been eating up most of my free time!
I didn't have much expectations and I have to say it's blown my socks off story, gameplay and graphics wise. It's just like I opened Subnautica 1 for the first time again and I'm all for it.
Sulking as my mother cleans my room to try and fix my mess. Now I can't do my plans in the order that they go into, and I can't do them out of order because I overthink.
Was traveling and just got caught up with Eurovision semifinals. No spoilers! Still need to watch the Grand Final tomorrow.