This week has been less than optimal. There's the usual work stuff, okay, but outside of that my mind has gone off on one of its spirals, the kind of spiral i haven't been on since the Finding Clothes For An Ogre Debacle of April 2024 ( Read more... )

Work has been busy lately, but that's not why i haven't written. One of the ways i have been occupying my time and brain after work has been to play computer games. Instead of playing my usual style game, which is short, indie, story-heavy "walking sims" and narrative adventures, i have been playing big, long, often-tedious "AAA" (mainstream) games ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since i drank more than one or two beers. Like, that's how i control it, i only buy one or two, and then i only drink one or two. And, lately, that's only been once a week or so. Alcohol fucking sucks ( Read more... )

So, i suppose it was inevitable. Whenever i have been in North America (or Australia for that matter) my mental health has been utterly disastrous. It's in these new world nations where i was diagnosed bipolar, where i spent years taking prescription medication just to stay stable, where i spent years as a daily drinker and/or illegal drug user to ( Read more... )

I am extremely fucking jet-lagged. Today is the first day i slept somewhat sensible hours (midnight to 6am), but it's noon now and i want to go back to sleep ( Read more... )

Today in history, an authoritarian government decided to break up peaceful protests by sending the military into the streets to shoot and kill hundreds - perhaps thousands - of students and workers gathered in public spaces all over the capital. Many more were imprisoned. All news of the event was suppressed. The country's resistance movement never ( Read more... )

When I was in that window of not reading or updating LiveJournal very much (aka the black hole of my previous job), there was a nifty feature that said "read one of your posts from 10 years ago ( Read more... )

Pithy thought of the day: is it a sign you are working too much when you type your work password into your home computer?

Long thought of the day: this morning i saw a post from my oldest friend, jenndolari, saying that today is (or possibly yesterday was?) Trans Visibility Day. I'm not entirely sure what that entails because i have next to no interaction ( Read more... )

So. This is upsetting ( Read more... )

Last night i barely slept due to the news of the weekend and kept checking my phone, expecting another shoe to drop. I keep hoping America will wake up and revolt. Dump the entire regime ( Read more... )