So, It's Been a While
I've been trying to hang on. Yes, transition has been good to me; I'm happy for that much. There are days when I wish that I could have an actual life, with friends and keys and everything, but that is not forthcoming; I just don't fit into the culture. So I do what I do here. Pittsburgh's spring monsoon has been especially wicked this year, so the farm has been overall too wet to mow, but I did get potatoes into the ground; they're flowering already. Back around the end of April, I started accumulating the components of a 29 gal. aquarium; I'm wanting to work on a heavily planted tank with some rather unusual features which include garden soil as the substrate, instead of gravel. One of the benefits is supposed to be the possibility of an astronomically high fish load -- the dense planting is supposed to produce a high dissolved O2 level for the fish, and the high fish load is supposed to provide a high dissolved CO2 level for the plants. Perhaps I can use that to informally study the schooling behaviors of a couple of the smaller species. Always the investigator, I guess. I haven't been able to photograph it to my satisfaction because the lighting isn't working; I haven't yet been able to get a good exposure without a flash, but the flash washes out the color. Something else to work on.
I bought a bullshit printer/scanner/copier -- it worked out to a cost of $25 -- and actually got it working. Yay me. Vive le Linux. Perhaps, I'll be able to scan some historical photos and print the cron source for easier study.
The local mental health facility is doing everything in their power to get rid of me. They cite budgetary constraints. I've figured out that the real motivation is that I'm too sick for them; I have the particularly nasty twin diagnoses of foresight and reason. You should see the looks I get when those ostriches take their heads out of the sand long enough to glare at me when I speak realistically.
Anyway, you can just about walk around in the Studio. Never mind the rest of the place. I'll get there.
Beyond that, I've organized about 500Gb of video into a semi-cataloged library. That takes me into Library of Congress "E" (History of the United States). I'm heavy on "Q" (The Sciences), and go all the way to "U" (Military Subjects). It will be interesting to see how much drive space I will ultimately use.
Ag and fu and all that moo.
Edit: I was off by a factor of 1024 on the video library.
I bought a bullshit printer/scanner/copier -- it worked out to a cost of $25 -- and actually got it working. Yay me. Vive le Linux. Perhaps, I'll be able to scan some historical photos and print the cron source for easier study.
The local mental health facility is doing everything in their power to get rid of me. They cite budgetary constraints. I've figured out that the real motivation is that I'm too sick for them; I have the particularly nasty twin diagnoses of foresight and reason. You should see the looks I get when those ostriches take their heads out of the sand long enough to glare at me when I speak realistically.
Anyway, you can just about walk around in the Studio. Never mind the rest of the place. I'll get there.
Beyond that, I've organized about 500Gb of video into a semi-cataloged library. That takes me into Library of Congress "E" (History of the United States). I'm heavy on "Q" (The Sciences), and go all the way to "U" (Military Subjects). It will be interesting to see how much drive space I will ultimately use.
Ag and fu and all that moo.
Edit: I was off by a factor of 1024 on the video library.