ADHD taxes, travel, glass cutting
Oct. 23rd, 2026 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneAfter my passport appeared on schedule two Mondays ago, it took almost a week to finalize the date for the memorial because my mom initially told the ministers she would only consider Saturdays and forgot to tell me and my sister she had said this, resulting in our thinking the church itself was completely occupied every day until January (which was the minister's next suggestion). Finally last Sunday we were able to settle on Friday the 13th of November, and since then all my relatives seem to have bought plane tickets, and I've been reminding my sister daily to remind my mom to buy my ticket. We have finally agreed to buy it tonight. (My mom cannot be communicated with by written messages; she has too much ADHD+technology aversion. The phone only reliably reaches her if you call. An actual phone call, because she can't figure out how to answer a voip call from within the chat.) (I know she is willing to just pay what it costs, but the apparent lack of urgency is driving me nuts.)
I need to write what I'm going to say at the funeral too.
Also trying to replace the broken window, meanwhile. Last night I made a bunch of test cuts with the glass cutter (actually a glass scorer: you break it on the scored line) and it seems like my good score rate on the 4mm glass was only about 3/5 (it's very hard to get the pressure firm enough the entire way). But the first attempt at window size was already the wrong size, and I'm pretty much out of scraps to test on, so if the next attempt doesn't work we'll have to buy another piece of glass.
"Will this still be cheaper than getting the glass custom sized if we buy another piece of glass, with all the materials we've bought?" I asked Wax, who had decided we should save money this way.
"I don't know," she said.
"You mean you decided we should cut it ourselves without finding out how much it would cost to have it cut?" I asked.
"I did some research and I feel like it was probably expensive but I don't remember now because it was a few weeks ago," she said. (We both have ADHD too. Like, it's my fault that we have to buy a new can of linseed oil paint before we can finish the window now. I absentmindedly thinned all the paint we had to the mixture for base coat [50% raw cold-pressed linseed oil], leaving no paint for the two top coats.)
I need to write what I'm going to say at the funeral too.
Also trying to replace the broken window, meanwhile. Last night I made a bunch of test cuts with the glass cutter (actually a glass scorer: you break it on the scored line) and it seems like my good score rate on the 4mm glass was only about 3/5 (it's very hard to get the pressure firm enough the entire way). But the first attempt at window size was already the wrong size, and I'm pretty much out of scraps to test on, so if the next attempt doesn't work we'll have to buy another piece of glass.
"Will this still be cheaper than getting the glass custom sized if we buy another piece of glass, with all the materials we've bought?" I asked Wax, who had decided we should save money this way.
"I don't know," she said.
"You mean you decided we should cut it ourselves without finding out how much it would cost to have it cut?" I asked.
"I did some research and I feel like it was probably expensive but I don't remember now because it was a few weeks ago," she said. (We both have ADHD too. Like, it's my fault that we have to buy a new can of linseed oil paint before we can finish the window now. I absentmindedly thinned all the paint we had to the mixture for base coat [50% raw cold-pressed linseed oil], leaving no paint for the two top coats.)
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Oct. 23rd, 2026 06:43 pmdoktorhoboSorry everybody who's replied to me in various ways, I'm just managing to tread water currently so with luck I'll have more energy for DW soon
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Oct. 23rd, 2026 12:28 amdinosaurrainbowstarfishDreamwidth why are you showing me IP addresses when I specifically did not request them
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 10:17 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishDo editors not fucking exist anymore
Good God that book just got worse and worse. I LOVE golden age detective stories. If your book is inspired by Agatha Christie, I need you to make sure it's not twice as long as a Christie novel with 1/3 the plot. Poirot would never take 5 hours to get to a will reading in a 10 hour book. 0/10 fanfiction has ruined me because fanfic writers know how to get to the fucking point!!!!
Good God that book just got worse and worse. I LOVE golden age detective stories. If your book is inspired by Agatha Christie, I need you to make sure it's not twice as long as a Christie novel with 1/3 the plot. Poirot would never take 5 hours to get to a will reading in a 10 hour book. 0/10 fanfiction has ruined me because fanfic writers know how to get to the fucking point!!!!
An album that describes itself as "experimental electronic Scottish folk music"
Oct. 23rd, 2026 03:40 pmdoktorhoboI think Bandcamp must be battling crawlers, since it looks like off-site embedding tools are down.
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 08:39 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishWell. I'm at the FIRST ACT end of this story and we've JUST GOTTEN TO THE THING EXPLAINED IN THE BLURB.
UGHHHHHHHH
I'm too involved now to stop listening but why do I keep finding books that suck. I want to know what happened but idk if I could possibly listen to another six hours of this bullshit.
UGHHHHHHHH
I'm too involved now to stop listening but why do I keep finding books that suck. I want to know what happened but idk if I could possibly listen to another six hours of this bullshit.
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 05:14 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishMy car has none gas in it, and after I fix that I might go a little further than the grocery store I was planning on going to. I want fuyu persimmons so bad and I do need a couple regional goods since Aldi stopped carrying buttermilk (wtf).
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 05:13 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishI didn't realize how much I missed that little hourglass loading sprite until I had it back
kitty keysmash-ahh language
Oct. 22nd, 2026 04:30 pmkradeelavdabbling in regex today to mass import/rip tags from filenames and i'm convinced this is just. wizard symbol language.
([^,]+?)(?=,\s|(?:\.[^.]+$)) like ?????
edit: oh god there's (?:(?<=/)|^)([^/]+?)(?=(?:\s*\(\d+\))?\.[^.]+$)|([^,]+)(?=,\s|(?:\s*\(\d+\))?\.[^.]+$)
i cast EXTRACT TAGS!
edit edit: can't tell if i've gotten a toothache from regex madness or not lol
([^,]+?)(?=,\s|(?:\.[^.]+$)) like ?????
edit: oh god there's (?:(?<=/)|^)([^/]+?)(?=(?:\s*\(\d+\))?\.[^.]+$)|([^,]+)(?=,\s|(?:\s*\(\d+\))?\.[^.]+$)
i cast EXTRACT TAGS!
edit edit: can't tell if i've gotten a toothache from regex madness or not lol
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 03:16 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishI'm about to figure out posting to communities, mods feel free to delete if I accidentally post the same message 37 times
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Oct. 22nd, 2026 02:15 pmdinosaurrainbowstarfishScrapbookers of Dreamwidth please help me
I have an 11.75x14 scrapbook.
I have like 50 pages of 8.5x11 documents that need to go in it via sheet protector.
I cannot find an exact sheet protector for these dimensions.
What do I do?
I have an 11.75x14 scrapbook.
I have like 50 pages of 8.5x11 documents that need to go in it via sheet protector.
I cannot find an exact sheet protector for these dimensions.
What do I do?
tagging question
Oct. 22nd, 2026 11:33 amjaslehis there a way in the "tag management" section to make a new tag and apply it to all posts that have an existing tag
like, in addition to the existing tag, not replacing it
or is that something I'd have to do post-by-post
like, in addition to the existing tag, not replacing it
or is that something I'd have to do post-by-post
FFxiv is back up!
Oct. 22nd, 2026 10:13 amjaslehAND I DIDN'T LOSE ANY PLANTS! \o/
losing the jute would be whatever, but I had some thavnairian onions in the ground and losing those would have hurt
(I say like I actually need the gil, but shhhh it still woulda sucked)
losing the jute would be whatever, but I had some thavnairian onions in the ground and losing those would have hurt
(I say like I actually need the gil, but shhhh it still woulda sucked)
Tododo 10/22/26
Oct. 22nd, 2026 10:27 amdinosaurrainbowstarfishToday I will conquer:
Breakfast
Text boss lady about formatting archival project
Order new book and page protectors (acid free and the correct size)
Do the 10 minute reset ritual Finch has been begging me to do for a week
Lunch
Check work email
Darebee exercise
1 hr project work undoing everything else I've done so far
I might not take a walk since my ankles are tired from a lot of walking this week, but I might go park by the lake this evening.
I need to makeanother grocery run for afew things I didn't get at Aldi, including water for my cpap
Do the 10 minute reset ritual Finch has been begging me to do for a week
Lunch
I might not take a walk since my ankles are tired from a lot of walking this week, but I might go park by the lake this evening.
I need to make
AI-free games in the Next Fest worth checking out.
Oct. 22nd, 2026 05:07 pmdoktorhobo- Food Devils: Inspired by Fire Emblem, this is a strategy rogue-like about being a cook trying to appease demons and collecting ingredients.
- Moadra: This is heavily, heavily, shamelessly inspired by two cool things - the Yautja (aka Predators from the titular movies) and the Metroid series. Thus, you have a metroidvania complete with scanning enemies and environments where the protagonist is from a culture that has barely had the serial-numbers filed off from recognisable Predator IP.
- Firewall: Defend the Grid: A tower-defence game about securing wireframe environments using limited resources.
- Appulse: A top down arena-shooter that is... also... a pinball game?
- Ablahshikar: I'll let the blurb carry this one:
Ablahshikar is a turn-based ASCII salvage-survival game adrift on the Candle Sea. Bound to a worn terminal of bone-white and brass, you must strip wrecks and tear organs direct from rival vessels. Graft severed parts onto your keel to rebuild a failing warship into a doomed chimera.
As such it sounds a bit Locked Tomb space-ship management in good ways?
- Thornspell: A strategy deckbuilder roguelike about being a magical gardener arranging plants to synergise in shiny ways.
- Goreticulture: Looks to be a mix of Visceral Cleanup Detail and a gardening game, in that you're cleaning up gore and then watering plants with it? The plants look very Cliver Barker?
- Elandrake: An incremental twin-stick shooter about being an interdimensional invader protecting An Anomalous Entity as it tries to break into the universe from beyond.
- Cortesia Rising:One game where you move between multiple strategic levels: a captain managing a crew and ship, tactical ground combat with that crew, and space battles with your ship. Seems like consequences in one context matter elsewhere, so if your crew get mangled in a space battle you'll have a rough time trying to do ground-side engagements.
- The devs have seen Firefly and remain enthusiastic. You can tell.
- Selkie's Salvage Company: An incremental fishing game where you're a robot collecting scrap for your anthropomorphic rat inventor.
- Hillthorn: An investigation/conspiracy-wall game about figuring out mysteries while never speaking to anybody. The trailer is evocative without necessarily being explanatory, so I assume the demo's designed for that job.
And now some things I've mentioned elsewhere:
- Trailblazers - Into the March: What if FTL and Rimworld had babies raised on an aesthetic of French sci-fi comics, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Jeff Vandermeer books?
- Wielders of the Essence: A Vampire Survivors-alike by the devs of Songs of Conquest where you raise armies and incrementally build up a village that matters to your ability to fight. You are An Forg.
- Funeral for the Sun and Inkblood: Two investigation/mystery-solving games with interesting visual design and stories
Preparing for the End and New Beginnings
Oct. 21st, 2026 07:49 pmosteophageIn light of the Pillowfort announcement, I'd like to remind folks that I have a personal site, Coyote's Link Hub, as well as this journal here on Dreamwidth. You can visit the Pillowfolks DW community if you're interested in more about Dreamwidth or looking for more of us to connect with. For those of you interested in starting your own personal site, I recommend my beginner guide.
I'm keeping tabs on CT's Pillowfort Archival Initiative, and for WebDiscussions I have also broached the idea of starting a wiki and a forum. If you have any suggestions to offer on that front, please let us know.
Naturally this has been crossposted to Pillowfort.