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the thing about principles is that if you compromise on them in the name of convenience, you don’t have principles

For folks with any mobility impairments I highly recommend requesting wheelchair service at the airport. Don't suffer and push through the slog of getting through security and the gate if you don't have to. I don't know about most airlines but Alaska's wheelchair service is free and super super […]

oh also some of my plants are dead and like, yeah ,maybe I didn't remember to ask him to do it specifically but shouldn't it be obvious? I didn't also hire a plant sitter

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ok fiona wants more laptime so I guess that'll be my life for the rest of the day

anyway I'm fucking exhausted but I don't want to take a nap right now so I guess I'll finally install the new shop lights in my basement or something idk

I just wonder what the fuck he was doing with the 30 minutes per visit, two visits per day, for the past week

but also like. he didn't take in any mail, because apparently I never asked him to do it, but like, I'm pretty sure I did, and even if I didn't, isn't that just like. standard practice for someone housesitting for a week? it should be fucking obvious to do? fortunately I didn't have any […]

oh and I did actually ask him to bring in my trash bin from the street but it was still sitting on the curb when I got here, which was my first sign that something was amiss. not a big deal, but, y'know. lack of attention to basic details. I should have probably at least reminded him of that on […]

also I really should have taken pictures of the mess left because he claimed that it was just a little left-over food from last night's meal on the plate but there were definitely, like, three cans' worth of rotting cat food in a pile

I'm guessing this smell is the stench of rotting cat food and it'll just subside over the next couple days, I hope. It's only in the dining and living room and not in any other part of my house.

Every 'gig economy' pet sitter I've hired has turned out this way, so I guess next time I travel I should just get the neighbor kids to do it

anyway gotta figure out where this fucking Aroma is coming from. the sitter claims that my home smelled like this the whole time but it definitely didn't smell this way when I left. it's a very *familiar* smell but I can't quite place it.

If I can get a Lyft quickly then I’ll be home around 3. Nice.

anyway i got home at 3:10 and then immediately found that my house was *stinky* and the pet sitter didn't do things that should have been obvious to do, and in texting it seems that he didn't do things because I didn't specifically tell him to do them (even though one of them was a thing I […]

Anyway I’m back on solid ground and my suitcase was one of the first to arrive at the baggage claim. Lucky me!

plus side I'm at the airport waiting for my flight home minus side there's someone sitting nearby with some VERY LOUD perfume and it's triggering my asthma something fierce

oh good a seat opened up 20 feet away and I took it, much better

Four way meowing battle between me, my parents’ two cats, and my mom.

okay so for my trip home from Albuquerque I upgraded my seat to first class, which cost $190. As part of that, I get up to two free checked bags ($110), a meal ($20), and free premium drinks ($20), not to mention a MUCH better flight experience and the feeling of being pampered. I'd say it was a […]

love the irony of being unable to sleep due to pain, when the best thing for reducing my pain is sleep :|

in retrospect i should have taken a tizanidine last night

getting pretty tired of people reaching out with interest in me as a "consultant" and then finding out they just want me to be an interview proxy

ugh i can't sleep and i'm not even tired at all and i need to be up in like 8 hours

i have many rants in my head that i can't let go of, both more shit about this family gathering and shit about the state of the world and internet and software and everything else right now

everything feels like duct-tape fixes on top of deep systemic problems and i do not know where we go from here because of the irreducible complexity that prevents a proper fix for underlying issues while more issues are multiplying at an exponential rate and i feel like we're all trying our best […]

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I hate how much work it is to operate internet-facing services these days too but for fuck's sake people you need to learn what watchdogs, ulimits, and load balancers are _before_ you expose something publicly. if you want to help the open source community sign up to actually add features that […]

oh my fucking god php is such a fucking trainwreck in particular its date handling leaves QUITE A LOT to be desired I mean there's also the big security hoobajoob but that's not the bit that's frustrating me at the moment

I don't even really use it anymore, it's a leftover from when webcomics were still ornery about not providing RSS feeds and I still set it as my homepage out of inertia and nostalgia

huh, turns out the waterfox default start page is pretty nice?

but gosh, so much of the php standard library is just a thin wrapper around the C standard library, with a little bit of jank-ass object conversion

this isn't even for a thing I care about per se, I was just surprised to learn that a thing I wrote like 20 years ago and occasionally glance at has been doing it based on gmtime this whole time, since I usually only look at it in the morning

out of desperation I asked Gemini and it gave answers which look correct but involve writing a LOT more code than should be necessary for this

okay to be fair the easy way I'd do this in Python would involve importing arrow but it'd still result in a nice simple oneliner

all I'm trying to do is get the numeric day of the week in the local timezone date("W") goes based on GMT or needs a UNIX timestamp in localtime localtime() returns a structured datetime array and I don't see any way to convert that into a UNIX timestamp I don't see any way to do date […]

searching stackoverflow only finds things that are either wildly incorrect or answering a completely different question (often a different question than what's being asked too)

today was way too much for me and i am melting down into a puddle on the plus side i got more people to stop misgendering me so much and i've only been deadnamed once, and he accepted the gentle correction

I shouldn’t have fucking come

I’ve dropped out of the ceremony. My sister understands. Whatever my parents think doesn’t matter.

I told her I’m exhausted She said I’d just be sitting there cutting grapes Fuck this shit so much

My brother is running interference now. I super appreciate it

Fine motor skills are exhausting too. Especially for something as fiddly as cutting grapes.

Also oh my god why does my credit card freak out about potential fraud whenever the “visa provisioning service” does a $0 probe? This happens every fucking month

This morning I dragged myself out of bed and barely was able to feed myself and now she’s asking me to cut some fucking grapes Nobody fucking cares about the goddamn grapes

Like what’s more important, having beautifully sliced grapes for the reception or having me recite the invocation of the Torah reading?

hot take: object oriented programming is Good, Actually, and that includes inheritance

also even though she knows I'm in meltdown conditions right now she tried to put me to work with more food prep for tomorrow and tomorrow I also have to get up at 7 in the fucking morning, and even getting that information was like extracting soup from a stone

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Keep having dreams about moving back to Albuquerque but that would not be good to me. Have to keep reminding myself that tween the altitude, the dry, the heat, the complete isolation, and the parents, I would go absolutely bonkers. Maybe traveling there this week will remind my subconscious of […]

Also I learned from a distant cousin on my dad’s side that there is a family history of Crohn’s (including herself), and I mentioned this to my parents and my mom denied that there has been and my dad said “this is the first I’ve heard of it” but he also didn’t even know this cousin existed more […]

Wellp just got deadnamed by my mom and she was annoyed about the correction