How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[AnOminous]

I spent some time just sitting on a bench and watching bumblebees bumble around my flowers. Love those guys. Makes one forget the evil world for a while.

Bumblebees (and bees in general other than "Africanized" ones) are frens.

I seriously despise hornets though. Wasps are a mixed bag, with some, like yellowjackets, being evil little fuckers.

 

[rel=alternate]

Like tomorrow will be a new day, but at the same time I know it won't. Because I won't follow through.

But I am alive and kicking so there is that

 

[TomServo]

I'm doing fine. Thanks for asking.

 

[Betonhaus]

earlier today I got an email that an old Apple fansite web forum i used to frequent has ported to Mastodon and is inviting the 400 or so members back. It was an Apple products obsessed liberal hellhole last I remember but I signed up to check it out anyways, but seems they are unable to send email confirmation emails right now so I can't access it. I'll see if I get an email later.

 

[YoshiPoshiPie]

hi

 

[M3xus]

We got new supervisors at work. One of them is already shitting things up with unnecessary meetings and being too hands-on for her own good.

I keep telling myself things will stabilize eventually, but this is going to be a rough few weeks.

 

[Rockin da Worm]

I've been feeling really tired lately. Haven't really changed my schedule or anything much, but I guess apparently the sleep I'm getting doesn't cut it anymore. Makes me feel like I'm getting old or frail. I guess it's sort of a small thing, but it's a bit sad. Guess I'm going to bed early every night now.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Just got my bumper repaired after a minor fender-bender in a supermarket parking lot. Car looked brand new, though I'm annoyed I had to pay a lot of money when I picked it up. Insurance should take care of the rest. In lighter news, I finished reading Blood, Toil, Years and Sweat today, which is a Penguin Classics book of major Winston Churchill speeches edited by David Cannadine. Turns out Sir Winston and I clicked more ideologically than I thought; really liked his pro Empire and anti Leftist speeches. W.B. Yeats's collection of Irish fairy and folktales is coming up soon on my reading list, and I'm a little excited because I'm admittedly a sucker for old folk stories about the fae.

 

[JustSomeDong]

Bumblebees (and bees in general other than "Africanized" ones) are frens.

I seriously despise hornets though. Wasps are a mixed bag, with some, like yellowjackets, being evil little fuckers.

Carpenter bees can get fucked. Stay the fuck outta my deck you little cunts. WD40 or the weedeater to murder them, then steel wool and wood glue in the holes. I've seen those little bastards turn timber into corkboard. Not on my watch, not on my property. Otherwise, I'm cool with our bestingered friends.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

My SJW coworker that I was bitching before revealed something that had me laughing my ass off. For all his whining about capitalism and mindless praising of Finland, he recently admitted that he has started his own business. Now on one hand, I'm genuinely happy for him. I hope his business does well! On the other hand, I can't help but laugh because now HE will be doing everything he's been bitching about. I'm sure he'll find some way to rationalize it, but I would think he's not a very good socialist if he's pursuing entrepreneurship.

 

[Betonhaus]

Since my old X1 Carbon is officially unsupported by Windows 11 and the future I was attempting to get Ubuntu installed on it as I barely use it. I do appreciate the progress made as Ubuntu was easy to setup and had 90% if the drivers and software I wouldneed it for, but I spent the last two hours trying to get the last 10% sorted out and while I got hack job solutions figured out for most of it the last bit is so ducky that Idecided to fuck it and just keep using windows on these computers until they stop getting security updates then replace them. That's still a few years away and I might have money then

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Mine and my parents A/C units are done so we have to get new ones but fortunately its not during a heat wave.

 

[Yamamura]

Been feeling down lately and it's a particular shitty feeling.

I used to think "hit the gym" was sort of a catch all meme phrase, but hey it does help take your mind off things even if just for a moment. As Bill from King of the Hill said, "at least if you're feeling full you're feeling something".

 

[Betonhaus]

Been feeling down lately and it's a particular shitty feeling.

I used to think "hit the gym" was sort of a catch all meme phrase, but hey it does help take your mind off things even if just for a moment. As Bill from King of the Hill said, "at least if you're feeling full you're feeling something".

regular routine and exercise does wonders for the mind. When I get more comfortable at work I'll try to get another aquatics center pass so i can do laps or use the gym.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I got pulled out of semi-retirement because a critical product needed to be made again (and very quickly) but also be modernized and nobody working at the place apparently really understood it anymore and the software also wasn't helpful because of how old everything is, including the documentation and some critical files. Spent the last few weeks overseeing a small staff, doing things really old school. I can't lie, no matter how much I like to pretend to be this super relaxed barefoot anti-work hippie in real life it felt nice to work again and it feels kinda bad that next week is very likely the last. (It was an absolute success btw., ended up completely redesigning the thing, it is a lot simpler and also less touchy now, it's really gonna help people) Like every old fuck I also really wanted to shit on the young people working there for not knowing things but they were genuinely interested in all I had to tell them, learned quickly and were friendly and very inclusive, so can't even do that. Why don't you know how to do this? Because computers do that now by themselves. I guess it's true and I cannot fault them. To be fair, they already did for most of my career and I had to look things up myself, I just knew where. It's also just that you somehow don't expect these vastly different experiences and it truly is driven home how much time has passed. These people did not learn what I learned and eventually I guess that knowledge will just be gone if some AI doesn't pick it up somewhere, that is.

There is also this toothy, tall brunette that always hovers around. Found me very funny and liked my hair. Oh honey, I could be your dad and I have an angry russian wife at home. She'll never know you even existed. Reality has a way to catch up, it always does. But, if you can't be young again, to feel young again for a bit is the next best thing.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

So, I did this last night.



No literal flames were involved, but I did literally walk out of a place and did metaphorically burn a bridge - burned it down to the ground. I was even wearing a white jacket, lol.

Sounds dramatic and insane, but it was actually a very good and healthy thing, and I'm proud of myself. I wasn't even mad. I was correct, and unafraid to close a door. Firmly. I've come a long way, baby.

In the light of day, however, I'm somewhat ruing I chose to leave behind the bag with more than half of my $100 delmonico left over from dinner*, and 90% of a delicious slice of cake to boot, but that was deliberate, and it made the point claro. But now I'm hungry, and it was sooo good. Dang it.

* paired with this:

Spoiler: Wine nerds

Tasting notes from WE if anyone's interested: "The Cuvée Réservée is Pegau's crown jewel, a profoundly ripe yet deeply nuanced wine made from a Grenache-dominant blend of 13 regional red grape varieties. Vinified entirely in whole bunches and matured in large 2-year-old oak casks, its black plum and cherry are sonorous and piercing, accented by whiffs of black pepper, leather and sage. It drinks beautifully young." (97)

Other reviews said to hold it for longer, and I can see it improving with age, but I thought it was very well structured and balanced, both full and bright. Very black fruit but not too jammy.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Today and/or tomorrow, I'm thinking of taking a Career Diploma online course either in the courses of Electronics Technician and Residential Electrician. Currently, I'm trying to figure out which one to take, since they're both lucrative skills and trades.

Either way, it's something to keep me busy while attempting to add something onto the resumé for future job prospects.

 

[Betonhaus]

Someone 8ve come to know very well the over the past two years has passed away, and I don't know how to feel about it. He was a proud, broken man with medical issues and a drug habit. He's the kind of guy that getsyou swept up in his whims then left you paying for them as he was broke and relying on disability pay. I'm still renting a garage on the other side of the city that contains furniture and mementos he couldn't bear to give up on. He had been abusing so long that his mind is damaged and perpetually suspicious of the Russian mafia living in the tree facing his window, and he was beginning to suspect them of living in his mattress. We knew that he was past the point of no return, but it was still sudden to get a phone call that he passed away shortly after midnight in a tragic way. Were waiting for the autopsy report but when we checked his place he hadn't been taking his medication, which he skips whenever he is perpetually high.

I don't know how to feel about it, but now things will proceed in an orderly fashion. A few years ago I got him a Fossil Hybrid smartwatch because he had really really wanted it, except he never charged it once. didn't stop him from wearing it to special events, even though the arms were horizontal and instead of telling time it asked to be charged in. i looked for it and asked to get it back if anyone finds it, but I think I might break down when i do.

 

[Shidoen]

I could've posted this in a thread where I need to be mad or shit. But this right here for the New Fable just absolutely mortifies and infuriates me. I'm not doing fine, this pisses me off.

 

[anustart76]

I'm back home with my little buddy, but I can't relax because I have to start work again tomorrow. Tomorrow's also the day I give my resignation for this job, but I really don't want to do any work at all. I feel like I need a real vacation.