Smiffi Surgubben @grumpysmiffy@aus.social

I have been very good. At least, the nurse this morning said there was nothing she could take me to task about. (Ditto from previous pathology.)

Try a new absinthe?

HOLY CRAP, my merge request from my work over the weekend was not only approved, but without comments. Hopefully means I can be productive tomorrow.

OK, I had it when I was hypomanic, but I think my eidetic memory might be coming back. Hoo fucking ray, I think I'm getting my brain back, despite my age. Explained to psychiatrist why I'd started language studies, and the cognitive/memory improvements I have been getting, and said that neuroplasticity is real, if she'd nodded her 'ead any 'arder, it would of dropped orf.
So good to have professional validation, anyway.

@pelagikat For some weird reason, the web version of Mastodon (at least this instance) doesn’t show a follow button, and Mastonaut shows a follow button that does’t actually do anything.

“Ich kann nicht glauben, dass es nicht Nightwish ist.”

So I bought the album.

About Bannkreis: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannkreis_(Band) (German text)

“I can’t believe it’s not Nightwish.”

At least, it sounds like a track that got missed of Endless Forms Most Beautiful.

Just with male lead vocals, and in German.

Bannkreis - Sakrament

https://open.spotify.com/album/3gFjtk25iN46yrJp7T6ASd

(Sorry it’s PITA shitty Spotify, but they aren’t on SoundCloud or BandCamp.)

478g iPad vs 182g Kindle. Finally admitting to myself that an iPad is a wee bit heavy for a reader. Plus the last book I bought crashes the iPad app. Getting myself a Paperwhite for my birthday, hopefully getting back into reading on a regular basis after too long sick.

(I found the indicated media elsewhere.)

Spotify deleted; life’s too short to handle shit like that.

I have not used Spotify before, but the iOS app is the worst fucking UX I’ve seen in the last year. I cannot figure how to play a track.

@TechnicalKO has your been compromised?

Best Mastodon app for Android? (phone, not tablet)

It gives me certain satisfaction in that, having now tracked down the source of a bug, the culprit is pretty much “unexpected item in the bagging area.”

I’m still going to be on the full dose of quetiapine - which is giving me fatigue issues - until the end of the month, BUT that’s when we start ramping down, before it starts screwing with my diabetes, et al.

It’s sad that about the only time I’ve not felt like crap in the last two decades is when I was hypomanic - something the psych mentioned; you might feel decent for a change, but all sort of crap is happening. C’est la vie. *soupir*

…having a corticosteroid-induced period of hypomania. And also a strategy to handle me having to go on another heavy dose, should I get really sick (self medication, notify the nurse, who will pull the psychiatrist back in to advise.)

I AM DEAD IMPRESSED.

Today I met she who has agreed to be my psychiatrist, along with the MH nurse who is my first point of contact/case manager (I think.) Used to time restricted specialist appointments, we were in there for about an hour and ten minutes, not until “time’s up!” but because we had actually got where we needed to go. For this, I just had to sign a slip of paper, so it could be bulk-billed.

I now have an exit-strategy from the process that responded to me…