Smiffi Surgubben @grumpysmiffy@aus.social

@urbanfuzzy They want HOW MUCH?

It is still very hard for me to focus. Ideally, I need time out, but I am permitted to work until the end of the year, and I need every damn cent from the budgeted time.

Not going anywhere in particular with this, just getting it out of my head.

Right here, right now, I am my worst enemy.

Right here and now, there are two things in my life that are about to run out.

1) My ability to take valium, in order to function with massive anxiety.

2) Employment/Income, primary cause of said anxiety.

I’m trying to focus on the nice things in life; I brought a certain amount of beauty to my workspace (formerly a trash heap) whilst hypomanic and have cracked open the blind (formerly closed because sinus issues had made me photophobic) to look at the beautiful view.

@MattHatton Carbon sequester the rich. Plenty of mineshafts need filling up again.

Just gone through 8 personal and one held in trust for a former client accounts - all emails updated to my ProtonMail account (some were with Yandex,) 2FA on everything, backup codes recorded.

I now have one elusive account, the name of which I can't remember...

@MattHatton Which would explain why it’s going in every direction at once?

So - just had a notification from LonkedIn that the guy with whom I negotiated the hosting contract I’m about to cancel - now has a new job. Guess I won’t need to explain why/what I am doing, then.

Got suspended on for - daring to do a password reset. (Not my primary.)

@urbanfuzzy Ssh, don't speak too soon!

@geordie *waves*

@MattHatton Okaaaay. I see what Twitter has said you have done, yet you have just made a simple statement of fact. Even the courts brushed that off when it was said of the onion-eater.

@bestthingsbot Coming away from an appointment with my GP knowing that, whilst my life has become a shit-storm, someone's got my back.

@MattHatton Just out of curiosity, roughly, what did you say to trigger that?

@koosli @pelagikat We called them counters. I have no idea why, other than that there was another game, where they were used as such.

@koosli Nearly all my childhood games came via my Danish godmother (primary reason I'm a Eurobrit, rather than a racist Britbrit.) We had that, but it was called Mikado and now, reflecting, it was a bit Danish racist, in depiction.

@koosli Then again, I wouldn't have played it in over forty-five years, and I have no idea where the physical games space is in this day and age.

@pelagikat One of my few redeeming features: multiple chronic illnesses, currently flaky mental health, retrenched, BUT I'VE GOT GOOD TEETH! Reaching 52 sans cavities is one little thing to be pleased about.

@liamvhogan Shit.

@TechnicalKO Still trying to go the Vagrant route. Worked OK on the Mac Mini, put trying to do it on my Ubuntu laptop, I find that the distributed DEB of Vagrant doesn't support current checksums. So now having to download a DEB direct from Vagrant, to try again.

At least download speeds are being a bit more reasonable today.

Status (whilst trying to download Laravel) - trying to remember how to do impedance calculations so that I can make a balun to hook up a TV in a room with no socket, but with CAT5 - so 75Ω unbalanced to 100Ω balanced.