@c063d60d big same! 

 @113cc5d7 😅 

 @113cc5d7 this was *entirely* luck. And finally sorting Google maps by desired arrival time. 

 @90269b6d oh that is deeply uncool. Accessibility options might cover the font but if memory serves that's a global not per app. ☹️ 

 @90269b6d what did they do to it? 

 @122dbffa fleeing Missouri for Oregon and an apartment for a house sitting contract really upped the stakes for me. Fortunately the rewards for making my brain do the thing aren't "continued existence" but "improved existence." Which I managed to take some steps toward today. Whew! 

 @122dbffa "If I screw this up, I'm homeless" is very much my life lately. It's a lot to deal with and my mind seems to have locked it out except for times when I have to deal with it directly. 

 @c9202e22 over a long enough timeline, every Mac user loses data or workflow to Apple's forced obsolescence model. 

 This trait was probably a lot more useful a long way back when the situations were something like "will that tiger notice me or not and what will I do if it does." 

 They send a link with the notification text to get more info off the website; that lists [preferred name] [preferred surname] [legal surname] so with all other identifying factors being in place and verifiable... (and my legal surname being excitingly uncommon...) 

 Yesterday I did a combination grocery and post office run; I need to mail a thing but I think mailing things is gonna be a thing, so I picked up a small stack of customs forms and ink-won't-smear address labels. I was going to mail the thing I need to mail today, but waking up to no news from the clinic SMS line kinda stuck a cattle prod in my brain. 

 I started the ball rolling on the refill process over two weeks ago. I just... haven't been able to make my brain actually make the local clinic calls until now.

And I feel like an ass because holy heck I was sobbing by the end of the message and they're gonna hear that. C'est la vie. 

 Woke up to good news last night - work on the scrips supposedly began this morning. That's some of my anxiety defused - the worst of it, for now. 

 Oh, I also pinged the admin line shortly after the SMS line. No response. If I don't hear anything by Monday morning I'm going to switch to voice. The uncertainty is... something the meds aren't doing a great job of coping with, honestly. 

 Back in February I dialed Wellbutrin down from 450 to 300 because 450 felt like too much at the time. What followed was three days of complete idiocy and a rapid descent back into depression that kept getting worse until I went back to 450, where I've been since. I can't imagine going from 450 to 0. If that does happen I'm going to do my best to document the experience. 

 I need to get an OHP application in early this coming week - too late to avoid discontinuation if that's in the cards. I started the inquiry on an out of state refill on Monday, September 18th. I'm not half assing that part of this. 

 @5c2ba53d head and shoulders has been recommended as the "nuke from orbit" option, and it worked back in the 90s. 🤔 

 @5c2ba53d first ingredient in the shampoo, after water. Heck! 

 @5c2ba53d I initially thought the problem was that I use conditioner for like a week and then shampoo, like, once a week, but... nope. This is a "dry skin on scalp" thing, as evinced by the fact that I've got a dry patch on my forehead, too.  (not as pronounced fortunately) 

 @baeead15 I guess. Finding one that works reasonably well is going to be a whole thing. 

 Grocery bills continue to be yikes at a glance and in line with MO prices if I factor comfort food separately. My exploration of meat substitutes isn't doing me any favors, though if the Kroger generic soy based "chicken" is as good as the name brand stuff, I'm set. 

 Made it back; dressing to unpacked was a little under three hours. Traffic noise is still bad but the lower intensity morning light made a huge difference.

A thing that would never happen in PA or MO: three SUVs traveling three different directions all stopped and hung back to let me cross the road. 

 @416ef617 I'd still need to get out for exercise. Which I am, admittedly, getting plenty of at the moment. 

 Irregular asphalt sidewalk is really something else when your lighting source is radiosity off the cloud cover. Concrete sidewalk stands out readily. 

 @bd280af2 @d6e4c7e0 *entering* alt text isn't that great, either. 

 @bd280af2 @d6e4c7e0 I've heard decent things about Tusky; Ice Cubes sounds new to me. 🤔

(the official app is definitely lacking, but what it does have mostly works, at least) 

 @bd280af2 @d6e4c7e0 wish I could edit on the mobile app; that starts off one thought and ends another and they're not entirely related. >.@ 

 @bd280af2 @d6e4c7e0 artists and writers need to team up and bring the mother of all class action lawsuits. A result of anything less than paid residuals for every single work sampled to every single creator whose work has been stolen would be optimal. 

 @208f2b00 honestly given the fact everyone's doing fuckall about covid, the "same bathroom" thing is a particular nightmare.

Would be the best place to rig up with Far UV after the building entrance, though. 

 @208f2b00 😱 

 I unfortunately (?) left an alarm armed and kept hitting snooze instead of STAHP and at some point in there I started writing this installment in my head so I figured waking most of the rest of the way up and getting it out while it was there to be got was the way to go. 

 @32ab7150 what did you migrate to? 

 @81d859a3 ah that makes sense; those ports are on the bottom on the models I've seen. Which are older, I guess. 

 @2104910b 😐 

 @2104910b Ah, that makes sense. I imagine in both cases a lot of very talented and well-meaning software developers are incandescently angry at a c-suite too privileged to give a shit. 

 @2104910b oh, right.

Thing is, there's already alternatives available, and Unity shooting themselves in the foot with a MIRV will hopefully juice funding and development of FOSS  projects like Godot. 

Google nuking Reader fucked the entire internet; RSS as a consumer-facing technology has been all but dead since then. (at least in my experience; I've never heard of a replacement getting any kind of traction.) 

 @2104910b what's going on? 

 @71799169 I heard a ways back that we're still under the emergency that was declared with the Korean War, so, yeah. Priorities. 

 @416ef617 (MO drivers in my experience varied; not as nasty as PA but a lot more big diesel trucks with fashy stickers. There's like *one* loud truck in the entire suburb here, it's a nice change of pace.) 

 Good news! I've found umbrellas in the house. Nice ones. I've also found *my* umbrella, the one I kept, in the box with my ratchet straps and tape. WHEW.

I want to use the nice one but it's beeg and mine fits in my backpack or can ride hilt-out in a cargo pocket - more practical for long range pedestrianing. 

 This doesn't solve my immediate issue but it is the beginning of solving the long term issue - I do need to transfer to Oregon-based medical care, pronto. 

 Fortunately there's no shortage of the anxiety med - it's take as needed and it's honestly *this*, specifically, that stirs up enough of a blind panic that chemical measures are called for. 

 @81d859a3 my ancient nerd instinct wants to say "sata" or "esata" but... no idea, honestly.