Rethinking things

Jul. 9th, 2026 11:30 pm
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So I am the type to over check everything and I'm very much rethinking the Hyundai. Too many times on the lemon car sites, too many big red flags from way too many reliable mechanic/car dude sites. The really big issues for me is the electronics tend to go bad in under 3 years especially if it's hot/humid. Guess whose car sits outside 24/7 with no garage?

Then it has a small laggy engine that is zero to 60 in 10 freaking seconds, much longer than other cars. It doesn't speed up in traffic well. Guess who has a no-runway merge into 65 mph traffic every day?

And then it gets worse gas mileage than other vehicles in its segment that'll end up costing me over 1K a year in gas fees. Sigh. I hate making these kinds of decisions.


Shockingly I have done nothing on [community profile] fandomgiftbasket I took a look at the Hazbin prompts, realized I can write maybe two people's requests and the others are nothing I could possibly write between either pairings or the requests. Now I usually try to over write for this thing because I feel bad for people with no fills and I jump in. I'm not sure I'll be doing that this year because I'm really going hard on the original fiction. Might need to look at a few other of my fandoms though.

hands

Jul. 9th, 2026 08:26 pm
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drawing a bunch of hands for this doujin (technically mine, through a self-insert) - keen eyes will notice i give myself quite large knuckles.

and it's making me remember one time i was at one of those fancy charity dinners for us/with a bunch of disabled kids (this one was for the hearing stuff. i had a lot to pick from).

and a boy, most of the kids there were eight-ish? ten? next to me in the lull of conversation point blank said: what's wrong with your hands?

definitely remember looking down at my hands like ?? eh? what do you mean? i wasn't... mad. i don't think i even really reacted much more other than a head tilt until the conversation moved on naturally. wasn't quite amused. bemused? puzzled? mostly i remember to this day the next distinctive thought was: huh, guess this kind of thing/comment can even happen here [aka among people who kinda should know better] i guess.

sometimes i still think about him. hope he doesn't remember it; while a smidge of temporary shame isn't always a bad thing, i don't wish the deep mortified permanent shame on anyone especially when sometimes kids don't have a filter yet. god knows i've done a few of those moments.

but since then i've always actually liked those knuckles, maybe slightly out of that contradictory whim. there's other parts of the body i've struggled a lot more with; but i've always liked my hands.

(funnily enough during my gunter fire emblem binge that re-affirmed that powerful affection; since then i've always thought of 'em as my old man knuckles, heh. there's also my favorite artwork by andreas deja, animator of jafar - when he was doodling out gestures of that character who had the exact same kind of hands; that artwork might be in the running for favorite piece of all time.)

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Jul. 9th, 2026 06:01 pm
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Writing Sprints July 10-12

Jul. 9th, 2026 04:01 pm
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Fighting with tech

Jul. 9th, 2026 08:53 pm
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A year ago I was enjoying Graduation, sorting Husband's appointments, and having a random sore knee.

Today started with me trying to get some help on MoR principles on YT and failing. During the day, I managed to get through the rest of the workbook. I also got an unmanaged laptop from work that I am hoping will work for the exam. I am currently trying to sign into my personal email account on said laptop so I can send myself the links.

I have managed to take some photos and sent them to my work account for a work thing. This afternoon I overlaid our teams onto the floor plan of our new office. I think we're going to be OK.

I tried to watch the recording of the AI Academy session I missed yesterday, but I couldn't get it to play. Instead, I just worked my way through the first part of the module. It kept going on about finding a way to improve helpdesk operations for the project - but I don't deal with helpdesk tickets! I had a chat with one of the helpdesk team who is also on the programme. They have an idea for their own project but offered some suggestions for one I could do. The module project requires us to come up with an idea and to present on it but I don't think we have to actually do the work. But my colleague also said it doesn't HAVE to be about helpdesk - it could be for a system we do work with. Well, it would be helpful if the blurb said that!

So, I had a think about the system I use most and asked Atlas to help with some ideas. It gives me something to chat to LM about at our 1:1 tomorrow. Which is finally happening. I have a LONG list of things to discuss.

It was chippy for tea tonight. I had beef satay with fried rice, which was yummy.

Now I'm finishing the day off with an episode of Alchemy of Souls.
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