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it's almost the end of august and i haven't blogged all month!

so, pretty much what i expected to happen if i increased the time between blog posts has happened. it's made it really hard to write again after so much time passes (⌒_⌒;) i was reading b's post about blogging guilt and feel much the same. or maybe it's t…

okay, okay, i know i said in my previous entry that i would be slowing to a monthly blog schedule for the summer but now i'm already writing again a week later (⌒_⌒;) i just got the urge to make something for this pride month because i was thinking about…

this entry is being published a few days later than usual. i wanted to hold off and post it on the day that the tiny awards nominations opened. because i'm one of the judges this year!

it was maid day (メイドの日) on may 10th (the word "meido" is a phonetic pun that sounds like may 10 in japanese) and i was talking to a friend in japan about it last week. i don't really know very much about maid culture in japan apart from stuff i've seen in…

the pain in my shoulder finally cleared up and i'm back to normal now, yay ^-^ hopefully i can go more than a few months now before another major health disruption (╥_╥) i'll try to be better at staying on top of things like stress management going forward

my neck/shoulder is still not 100% better but it has improved. in my own untrained amateur medical opinion, i think it's a pinched nerve in my neck or shoulder. i've had similar pain/numbness in the past when i used to play tennis and it usually took 3-4…

this week, i'm nursing a neck/shoulder injury (╥_╥) i don't know what happened or how i got it. it just started hurting over the weekend. maybe it's from the exercising i've been doing or sleeping in a weird position due to tossing and turning all night f…

i mentioned a few posts back that i was doing a watch-through of the ghost in the shell: stand alone complex anime series. i made it a few episodes into season 2 before deciding to pause. i haven't really been in the mood to watch it anymore. it's not as…

for the last couple weeks, i've been tied up with parents stuff (╥_╥) just random health and general issues kept popping up for them non-stop. things have settled down now but i haven't had much time to mess around on my computers. i'm not really even sure

i've been getting a bunch of new visitors on my homepage recently thanks to being mentioned briefly in onio's great youtube video about the indie web/web revival <3 (you can read more about this idea of the web revival on the melonland wiki.) it's been an…

i don't have much to write about this time in terms of homepage updates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ive only made some small edits here and there like new links to other people, etc. most of my time for the past couple weeks has been spent on working on my homeserver. i've…

my break from social platforms continues. i have no real desire to go back to using them anytime soon. i still stop in to reply to people who leave comments on my posts but that's it. cutting myself off from the feed has helped me a lot mentally. and has…

i'm finally recovered from the vertigo attack. i was over the main bppv after the first week but the residual dizziness took a long time to go away as my body's gyroscope and accelerometer had to recalibrate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was a lot of days of slow movements

2025 is finally gone. yay. but it still had to slap me in the face one last time on its way out. i got vertigo for christmas and i don't mean a copy of the 1958 hitchcock film (╥_╥) i mean benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (bppv) and it was/is a nightm…

as my annual tradition of holiday depression drags on, i've been offline even more than usual. you may have noticed that i've not been replying on social much as i haven't been checking into those spaces (the ones i still kind of use like mastodon, cybers…

it's december already and the year is winding down. i love winter. i love how calm and quiet and slow everything becomes when the temperature drops and the snow blankets everything. i love the dark and cozy long nights. i love bundling up to go outside and