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Finally caved and bought a big ol’ bottle of fractionated coconut oil to make custom scent diffusers.

Aa-aa-and lower lobes sized up to 10ga.

Also, I updated my GPU drivers so I could turn all the raytracing on in Resonant and now my primary monitor periodically goes black for a fraction of a second?

. . . why do things cost money?

Update: . . .

Make Them Suffer, “Ghost of Me“

New SSD for the old media box arrived this morning.

Despite it not being the sort of genre I usually play, I ended up loving Control way more than I thought I would — I am an absolute sucker for a supernatural govproc — so, okay.

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online (6,421 hours played)

Every now and again I am exposed to US ads and recently watching one for <manvoice>WAR DOT GOV</manvoice> it’s like . . . wow yeah they’re gonna be studying that for a hundred years, hey.

> throwing away the helmet he wasn’t aware he’s taken off Got another one for the "breath he’d been holding" archives.

So anyway the plus side of last night’s late-night (read: early evening) emergency IT purchases is that I figured out how to use fstab enough to perma-mount the NAS’s shared drives in a way the *arr-stack can read (please clap).

One of my teenage origfic projects opened with the protagonist working in a 24/7 computer repair shop, which at the time I thought was a kind of "this is very dumb but whatever" sort of premise (also: I’d been playing a lot of Bloodlines).

Looking for software to try and resurrect an SSD that I think had bad sectors or some other related issue, and finding websites that last look like they were updated in 1996 like . . . yup.

ME: (taking the old books Ex left to Lifeline for donation) VOLUNTEER GUY: (looking at said books) Harry Potter, huh.

White Lies, “Death“

Clotho’s fluffy toe beans. . . . yeah yeah postin’ my cat’s feet pics on main.

Also shout-out to fifteen-year-old me who hashtag-on-this-day in 1999 was hitting the post button for the very first time on LiveJournal dot com, an event I decided was so monumental that at some point I added it to my calendar as a repeating event, appar…

ACCVSED & Cypecore, “Total Eclipse of Self“

All three Wyrdverse novels: LIESMITH, STORMBRINGER, and BAD MEME.

Making Mum write a Notes app apology to her Korean student friend for cheating him at Scrabble (he made the word “beefs” and she insisted this was not a word; Scrabble dictionary, as well as anyone under the age of 60, disagrees).

Waiting to pick Mum up from her day surgery.

The Sims 4 (932 hours played)

> beat him at a game he didn’t realize they were playing Another one for the “breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding” pile!

One of the (unironic) great joys of fanfic (and amateur fiction in general) is coming across a specific author’s weird writing tics in otherwise competent prose.

CAT: (jumps up on top of the computer tower) CAT: (casually reaches up to the print hanging on the wall to push it out of alignment) ME: . . . for real, dude???