Spicy pineapple bacon chili turned out well! But I'm almost out of vodka, how can I cook without drinks? I foresee difficulties later this week. Least I have a few days of leftovers of this for now.

Today's cooking music: Chuli and Miae's 너는 왜 from 1992.
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Alright, got control working on this big friend! I can power on and off at will over rs232, hurray! Also, it isn't shattered and didnt fall off the wall! Bugger weighs almost as much as my 40" Sony XBR CRT and I want to touch it as little as possible.

*sigh* if I had a dollar for every time I moved a ceiling tile and had a razer blade drop on me this weekend, I'd...

well, I'd have two dollars, but that's still more than one would expect.

For the $1600 I was just quoted, I'll just install a new clutch myself!

(haha, no I won't, I'd drop the damned thing on my face)
(but srsly I've driven this car for two and a half weeks total and it's been in one shop or another for over five weeks...)

so many regrets.

"So, how's your week been going Tati?" you might ask.

Me: ˆ√´˜øµ†å˜∂ˆµ¨ß† ßç®´åµ

Ah crap both coworkers called in sick. Guess I'll be doing the twelve hour shift today!

"You owe me!", one of them exclaims any time anyone else is gone but then burns sick leave the moment it accumulates for herself. *grumble*

Six volumes into Dungeon Meshi and I think I most love how Marcille is *constantly* roasted by the other characters. Bully~ that~ elf~

I guess since I'm subbed to FF14 again, I might as well take Oct. 3 off and try for a day-and-date patch. It'll be like old times!~

*sigh* what is it about computer engineers that makes them unable to use a computer? Having a PhD with two decades experience seems to just lead to "I installed OneDrive and now Matlab doesn't work".

Bugger. Microsoft pushed another firmware update for the Surface Book 2 and broke my undervolt. Unfortunately, popping back into Linux to force install the old firmware version no longer works. It's back to being an overheating piece of junk now :(

Replying honestly to these emails from someone at another institution asking "how is your setup?" makes me feel like I'm fomenting rebellion.

"Yes, we do this, it works better. It's explicitly against central's mandate and they just haven't crushed me. Yet."

"But my way is far better and cheaper."

Someone *cough* doesn't like avocado and picked it off her lunch. In the interest of not wasting, I thought "single serving almost-guacamole! I have onion, jalapeño, cilantro, garlic..."

Friends, my ratios were off. Extremely. And the jalapeño is, ah, an exemplar example of its kind.

What a beautiful day! It's 60-some degrees and breezy, the best kind of weather. And in what (I hope) bodes well for the day, I traversed the 18 stop light gauntlet running from home to work and never hit a red light!

but honestly I'd rather spend my time in Genshin, there's so much to see in Fontaine >.> and I never got Sumeru to 100%!

I've broken my years of distance from FF14; my old raid group had several unfortunate events and can't get an 8th member. I'm good at volunteering and bad at saying no, and it was a caster slot, so... back on the gear grind I go. At least it's less anxiety-inducing than healing was!

Hi hello I am here now! Hi friends!