Xial A. Lunashine ◤◢ 🍑🍆🚵‍♀️ @Xial@vulpine.club

I kiiiiiinda want to buy some smut for myself.

But I need to refrain and put the cash toward vacation and bills.
Planning on buying train tickets sometime next month. May look into a carpool option if my better half isn't making it to the con, because then I won't have to consider car rental.

Granted, I would probably Turo, unless I can get a good rate from an actual rental facility.

But for the latter to work, I'd have to take on an actual credit card (don't want), unless rental companies have started accepting debit cards as an option.

But I'm going to crawl into bed and stop thinking about buying smut.

It's about time for bed, but first:

I want croissant waffles, drizzled with a blend of 75% molasses, 25% agave syrup.

Side of maybe turkey bacon, and definitely a scrambled egg.

I'm slightly annoyed. I'm going to have to go somewhere today and find a mini USB cable so I can use my drawing tablet again.
I have found SEVEN micro USB cables.
I know I have a mini around here, because I used it to charge my old Bluetooth speaker months ago, but HECK if I know where or when I put it.

Crap, I forgot to log my cycling mileage in Strava today. Think I've only done a mile and a half, so not fully distraught, and still have a month to finish that challenge I signed up for. Guess I'll go put in a couple more miles today, at least.

Secondary visit:

Of course, right as I said that, I just had two days of four hour downtimes. *FACEPALM.*

I would like to acquire ten of your finest acres of electrical sockets, please.

I got both my chocolate and vanilla Saturo.
I like the choco better than the vanilla - the latter has too subtle amounts of vanilla, so it tastes like an oat-soy shake.

I also have a coupon from Saturo for buying on Amazon in bulk, which is a damn fine idea. :)

Revisiting Noiz1 - So the webhost that I was hating on has been quite decent for uptime since switching to LiteSpeed.

I've gone and fixed most of my issues, and actually have my character description manager working just fine. I've had to go back to appending file extensions to images, but the pages themselves work just fine.

There's also only been like... two downtimes of under five minutes total since then. I guess they've been forced to actually stop being crappy, which is good.

@polychrome @kelbesque Perhaps. :)

I eat a little unusually, for a number of personal reasons.

Incidentally, I also remember that time where I was in a "Double Filet-o-Fish, dressed exactly like a Big Mac" phase.
Mostly because I don't eat a lot of beef and would rather have chicken or fish (personal preference, still holds true).

You can't order that sandwich through a kiosk, either (and as far as McFare goes, it's actually quite tasty).

@polychrome @kelbesque
For nearly six months, I couldn't properly customize any of their chicken sandwiches from the kiosk, and I raised a complaint about this vocally with staff at locations.
Only when I punched them in the spleen on the survey after trying over and over, and getting sick of being forced toward the kiosks (another point of contention) was the issue ever fixed (and I received a phone call from area management thanking me for the feedback).
Now I can actually get my chicken sandwiches the right way: Extra Pickles and Mustard Only, please.

Other customizations that aren't possible from the kiosk or mobile app:
* Filet-o-Fish, no steamed bun, use sesame seed bun, only pickle, slivered onion, and Mac sauce (missing bun swap, onion, mac sauce).
* Any request of Mac sauce on sandwiches that isn't a Big Mac
* Sub Slivered Onions on sandwiches that aren't the Quarter Pounder, because the slivered onions still have actual onion flavor, compared to the diced 'onion'.

Yes, I primarily use the kiosks.
Most of the stores here moved that front end staff to the kitchen to handle the increase in orders from the mobile app, the kiosks, and from Uber Eats (in select areas).

I've just hit my Patreon account with an orbital bombardment. In its place is a smouldering crater.

For a half year, they have failed their duty to patrons in telling them, "Hey, on behalf of our creators, we have updated our payment processes to use multiple countries and multiple processors."

When they've been told over and over that a payment processor outside of country causes issues and refuse to stop doing it, even when they come right back and use the in-country processor, that's harassment, particularly so when they've been told that the processor out of country causes a full on card lock for fraud.

Yes, it's great to be at the grocery store, trying to buy food that you have money for, only for your card to be locked quietly a half hour prior because they're trying to process payments through the UK when you're on the west coast of the Americas.

As much as it annoys me to not support my creators, not having to deal with the monthly fraud lock is another step in self-care.

I'm going to go to Furvana this September in Ocean Shores, WA.

I haven't been to a furry con in over half a decade, and getting a proper vacation under my belt — a «get out of the town I live in and go see a new place» level of vacation is becoming more and more important to my mental well-being. As in it's self-care important.

As it stands, buying my train tickets (about $120-ish?), setting aside the $10 needed for the city bus round trip (three buses from Olympia to Ocean Shores, $1 a pop), making the second payment for the Airbnb ($110-ish), and buying con admission (up to $175, depending on level) are on the list of Things To Do™.

I also need to budget food into this whole thing, and pay more attention to the current budget in the months leading up to this.

It's doable. I'll likely be consuming more Saturo to at least get balanced nutrition (at $2 a bottle) while really minimizing some of my other expenses.

That said, if you'd like to help, feel free: https://buymeacoff.ee/Xial :)

https://desc.lick.blue/xial

I'm making interesting strides on updating my reference collection. I am rediscovering bits and bobs of CSS and ways to slam them together and make things do what I want.

I think I've done a decent job. :)

I'm a bit higher than I thought. It's coming back to that weird build-up of pressure in my head that's ready to put me to bed.

I'm high at a level that I know I am high, but the only odd compulsion I have aside sleep?

Trying out one bottle of Saturo that came in the mail today, figure out if I like it enough to try to get another 8-pack or two.

Yes. I have the munchies right now, and instead of wanting chips and shit, I just want the Saturo or some popcorn.

Huh. ​

@Kyresti Stretching? Heheheh... The answer is "pretty far."
It's why I want a more permanent solution, instead of spending half a day in a pumping tube that needs upgrading at this point to a proper Monster-Tube.

@HTHR There's a risk of gangrene, dry gangrene, infection, sepsis, death with anything that breaks the seal on our bodies, though.
I just want my refreshingly freakish large junk.
I don't want to go the route some guys go, injecting silicone on my own. That's too risky.

You know, we let folks get ridiculously large breast implants.

Why can't I get ridiculously large scrotal implants, designed solely to make my nutsack look like I'm smuggling oranges?

I don't want children. I don't mind the minor risk that'd come with implanting hyaluronic acid filled implants in the coinpurse.

They do have implants for men who lose their testicles, but they're *reasonably* sized. I don't want reasonable. I want a bag big enough to warrant a TSA patdown.

I'll probably just make myself do the Scaleway work this week and resolve the issue in Noiz1.

But for now, bed, lest Noiz2 frustrate me, and not posting Noiz3.