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

@Jacel I... I have to ask.
Does the new castle mew like a kitten?

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@ctrlaltdog Strange thing: I'm typically anti-DLC, but think that Paradox and Colossal Order actually got the DLC pattern mostly right with C:SL.

Generally, it's a couple of major DLC a year, and Steam sales bend the pricing of all but the newest to a much more affordable band. The minor DLC aren't important, are easily skipped, and aren't missed.

It's kind of odd, now that I'm really thinking about it.

@kode54 I'm fairly laden with debt, and only went after this phone to resolve a handful of issues. That, and the cash price for the phone isn't so bad after the discounts.
Once I'm fully migrated over to this phone, I'll probably sell the old one to make back a chunk of what I spent tonight, to further offset my costs.

@kode54 I went from $40.75/mo unlimited talk and text with 3GB of high speed data, unlimited low speed, with carryover data to a $55/mo plan with 5GB plus unlimited low speed and carryover data. This also adds in a monthly device payment, not included in that number (about two bucks extra after the bill credit).

Well, I did the thing I didn't quite want to do: bought another Motorola phone. This time, the Z3, since I was considering migrating from prepaid to postpaid.

Now to go home, buy a new case, get my employee discount set up.

I'm not surprised at Tumblr's reveal that they want to put the clamps on adult content.

Imma just sit here with my personal domains and do my own thing.

Mayhap a resurgence in self hosting is on the horizon... :)

So, #furries, I miss the days where things were sold through auction sites like FurBid and FurBuy.
It was easy to figure out who the heck was open for business because YOU DIDN'T POST THERE UNLESS YOU WERE WANTING MONEY FOR SERVICES.

It grates my nerves just a little bit when I see the occasional post here and there from artists lamenting that they don't have any customers.

BECAUSE YOU AREN'T USING TOOLS TO EFFECTIVELY SHOW YOU ARE OPEN.

I've hit a point where I just want to say to someone with a style I'm interested in, "Look, I have dead presidents to insert into my computer screen in trade for some art." -- this is harder than it needs to be because I'm stuck having to find journals and image posts that relay a status, and that's one person at a time for the bulk of the search.

This sucks. It's off-putting.
And it's keeping funds in my pocket that I would like to put in someone else's.

@staticsafe Bleh, Steam Link. Every time I've tried to use it, it's just a soggy mess, bogged down on the network. And the Steam Controller... I just need to throw the damn thing away.

I'll give Valve credit: They Tried, but god that controller isn't usable for much of anything.

Since the seller has gone non-communicative on eBay and I REALLY either need the damn battery working or my cash back, I just peeled the shrink wrap off. One of the BMS leads doesn't appear to have even been soldered to the battery.

I'm going to wait until I'm less tired, and more focused to really review the wiring on the battery, because I think I'm going to find myself unpleasantly surprised at a few things.

I don't wanna doubt the guy, but I'm sitting here with an old battery that has enough charge, barely, to get me through four miles of cycling in a day, if I keep it set low for the majority of the trip, and a potential new battery that I can't do shit with until he either opens his damn mouth to tell me what he didn't do.

Mind ye, the seller said he recorded a video of this battery's assembly and offered to share it, which I've said I was looking forward to seeing. ... and he has yet to post it.

I ain't got time for that kinda hellbug shtako, so I'mma figure it out myself. This will determine what I rate the seller at, if I can find the real problem.

Well, I probably need to remember to take my diabetes medicine a bit more faithfully. My brain scooted into the whole "You won't have access to this medicine at the end of the year. Make it last." mindset, so I started skipping weekly dosing, going for every 10-12 days for the injectable. Not entirely accurate, though I will be paying more at the start of the year, I'm sure.

Between that, the whole possible infection thing I am dealing with, a lack of want to take all of these fuckin' pills, and honestly a wave of depression leading to stress eating?
Blood sugars have been elevated for long enough that my A1C is over 9.

Bleh, I need to make myself take this shit, but I hate how the pills make me feeeeeeeel.
Wanna feel like your stomach is a rock tumbler? Take Metformin.
Wanna feel like you're filled with gas? Take Glipizide.
Want to feel like you need to eat everything ever? Insulin's your friend.

I do have an appointment with my doctor next week, though, so we can look at fixing my overall medicine load, because something has to give, and I'd rather it not be me. Just need a more efficient pill load, though.

That moment when the local FredMeyer really had everything you needed to work on a project. Got solder, heat shrink and zip ties. Now to go home and work on my battery.

And then, there's AE-ASCENCI, my desktop.

I'm almost ready to build a new, NEW machine. Using DDR4 RAM, getting on Ryzen, and so on. I don't entirely enjoy the prospect of possibly spending $1,200-ish on a completely new machine, but I've been carrying forward parts for a while, and kind of feel like I deserve to have something entirely new and not farmed from the cheapest bins of the interbutts for ONCE.

I know my mindset, though. I'll be picking out the least expensive components and trying to squeeze $1,200 worth of computer into $700 worth of parts.

I'll remind myself that gee, I'm only going to play Cities: Skylines and browser games on it, so I don't need that shiny eight-core CPU when the four-core will do.

And hell, maybe I'll even get around to getting three monitors that bloody MATCH each other instead of a decade old hodge-podge of computer monitors and televisions doubling as monitors.

ICO-RA-339, 'BLUETREE' had to be pulled back into main service after an unexpected tube failure on ICO-RA-541. I haven't cycled in manual mode since March. My left knee reminded me that I'm 36 and fat.

ICO-RA-541, 'SKIP RAIDER' needed a new battery. I have ordered one from a seller on eBay who is a state south of me. SKIP RAIDER's battery went into the mail today, and should be here Tuesday.

I'm debating on whether it would make sense for me to clean up Bluetree and sell her locally for $150 so someone who can put her to use can actually do so, or if I should keep her. After all, she saved the day for me a week ago when I had a tube failure. It's just that I've had her for nearly five years, and this last six months, she's had very little use.

I can put the cash to good use if I sell Bluetree by tossing it into my Credit Union account. I'm inching closer to moving on to my 600-series purchase, which will be another electric bike. Can't quite tell if I'm going to build something myself, or if I'm letting someone else handle the build process.

I finally installed an internal DVD drive to get past the annoyances of trying to balance that USB drive on things. ... only to use both drives to finish ripping the first season of Defiance.

The new SSD has been a treat, and the old SSD is in an enclosure at the moment, pending a full wipe. Not sure if I'll use it for the blu-ray player in the living room, or migrate the SSD to Jayelatitude, my scraptop, or reinstall it as yet another drive in Ascenci.

I still need to get the email situation re-sorted, because I've been needing to log in to cpanel and check mail from the desktop. I may install Postbox shortly, now that I've dealt out the hard drive stuff (another platter based drive was installed).

@Archaeomancer I like my bed. I downsized to a twin sized mattress because I sleep dead in the middle of the thing and don't roll around. Makes full sized beds pointless.
I also went to a foam mattress recently, and before that, a slatted bed system, so I actually have under-bed space to store things in. :)

I think my drive enclosure will arrive today. That will let me mount the old SSD externally, and get the new platter drive installed.
Then I'll pull all the old stuff off the SSD, wipe it, and see about dumping my movies onto it for the blu-ray player in the living room.
But for now, off to work.

It's been a week. Had a hard drive fully die on me Thursday. Money I wanted to put aside for a new e-bike was instead spent on replacement storage solutions. Oh well, guess I'll try again next check.

My aim is to have enough put aside by spring to buy a better bike.

@dog something cute.

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@NinTheFolf Vitamin D does seem to have some pretty good benefits. I've been missing mine as of late, and I'm definitely feeling less me now that I'm thinking about it.

@NowakVulpix I am a hot weather fox. Gimme high temps, and take all this cold mess away. :)