hello Beehaw, it’s a sleepy morning–and i did not get very much sleep. luckily i have no social priorities so this is not a big deal. currently reading a number of books after completely crashing out of doing that for the entire month of June. i think i can get about 3 in before the end of the month, we’ll see
Just created my account here in the past day. I know it probably can’t last, but I don’t think I’ve had that “cozy” feeling right away in a forum or other online community like this in decades, and I’d say it was somewhat rare even “back in the day.”
So far folks seem to live up to the stated goals of the place and I think that’s pretty great.
So my day is going pretty good because that’s a pleasant surprise, and because a stressful work event today ended up being not too stressful after all.
welcome! i created my account over a month ago but i agree, this is the most civil & “cozy” site i’ve seen in a while since small niche blogs & forums were actually a thing. places like this have been rare af since the late 2010s, so it’s refreshing to see such a place with this many users
Sigh, I’m okay. Work is really stressful lately. I went through an acquisition, and really got demoted in both rank and importance. Defeating, but, I’m also still glad to have a job where I can work from where my cats live.
On the one hand I’ve gotten a lot of reading time and have been enjoying my current book (Children of Time) much more than the last book I tried (The Dark Forest [yeah, I know it’s a modern classic of the genre, I just really didn’t like the translation]). On the other, I was with my wife all day in the ER because she developed a kidney infection. Everyone’s fine now though so… pretty mixed so far?
Eh kinda shitty, one of my main medications (Subutex) dropped dosage again this week and it suddenly felt like I’ve been hit with a brick, emotionally speaking at least, bored as hell, tired, no real desire to eat or do anything, etc. I’m close to being done with this medication but the last parts like getting off it at the very end are the hardest.
How are you doing overall? Are you doing well? I don’t mean to assume the reason for using Subutex (doctors prescribe off-label for lots of shit and I’m not a doctor) but it’s one of those things where I’ve had someone close going through similar circumstances.
Doing OK in general except for the start of this week, no problem with assuming, you’re likely right anyway if you’re thinking about opiate addiction. Cravings suck but are bareable for now at least.
I’m glad to hear it, well not glad you have to go through this but glad to hear to you’re doing okay. I hope you don’t have too hard of a time and are able to stick with it.
He was. One of the better dogs I’ve ever owned. Was in effect a therapy dog for our other pup that struggles with people. And always more tolerant than he should have been with the kids.
It was a long time coming. He had tumors in his throat and nose and eventually his quality of life suffered too much. Just sucks.
He’s also the first death that hit my youngins hard. My 5 year old has struggled the most. Has some disturbing anecdotes since. Having to choke back your own thoughts/processing to explain it to kids is hard. Harder than I thought
I created my own Lemmy instance for my small town!
I cannot get anyone to use it at all! I tried to post about it on the local Facebook group and I got banned!
To be fair, I created it to take people out of the toxic shit pile, but the page is called “uncensored” which is a little hypocritical if you ask me.
I think people are weary that it’s a “scam” somehow. Even though there are hundreds of fake accounts on the FB group and the page owner is an ultra right wing nutjob and allows tons of troll accounts to run wild.
I have now created my own Facebook group in hopes to draw away members, I will then subtly introduce my Lemmy instance to them.
I have to give a presentation soon and I am not looking forward to it.
Even worse, today I found the bread and peaches I was gonna eat this week are moldy!! T_T The bread is over a week old so maybe it makes sense, but the peaches I just bought the other day!! It’s annoying. But hopefully things will turn around from here.
Back in April, I took a reading challenge that I had found online to read for at least thirty minutes per day, because I really should read more often. I failed about twenty days in, doing the bare minimum. What have I become?
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