Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org

Stress... Pink eye, out of sick time, wife is in Canada, she and our grandson really badly want time with me on #Minecraft. Our dog is freaked out being home alone. She used to have Frisco & Freddy cats, "da boyz." Then it was just Freddy, and now Freddy is gone, and so is "momma," my wife. I can't explain "momma" will come back, that the voice and picture on the phone is her. So I give her anxiety meds before work.

Went to work, listed as off. I'll have to check with HR for vacation time rather than sick time. It should be OK. Should. "Should" in one hand, "shit" in the other, see what fills faster. I need to tidy the apartment, put things back in order from maintenance work done on the wall last night. The
moron who built the place "on the cheap" didn't insulate the sprinkler pipes so in some places those burst. New owner the last several years has been sinking money for infrastructure improvements, if not corrections for the previous owner / builder. I'm glad our pipes didn't burst, we are OK, and our rent is relatively low because we pay like clockwork, we keep our place up, and we keep an eye on things.

We have it well, better than many. But it's still an unusual amount of adulting for me. There's more I can whine about, but it's just whining. Snot and boogers should be a nose product, not an eyeball product. Time to go back upstairs to reassure my dog I'm not dead yet, even if I can't convince her Momma is coming back. The soul crushing part is being alone. Tilly needs me.

Ah, reminiscing the days as a #Minecraft wizard wondering what /nuke does on a busy server, or missing a specific target to /kill...

@Saerise @georgetakei It's OK. My home state was going to legislate a rational value for Pi as 3 or 3.2. The bill wasn't clear on that. Passed the State House unanimously. Died in the State Senate. F*ing Indiana.

@C418 Again? Or is that still? I published my handle before that became forbidden and I've not been forced to change it, yet. If required to do so, the answer of course will be "no."

@fisunov https://youtu.be/zbwSSdtWUNE by Scott Manley is a great overview including the orbital dynamics of the mission. This grand tour is nuts, and I'm all here for it!

And then the obligatory, "Don't call everything you don't like Nazi," says the guy who calls everything he doesn't like "Statist."

@freemo @Dennis1212 Cool. Talking with some of these people strongly reminds me of flerthers. "Freemo wants to be a dictator! That's why he's... (checks notes) setting up a democratic system to avoid stupid defederation nonsense. INTOLERABLE!"

@Dennis1212 My wife's in Canada visiting with her adult daughter in a supportive role rather than pleasure visit. It's been very hard on our dog while I'm at work.

@Dennis1212 How many people can she get to improve the human race simply by removing themselves from the gene pool? "I shoot a bullet into the air, and where it lands I OH SHIT WTF THAT HURTS!"

@Dennis1212 I need to be more involved here. Unfortunately, stupid people keep jumping into my timeline there. Flerthers... Ye gods, what a silly bunch. But in following the responses, I catch cool stuff from RedsRhetoric and so many others. In fact, one of the provisions of qoto.org I got from @freemo via email, "It's OK to join if you are just a fan of STEM, so long as you aren't a Flat-earther or such."

#UFoI has been quiet lately as I look, unless I'm missing stuff. My forays into political talk leaves people confused and angry for some reason. I wave friendly greetings to the whole political spectrum and everyone gets mad at me anyway.