Karel P Kerezman @greyduck@x0r.be

Got to work, immediately put in for a mental health day on Wednesday because I'm in SUCH a state of jittery doom-cloud free-floating-anxiety that it seems wiser to get the day off earlier rather than waiting for later in the week (like, say, aiming for a three-day weekend instead).

Brains are such fun, amirite?

It's one of the great days of the year: Put The AC Units Away Day.

*deep sigh of happiness*

Sometimes a random playlist results in some misfires. Case in point:

A few hours ago, the Jethro Tull track "No Rehearsal" from the NIGHTCAP record came up. Okay, cool, no problem.

Just now, "The Chateau d'Isaster Tapes" from the 20 YEARS OF TULL box set started. That medley contains the entirety of "No Rehearsal".

D'oh.

G'mornin' to those of you for whom it's still morning-time, good day/night to the rest as appropriate. May the full moon herald a great improvement for all of your lives.

Aha. I'm informed that it is in fact a "joke." Mind you, why someone would build a Kickstarter campaign (??!!??) around this is anyone's guess, and it's probably a stupendously bad idea to even build the structure to get yourself money for such a thing.

And then to argue with Neil Gaiman about it, that's just doubling down on your idiocy there, pal.

I just read a blurb about a service that transcribes audiobooks and my brain hurts now because that's just THE ORIGINAL BOOK, Y'ALL.

I mean. Seriously. What Silicon Valley dingbat came up with THAT unnecessary service?

You know it's love when she buys you a couple months' worth of root beer iced tea blend. 😍

The significance of the day notwithstanding, I hope everyone is doing as well as they're able, today.

You know those days when you simply lack the patience for anybody's shenanigans whatsoever?

Yup.

Look, I know it's frustrating, mister client sir, but it's a busy Monday and we're going to prioritize other tickets over your "I can't get BattleNet to install!" entry in the queue.

Sorry not sorry.

Good day, one and all. So far the day's been... relatively quiet, really, and I'm 100% okay with that.

Let's ease into the week, yeah?

For all the griping from the bosses about how we need solid process documentation, when one of said bosses can't be bothered to read said documentation during a device rollout, it kind of leaves me facepalming a bit. Just a bit.

Lots of Rick Springfield in today's random playlist. "Dance This World Away" indeed, sir.

Good morning everyone.

My love/meh relationship with Burgerville, our local mini-chain fast food brand, continues apace: To keep energy levels up and beat the heat a bit, I grabbed one of their new "bliss" shakes, which is to say a coconut-milk shake.

So basically it's the usual assortment of milkshake flavors only non-dairy and tasting more-than-faintly of coconut. Luckily the chocolate option works very, very well in this mode.

Yum!

(Too bad BV's prices are just shy of astronomical...)

eSheep desktop pet has decided it's brunchtime.

So the good news is that I did NOT set off the smoke alarm when I burned the bacon for my breakfast this morning.

*deep sigh*

That lovely moment when you realize that a highly placed individual has Supreme Being level access to things but they never use it, but you can't take that access away from them either (highly placed, yeah?) so all you can do is throw all the 2FA, etc, you can at the problem.

Sigh.

As seen in Tillamook, Oregon:

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