Major pipe burst in our sprinkler system. One thing no one tells you about owning a sprinkler system is that literally on a year basis you have to repair underground pipes that burst. It’s the cost of convenience I suppose coz I have seen how useful they are hard to go back to pre days. We inherited it with the house and they hadn’t even said it was put in, and I have spent money on yearly maintenance but this is one equipment I won’t get rid of.
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Ugh sick feeling today please for heavens sake I hope I am not falling sick again!!
The iPhone panorama mode is a very effective way to get both a good background and foreground in a shot. I use it a lot.
📺 Foundation (2021) – ★★★☆☆
The cleon part was the best part of this finale. Overall what a middling season yet again. It started to get really good and then in true foundation style just kept going nowhere. I really hope next season is last coz this series is not very good right now (nor has it ever been)
Thanks to our next door neighbor there isn’t a nice weekend we can chill on deck for a few hours before he starts his woodworking shop. I fucking want entire his entire toolset and shed to just collapse so he moves it to his garage. So fucking annoying.
The Pitt is a good show but I don’t know if I have the patience to sit through 15 hours of hour-by-hour playback inside a ER trauma center. It’s too much all at once. We’ve already taken breaks watching this show and are barely at 10am-11am.
My intention of moving to a self-hosted platform (WordPress for now) was that I wanted to own the content I had. My experience with micro.blog was middling at best, and while I liked the platform for community, I couldn’t take the platform seriously that operated on whims and fancies of its founder who later seemed to have questionable views. Incidentally I pay less for my self hosted blog than I paid on micro and I have not lost any of the community aspect yet because of cross-posting to Bluesky or Mastodon using echofeed. When I look at my North Star of owning my own content, I have also begun to slowly start making my WordPress blog also slightly more private. A few changes I have put in now are no comments, no tags or categories on any post, no homepage with scrolling posts anymore, and no search. The only things you will see are movies and tv. If you want to read a specific post, the only way to get that post is if you reach it via my BlueSky or Mastodon account. I don’t know why, but given the highly charged political environment of this country I actually feel like I need to do this to protect myself and my account. And yes, my domains are also now private so dig/whois/nslookup won’t reveal my personal info. And if you’ve known me long enough you will know that I have also completely made my private blog… umm, more private.
Brazil Supreme Court has more balls and guts than SCOTUS
While Apple has kept the pricing mostly same on the phones I am surprised nobody is talking about how they have increased the AppleCare pricing exorbitantly! The only option when I looked yesterday was a 13$ option and a 20$ option per month. WTF? Last year it was around 8 bucks for the same and they simply doubled it?
My teenager told me yesterday a lot of people she knew were sharing RIP messages on social media. I flat out told her what a horrendous human being he was, and he does not deserve any part of RIP. I considered a more measure approach about how you should be graceful when someone passes away but I also wanted her to realize that shitty humans don’t get the option of grace. So yeah I let it out and she admitted she felt the same about it. Proud of her!