Wife is away for the weekend so just me and kiddo. Hope to watch the latest Dungeon Meshi with her. Cook dinner (small goals, man, small goals).
Install flat free tire on wheelbarrow. Which sounds not worth mentioning. The thing is, I'm usually depressed af by this time of year. Then I miss out prepping for gardening season.
Well not this year, baybee. I've been intently focused on preventing that and am doing pretty good. The wheelbarrow is representative of that.
Anyway, more tomatoes, spinach, maybe take another crack at potatoes, basil, zucchini, carrots, cantaloupes again (I can't believe they actually worked last time), not sure what else, yet. Beans? Oh and various sunflowers. Garlic has been in the ground for two years now. The alpine strawberries should now be pretty established but I may have to get a few more. Walking onions continue to spread whether I like it or not...
I love the fact you foresaw the possibility for depression and made the choice to focus on good.
Many do not have that amount of foresight.
Now I have to look into flat free wheels for my barrow that the wheels have perished, thanks for the tip!
Your garden sounds amazing! I'm planting beans too this year, and feel a little out of my league (I usually have with dark leafy greens and various Peppers as my staples)
Thanks! It has a long way to go since I just started two seasons ago but it's fun anyway. I have tried peppers a couple times but not much luck yet. Spinach is it as far as leafy stuff goes so far. Lettuce and kale might be fun?
Got a 1 year old with RSV (literally turns 1 on the 3rd). She is going to need a lot of care and attention. Then my 5 year old too who is recovering from being sick, but maybe some crafts and coloring
Op comes here looking for positivity and you just slam dunk life back in their face. I like it!
That's really okay, caring for a child is definitely positive. Also crafts and coloring!
Best wishes for speedy recoveries.
Give those babies plenty of cuddles and love. We just started daycare recently ourselves and the disease carousel is too real
RSV is rough, hope your little one feels better soon!
Thanks
I'm meeting up with a friend and their SO for a little hiking and brunch at a local breakfast joint. Picking up the vision pro today for work so that's exciting!
I think it's easy to be negative if a person doesn't consider the human reading their anonymous posts, people feel empowered to take out their problems from life in general on random faceless internet strangers.
Picking up the vision pro today for work so that’s exciting!
Sounds cool! Hope you'll enjoy it!
I think it’s easy to be negative if a person doesn’t consider the human reading their anonymous posts, people feel empowered to take out their problems from life in general on random faceless internet strangers.
Yeah, definitely. Hopefully in communities like this we can avoid that.
Not sure it's possible to avoid entirely, as the community here grows we get more of all types, it's hard to have a truly only-positive community when moderation is voluntary and the masses have full reign to submit literally anything.
Do you think a technology solution would help? Sentiment analysis on posts and gently redirect people to other communities instead of outright blocking them?
Maybe the only real solution is personal resilience and recognizing that we don't need to feel negative feelings just because we received a negative communication
You can't fix a people problem with process.
For example I've worked in DevSecOps for 10+ years, whenever consulting my first step is to implement a CI that picks up Pull Requests, builds them and runs a code analysis tools (e.g. pep8, spotbugs, eslint, etc..) and have the CI comment the Pull Request. The idea is to get an understanding of the projects technical debt and stop things getting worse and ensure the solution 'just works'.
Teams with huge amounts of technical debt will find a way to disable it when your not looking. They will develop all kinds of reasons and in reality the technical debt was created because of cultural issues in the team.
So I've learnt its important if you spot a team doing that, the solution isn't locking it down the solution so they can't disable it or more process. But forcing out the technical leader and sitting with the team and working out why each one is fighting the tool and not seeing them as an asset and teaching them to be better.
Earlier in my career the biggest lesson I learned was infosec was first and foremost a culture problem. Similar to your experience, working with people individually, meeting them where they are, listening, understanding, guiding, and modeling a better mindset all helps given enough time.
There are cases where some of those people just aren't willing to work with you. It's still possible to change the culture around them by influencing it more than they do. For every belligerent person, you can find one or more advocates
Yes, same experience here. People will go the path of least resistance except if you actively collaborate with them to make it work.
But in that same vein, recognizing how people operate means you can tweak or build a process to work with them and get results you want.
I'm not in a technical role like most people on this site, but I'm often in between those departments/their products and the consumer as well as the rest of the company. I think the mistake a lot of people in dev roles make is building a system that functions and think is good, and they need to bring the people to the process. But that's not how people work. You can maybe get a person, maybe even a few in line with your designed process. But when you have groups of people it becomes impossible.
Take that DevSecOps person above. Their solution to entire teams not using their process is to oust the leadership and bring the team to heel. I don't think that people take the time to think how they can alter their process to get the people more likely to work with it to get the results they want. As you said, people go the path of least resistance. You have to build your product to the user, not the other way around because the "people" aren't going to change.
My example: We had a process our level 1 team members needed to follow when filling out tickets. Most of the time, no big deal. Our system means their tickets need to be filled out and submitted almost immediately upon completion, they can't just wait around until the end of shift. It's a lot of real-time work. Occasionally we'd get hit by huge numbers because something vital broke and they're our front line in dealing with the communication, then these tickets would not get filled out properly in their mad rush to get them all submitted so they can move on. Every field not filled out correctly breaks our reporting, which is vital for us. Macros were no use because they could only fill out generic info and not any of the information we really needed. Their managers tried meetings and punishment and rewards, but when shit would hit the fan, inevitably the proper protocol would be the first thing to go to keep the operation running.
So I go in, take a look at the process start to finish and talk to the team about what specific things make it harder to complete in a crisis. And then I went and created a "mass issue" ticket form to use for those scenarios instead. When something major breaks and the team is flooded with these calls and they have to go through 4-5 at once every 10 minutes, they tick a box and get a new form with just the vital info and the ability to group as many issues on it as they have. Now they can group like issues together and fill out a single ticket. Their time is saved and we still get the precious data we need. Because we built our system to work with the user and made the path of least resistance a path that works.
But I have an advantage. I now work in a tech-adjacent role but I've spent my life working with people, not technology. So I get to bring that viewpoint to the job where most people around me have never really given it much thought.
DevSecOps is all about process, I simplified my answer.
At a high level in software there will always be a review phase, where code needs to be built and pass tests (as a minimum). With Git being used by every organisation I have been involved in you will find the organisation/team will claim to follow a variation of 'Feature branch Workflow' with review happening at a specific point (Pull Request).
For the last ~10 years every organisation/team I've worked in/with has claimed to use a CI to verify the source code as part of that review phase.
In most dysfunctional teams that review phase will be broken, the fastest win is to bring in the CI. Static analysis tools are also impartial in how they review and useful in teaching people how to review.
I don't say your project must build with no warnings, I say you project must build and I'll have the CI point out where you have added warnings as part of review. When people complain I'll point to their teams Ways of Working or an organisations Software Development Plan (or in one case a System Engineering Management Plan).
The sort of team that then chooses to disable this will do so because the leadership are undermining it (normally a team lead turns it off or tells them to just ignore it). There seem to be a few common reasons as to why team leads will do this but it isn't something you can rationally debate with. The only solution I've found is to sideline the problem, change team culture and identify a leader within the team and hand it over to them.
Your talking about teams which are failing due to the environment, those normally understand what is wrong and the best approach is to be a good scrum master (e.g. run retro sessions, identify issues and work to resolve the environment problems with them).
Not sure it’s possible to avoid entirely, as the community here grows we get more of all types, it’s hard to have a truly only-positive community when moderation is voluntary and the masses have full reign to submit literally anything.
Very true, hopefully by the time we get there we'll have more mods tools to allow to identify bots and trolls.
Do you think a technology solution would help? Sentiment analysis on posts and gently redirect people to other communities instead of outright blocking them?
I'm not too sure, I'm always dubious about technology solutions for psychological issues.
Maybe the only real solution is personal resilience and recognizing that we don’t need to feel negative feelings just because we received a negative communication
Yes, I guess so, also why I made this post. I feel better already.
Trying to hold it all together for another day. Going through a thing. It'll be fine but need to just make it through the next couple of days I reckon.
I remain cautiously pessimistic at this point.
Look on the bright side. Maybe today will be better than tomorrow.
Alternatively, go the Stoic route and mentally prepare yourself for the worst possible outcome.
Then, anything less than that will feel like an upgrade.
"If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory."
As someone who's suffered severe depression for going on 20 years, I would suggest that sometimes the Klingon way is necessary. Outlive your enemies, live another day fueled by anger.
The horrors persist, but so do I.
"It gets easier, but you have to do it everyday. That's the hard part. But it does get easier."
Said some monkey running by some horse.
Hang in there, buddy.
I love messing around with technology that's not old enough to be considered vintage, not new enough to be considered usable, just this odd in the middle obsolete stuff.
So you bet your ass I'm spending my weekend on the three old iPads I got from my work and finding ways to utilize them.
Username checks out, have fun!
Sweet. Would love to hear what you end up doing with them.
Well I've already got my existing 64GB iPad 2 which is downgraded to iOS 6 and it's essentially a giant old game console, full of old iOS games and emulators.
The iPad 3 I got today works well as a second display (via TwomonUSB) so it will take that role from my iPad 2. Having a touchscreen portable monitor is just severely underrated. It'll mostly be at work with Teams on it, and occasionally with my study laptop as a portable second display.
The other two iPads are both Air 1st gens. One of them will be used just as a device for me to watch YouTube and browse Lemmy on in bed while my main phone charges.
The other one I'm yet to do anything with but I do like the ideas others have commented. Might be used as a self hosting dashboard showing uptime, usage stats, internet reliability, something like that. May also prompt me to actually set up a self hosted NVR
Photo frames (fotoo app), security cameras (Alfred) etc.
Is there a Johnny Castaway for ios?
Virtual Fish tank (loop a video)
We're getting a 3D ultrasound of our first child tomorrow. To say I'm beyond excited is an understatement.
Sounds lovely for an unborn, bit creepy if they're 5 though
Now I want to scan my kids 😂, maybe 3d print tiny versions of them for my desk
Congratulations!
There's an anti-Nazi rally in my town, which I'll go attend because fuck the AfD.
I also have tickets for Beast in Black and Gloryhammer on saturday, which is gonna be absolutely epic.
Thank you for standing up to idiots. Stay safe.
Thank you for standing up to Nazi's; also, I have always wanted to see Beast in Black in concert. I imagine hearing:
The Beast is back, the Beast In Black!
echoed by an entire Arena would be fantastic.
Taking my oldest skiing for the first time in her life
That promises to be awesome and funny! How old is she?
3, I'm certain it'll be a success as well
Pro tip: bring candy for snacks and a thermos of hot chocolate for afterwards.
Hot dogs and hot chocolate:)
Legit, no meme, no joke, I'm making beef stroganoff.
We don't do it often, maybe twice a year, but it's a household favorite.
legitimate: please provide a recipe?
Thanks!
1 1/2 pounds beef sirloin steak, 1/2 inch thick.
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced (2 1/2 cups)
2 medium onions, thinly sliced. (Can reduce to one medium if necessary, but it changes both taste and final servings)
1 garlic clove, finely chopped. (Can go with two or three if you're bonkers for garlic, but no more than that)
1/4 cup butter or margarine. (I strongly recommend actual butter for both flavor and health reasons compared to margarine)
1 1/2 cups beef broth.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. (Or to taste, but it really doesn't take much)
1/4 cup all-purpose flour.
1 1/2 cups sour cream.
3 cups hot cooked egg noodles.
Cut beef across grain into about 1 1/2x1/2-inch strips.
Cook mushrooms, onions and garlic in butter in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are tender; remove from skillet. Unlike a lot of dishes, caramelizing the onions is not good thing, follow this step exactly.
Cook beef in same skillet until brown. Stir in 1 cup of the broth, the salt and Worcestershire sauce. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 15 minutes.
Stir remaining 1/2 cup broth into flour; stir into beef mixture. Add onion mixture; heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in sour cream; heat until hot (do not boil). Serve over noodles.
Now, this is essentially the Betty Crocker recipe. Not much has been changed since most people love that recipe and it was what a lot of families used whether they knew it or not.
However, there is room for change there. There's no specific mushroom given, as an example. Typically, it would be button mushrooms. I favor Portobello. But any mushroom that isn't so delicate as to be ruined, or so intense as to compete with the beef is fine. If you go with a Portobello, remove the gills before cutting it up, they make the final dish look like crap, and run a little bitter (imo).
You can make your own noodles as well, but that's a ton of work for little return.
You can use other cuts of beef. Sirloin is very good, but pricey. Stew beef works well as long as you extend the cook time a little before the final step. Same with cube steak. The texture and flavor changes, but not too much in the flavor. In both cases, you'll end up needing more stock to balance out the extra loss of water. Skirt steak works too, but I find it doesn't have a good texture in this application.
And, in a pinch, you can use water instead of stock, but it will not be as good. If you can't do beef stock, any decent stock will work better than water, even vegetable stock which has a totally different flavor in the sauce.
Thank you!
No worries :)
I‘m visiting my girlfriend , who lives unfortunately in another city. It’s going to be great, just chillin and cuddling and maybe a nice dinner and breakfast at the cozy Café around the corner.
The only thing which isn’t perfect: Here in Germany are recently very big demonstrations against the far right on weekends. There’ will be one nearby, but I obviously can’t make it. Oh well, maybe there will be one nearby my girlfriends place.
On my side I'm going to meet a friend I haven't seen in a long time Saturday morning, and I might get some Lego later today.
Hope you have fun with your friend, and if you get a cool lego set post a pic of it/the build!
Thanks, I will!
Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.
As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.
As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It’s been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It’s a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.
Very true!
Working on a Doom mod, tryin'a keep a good number of vibe checks, and working through THC withdrawal and a tolerance break. I ain't a very exciting dude.
Only once I saw the House of Leaves mod, did it dawn on me that Doom can still be so much fun and surprisingly playable in 2024
My teen will be here instead of his Mom’s house for the weekend, so literally anything he wants to do. He drives now, which is scary as heck, so tonight he’s going to meet buddies and he’ll be here on his schedule.
I had some great ideas for meals he would love, including his favorite chocolate chip pancakes, but suddenly he’s eating low carb, so those ideas are out. I don’t know, might end up with just chicken breasts and veggies.
Assuming the weather is ok, we’ve been doing a lot of walking around town and on the new rail trail, so hopefully more of that. It’s a great opportunity to just talk, while having enough activity so it’s not forced talking
Taxes. Looks like OP is in Germany, so …. Here in the US, we need to fill out tax forms and send them in: after January, but by April 15. Lots of paperwork to assemble, but I’m hoping for a huge rebate for buying an electric car
You seem to be a cool dad!
I'm actually in Spain, but our Spain instance went bust a few weeks back, so I now rely on the famous German quality
If he wants some "not nearly as good but no carb pancakes" you can mix eggs and cream cheese and fry that mixture up. As long as the cream cheese gets mixed well, it will give you really tiny pancakes (crepe thickness). The ratio is about 1oz cream cheese per 1 egg. Plus any flavorings.
You can add different flavors like chocolate chips or cinnamon or whatever. There are plenty of keto pancakes recipes, if you wanna look.
Thanks
That’s so sweet pf you, man, you must be a cool dad. Thanks
Going into town on Sat: a few errands and meeting some friends for a pub lunch. Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.
On Sunday yet another attempt to get some paintings up on the wall. It has been months and we still haven't for one reason or another. I'm going settle in for some reading otherwise.
Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.
I was gonna say that if you do you can post your review in !movies@lemm.ee, but then I realized you are already one of the first people who commented on the "What have you been watching" thread ha ha
Yes, I'm sure that I will be posting if we do. Even if we don't, Saturday night is still movie night for us anyway, so we'll be watching something at home.
Nice, enjoy!
The weather is warming up a bit this weekend so I wanted to go for a walk between other errands :)
For me it's the opposite, it seems like it's getting cold so I'm going to go ice skating
Seems nice! What is the temperature now in Canada?
I'm in Vancouver so it's a little warmer for me!
Today it's about 7°C with light rain, and earlier this month it was ~1°C with snow
No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.
Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.
I feel that one. I've had the programming equivalent of writer's block on my main hobby project for over a month now. Good luck!
Thanks, you too (:
Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go
It's finally a weekend with no set plans, so I'm going to work on some art, change my oil, and maybe we'll have a fire since the weather is going to be nice. So a weekend with no plans turns into catching up on me time and getting to things I've put off for too long 🙃
Seems nice!
My son just turned 7 we're gonna have a surprise party tomorrow. I have to buy a couch today I've never had this many people at my house before
Happy birthday to him!
Gonna play Warhammer The Old World with old friends.
Rad! I started Remnant last weekend with some friends and we are going again this weekend.
Spanish homework! My local city council offers free adult learning courses for people earning < £30k. I signed up for Spanish almost on a whim. I was nervous as hell to begin with, but three lessons in I really love it.
Great! Feel free to join !esp@lemm.ee to practice!
Hey FUCK you! /s
But for real it's my birthday so I'll be doing birthday stuff🎈
Happy birthday!
Ha ha, nice one, made me smile.
Nice, happy birthday to you!
I'm gonna plow my wife and we'll watch tech repair videos afterwards.
As of reading this post, my weekend plans have already begun!
I am currently enjoying a bowl (or three) of fresh homemade french onion soup and a glass of sauvignon blanc.
Tomorrow I'm going to put the finishing touches on a shelf for my cousin and install it in her bedroom.
After that I'm probably going to putter around in the shop for a bit, clean up, maybe sharpen something. I'll probably poke at FreeCAD a bit with the intention of designing one of the larger woodworking projects I have going this year; I have a cabinet, a hutch and a dry bar to build once the days lengthen a bit.
I'm late in a run through Satisfactory. I've sent the last project up the space elevator, so now I'm just horsing around, dumping things in the AWESOME sink. My stretch goal is all the trophies; the 1000 coupons for the Golden Nut is a goal I've not yet achieved in this game. I'm really hoping this is my last run of this game in early access, I don't want to wear myself out on it before 1.0.
Speaking of stretch goals, I just got the notification that a Kickstarter I'm backing has achieved it's goal. To be fair it had before I bid; The Longest Johns are releasing a new album and along with it a bunch of other goodies. I've got their whole back catalog coming on CD. I'm looking forward to it because it'll make it easier to listen to their music in the shop, where I don't have good internet signal.
I think it's off to a good start.
Update: Cat in lap. Is purring.
Sounds like great plans!
I have so many knives and scissors I need to sharpen!
Sitting in LA traffic but I’m not driving. We’re coming back from the Grammy Museum and Chinatown. I’m visiting my fams, headed to a big family dinner tonight and my heart is full.
Sitting in LA traffic but I’m not driving.
You should try the metro subway system next time, as a family outing adventure. It goes to both of those locations I believe.
Ooh nice, thanks for the tip! We don’t come that often to know the short cuts.
Building some cabinets! Finally got all the logistics worked out.
And some work. Bleh
Watching Groundhog day and fixing the kitchen cabinet.
Here's hoping you don't have to go to the hardware store a thousand times
PHIL??? PHIL CONNOR?!??
It's Ned! RYERSON!
BING!
proud of and hyped for you keep it up ✨
It's going to rain. I'll be nesting. Might bake some bread. Just started playing Greedfall, so I'll probably put some hours into that.
Beyond that, I'll hit up a couple 12-step meetings, as I do. Maybe hit the Saturday farmers market?
Dunno. The main goal is to trick myself into not thinking about work for two days.
A little bit of self promotion, since you asked. My bandmate and I started a tiny record label named Paraluna as a project and decided our first release was going to be a charity compilation of 80s covers named Retronomicon for Charles Levi to help with his recovery. It came out yesterday and is doing okay in sales. 100% of proceeds go to Charles Levi's medical bills. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find with a quick Google search. So this weekend is promote, promote, promote.
Hope you have a great weekend!
If anyone is interested, it’s easy to find with a quick Google search.
Thank you so much! I didn't want to assume too much and hijack your thread. Much appreciated!
No worries, as we always say, there's a difference between being a Lemmy member with a side project, or a project leader with a Lemmy account. Yours looks very nice, we could maybe bring it more visibility in a dedicated thread!
Very true. I'll do a bit of digging and see where a thread for it may belong. Thanks again!
If you want, feel free to post it here. I'm a mod here (with my other account), so no worries!
Will do, thanks for the suggestion. I'll start a thread.
Lots of new trolls but they are quickly banned.
People are insulting sometimes but it's more about them than us. That's how they think they should behave I guess. Rebelling as a keyboard warrior and all. :)
I had a great weak. Started leasing a new car on Monday and have been enjoying it a lot. Work is going good. Soon warmer weather too. Things are looking nice.
I might go out with some work friends, hook up with a guy I have been wanting to meet for a while, and go to the gym. And talk in silly voices with my cats.
Puppy Bowl 20 years is streaming on HBO MAX on this Saturday. The actual Puppy Bowl XX is not till next sunday, but they are doing some look back at cute puppies, so probably that.
I should clean up a bit. Probably going to drink a liter or two of whiskey with Diet Coke or seltzer. I have parts for a whole new pc to put together but haven’t gotten around to it for a couple of months… the system I have is adequate for what I do and I haven’t felt like rocking the boat. Probably I’ll go for a walk or two with my dad if the weather is decent. Also thinking about making enchiladas, maybe pasta sauce and lasagna. Definitely need to roast some brussel sprouts and asparagus.
Fuck, that's a lot of whiskey. You ok bro?
Oh, thanks. I tend to drink steadily throughout the day and extra if I have to do something. I probably wouldn’t if I had something better to do.
Not going to lecture you, just be aware that is a dangerous amount of alcohol to be regularly consuming.
Have a good weekend and enjoy cooking and that walk with your dad!
Well, yeah. I don't see hard liquor as a health tonic or something. I'm dealing with a couple autoimmune diseases that hospitalized me and derailed my personal life and career majorly about 4 times, and so far I picked myself up and got on track uh... 3 times. I was drinking and entertaining myself with travel and debauchery for a while but it's about time to chill out, get a job and get a relationship again.
Snowboard Bay-Be! Ice coast sucks, but snowboard rules! Hopefully we get some snow soon to get into the back country.
Going to try to beat anxiety enough to get some shoes and clothes.
Hope you manage it, and find comfortable shoes you'll enjoy wearing.
This has become a real problem for me in the last couple of years. Instead of 10M, now I seem to need 10.5W. Also the soles of my feet start hurting much faster, and I don’t know what kind of shoes I need.
That's unfortunate. Where in the foot does it hurt? I used to have pain in the toe knuckles (don't know the real name for it) and barefoot shoes really helped me. I don't know if it will help, since I'm not an expert, but it might be worth discussing with a doctor if you can't seem to find comfortable shoes and your size change with no explainable reason. Physiotherapy might also help if doctors can't figure it out, since they help strengthen the supporting muscles and tendons, giving better stability...
Gonna go to a friend's birthday party.
He's turning 18 and I'll give him a "best mother ever" shirt.
Nice present!
I've been looking forward to Persona 3 Reload on PS5 so I blocked off the whole weekend to play it.
Last week I was on vacation (went to Disney World) so this weekend I'm gonna take it easy. Do some chores, order a pizza, play video games. Nothing particularly exciting, but I'm okay with that.
There will always be negativity unfortunately. I've come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one's time and doesn't help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can't always spend all my time doing that.
As for weekend plans, not much really. Gonna head to the gym after work and complete my assignment. Same for tomorrow. Maybe start a new video game from my backlog after playing some Muse Dash. I always crave a good platformer.
It's something that's important in personal relationships I think, but the context and human tends to get lost over the internet.
If a friend's drowning in negativity, one can be present in some ways, but that can't be fixed by anyone else nor would that even really make sense. They could be in a bad situation, in which case maybe there's ways to directly help, but oftentimes it's something only they can work through and we also have to maintain some distance and boundaries and recognize we won't fix how they feel nor should we try to. And sometimes people just need to vent negativity and shout into the void or break down to a friend.
On the internet, we fire off walls of text under the presumption people will just read it and get it and fuck off and go change their whole worldview. It takes time and the ephemeral nature of communication on the Internet means we'll never be around for the context or resolution of someone's difficulties. (nor will they for our own.) So, even more than irl, we have to set boundaries on how invested we're willing to get. It's a constant frustration for me though.
ps muse dash looks cute as hell, have fun!!
There will always be negativity unfortunately. I’ve come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one’s time and doesn’t help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can’t always spend all my time doing that.
Indeed, that's the most reasonable approach. I was a bit down because I had put a lot of energy into a community, but the mod didn't really seem to opening discussions with the members. I ended leaving, but that left a bitter taste
I'm at the Alhambra!
Enjoy!
Man, it was like stepping inside a fractal. It's a must recommend from me.
I'm on call at work so I can't drink or smoke, my boyfriend is out of town, and the weather is nice. It's the perfect combination to take the pup on a long hike. We went on a short hike yesterday and he slept SO HARD afterwards, so I hope he's up to something a bit more intense tomorrow. Worst case scenario I can carry him.
We are taking our little one to the zoo!
2 days later, any pics of the pups at the zoo?
Our little one is distinctly humanoid! She loved the zoo, the bear enclosure where you could get within a foot of two giant sleeping grizzly bears was her favourite. She also liked where the fish were because they were her level and followed her finger.
What is a short hike vs. a long hike?
I take our 2 dogs for 3-6 miles M-F in the morning. They’ll sleep pretty good until dinner time but then they’re basically ready to go again.
We did 4 or 5 miles yesterday. Hoping for twice that tomorrow.
I am loving these bonus doggo pix!
On Saturday, I'll be attending a retirement dinner for my mom. It'll be the first time she'll get to try authentic Indian food. Then on Sunday I'd like to get my metal detector out with my new coil that I got for Christmas. Hopefully the ground won't be too frozen.
It's not off to a great start. Yesterday was a funeral and today was a birthday party cancelled by Covid. I might just chill at home and wait for a break in the rain long enough to mow my lawn.
Hugs
Ravendawn grind of course.
If you are easily obsessed, do not check it out.
Too late, but I'm good with MMORPG for a while, played too much GW2 during covid
Nonsense, you can never play too much GW2.
It's a great game, but lockdown wasn't the best time to do game and other stuff
I'm going to worry about missing a phone call from my probation officer this week.
Oh, positive?
Errrrrrrrmmmmmm........................
Errrrrmmmmmm........................
Fuck knows?
Fingers crossed!
I’m racing tiny cars bro!
I help run an RC racing club. In the summer we do parking lot 1/10 scale in road, and in the winter we do 1/28 scale (Mini Z) indoor onroad. It’s a fuckin blast.
That's cool!
This is an update
Before, I replies that I was cautiously pessimistic.
Now, I am cautiously optimistic.
Need to catch up on studying :/
Me too. This weekend is going to be all about homework. Which is why I'm on Lemmy, as are you. XD
Hope it went well lol
Yes, finished what was due. How about you?
All done 👍
Touching grass
I too will be touching grass, here here to green pastures!
Video games and cleaning my house out in preparation to move
Doing my first in-person CrossFit competition. It's a friendly meet and it's more for bragging rights than actual prizes.
I am nervous and excited in equal amounts.
Though I'm not in the hardcore "RX" division (I'm doing the dialed back "Scaled" division), I think it's still going to be hard and an immense amount of fun with some new cool people.
Going to go on a hike to see 10 waterfalls, doing some flight simming, clean up the yard and finish the second planter box.
Eurovision. Lots of Eurovision.
Planning and outlining for a new fanfiction story again while procrastinating on the current fic I'm writing; I suck at dialogues and have no motivation to push through with it right now.
Seems nice, which universe are you writing about?
The fic I'm outlining for is in the Chainsaw Man fandom, and the fic I'm procrastinating is a Jujutsu Kaisen one.
Any cool new devils?
Yes, I have a Lightning Devil, and a Solitude Devil, both are to be introduced in the second arc of the story. The solitude devil is especially terrifying.
I'm going to my sister's. I've been craving her macaroni and potato salads. She texted yesterday to say they were all made and we are getting together today.
Probably going to do some homework, probably going to read about distribution theory (i.e. generalized functions like Diracs and their derivatives) once I'm caught up. I'm so happy to be back in school.
Also, I hope SDF's Lemmy instance renews their certificate so I can get back to posting on my normal account.
I'm going to play destiny 2 with my long distance besties
Hopefully some Guild Wars 2 with grandma. Already went to the park with my son.
Make sure yours goes well too!
You're the second person to mention GW2 here, we might be up to something!
Meeting a student for drinks, catching up on my reading, maybe make a knife.
What is your preferred metal for the blade?
I have some leaf spring steel that is excellent. Currently I'm working from a bar of 1095 which is just beautiful. I've also got my eye on an old file to turn into another kitchen knife for my wife.
My wife and I are going to go grocery shopping and make some meal preps. Thinking about General Tso's chicken w/ shrimp fried rice.
Planning on some much needed yard work and taking my little one on a playdate with her classmates.
After some grocery shopping looking forward to making some hot soup since it's been raining a lot here.
Finishing up a bit of commission work, going foraging for some pine needles, and meeting a friend to celebrate his birthday. All in all I'm quite looking forward to it
What about you?
What have you got planned for the pine needles?
Going to try out this pine soda recipe. Not sure what to expect but I like brewing things
Nothing planned for tomorrow (apart from a kedgeree), but on Sunday we'll be checking in on our bees and having a planning meeting for the spring.
I hope the bees are prepared with a checklist for the planning meeting, I hate it when they don't do their prep work beforehand. Makes the meetings take so much longer.
The bees don't attend planning meetings during the winter. We relay all decisions by shouting through the hive entrance. It makes life so much simpler - taking 30,000 opinions into account per hive is a complete pain in the fundament. Especially if, as you say, they haven't done their prep work. "Too busy"? Yeah, whatever Ethel.
If Yodel manages to deliver the books I wouldn't have ordered had I known they were using bloody Yodel for the delivery, I will be spending the good bits of my weekend reading Harrow The Ninth and Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and hopefully catching up on sleep.
The rest of my weekend is going to be spent waiting by the door for Yodel to post their "sorry we missed you!" equivalent through the letterbox, and then catching up on housework.
I just ordered a pedal steel guitar yesterday and there's a chance it will arrive today. If it does, I will be spending some quality time with my new instrument. I have a rehearsal this afternoon for a gig next week as well.
I'll be spending time with my wife, perhaps playing some video games with my best friend, and likely playing some disc golf tomorrow.
I don't understand. Are you not entertained by fake leftists spouting right wing propaganda in every thread?
Wife is away for the weekend so just me and kiddo. Hope to watch the latest Dungeon Meshi with her. Cook dinner (small goals, man, small goals).
Install flat free tire on wheelbarrow. Which sounds not worth mentioning. The thing is, I'm usually depressed af by this time of year. Then I miss out prepping for gardening season.
Well not this year, baybee. I've been intently focused on preventing that and am doing pretty good. The wheelbarrow is representative of that.
Anyway, more tomatoes, spinach, maybe take another crack at potatoes, basil, zucchini, carrots, cantaloupes again (I can't believe they actually worked last time), not sure what else, yet. Beans? Oh and various sunflowers. Garlic has been in the ground for two years now. The alpine strawberries should now be pretty established but I may have to get a few more. Walking onions continue to spread whether I like it or not...
I love the fact you foresaw the possibility for depression and made the choice to focus on good. Many do not have that amount of foresight. Now I have to look into flat free wheels for my barrow that the wheels have perished, thanks for the tip!
Your garden sounds amazing! I'm planting beans too this year, and feel a little out of my league (I usually have with dark leafy greens and various Peppers as my staples)
Thanks! It has a long way to go since I just started two seasons ago but it's fun anyway. I have tried peppers a couple times but not much luck yet. Spinach is it as far as leafy stuff goes so far. Lettuce and kale might be fun?
Got a 1 year old with RSV (literally turns 1 on the 3rd). She is going to need a lot of care and attention. Then my 5 year old too who is recovering from being sick, but maybe some crafts and coloring
Op comes here looking for positivity and you just slam dunk life back in their face. I like it!
That's really okay, caring for a child is definitely positive. Also crafts and coloring!
Best wishes for speedy recoveries.
Give those babies plenty of cuddles and love. We just started daycare recently ourselves and the disease carousel is too real
RSV is rough, hope your little one feels better soon!
Thanks
I'm meeting up with a friend and their SO for a little hiking and brunch at a local breakfast joint. Picking up the vision pro today for work so that's exciting!
I think it's easy to be negative if a person doesn't consider the human reading their anonymous posts, people feel empowered to take out their problems from life in general on random faceless internet strangers.
Sounds cool! Hope you'll enjoy it!
Yeah, definitely. Hopefully in communities like this we can avoid that.
Not sure it's possible to avoid entirely, as the community here grows we get more of all types, it's hard to have a truly only-positive community when moderation is voluntary and the masses have full reign to submit literally anything.
Do you think a technology solution would help? Sentiment analysis on posts and gently redirect people to other communities instead of outright blocking them?
Maybe the only real solution is personal resilience and recognizing that we don't need to feel negative feelings just because we received a negative communication
You can't fix a people problem with process.
For example I've worked in DevSecOps for 10+ years, whenever consulting my first step is to implement a CI that picks up Pull Requests, builds them and runs a code analysis tools (e.g. pep8, spotbugs, eslint, etc..) and have the CI comment the Pull Request. The idea is to get an understanding of the projects technical debt and stop things getting worse and ensure the solution 'just works'.
Teams with huge amounts of technical debt will find a way to disable it when your not looking. They will develop all kinds of reasons and in reality the technical debt was created because of cultural issues in the team.
So I've learnt its important if you spot a team doing that, the solution isn't locking it down the solution so they can't disable it or more process. But forcing out the technical leader and sitting with the team and working out why each one is fighting the tool and not seeing them as an asset and teaching them to be better.
Earlier in my career the biggest lesson I learned was infosec was first and foremost a culture problem. Similar to your experience, working with people individually, meeting them where they are, listening, understanding, guiding, and modeling a better mindset all helps given enough time.
There are cases where some of those people just aren't willing to work with you. It's still possible to change the culture around them by influencing it more than they do. For every belligerent person, you can find one or more advocates
Yes, same experience here. People will go the path of least resistance except if you actively collaborate with them to make it work.
But in that same vein, recognizing how people operate means you can tweak or build a process to work with them and get results you want.
I'm not in a technical role like most people on this site, but I'm often in between those departments/their products and the consumer as well as the rest of the company. I think the mistake a lot of people in dev roles make is building a system that functions and think is good, and they need to bring the people to the process. But that's not how people work. You can maybe get a person, maybe even a few in line with your designed process. But when you have groups of people it becomes impossible.
Take that DevSecOps person above. Their solution to entire teams not using their process is to oust the leadership and bring the team to heel. I don't think that people take the time to think how they can alter their process to get the people more likely to work with it to get the results they want. As you said, people go the path of least resistance. You have to build your product to the user, not the other way around because the "people" aren't going to change.
My example: We had a process our level 1 team members needed to follow when filling out tickets. Most of the time, no big deal. Our system means their tickets need to be filled out and submitted almost immediately upon completion, they can't just wait around until the end of shift. It's a lot of real-time work. Occasionally we'd get hit by huge numbers because something vital broke and they're our front line in dealing with the communication, then these tickets would not get filled out properly in their mad rush to get them all submitted so they can move on. Every field not filled out correctly breaks our reporting, which is vital for us. Macros were no use because they could only fill out generic info and not any of the information we really needed. Their managers tried meetings and punishment and rewards, but when shit would hit the fan, inevitably the proper protocol would be the first thing to go to keep the operation running.
So I go in, take a look at the process start to finish and talk to the team about what specific things make it harder to complete in a crisis. And then I went and created a "mass issue" ticket form to use for those scenarios instead. When something major breaks and the team is flooded with these calls and they have to go through 4-5 at once every 10 minutes, they tick a box and get a new form with just the vital info and the ability to group as many issues on it as they have. Now they can group like issues together and fill out a single ticket. Their time is saved and we still get the precious data we need. Because we built our system to work with the user and made the path of least resistance a path that works.
But I have an advantage. I now work in a tech-adjacent role but I've spent my life working with people, not technology. So I get to bring that viewpoint to the job where most people around me have never really given it much thought.
DevSecOps is all about process, I simplified my answer.
At a high level in software there will always be a review phase, where code needs to be built and pass tests (as a minimum). With Git being used by every organisation I have been involved in you will find the organisation/team will claim to follow a variation of 'Feature branch Workflow' with review happening at a specific point (Pull Request).
For the last ~10 years every organisation/team I've worked in/with has claimed to use a CI to verify the source code as part of that review phase.
In most dysfunctional teams that review phase will be broken, the fastest win is to bring in the CI. Static analysis tools are also impartial in how they review and useful in teaching people how to review.
I don't say your project must build with no warnings, I say you project must build and I'll have the CI point out where you have added warnings as part of review. When people complain I'll point to their teams Ways of Working or an organisations Software Development Plan (or in one case a System Engineering Management Plan).
The sort of team that then chooses to disable this will do so because the leadership are undermining it (normally a team lead turns it off or tells them to just ignore it). There seem to be a few common reasons as to why team leads will do this but it isn't something you can rationally debate with. The only solution I've found is to sideline the problem, change team culture and identify a leader within the team and hand it over to them.
Your talking about teams which are failing due to the environment, those normally understand what is wrong and the best approach is to be a good scrum master (e.g. run retro sessions, identify issues and work to resolve the environment problems with them).
Very true, hopefully by the time we get there we'll have more mods tools to allow to identify bots and trolls.
Do you think a technology solution would help? Sentiment analysis on posts and gently redirect people to other communities instead of outright blocking them?
I'm not too sure, I'm always dubious about technology solutions for psychological issues.
Yes, I guess so, also why I made this post. I feel better already.
Trying to hold it all together for another day. Going through a thing. It'll be fine but need to just make it through the next couple of days I reckon.
I remain cautiously pessimistic at this point.
Look on the bright side. Maybe today will be better than tomorrow.
Alternatively, go the Stoic route and mentally prepare yourself for the worst possible outcome.
Then, anything less than that will feel like an upgrade.
"If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory."
As someone who's suffered severe depression for going on 20 years, I would suggest that sometimes the Klingon way is necessary. Outlive your enemies, live another day fueled by anger.
The horrors persist, but so do I.
"It gets easier, but you have to do it everyday. That's the hard part. But it does get easier."
Said some monkey running by some horse.
Hang in there, buddy.
I love messing around with technology that's not old enough to be considered vintage, not new enough to be considered usable, just this odd in the middle obsolete stuff.
So you bet your ass I'm spending my weekend on the three old iPads I got from my work and finding ways to utilize them.
Username checks out, have fun!
Sweet. Would love to hear what you end up doing with them.
Well I've already got my existing 64GB iPad 2 which is downgraded to iOS 6 and it's essentially a giant old game console, full of old iOS games and emulators.
The iPad 3 I got today works well as a second display (via TwomonUSB) so it will take that role from my iPad 2. Having a touchscreen portable monitor is just severely underrated. It'll mostly be at work with Teams on it, and occasionally with my study laptop as a portable second display.
The other two iPads are both Air 1st gens. One of them will be used just as a device for me to watch YouTube and browse Lemmy on in bed while my main phone charges.
The other one I'm yet to do anything with but I do like the ideas others have commented. Might be used as a self hosting dashboard showing uptime, usage stats, internet reliability, something like that. May also prompt me to actually set up a self hosted NVR
Photo frames (fotoo app), security cameras (Alfred) etc.
Is there a Johnny Castaway for ios?
Virtual Fish tank (loop a video)
We're getting a 3D ultrasound of our first child tomorrow. To say I'm beyond excited is an understatement.
Sounds lovely for an unborn, bit creepy if they're 5 though
Now I want to scan my kids 😂, maybe 3d print tiny versions of them for my desk
Congratulations!
There's an anti-Nazi rally in my town, which I'll go attend because fuck the AfD.
I also have tickets for Beast in Black and Gloryhammer on saturday, which is gonna be absolutely epic.
Thank you for standing up to idiots. Stay safe.
Thank you for standing up to Nazi's; also, I have always wanted to see Beast in Black in concert. I imagine hearing:
echoed by an entire Arena would be fantastic.
Taking my oldest skiing for the first time in her life
That promises to be awesome and funny! How old is she?
3, I'm certain it'll be a success as well
Pro tip: bring candy for snacks and a thermos of hot chocolate for afterwards.
Hot dogs and hot chocolate:)
Legit, no meme, no joke, I'm making beef stroganoff.
We don't do it often, maybe twice a year, but it's a household favorite.
legitimate: please provide a recipe? Thanks!
1 1/2 pounds beef sirloin steak, 1/2 inch thick.
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced (2 1/2 cups)
2 medium onions, thinly sliced. (Can reduce to one medium if necessary, but it changes both taste and final servings)
1 garlic clove, finely chopped. (Can go with two or three if you're bonkers for garlic, but no more than that)
1/4 cup butter or margarine. (I strongly recommend actual butter for both flavor and health reasons compared to margarine)
1 1/2 cups beef broth.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. (Or to taste, but it really doesn't take much)
1/4 cup all-purpose flour.
1 1/2 cups sour cream.
3 cups hot cooked egg noodles.
Cut beef across grain into about 1 1/2x1/2-inch strips.
Cook mushrooms, onions and garlic in butter in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are tender; remove from skillet. Unlike a lot of dishes, caramelizing the onions is not good thing, follow this step exactly.
Cook beef in same skillet until brown. Stir in 1 cup of the broth, the salt and Worcestershire sauce. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 15 minutes.
Stir remaining 1/2 cup broth into flour; stir into beef mixture. Add onion mixture; heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in sour cream; heat until hot (do not boil). Serve over noodles.
Now, this is essentially the Betty Crocker recipe. Not much has been changed since most people love that recipe and it was what a lot of families used whether they knew it or not.
However, there is room for change there. There's no specific mushroom given, as an example. Typically, it would be button mushrooms. I favor Portobello. But any mushroom that isn't so delicate as to be ruined, or so intense as to compete with the beef is fine. If you go with a Portobello, remove the gills before cutting it up, they make the final dish look like crap, and run a little bitter (imo).
You can make your own noodles as well, but that's a ton of work for little return.
You can use other cuts of beef. Sirloin is very good, but pricey. Stew beef works well as long as you extend the cook time a little before the final step. Same with cube steak. The texture and flavor changes, but not too much in the flavor. In both cases, you'll end up needing more stock to balance out the extra loss of water. Skirt steak works too, but I find it doesn't have a good texture in this application.
And, in a pinch, you can use water instead of stock, but it will not be as good. If you can't do beef stock, any decent stock will work better than water, even vegetable stock which has a totally different flavor in the sauce.
Thank you!
No worries :)
I‘m visiting my girlfriend , who lives unfortunately in another city. It’s going to be great, just chillin and cuddling and maybe a nice dinner and breakfast at the cozy Café around the corner.
The only thing which isn’t perfect: Here in Germany are recently very big demonstrations against the far right on weekends. There’ will be one nearby, but I obviously can’t make it. Oh well, maybe there will be one nearby my girlfriends place.
On my side I'm going to meet a friend I haven't seen in a long time Saturday morning, and I might get some Lego later today.
Shout out to !lego@lemmy.world for people interested
Hope you have fun with your friend, and if you get a cool lego set post a pic of it/the build!
Thanks, I will!
Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.
As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.
Very true!
Working on a Doom mod, tryin'a keep a good number of vibe checks, and working through THC withdrawal and a tolerance break. I ain't a very exciting dude.
Only once I saw the House of Leaves mod, did it dawn on me that Doom can still be so much fun and surprisingly playable in 2024
My teen will be here instead of his Mom’s house for the weekend, so literally anything he wants to do. He drives now, which is scary as heck, so tonight he’s going to meet buddies and he’ll be here on his schedule.
I had some great ideas for meals he would love, including his favorite chocolate chip pancakes, but suddenly he’s eating low carb, so those ideas are out. I don’t know, might end up with just chicken breasts and veggies.
Assuming the weather is ok, we’ve been doing a lot of walking around town and on the new rail trail, so hopefully more of that. It’s a great opportunity to just talk, while having enough activity so it’s not forced talking
Taxes. Looks like OP is in Germany, so …. Here in the US, we need to fill out tax forms and send them in: after January, but by April 15. Lots of paperwork to assemble, but I’m hoping for a huge rebate for buying an electric car
You seem to be a cool dad!
I'm actually in Spain, but our Spain instance went bust a few weeks back, so I now rely on the famous German quality
If he wants some "not nearly as good but no carb pancakes" you can mix eggs and cream cheese and fry that mixture up. As long as the cream cheese gets mixed well, it will give you really tiny pancakes (crepe thickness). The ratio is about 1oz cream cheese per 1 egg. Plus any flavorings.
You can add different flavors like chocolate chips or cinnamon or whatever. There are plenty of keto pancakes recipes, if you wanna look.
Thanks
That’s so sweet pf you, man, you must be a cool dad. Thanks
Going into town on Sat: a few errands and meeting some friends for a pub lunch. Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.
On Sunday yet another attempt to get some paintings up on the wall. It has been months and we still haven't for one reason or another. I'm going settle in for some reading otherwise.
I was gonna say that if you do you can post your review in !movies@lemm.ee, but then I realized you are already one of the first people who commented on the "What have you been watching" thread ha ha
Yes, I'm sure that I will be posting if we do. Even if we don't, Saturday night is still movie night for us anyway, so we'll be watching something at home.
Nice, enjoy!
The weather is warming up a bit this weekend so I wanted to go for a walk between other errands :)
For me it's the opposite, it seems like it's getting cold so I'm going to go ice skating
Seems nice! What is the temperature now in Canada?
I'm in Vancouver so it's a little warmer for me!
Today it's about 7°C with light rain, and earlier this month it was ~1°C with snow
No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.
Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.
I feel that one. I've had the programming equivalent of writer's block on my main hobby project for over a month now. Good luck!
Thanks, you too (:
Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go
It's finally a weekend with no set plans, so I'm going to work on some art, change my oil, and maybe we'll have a fire since the weather is going to be nice. So a weekend with no plans turns into catching up on me time and getting to things I've put off for too long 🙃
Seems nice!
My son just turned 7 we're gonna have a surprise party tomorrow. I have to buy a couch today I've never had this many people at my house before
Happy birthday to him!
Gonna play Warhammer The Old World with old friends.
Rad! I started Remnant last weekend with some friends and we are going again this weekend.
Spanish homework! My local city council offers free adult learning courses for people earning < £30k. I signed up for Spanish almost on a whim. I was nervous as hell to begin with, but three lessons in I really love it.
Great! Feel free to join !esp@lemm.ee to practice!
Hey FUCK you! /s
But for real it's my birthday so I'll be doing birthday stuff🎈
Happy birthday!
Ha ha, nice one, made me smile.
Nice, happy birthday to you!
I'm gonna plow my wife and we'll watch tech repair videos afterwards.
As of reading this post, my weekend plans have already begun!
I am currently enjoying a bowl (or three) of fresh homemade french onion soup and a glass of sauvignon blanc.
Tomorrow I'm going to put the finishing touches on a shelf for my cousin and install it in her bedroom.
After that I'm probably going to putter around in the shop for a bit, clean up, maybe sharpen something. I'll probably poke at FreeCAD a bit with the intention of designing one of the larger woodworking projects I have going this year; I have a cabinet, a hutch and a dry bar to build once the days lengthen a bit.
I'm late in a run through Satisfactory. I've sent the last project up the space elevator, so now I'm just horsing around, dumping things in the AWESOME sink. My stretch goal is all the trophies; the 1000 coupons for the Golden Nut is a goal I've not yet achieved in this game. I'm really hoping this is my last run of this game in early access, I don't want to wear myself out on it before 1.0.
Speaking of stretch goals, I just got the notification that a Kickstarter I'm backing has achieved it's goal. To be fair it had before I bid; The Longest Johns are releasing a new album and along with it a bunch of other goodies. I've got their whole back catalog coming on CD. I'm looking forward to it because it'll make it easier to listen to their music in the shop, where I don't have good internet signal.
I think it's off to a good start.
Update: Cat in lap. Is purring.
Sounds like great plans!
I have so many knives and scissors I need to sharpen!
Sitting in LA traffic but I’m not driving. We’re coming back from the Grammy Museum and Chinatown. I’m visiting my fams, headed to a big family dinner tonight and my heart is full.
You should try the metro subway system next time, as a family outing adventure. It goes to both of those locations I believe.
Ooh nice, thanks for the tip! We don’t come that often to know the short cuts.
Building some cabinets! Finally got all the logistics worked out.
And some work. Bleh
Watching Groundhog day and fixing the kitchen cabinet.
Here's hoping you don't have to go to the hardware store a thousand times
PHIL??? PHIL CONNOR?!??
It's Ned! RYERSON!
BING!
proud of and hyped for you keep it up ✨
It's going to rain. I'll be nesting. Might bake some bread. Just started playing Greedfall, so I'll probably put some hours into that.
Beyond that, I'll hit up a couple 12-step meetings, as I do. Maybe hit the Saturday farmers market?
Dunno. The main goal is to trick myself into not thinking about work for two days.
A little bit of self promotion, since you asked. My bandmate and I started a tiny record label named Paraluna as a project and decided our first release was going to be a charity compilation of 80s covers named Retronomicon for Charles Levi to help with his recovery. It came out yesterday and is doing okay in sales. 100% of proceeds go to Charles Levi's medical bills. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find with a quick Google search. So this weekend is promote, promote, promote.
Hope you have a great weekend!
I just did, looks very cool! https://regenmag.com/news/news-paraluna-records-to-release-covers-compilation-to-benefit-charles-levi/
Thank you so much! I didn't want to assume too much and hijack your thread. Much appreciated!
No worries, as we always say, there's a difference between being a Lemmy member with a side project, or a project leader with a Lemmy account. Yours looks very nice, we could maybe bring it more visibility in a dedicated thread!
Very true. I'll do a bit of digging and see where a thread for it may belong. Thanks again!
If you want, feel free to post it here. I'm a mod here (with my other account), so no worries!
Will do, thanks for the suggestion. I'll start a thread.
Lots of new trolls but they are quickly banned.
People are insulting sometimes but it's more about them than us. That's how they think they should behave I guess. Rebelling as a keyboard warrior and all. :)
I had a great weak. Started leasing a new car on Monday and have been enjoying it a lot. Work is going good. Soon warmer weather too. Things are looking nice.
I might go out with some work friends, hook up with a guy I have been wanting to meet for a while, and go to the gym. And talk in silly voices with my cats.
Puppy Bowl 20 years is streaming on HBO MAX on this Saturday. The actual Puppy Bowl XX is not till next sunday, but they are doing some look back at cute puppies, so probably that.
I should clean up a bit. Probably going to drink a liter or two of whiskey with Diet Coke or seltzer. I have parts for a whole new pc to put together but haven’t gotten around to it for a couple of months… the system I have is adequate for what I do and I haven’t felt like rocking the boat. Probably I’ll go for a walk or two with my dad if the weather is decent. Also thinking about making enchiladas, maybe pasta sauce and lasagna. Definitely need to roast some brussel sprouts and asparagus.
Fuck, that's a lot of whiskey. You ok bro?
Oh, thanks. I tend to drink steadily throughout the day and extra if I have to do something. I probably wouldn’t if I had something better to do.
Not going to lecture you, just be aware that is a dangerous amount of alcohol to be regularly consuming.
Have a good weekend and enjoy cooking and that walk with your dad!
Well, yeah. I don't see hard liquor as a health tonic or something. I'm dealing with a couple autoimmune diseases that hospitalized me and derailed my personal life and career majorly about 4 times, and so far I picked myself up and got on track uh... 3 times. I was drinking and entertaining myself with travel and debauchery for a while but it's about time to chill out, get a job and get a relationship again.
Snowboard Bay-Be! Ice coast sucks, but snowboard rules! Hopefully we get some snow soon to get into the back country.
Going to try to beat anxiety enough to get some shoes and clothes.
Hope you manage it, and find comfortable shoes you'll enjoy wearing.
This has become a real problem for me in the last couple of years. Instead of 10M, now I seem to need 10.5W. Also the soles of my feet start hurting much faster, and I don’t know what kind of shoes I need.
That's unfortunate. Where in the foot does it hurt? I used to have pain in the toe knuckles (don't know the real name for it) and barefoot shoes really helped me. I don't know if it will help, since I'm not an expert, but it might be worth discussing with a doctor if you can't seem to find comfortable shoes and your size change with no explainable reason. Physiotherapy might also help if doctors can't figure it out, since they help strengthen the supporting muscles and tendons, giving better stability...
Gonna go to a friend's birthday party. He's turning 18 and I'll give him a "best mother ever" shirt.
Nice present!
I've been looking forward to Persona 3 Reload on PS5 so I blocked off the whole weekend to play it.
Last week I was on vacation (went to Disney World) so this weekend I'm gonna take it easy. Do some chores, order a pizza, play video games. Nothing particularly exciting, but I'm okay with that.
There will always be negativity unfortunately. I've come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one's time and doesn't help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can't always spend all my time doing that.
As for weekend plans, not much really. Gonna head to the gym after work and complete my assignment. Same for tomorrow. Maybe start a new video game from my backlog after playing some Muse Dash. I always crave a good platformer.
It's something that's important in personal relationships I think, but the context and human tends to get lost over the internet.
If a friend's drowning in negativity, one can be present in some ways, but that can't be fixed by anyone else nor would that even really make sense. They could be in a bad situation, in which case maybe there's ways to directly help, but oftentimes it's something only they can work through and we also have to maintain some distance and boundaries and recognize we won't fix how they feel nor should we try to. And sometimes people just need to vent negativity and shout into the void or break down to a friend.
On the internet, we fire off walls of text under the presumption people will just read it and get it and fuck off and go change their whole worldview. It takes time and the ephemeral nature of communication on the Internet means we'll never be around for the context or resolution of someone's difficulties. (nor will they for our own.) So, even more than irl, we have to set boundaries on how invested we're willing to get. It's a constant frustration for me though.
ps muse dash looks cute as hell, have fun!!
Indeed, that's the most reasonable approach. I was a bit down because I had put a lot of energy into a community, but the mod didn't really seem to opening discussions with the members. I ended leaving, but that left a bitter taste
I'm at the Alhambra!
Enjoy!
Man, it was like stepping inside a fractal. It's a must recommend from me.
I'm on call at work so I can't drink or smoke, my boyfriend is out of town, and the weather is nice. It's the perfect combination to take the pup on a long hike. We went on a short hike yesterday and he slept SO HARD afterwards, so I hope he's up to something a bit more intense tomorrow. Worst case scenario I can carry him.
We are taking our little one to the zoo!
2 days later, any pics of the pups at the zoo?
Our little one is distinctly humanoid! She loved the zoo, the bear enclosure where you could get within a foot of two giant sleeping grizzly bears was her favourite. She also liked where the fish were because they were her level and followed her finger.
What is a short hike vs. a long hike?
I take our 2 dogs for 3-6 miles M-F in the morning. They’ll sleep pretty good until dinner time but then they’re basically ready to go again.
We did 4 or 5 miles yesterday. Hoping for twice that tomorrow.
I am loving these bonus doggo pix!
On Saturday, I'll be attending a retirement dinner for my mom. It'll be the first time she'll get to try authentic Indian food. Then on Sunday I'd like to get my metal detector out with my new coil that I got for Christmas. Hopefully the ground won't be too frozen.
It's not off to a great start. Yesterday was a funeral and today was a birthday party cancelled by Covid. I might just chill at home and wait for a break in the rain long enough to mow my lawn.
Hugs
Ravendawn grind of course.
If you are easily obsessed, do not check it out.
Too late, but I'm good with MMORPG for a while, played too much GW2 during covid
Nonsense, you can never play too much GW2.
It's a great game, but lockdown wasn't the best time to do game and other stuff
I'm going to worry about missing a phone call from my probation officer this week.
Oh, positive?
Errrrrrrrmmmmmm........................
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Fuck knows?
Fingers crossed!
I’m racing tiny cars bro!
I help run an RC racing club. In the summer we do parking lot 1/10 scale in road, and in the winter we do 1/28 scale (Mini Z) indoor onroad. It’s a fuckin blast.
That's cool!
This is an update
Before, I replies that I was cautiously pessimistic.
Now, I am cautiously optimistic.
Need to catch up on studying :/
Me too. This weekend is going to be all about homework. Which is why I'm on Lemmy, as are you. XD
Hope it went well lol
Yes, finished what was due. How about you?
All done 👍
Touching grass
I too will be touching grass, here here to green pastures!
Video games and cleaning my house out in preparation to move
Doing my first in-person CrossFit competition. It's a friendly meet and it's more for bragging rights than actual prizes.
I am nervous and excited in equal amounts.
Though I'm not in the hardcore "RX" division (I'm doing the dialed back "Scaled" division), I think it's still going to be hard and an immense amount of fun with some new cool people.
Going to go on a hike to see 10 waterfalls, doing some flight simming, clean up the yard and finish the second planter box.
Eurovision. Lots of Eurovision.
Planning and outlining for a new fanfiction story again while procrastinating on the current fic I'm writing; I suck at dialogues and have no motivation to push through with it right now.
Seems nice, which universe are you writing about?
The fic I'm outlining for is in the Chainsaw Man fandom, and the fic I'm procrastinating is a Jujutsu Kaisen one.
Any cool new devils?
Yes, I have a Lightning Devil, and a Solitude Devil, both are to be introduced in the second arc of the story. The solitude devil is especially terrifying.
I'm going to my sister's. I've been craving her macaroni and potato salads. She texted yesterday to say they were all made and we are getting together today.
Probably going to do some homework, probably going to read about distribution theory (i.e. generalized functions like Diracs and their derivatives) once I'm caught up. I'm so happy to be back in school.
Also, I hope SDF's Lemmy instance renews their certificate so I can get back to posting on my normal account.
I'm going to play destiny 2 with my long distance besties
Hopefully some Guild Wars 2 with grandma. Already went to the park with my son.
Make sure yours goes well too!
You're the second person to mention GW2 here, we might be up to something!
Meeting a student for drinks, catching up on my reading, maybe make a knife.
What is your preferred metal for the blade?
I have some leaf spring steel that is excellent. Currently I'm working from a bar of 1095 which is just beautiful. I've also got my eye on an old file to turn into another kitchen knife for my wife.
My wife and I are going to go grocery shopping and make some meal preps. Thinking about General Tso's chicken w/ shrimp fried rice.
Planning on some much needed yard work and taking my little one on a playdate with her classmates.
After some grocery shopping looking forward to making some hot soup since it's been raining a lot here.
Finishing up a bit of commission work, going foraging for some pine needles, and meeting a friend to celebrate his birthday. All in all I'm quite looking forward to it
What about you?
What have you got planned for the pine needles?
Going to try out this pine soda recipe. Not sure what to expect but I like brewing things
Nothing planned for tomorrow (apart from a kedgeree), but on Sunday we'll be checking in on our bees and having a planning meeting for the spring.
I hope the bees are prepared with a checklist for the planning meeting, I hate it when they don't do their prep work beforehand. Makes the meetings take so much longer.
The bees don't attend planning meetings during the winter. We relay all decisions by shouting through the hive entrance. It makes life so much simpler - taking 30,000 opinions into account per hive is a complete pain in the fundament. Especially if, as you say, they haven't done their prep work. "Too busy"? Yeah, whatever Ethel.
If Yodel manages to deliver the books I wouldn't have ordered had I known they were using bloody Yodel for the delivery, I will be spending the good bits of my weekend reading Harrow The Ninth and Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and hopefully catching up on sleep.
The rest of my weekend is going to be spent waiting by the door for Yodel to post their "sorry we missed you!" equivalent through the letterbox, and then catching up on housework.
I just ordered a pedal steel guitar yesterday and there's a chance it will arrive today. If it does, I will be spending some quality time with my new instrument. I have a rehearsal this afternoon for a gig next week as well.
I'll be spending time with my wife, perhaps playing some video games with my best friend, and likely playing some disc golf tomorrow.
I don't understand. Are you not entertained by fake leftists spouting right wing propaganda in every thread?