Thanks jonesy

Today is day 365 of learning Spanish

I don't know whether I'll continue my streak or not, but it's pretty cool to do something for 365 days straight. I actually started like 380 days ago, but I've used up a few streak freezes which just stop it from breaking but don't extend it.

I haven't made much progress and without being able to speak it with anybody irl, it doesn't seem like it's actually seeping into my brain. I tried watching shows with foreign language dubs, but it was too difficult to keep up, even when I knew the English dialogue word for word. I can understand about every 5th word in Orange Is The New black though, so I guess that's something. But it doesn't help that Spanish speakers talk at approximately 720,593 words per minute

I haven't had a whole lot of motivation to continue and keep pushing on since about day 200, but I wanted to hit 365 days. My previous longest streak was like 19 days or something like that, so #winning I guess

Thanks. They're honestly kinda cute, and if a little larger, I probably would've mistaken it for a bee before noticing the lack of a stinger

Thanks M!

For anyone else on an instance that insists on using that stupid image proxy thing that doesn't work with Imgur because of ratelimits:

https://imgur.com/xt1rec9

I'm loving these longer, warmer days. I can already feel the SADs melting away

My mental health had been absolutely fucked the last few months, but even generally, I tend to end up in little depression episodes during winter time, with the short and wet days and constant grey skies

Negative, it is poor journalistic practice.

Oh yes, I did see that. Bit of a cheeky deal (on maccas) part imo, since large coffees were going for a buck a few months ago

But don't worry, it'll just be gentle

Damn gibsy, you're starting to sound like a bit of an artifact!

Finally booked in an assessment to get the wisdoms out. I have an initial consultation + targetted x-ray in a couple of weeks, then they'll figure out whether it's going to be a complex removal or fairly straightforward, and since my preference is full general anaesthetic, work out all of that fun stuff.

This clinic is expensive, but their staff seem actually friendly. The dentist I go to for general stuff is low cost, but that comes at the expense of friendliness and general clinic maintenance. The whole building looks dingey, they can't seem to afford to fix their lightbulbs, and everybody that works there seems like they're constantly having the worst day ever and often take it out on whoever dares make an appointment. Considering how expensive dentists are, it's good that they exist, but super depressing that they're in such a state of shambles. That's the state of the healthcare system, I guess

Ha! I wish. I actually don't even have the key for one of the gates, they keyed 2 of the gates to the same key, then put a different lock on the gate between the front and back yards, and never even gave me a key to it 🙄

Meh, they're getting paid a pretty substantial amount of money to do a poor quality job. The least they can do is leave the place in a respectable state. It's not that difficult.

This was back before I got into the gardening, when it was just the old LT working on it. He was reeeeeaaaaalllllly pissed, and I can't blame him. It was my little patch of strawberries that they poisoned though, but I'm not super mad about that because they were just cuttings from a larger patch that's in a raised planter box. If they poisoned that though, I'd be about ready to throw hands

I forgot to ask you guys on the 21st if you remembered

I do that every year (except the years I forget, which is most of them)

I don't know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it's my house doing the mowing.

Don't blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored

NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren't. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we'd asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they've sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).

I paid $1.80 for my first domain (which was a .lol TLD, a little obscure but worked for me). It's now renewing at $26, though. The more well known ones are a fair bit more expensive though, and rarely have introductory sales. There are a lot of random weird domains nobody's ever heard of that only renew for a few bucks a year on going though.

It wouldn't work for a Lemmy instance, unless you don't mind changing instances every year, but you could theoretically get domains for less than a dollar for at least a few decades by constantly changing domains every time you're due for a renewal, to make the most of the introductory discounts lots of them have

Omg I forgot Hugh Jeffreys was a thing. Haven't watched him in about 4 years!

Interesting. I very briefly ran a test Lemmy instance off a raspberry pi I had laying around, but shut it down because I was worried about having an open port on my network and exposing my IP to the world. Then I tried to run an actual Lemmy instance on a proper VPS and ironically had more issues with that than running it at home!

What on earth is your instance name?