Pets and Other Stuff
Feb. 26th, 2026 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiWell, I guess if I don't post anything y'all will stop reading my journal, so here's something for y'all to read.
Not much going on – I got my infusion, so hopefully my transplanted kidney won't get attacked by my body. That's the one time I've been out of the house in the last four weeks.
I finished the seventh book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (I don't have access to the eighth book and number nine hasn't come out yet) and it's a fun read; it's snarky enough for my tastes and I get the media references sprinkled throughout it. I not only like how he's building the story, I like what he's telling and how he writes it. There's no real storyline telegraphing, which is a welcome change in what I'm reading, and the stories within it follow logical changes and don't give me Whiskey Tango Fornication moments. The blend of fantasy and science fiction is also done well
While putting out kibble for The Artist Currently Known as Dixie, calling her, and not getting her to respond, (she was out back – no, not in the outback if anyone got that idea) I thought about how many house pets live short lives in comparison to humans (No, don't be that person who brings up turtles in this conversation). I've lost several over the years – the Poms, the mighty guide beast, and many when I was a child and teen. My brother lost his Weimarauner several weeks ago and he's grieving hard, so that's in my mind too. So I wrote this to maybe capture some of the feeling of the loss:
Pet Requiem
No toys on the floor
A food bowl no longer filled
Empty home and heart
I still haven't gotten anyone to help me with my tech problems – the AT&T store doesn't do repairs now, they send customers to the Geek Squad, and those folks have no experience in dealing with smart phones using accessibility functions. My only recourse, maybe, is to visit the local Samsung store… in Frisco; that'd be a long walk, even if I took DART as far as I could go toward getting there. I've got several things that didn't make it to my new phone, like, for instance, my ringtones and other sounds. And that's one of the twelve or so issues on my tech fix list – I'm feeling kind of way isolated, folks.
I know we live in a chaotic time, and I accept chaos is required for change, so I guess this is my slice of it.
Not much going on – I got my infusion, so hopefully my transplanted kidney won't get attacked by my body. That's the one time I've been out of the house in the last four weeks.
I finished the seventh book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (I don't have access to the eighth book and number nine hasn't come out yet) and it's a fun read; it's snarky enough for my tastes and I get the media references sprinkled throughout it. I not only like how he's building the story, I like what he's telling and how he writes it. There's no real storyline telegraphing, which is a welcome change in what I'm reading, and the stories within it follow logical changes and don't give me Whiskey Tango Fornication moments. The blend of fantasy and science fiction is also done well
While putting out kibble for The Artist Currently Known as Dixie, calling her, and not getting her to respond, (she was out back – no, not in the outback if anyone got that idea) I thought about how many house pets live short lives in comparison to humans (No, don't be that person who brings up turtles in this conversation). I've lost several over the years – the Poms, the mighty guide beast, and many when I was a child and teen. My brother lost his Weimarauner several weeks ago and he's grieving hard, so that's in my mind too. So I wrote this to maybe capture some of the feeling of the loss:
Pet Requiem
No toys on the floor
A food bowl no longer filled
Empty home and heart
I still haven't gotten anyone to help me with my tech problems – the AT&T store doesn't do repairs now, they send customers to the Geek Squad, and those folks have no experience in dealing with smart phones using accessibility functions. My only recourse, maybe, is to visit the local Samsung store… in Frisco; that'd be a long walk, even if I took DART as far as I could go toward getting there. I've got several things that didn't make it to my new phone, like, for instance, my ringtones and other sounds. And that's one of the twelve or so issues on my tech fix list – I'm feeling kind of way isolated, folks.
I know we live in a chaotic time, and I accept chaos is required for change, so I guess this is my slice of it.
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Date: 2026-02-27 03:39 am (UTC)I don't feel i have much to ramble on about so i don't.
I do recall your posting of things you could use some help on.
I have to figure out how to find that list again.
IMS, There was something about webpage(s)? I do some coding but don't know if i can aid you with that.
It's your call?
Due to an article and the following comments, i'm going to read Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain.
That said, SciFi (the real hard stuff, not zombies and witching) is my main choice to read.
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Date: 2026-02-27 04:24 am (UTC)Puddinhead Wilson is an interesting read, and I like how Twain handled the twist in the story. I won't say more because I don't want to give anything away.
I lean more toward the hard stuff too -- Clarke, Cordwainer Smith, Eric Frank Russell, A E Van Vogt too. Murray Lenster wrote a couple of things I thought were impressive, one of which opened an entire category of science fiction and the other is uncanny with how it reflected in 1939 what has happened, a major influence in our modern world. I have no interest in zombie stuff and I've stopped books because a vampire showed up and was portrayed as a misunderstood good guy.
On Arkive.org there's a one season radio show, Sci-Fi Radio.zip. It has some great stuff in it -- James Tiptree jr, Phillip K. Dick, and also a nice rendition of Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations". It would have been cool if they managed to get CPB funding for more seasons.
Almost of my tech needs are hardware things, though there is a bit of scripting that could help a lot. I've got a program by Bram Bos called Hammerhead Rhythm Station, and a set of scripts for it so I could navigate it a lot better would be great. It's great at creating drum grooves, and I can output them to wav files for use in looping programs. Other than that, I've got a WordPress website (www.nicolemassey.com) but my webmistress is commuting around two hours each way three times a week, so her time is kind of hosed right now.
Oh, by the way, I like a lot of what you post, food for thought is preferable to the junk food for thought so often encountered these days.
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Date: 2026-03-04 01:46 am (UTC)Yay for not dying just yet of exploding kidneys. Also, yay for you existing.
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Date: 2026-03-04 03:23 am (UTC)We've had this conversation before, but I still feel the drive to ask, do I really exist? You've said in the past that your imagination isn't good enough for you to dream up me, but maybe that's what your creativity wants you to think so it can continue doing the things it does behind the scenes. And of course, there's still the question that's getting more traction these days -- is this all an elaborate hologram or a computer simulation -- if it's either of those two someone behind it is going to get a stern talking to about this persistent me being blind code stack.