Jul 10, 2026
Friday night’s a night for baking (and Dust Mites)
—orc Fri Jul 10 23:51:03 2026
Jul 08, 2026
last year, I finally snapped and asked my primary care physician for a prescription for adderall so I could spend my declining years doing something, anything, other than flitting around like a crow from one shiny object to another while letting all the other important stuff in my life pile up unattended.
I was referred to a psychiatric clinic, where, over the course of 6 months they ascertained that I am not quite adhd, but most likely was autistic, and yeah my request for dangerous drugs was actually a reasonable treatment.
… I’m gonna be peeved if this doesn’t work. I’m pretty sure it will, because I’ve been doping with nicotine and that makes a big difference when I remember to take it, but still!
Gonna start drugging myself on friday, then go bike camping for real on saturday (40 miles out, which should not be a problem, but I came down sick with something !covid last weekend and my lungs are f-u-l-l of snot) while under the influence.
—orc Wed Jul 8 23:46:19 2026
Jul 04, 2026
Thor and I were relaxing on one of our comfy chairs this afternoon. She stretched out her hind legs and spread her toes, so SWITCTBN had to take a picture.
—orc Sat Jul 4 19:42:33 2026
Jul 03, 2026
Dust Mite, armed with a new autoinjector, prepares to help me with the
boss battle.
—orc Fri Jul 3 23:40:54 2026
Jul 01, 2026
A photo of me (taken by my son) after I came back from the Mill End Store (camping quilt fabric) and the cat fud store (a shitload of catfud.)
—orc Wed Jul 1 18:30:46 2026
Estrogen availability is, thanks to be A+ business sense of the mad king, becoming super unreliable, so I’ve finally snapped and gotten a prescription for injectable estrogen.
And I’m pretty needlephobic.
It’s gonna be a bit of a challenge. I’m trying to source an auto-injector that I can fill myself to get around the whole routine of having to poke myself with a needle, then holding it in place while I shovel E into my system, but it’s proving to be a somewhat complicated task (in the olden days, I’d search for auto-injector on the net of a billion lies, but as you may have noticed generative LLMs have infested the whole thing despite the teeny detail that they aren’t yet suited for the job) that means I’m gonna keep taking from my small supply of pills for the near future. Sigh.
I’ve gotten a lot less needlephobic since I stopped cosplaying as a man, but still the thought of actually doing injections myself gives me a bit of the heebie-jeebies. So it’s gonna be a whole lotta drama :-)
—orc Wed Jul 1 18:27:29 2026
Jun 27, 2026
“Big Naturals™” but in this case it’s just a pair of melon fruits
—orc Sat Jun 27 00:53:20 2026
Jun 19, 2026
When we went to the coast last week I took a couple of pictures of Dust Mite chatting with a banana slug. Alas, my camera can switched to manual focus and all the pictures came out blurry, so we did a reenactment of that fateful meeting with our wooden slug acting as a stand-in for the banana slug and our living room floor acting as a stand-in for the trail out to the end of Cape Lookout.
—orc Fri Jun 19 22:04:52 2026
A photostitched panorama of the view south from the observation platform just south of the parking area @ Cape Mears State Park
—orc Fri Jun 19 21:27:43 2026
Jun 14, 2026
Discount has been pushed up to version 3.0.1.3 after a few trivial fixes:
- I updated the published interface (“API”) documentation to more correctly reflect how callbacks work,
- I went back in to my implementation of “fenced code blocks” (a creeping feature that a lot of markdownish software has implemented) to make it less ugly, and
- I continue to chase the ongoing dumbification of the C programming language standard by, ugh, having to hand-declare a prototype for
memset() because macos ventura no longer has it and the C compiler there loses its shit when it encounters an external function that doesn’t have a prototype.
I have not yet reached the point of software completeness that Markdown.pl is at, but at least these days the primary changes I need to make are around chasing the standard and keeping the documentation up to date.
So, New Code!! Try it out, see if your computer eats itself, and enjoy!
—orc Sun Jun 14 06:12:33 2026
Jun 13, 2026
(I could have sworn I posted this yesterday!)
Yesterday, SWITCTBN & I walked out to the western end of Cape Lookout, and we brought Dust Mite along. It was an arduous trek, so Dust Mite & I had to pose for a picture before we came back.
—orc Sat Jun 13 14:43:46 2026
Jun 05, 2026
Dust Mite poses in front of my railway bookshelf
—orc Fri Jun 5 23:18:25 2026
Jun 02, 2026
My inability to take a good selfie is undefeated, tho
—orc Tue Jun 2 17:23:45 2026
May 30, 2026
Our feral cherry tree is not (not yet, at least) producing enough cherries to make a pie, but each year’s harvest is getting larger. Maybe I’ll be able to make a pie from the cherries sometime before I die?
—orc Sat May 30 15:17:54 2026
May 29, 2026
A little light reading
—orc Fri May 29 23:32:26 2026
May 22, 2026
Dust Mite rides the rails
—orc Fri May 22 22:16:54 2026
May 16, 2026
(I got distracted until it was already saturday. Oh well!)
—orc Sat May 16 00:10:06 2026
May 10, 2026
A short evening ride before dinner
—orc Sun May 10 21:10:01 2026
May 08, 2026
The large & useful emergency Dust Mite wears a headscarf to bed
—orc Fri May 8 23:58:38 2026
May 01, 2026
Dust Mite is a little too small to carry my purse
—orc Fri May 1 23:48:13 2026
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