@Ree@Dreamwidth.org

Hello I am barreling through here while I have a moment to spare and some happinesses to record!

Rural internet was patchy yesterday but much better today. My lifeline, restored! (I am like 30% kidding. At most.) I was able to get back into my Facebook account (first time since last year) and snag some in-game item gift codes for the pin-pulling game my kid likes. I even, heh, took a guess at what the next gift code would be and I got that sucker on my first freaking try, w00t! ...I should try Wordle later, see if today's my day. Dreamwidth first though.

I have given up on Twitter and moved shop to Vivaldi Social, a Mastodon instance, at @pokitty@vivaldi.net . I don't love my username there but I do love Vivaldi. They've hosted a forum and user blogs since Vivaldi started, and their predecessor Opera did, too, so I trust their experience with moderation. They also speak a number of languages besides English, so I trust their moderation of non-English posts more than I do a random American (sorry, 'Mericans, but we tend to monolinguistically suck).

I still have some misgivings about Mastodon, moderation, and non-monetization; I more than half expect 2023 to see instances asking for (or requiring) money, and users leaving rather than pay. But the vibe there is solid and sound. I like logging into the Vivaldi Social much more than Twitter. People keep linking to Mastodon accounts for people freshly banned from Twitter, and they make a pretty dandy reading list!

I tried Tumblr as well, but crappy internet does not love their media-heavy (and completely non-ALT-texted!) communication. I unfollowed everybody I didn't pout to think of losing. Now I am only bothering to even try to check there on a good internet day. (I almost always just queue stuff up for the system to post later, so it might look like I'm there more regularly than I am, but I am not.)

I tried looking for a self-hosted to do list server, but found no consensus as to the best one. I'd love to have a lightweight local server that let me go to IP_ADDRESS:PORT and toggle ticky boxes next to tasks. Dunno if that exists. I suppose most people manage this on their phone and/or with Google Calendar, but my phone is frequently charging, in a kid's hands, or otherwise separate from me, and I'd rather not invest myself further into Google's "ecosystem" anyway. A thing that could be edited (or at least viewed) on a Kindle would be ideal. Sometimes that's the only screen available to me in the moment, but I very nearly always have *something*.

Lunchtime! Hope yours is tasty as mine.

I'm not doing too hot with this whole "post an entry every calendar month" thing. The point of that goal was not specifically to register unqualified success but to getting me writing more than in 2012 (or 2011, for that matter). So even if I'm not hitting my goal, I am improving, and that's the main thing.

I am determined to consider this a success. Does it show?

My life seems sort of in-between right now. We moved, but half my stuff is boxed in my mother's basement, because there just isn't room; we aren't focused on making room for it, because we might be moving again soon. Or we might not.

I demand a world that I can view in black and white, as I see fit! Ha, no. I do crave some certainties in life, though, and I'm coming up a bit short there.

Also I miss the crap out of my video games, you have no idea. On Sunday, we visited my mother and I blissfully hugged my Super Nintendo. As you do, right? Then I played it and hugged it again.

Really miss my video games. I tried hooking them up to my husband's HDTV, but apparently HDTVs have a degree of lag when playing old video games on them, and this particular set is pretty bad. There isn't room at our home to set up another TV, so my games are all at my mother's (except some handheld stuff). I finally got my PC gaming controller set up nicely, though, and I've been enjoying retro-inspired games on Steam. Breath of Death VII has been cracking me up, and the gameplay is right up my alley too!

Yay stuff!