On our weird exercise machine to get the blood pumping a little before standup. Bouncy Dog is confused and concerned.

@sungo I just improvised something with a keyboard tray, using a couple small flat boxes as spacers (~1" gap). It works well enough – I or more accurately the cats have weight-tested the keyboard tray before. I know I want a safe persistent solution.

Patiently waiting for landscaping and leaf blowing (blowing rocks actually because desert) to wrap up so I can try thinking again.

For my part I'll be reading and occasionally responding to toots relevant to the holiday, but unlikely to boost them.Least I can do if my friends out here are anywhere near as anxious as me. No need to spread it around.

Thank goodness I get to obsess over work stuff tomorrow instead of paying attention to the actual world around me.

@WuMargaret I was named after my uncle, who by all accounts was pretty cool. Most folks called me by name, though there have been recurring descriptives like “goat boy over there”And I’d just glare and finish chewing on the soda can.

@WuMargaret Closest I got to a nickname in school was when folks kept misspelling my name as "Brain" and then just kinda shrugging when i tried to correct them.

Somedays I'm The Brain. Some days I'm Pinky. Most days it seems I'm both, locked in eternal combat for control of the human suit.

I've been told that my complete lack of hesitation about fishing foreign objects out of the dog's mouth – often before anyone including me has fully registered what is amiss, the closest I'll ever get to an ADHD superpower – would have been a solid foundation for parenting.Remembering that time I ate my mom's oil paints, I can understand the assertion.

@skinnylatte I'm pretty sure now the issue was PEBKAC. There's a daily meeting, and a similarly titled weekly meeting an hour before the daily.Eyes saw a meeting in what's been the daily slot, and wouldn't let me rest until finally noticing the daily meeting in the slot it should be post-DST.

@olleolleolle I'll grumble but I'm not the sort to just throw someone in the pool and call it teaching them to swim.

Nearly every time I think up a clever use of pytest marks for identifying groups of tests that should be run in very different contexts–it ends up being way easier to just put them in subfolders and add make/Just/whatever tasks to target each.

@randomgeek @IamMrsGeek Waitaminute! Do you mean to tell me there are people who *don't* speak that language of love?How can such horrors be possible?

@nebkor Nearly forgot to mention one important aspect of the split. I've got it set up so my primary system gets 2/3 of the monitor, and secondary gets 1/3.But 49" curved arranged vertically would still be cool, despite the inevitable neck strain.

@VE2UWY I wouldn't have become aware of it until the early to mid-80s, and didn't hear it with any frequency until the early 90s.

@onelson I'm pretty sure you are correct. We apologized immediately after with tuna and he accepted.

Vet had to sedate Jack to get last bit of care done. Sounds like our cat is doing much better.

Gosh it's sure nice to step away from work, trying to sort my way through dashboards explaining interacting systems, resources available vs resources in use, stuff like that. I can sit and play video games and hey wait a minute#FactoryTownIdle #FediGames

I have made what feels like progress. Pushing changes, forcibly detaching from work, and eating food. Maybe some video games.

"Which video card do you plan on replacing?"Me: "the one in my computer"I give such helpful answers sometimes.