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April 5, 2024

Hello! I finally finished updating the code for the entire site and I feel like I should write something new here again, I guess!

I haven't been super active here with new things to say because, well, I was furiously coding and trying to figure out how columns and the float property worked. I was also sick. Again. I've been sick once a month since January and, quite frankly, I'm sick of it! I am better now, thought, just suffering from allergies because...

Our cat had kittens! Her name is Ivy and she had the kittens in early March. They're going to be seven weeks old tomorrow and, not gunna lie, I'm going to miss them when they go ;--; We're keeping two of them and giving the rest away. I think my father has been overestimating how many of them the vet's office is going to find homes for. I think he's expecting to just show up with a bunch of 8 - 12 week old kittens and just drop them off at the vet's. And that's not how that works. But, since he refuses to listen to anyone else but himself, we'll let him figure that out when he figures it out.

Anyways. The two we're keeping are a lovely little gray shorthaired tabby named Juniper and my darling litle girl, Juanita Paw-nce de Leon aka Poncy. I named most of the litter after famous explorers. Poncy's twin is Vasco de Gama. Then we have Ernesta Shackleton, Sir Edmund Hilary, and Tenzing Norgay.

I really am going to miss them, but my allergies won't.

Other than that my life has been exceedingly boring for the last month. I've just been trying to stay healthy and make it into work so I can afford to pay rent. You know how it is. I did fall down the front steps this morning because our landlady's boyfriend didn't come back after the snow stopped to shovel the steps again. My wrist hurts. So, I guess I'll sign off for now.

March 7, 2024

So I did, infact, make a seperate page for AtIT and I'm super pleased with it.

However... like so many other things I do, now that I'm more comfortable coding I want to push the boundaries of my knowledge. Is less than a month with a site too soon for a v2? Or, like, a v1.1? I'm mostly thinking about this because, while I love the way my site looks right now, I'm finding it hard to add new and interesting elements. See the sidebar debacle on the front page. (It's held in place by so many pixels and fixed positions it's sad!)

I want to do... better? Not for anyone in particular, but because I know there must be an easier way to accomplish the aesthetic that I'm after. The easiest way would be to download a theme, but I'm too stubborn and I also enjoy throwing code at the wall and seeing what sticks. It's fun! And it's a good creative outlet for me since I'm not writing that much anymore.

Or. At all, really. Yeah, I haven't written anything regularly since like 2020. Why? you ask. Full time job! I answer. Ever since I started working full time I just have no inspiration for writing. Who can say why? Not me. It's probably the exhaustion and the potential trauma of living through a plauge.

Even mustering up the attention to write this blog is a challenge. But that might be over a decade of using social media platforms specifically designed to draw attention to new things as fast as possible or my (alleged) ADHD. I supposed you could view this journal as a writing exercise. Something that I can throw together with as much thought and effort as I want to. Something that I don't have to try to make intentionally entertaining. It's just... my thoughts pinging around inside my head.

March 4, 2024

I think I'm definitely going to have a seperate page for my "Around the Internet Today" section. What it comes down to is that the energy it requires to write a blog entry is different than the energy it takes to talk about cool things I've seen around the web. But that's okay! It means I get to make a cool newspaper themed page!

My podcast shrine is also slowly (very slowly) taking shape. I've decided that it's going to be cassette themed. I've been finding a lot of comfort in the aesthetics of my childhood recently (who can say why, it's probably fairly normal though) and I have vivid memories of my dad lending me his bright yellow Sony Walkman so I could listen to the radio. I was probably listening to the local oldies station. It was my favorite at the time and I still love old music.

In other music news, I finally deleted the Spotify app off my computer. I cancelled my subscription recently partly out of concern for my wallet and partially because, well, I've been listening to the same four songs since 2009 and I own most of them. And, well, the ones that I don't I can get. This is the second time I've cancelled Spotify in the last calendar year; but this time I'm feeling much more... joyful? about it. Like this time wasn't in a fit of pique, it was out of a genuine distaste for the music/subscription model and how little it pays the artists. So, goodbye Spotify.

No "Around the Internet Today" on this one, folks, I'm busy prepping the page!

March 1, 2024

I'm not gunna lie, Something is fucky with the CSS of this page and I cannot figure out why it won't properly display the custom font for the text boxes. But Times New Roman has been an industry standard for years and it looks like something Light Yagami would use for an essay so... meh.

As time goes on, I keep finding out that not having gone to the dentist in the last eighteen years was a mistake! Additionally: BRUSH YOUR FUCKING TEETH!!! For a little while I just wasn't able to eat sweet things sometimes, but we've officially progressed beyond that. "But, Faint, why haven't you gone to the dentist since 2006?" Great question! It's the government's fault /sarcasm (but only just).

I got braces young. My math and the last time I went to the dentist says I was around 12 or 13. My last dentist visit was to get my braces off and I never went back. Why? Our state insurance stopped covering dental care. Just did a quick DDG and the state I grew up in just started offering low cost dental insurance through the state in 2022. I couldn't find any information about free dental care, so that may still be off the table. However, my father looked into dentures around 2016 and was told, in so many words, that teeth weren't important. Do I think someone at the state actually said this? Probably not. Either way, he still couldn't get his dentures and he still needs them.

All this is to say that, for the first time in my adult life... I'M INSURED!!! It's cheap and the deductable is... not good BUT! I'm so excited because I get to go back to the dentist! I can get my cavities filled! Well, I can get some of my cavities filled. The dental plan our work has has a limit as to what you can spend in a year so I'm gunna try to work with whoever I go to for dental care to see what I can get done for under that amount. But I'm so excited! I've always been either self pay or on the state's free plan and, while there's nothing wrong with either, it feels so freeing to know that I might be able to persue actual healthcare instead of just going when I'm so sick that I can't ignore it.

A Quick Note: For those of you who work enough hours to qualify for your work's health insurence, check to make sure it's not worth your time before you dismiss it out of hand. I'm paying less than a tenth of my paycheck and, yeah, it's not the best insurence, but it's better than nothing. And believe me, I know what nothing is like.

I'm also considering moving my "Around The Internet Today" to its own page. And also making a bearblog for this journal. Am I having a great time writing, yeah. Am I also having a shit time getting the CSS on this page to work? Also yeah. But, time will tell whether I actually want a seperate space for my thoughts or if I'm just frustrated with how this page is working out.

Around The Internet Today

February 28, 2024

So I figured I should at least write something for my journal page when I posted it and since I'm trying foster more long-form thoughts... Well, it's the perfect opportunity.

I decide to theme this page after the animanga Death Note because I thought it would be funny. And also a little bit because I want to experiment with different styles of pages on my site. This one is still approximately the same structure as my main pages with a few stylistic differences, but it was fun to play around with colors and fonts. I was even lucky enough to find a recreation of the actual Death Note font that was free for personal use! I also tried to make the container approximately the size and shape of a piece of notebook paper because, y'know, Death Note. I even toyed with the idea of making the background of the container look like a piece of notebook paper, but I cast that one aside in favor of readability. But who knows what future me will decide to code into this place.

Other than that it's been a fairly peaceful day. I was sick over the weekend and earlier this week, so I've been home since Saturday night. Plenty of time to stew over whether or not my bosses will be upset that I wasn't there Monday or Tuesday (today is my regular day off). But, in the grand scheme of things I've found that it's much smarter to not buy today at the expense of tomorrow.

A word to those of you reading this who find themselves feeling guilty when you call out and then feel so much better right after: you feel better because you're not at work. You body is reacting to getting rest, liquids, and maybe even some medicine. You'd feel awful if you were at work. My litmus test for calling out is this:

If the answer to any of the first three is yes, I stay home. If the answer to the fourth questoin is no, I stay home. It's always better to prioritize your health over your work. If you need an external influence: You wouldn't want to get any of your co-workers sick would you? Aren't you always upset when someone comes to work sick? Take care of yourselves!

Since I never know how to end these things, I've decide to just add some links to cool things I've found around the internet today!

Around The Internet Today