Nothing too much today, either - spent a couple of hours outside with Scout, which she definitely appreciated! :D

Mostly just replaying Cube Escape games and reading fic, other than that.

Computer's kept on suddenly logging out, though, which is EXTREMELY annoying. I'm starting to think it may just be Ubuntu, either it's a bad fit for me, or a bad fit for the hardware. Urge to get a nvme adapter and installing Endeavour on it: rising. I'll definitely bring back the micro SD with the install on it, when I go home for Christmas, and test that out more while I'm still here. Really, no reason not to! And might at least pinpoint wtf is up a little better...

Nothing huge today, really! Multiplayer Terraria was on, but it turns out that I really can't play it :( :( :( The latency was just. Unplayably bad, even worse than playing it solo. :/

Computer is also doing a weird, where it suddenly logs out of my session, and then when I log back in again it's lost the icon set I've picked? Very strange. Also firefox is lagging a lot, and I THINK it's related, but I wasn't really paying enough attention before it started happening to be sure, hahaha. ^^;;;

Anyway, there's some software updates available, so I'mma install them once I'm done here and we'll see how it goes tomorrow!

Scout got to go outside today! Twice, even! She was VERY HAPPY about this, adorable! :3 I uh. Ended up doing some weeding, just to keep my hands busy - phone is full of fun things, of course, but if I get sucked in I'm not keeping an eye on Scout and that is uh. Not great! There's only one way she can get out, but she can if you don't pay attention, sooooo... weeding. Yes. It's probably good for me, anyway!

I also went to the shops AGAIN, for the third day in a row (whyyy), because I needed milk. That's literally all I got! Just milk! Because I didn't even have enough left for breakfast tomorrow orz orz orz. I may have been drinking a bit too much milk, that's over two liters in three days... (But also milk is so great!!!)

Anyway, now is time for bed! A little earlier than I usually manage, so good job me for that, hahaha.

It rained almost all day today! It was a LOT. Does explain why my ankle was so achy yesterday, though... And it was achy again today so fingers crossed that means it'll clear up tomorrow.

Scout is EXTREMELY sad that she couldn't go out today either, but. Water. Water from the skyyyy. What can you do!

Poked the computer a bit more, and it turns out that at least some of the problem is Steam is eating like. 4GB of RAM. By itself. Plus whatever the OS and other programs are using! There SHOULD still be enough RAM for Terraria, but I can understand why it's not doing so well. (And like. I CAN run it, it's just uh. Not great.)

Not real sure what can be done about this one, honestly - might just have to give up on Terraria until I'm home. Which is annoying!

Other than that, made butter chicken for dinner! I ate uh. Way too much. But nom nom nom butter chicken~ :9 And now I have food for a few days, too, yay!

Sleepytiem nao, yes. Hopefully I'll get to cuddle with Scout! She's definitely warmed up to me a lot, it's great.

Yup, moved over here for catsitting purposes, and not only is the cat adorable (not surprising, but extremely pleasing), but the house is adorable, too! Tiny little thing - the sort of medium-high density stuff they were making... idk 100 years ago or so? Very small houses, close together, not much of a yard or anything, but still nice!

This one in particular is a two bedroom, but given my back I'm sleeping on the couch, so I'm yet again confronted with the fact that I'd be perfectly happy living in a studio apartment sized place. Sigh. I am perhaps too used to not having much space! (Though it would be super great to have a room to use as an office, when I'm working.)

Anyway, not only is it cute but it's super close to shops and the trains, so I think I'mma enjoy staying here! :3

Scout, the kitty, is sweet, but still a little wary of me. Which is fine! Very few cats are immediately at ease with a new large mammal in their living space, particularly when their usual humans are gone! She's gotten less shy already, though, so I think we'll be fine.

Computer is working okay - got some personalisation stuff done, but I've gotta do more research into how to make snap container-apps do shit like 'use your selected icon set' and 'respect the cursor you chose'. Terraria is... not as good as I'd like. Even though I have more than enough RAM according to its specs, it's running like ass. Think it's probably because it's dropping frames, from what I've read. I can technically play it, but it's not real fun as-is, and I'm not sure it'd stand up to multiplayer latency. :/ So more research needed for that, too...

Got all my stuff packed, apart from the stuff I can't pack until after I use it in the morning. (Hairbrush. Phone and chargers. Pyjamas. Plus whatever clothes I'm wearing, of course, though that's not really packing.) Meds I'mma just take the ones I picked up today, and leave the almost-full packet here - they don't expire for several years so a couple of weeks is NBD - so HOPEFULLY I'm all done and will get away just fine tomorrow. We have to leave pretty early, so leaving as little as possible to think about is gonna be. Helpful.

Other than that... used my blanket last night, for the first time since I fixed it! No dramas, it's a blanket, but it's nice it's all pretty again. :3

Also finally got a present for Sibling! Nothing much, but at least it's something.

Anyway! Bed now! May not be able to get to sleep super easily, It Warm and I've been flopped most of the day, but I'mma try at least! >:

Today I did very little, because it was nice and hot! :D Obviously when it's nice and hot the best thing to do is to laze around like a giant cat!

...of course this means I have stuff to do tomorrow, and it's supposed to be like 35 tomorrow, but that's cooler than today was! (Also humidity at 50% which is. Ugh. Why.)

Priority list:

• Meds (I technically have enough until Tuesday, but since I'm going catsitting on Saturday... much rather go to my usual chemist!)
• Packing
• Washing (may be needed for packing, so should probably do first, but technically I can take dirty clothes with me, so lower priority)

We'll see how it goes, I guess!

I DID manage to get Steam and Discord installed on the new computer, so that's done at least! They're both a little dodgy - Steam install warned about missing a couple of packages, but it's running Terraria fine so fingers! Crossed!!, and Discord is technically a third party client, but that's because there isn't an official one for ARM, so hopefully that's fine. (Plz do an ARM build, Discord! I would've installed it if I could've!)

Also Steam sync is syncing my Terraria characters properly, yaaaaay! Can still play multiplayer while I'm away! A me is happy yesssss.

I did things today! Three things!

• Made this year's pav!
• Played multiplayer Terraria
• Checked in on the new computer. Has a few weirds, but I think they're just new computer teething problems weirds, and the Budgie desktop is working just fine! :D (Though the Ubuntu one doesn't have access to the fuzzy clock, which is sad, that one's fun. I expect that it's the difference between Debian-based and Arch-based distros that's doing it, though I might poke it more later.)

New computer still needs a lot of personalising, but I think I'll do most of that when I'm catsitting - got SO many projects at home, but I can only take a few with me, after all! Will attempt to get Discord and Steam installed tomorrow, though, so I can test it. (Already got a big heads up that I should not download Steam via the snap store, apparently it's not well maintained and will fuck things up. Installing it via the download on their website is just fine though. Perks of knowing someone who knows the distro!)

Tomorrow I think I'm gonna start packing. Mainly so I can see if I need to do washing (answer: almost definitely yes), but also I'm going for a couple of weeks this time so it's a bigger problem if I forget something like, say, my toothbrush...

But first it's time for nappy naps! Yes! :D

Yes! Today I DID work on the computer some more! (Also I cleaned the bathroom but that's not even vaguely interesting.)

Anyway without going into too much detail (again), I lost. ( ...I went into too much detail again though, so that's under the cut. )

Anyway, Ubuntu isn't a bad backup, and at least I could get it installed. Plus one of the people I play multiplayer games with occasionally is a full-time Ubuntu user, so if I run into any weird problems I can't figure out how to fix via my usual shaking of the internet (likelihood: high) I have someone I can ask! Though honestly I'm not going to be needing too much shit on this one anyway; firefox is preinstalled so the other two big ones are going to be Discord (which can run in the browser anyway), and Steam. And hey, I know these can run on Ubuntu, given Friend, so the real question is if they can run on ARM... which they probably can!

In non-computer talk, it's apparently going to get hotter again as the week goes on, so I'mma make the Christmas pav tomorrow. It's only like a week earlier than I'd usually do it, that's fine for pav - the thing you've gotta worry about is the cream, and that's always morning-of anyway!

But first, it is naptiem. Yes.

It feels like today was FOREVER, but it really wasn't.

Anyway, big thing I (and Mama) did today was totally redecorate the chook run for the chooks! We filled the big holes in with dirt, and put cardboard down, and also an old tyre in a corner, and then filled everything up with sugarcane mulch! So that should make them a bit happier! :3 Still haven't finished the chook run thing, but I had the idea to put the tyre in yesterday, so we did that first since it took uh WAY less time than we're guessing finishing off the thing will take. Given how much longer every single step has taken than we thought.

I also wrapped my whole two presents for people this year. Organised!!! And I did manage to finish up a tube of wrapping paper, plus a sheet of stickers, so that was good too! :D ...I did do this instead of working on the new computer, though. >>;;; Yes I may be avoiding the annoyance of setting it up somewhere it can get ethernet. Gonna have to do it tomorrow though, I'm going catsitting on Saturday and want to have at least a couple of days for testing before I go! >:

Also I opened up my big bag of dried apples. It is. So dangerous. But I think I've eaten less than I did the first day last time, IIRC, so that's something!

Came home today! Ended up meeting A when she got home; some fucking asshole rang me at 6:30am - and turned out to be a wrong number so it wasn't even a useful call! - so I uh. Didn't sleep that well and slept in fairly late. So yeah, they got in just a couple of minutes after I finished breakfast, whoops!

Her husband dropped me home, though, so that was very nice of him! I wasn't really looking forward to taking the train, though of course I would've. But got to avoid changing trains in town where there are Many People, yaaaaay~

Haven't really done a huge amount other than that. Went out and did some chook maintenance stuff after tea with Mama, since it was so hot yesterday and they needed their water topped up anyway. Played some Terraria, too. That's pmuch it.

No computer stuff today, didn't have the brain for it. Maybe tomorrow! (Have some moving-stuff-around plans with Mama so I may turn into a pancake instead.)

But now, I'm go nap in my bed yessss. Best couch! Magic couch! No other couches compare! Also my dragonite is a GREAT pillow, better than A's squirtle I borrowed last night! (Not that squirtle is bad! Would happily use it again! Just, dragonite more comfy, yesss.)

I am at A's place!

Turns out doing an overnight is actually an EXCELLENT test run of new computer setups, because I've ALREADY figured out quite a few things I need to change/prep for:

( Lots of nerdery goes here. )

IN ANY CASE. In non-new-computer-related news, I did do some other stuff today! I got Mama to drop me off at the place I got my parents snack-presents from last year, and got my father some more of the freeze dried strawberries he absolutely adored. (And some licorice for Mama, too.) I also got some snacks for me, of course!

Still nothing for Sibling, though. :/ I had to walk past somewhere that sold game stuff on the way back, so I poked my nose in there, but nothing stood out. I thought if nothing else I could get some MtG boosters, but they were all out of the newest set! Boo! And since I don't keep up with MtG stuff I have no idea what sets are still legal for pro-level play soooo I didn't want to go back to one of the other sets. The rotation stuff is. Confusing. :/

I also saw the Stardew Valley board game, but it was Extremely Expensive so I didn't look at it in detail. Just. Nope. I am not a board game player, really, and that's the only reason you'd spend lots on a game like that I think. Not just a cool merch thing hahahaha. (Also I have some extremely cool fanart that was much less expensive AND super pretty, so, you know, I'm fine with my priorities.)

A's cats are super cute as usual, too! Kitty is of course Made Of Grump, but that's her usual state so it's fine. I have eaten all of the salami here AND there were fresh peas so I ate all of those, too... >>;; Also had a random pie for tea, and it was beef and CHEESE! :O Amazing! And so delicious!

I did, however, forget my toothbrush & related stuff, so WHOOPS. I'mma just hope that one night of scrubbing with my finger (and flossing if there's some in the cupboards) will be okay, heh. If I was here longer of course I'd just go buy one, but something to keep in mind! (Also less annoying than forgetting my hairbrush. Or underwear. I know this from experience! |D)

Went into town and met up with A today! It was a lot of fun! We derped around poking at stuff a lot, particularly art stuff, which is always fun! :D

And then there was multiplayer Terrarira when I got home! Which was ALSO fun! Just, both of those things in one day was a lot.

However! I did manage to get an SD card, and it booted as an install device and... um. Pretty sure the entire computer is running off the SD card, and it can't see the freaking internal SSD. Which is a problem! So tomorrow there will be Some Research. But also I'm going over to catsit for A overnight - she's going for a family Christmas thing that's too far away for a day trip - so idek how much I'll actually get done. Still! Progress has been made, which is always nice! :3

Also even if I don't have an actual fix tomorrow I'll get to poke around the new desktop environment and see if I DO actually like it, which is also important! (The place I have it set up for installing the OS is also not great for actually using the computer, simply due to the fact that if I'm installing an OS I want to have my desktop on as well so I can Do Computer while waiting for shit to download/unpack/install, heh.)

Anyway, bed now. Am very sleepy! Hopefully I can get to sleep without pulling the blanket out since I'm... not gonna be here tomorrow night and who knows what the weather will do... it's Quite Warm and I suspect I will melt in my usual doona.

It came!!! :D :D :D

( Extremely geeky linux rambling here )

Anyway, the keyboard-computer bit is pure white, so I'm thinking it'll be called Reshiram, since I've been on a pokemon kick for a while. Though maybe Kyuurem since the screen is black? Not sure. Will think about it, since I'mma reinstall the OS it's not something I have to decide yet!

Other than all that, really not much today, hahaha. I did washing, and cleaned the catboxes, that's about it. Also fic reading and some Terraria. But mostly new! computer!!! And attendant geekery.

Wow I'm suddenly really tired. I wasn't until like. Five minutes ago. Which given the time is actually pretty weird, heh.

Anyway! I forgot to say yesterday, Sushi has been banned back into the cone full time, because he licked his tail enough that part of it was a raw pink colour, siiiigh. It healed up again pretty quick, so I don't think it was actually raw, but we're not gonna let him do it again! Nope!! We'll see how the tail looks tomorrow, since that's when he's supposed to be fully healed, but I'm guessing I'll leave it on another day or so to be sure.

Honestly didn't do a whole lot today, annoyingly. But I DID get to play multiplayer Terraria for a couple of hours, so that was fun! Had to finish early because of my father's bday dinner, though, which was also great!

( Food rambles )

Other than all of that, mostly just reading today. Some solo Terraria this evening too, but that's about it. According to the tracking new computer should be here tomorrow! It maintained it was gonna come today until mid-afternoon, even though that was clearly not gonna happen (it wasn't even in the right city yet!), but hopefully tomorrow is accurate! Am excite!!! :D