Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

made mushroom gravy over bok choy and rice, currently eating, and this Palestinian okra stuff which is gonna go with vegan feta and maybe chick pea soup later this week

Talk Like a Pirate Day continues with the soundtrack (suite) for The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn. So far I’ve resisted the urge to jump on my desk possibly because I don’t actually have a foil with me and cannot execute a low line sweeping parry, but next up is the suite for The Adventures of Don Juan, and then I might really be in trouble.

@heatherhorns_lite The most vehemently Christian (mandatory prayer/silence before lunch) possibly racist teacher (4th grade) unironically said the south would rise again etc, she was an outlier but there was no equivalent left leaning outlier. Given my age and where I grew up I don’t think my experience is typical for masto.

@heatherhorns_lite weirdly one of my most conservative seeming teachers passed on one of the mildest complete myths (that you need conservatives and liberals to balance each other out in terms of progress and expense). Most everyone stuck to (distinctly right) textbooks; and we were told Reagan was winning the Cold War and giving us back pride we’d lost in Vietnam.

OH THEY CALLS ME HANGIN’ JOHNNY
AWAY BOYS AWAY
THEY SAYS I HANGS FER MONEY
OH HANG BOYS HANG
OH THEY SAYS I HANGS FER MONEY
AWAY BOYS AWAY
CAUSE HANGING IS SO FUNNY
OH HANG BOYS HANG

… wait where’re you going, I got at least 7 more verses!

Combining the Cutthroat Island soundtrack with this miserably long slog through what’s normally an okay task has me alternating “sad” with “want to fence against someone.” Like I miss doing foil rather than saber, how often does that happen?

Actually THE best thing to say for “Talk like a pirate day” is “had you but fought like a man, dear Jack, you would not now need to die like a dog.” Second best historical witticism ever imho.

* blasts Korngold*

RUN OUT THE STARBOARD GUNS, MISTER BELLAMY! WE’LL WAKE THEM WITH A WHIFF OF GRAPESHOT IN THE MORNING!

and 25 minutes or so later

POWER BREEDS PARASITES
LONG LIVE ANARCHY

Listening to Schostakovich Sym 11, a sure sign of being in a sunny mood especially about living in a worker’s paradise with great foreign policy.

A weird combination of ancestral pride and ancestral SHAME combines with the current war to dearly want a future where Ukraine’s run by Ukrainian assholes, not Russian assholes… that is if none of us get to have anarchosocialism.

I ride on the bus into the city every day
sit on the bench and I dream my life away
I dream I'm on an island with that sexy lady too
when I'm awaken
I must be mistaken
I'm on Third Avenue
Won't you take me away,
and take away me?
Won't you take me away,
and take away me?

I wish when my brain spews I WISH I WERE A BETTER ARTIST while awake early, it were less "I'm scared that if people don't absolutely love me I'm vulnerable to harm (reflects crap childhood, not really true)" and more "I want to work on X technical problem (lighting, composition, portraits etc)"

fortunately I think I know what the actual technical thing is

@Bordigan *sigh* such a pretty plane

takeaways from work from home again;

* I can't get my work PC to recognize my monitor as a separate display, so some tasks are slower than at the office

* I'm great when there's lots of work, but if work slows motivation and energy plunge. Getting outside during lunch break is probably more useful than napping during lunch break.

weirdest song associations;

* I associate Queen's "A Kind of Magic" album with both Shadowrun and the 8 bit version of the Robocop theme (my dorm had the arcade game)

* thanks to a dream I associate Spinosaurus with the "They Swim" track from Alien Resurrection

* I am not entirely sure why I associate "867-5309/Jenny" with riding bikes

the most ghetto take on Hainan chicken is to microwave one of those quick rice things, microwave some diced precooked chicken from Safeway, and put the actual effort into making ginger-garlic-salt-pepper-oil to go on top, chop a couple of green onions as well

in other news I cooked lunch for myself if you're not picky about "cooked"