green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

and then (the actual dead animal handling part) our rehabber gave us volunteers a brief training/orientation on how they splint breaks in bird wings and legs, what they look for when birds are brought in, etc. she demonstrated with a seagull and crowned kinglet, both previously deceased. they use coathangers to splint larger birds' legs, and paper clips for smaller ones!

so I took a seasonal project to clean the boots for Raccoon Nursery 1. there's three pairs of rubber boots on posts outside RN1, because raccoon contagion can be LITERALLY DEADLY so wearing your own shoes when the nurseries are in use is Discouraged. the boots were pretty clean already, though. I scrubbed and disinfected them anyway, and washed out a couple of spiders.

yesterday's volunteering was mostly dull. our rehabber has been assigning us jobs, so I cleaned outside enclosures--one flicker, who was FREAKING OUT OMG and I therefore tried to keep it as brief as possible, and one owl who beak-clicked at me but seemed otherwise unconcerned about my presence, so I did a bit more in there. still, both put together took less than an hour.

@JulieSqveakaroo yeah. yeeeaaaaaahhhhh. it looked like the intro to a video/computer game of some kind. it definitely falls into some weird Uncanny Valley for me. :|

we still don't have proper running water--there's a little trickle in the sinks and bathtub, but nothing in the toilet tank. good thing I bought a couple of gallon water jugs while I was out. :P and now of course I'm INCREDIBLY THIRSTY. [f/x: psychological effect]

so now I get to eat a hard boiled egg or two and then trundle off to the stores for cat fud and bottled water, because ???? aauuuugggghhhh I don't want to be doing any of this I want to GO BACK TO SLEEP and make this day over faster. ;________;

@literorrery @mawr of course, one of the people I know is particularly prone to subtooting is also an LJ veteran, so *shrug*?

I think part of the reason I avoid it so much is that I have a *strong* aversion to anything that even slightly resembles passive-aggressive behavior to me, For Reasons, and subtooting pushes all those buttons. I can usually shrug it off when it's directed at me, but actually doing it makes me feel icky. :|

@mawr @literorrery I understand the impulse to sub-toot, but I also understand the reasons why not to, and having the tools to do literally anything else, it's vanishingly rare for me to choose to do it. but I think that's a mindset that I was able to develop in LJ days, and I wonder if Kids These Days, never really having been a part of the LJ culture, just don't see viable options.

@literorrery @mawr okay yeah, this bit--"the habit of treating public communication spaces like private environments"--yess. I mean, it was a thing even back in LJ days, when you *could* make a group that consisted of "everybody *except* X" to vent/flail/ask for explanations in, or you could make a public post calling-out-but-not-naming X, and plenty of people chose the latter. but the fact that there *was* that viable alternative made it much more obviously drama-mongering.

and now the water main into our apartment complex is broken. :D :D :D :D :D maybe this is related to the one-minute power outage earlier? idk but :D :D :D

I am so fucking done with today already

@Terrana@tootplanet.space @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space there's just some people whomsteveres't find it amusing to use

@cute_weeds right, because you don't want to start getting feral computer colonies out in the business park wilderness

packs of feral computers roaming the suburbs, hunting stray or unattended cell phones, surreptitiously nesting in your spare bandwidth, foraging through dumpsters for trashed components

shit I want this now

@thiskurt@tootplanet.space @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space *preens*

@MightyPork@dev.glitch.social I drink it often enough that I brew it automatically when meaning to make something else, so believe me, I know! ;)

thought I was making chai but instead I made peppermint tea. which isn't bad, but I was expecting caffeine. but I don't want to pour out perfectly good tea. hmph.