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I just found this guy, and jeepers.

https://chuckjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/balsams

PEDAL STEEL GUITAR AMBIENT.

16.04 LTS Ubuntu has a bug in its VPN software that's solved in 17.10, but there's no LTS release scheduled until 18.04 which is too long to be without working VPN software. So I'm having to abandon the LTS platform for my development even though my job is focused on system and service stability and customer experience because I have to chase a bug patch rather than expect people to backport system-breaking bugfixes to their supposed long-term support platform.

"Fun."

TFW the statistics you send your boss about the impact your tool will have gets forwarded to the VP who says "please don't turn it on because your stats are beautiful and terrifying and I'm afraid you may be right about what needs to be done."

Simply calling it "turkey and zucchini stew" says little about its spice profile or how it actually tastes. Labeling it according to any real-world ethnicity would be actively Not What I Want. Inventing a suggestive name without a real-world analogue feels like low-grade fantasy racism. Listing its full ingredient name every time is simply impractical. Every approach feels inadequate.

So, suggestions from the interboops?

Right now, I've got a pot of black beans, zucchini, onion, and ground turkey in a thick sauce simmering on the stove. It's seasoned with cumin, oregano, black pepper, garlic, a hint of cinnamon, and a dash of orange peel. If it had chilies and tomatoes in it, or anywhere close to it, it'd be chili, but it doesn't and isn't. Its lineage seems obvious to me but it looks nothing like anything I've encountered or heard about from others in my limited exposure.

So, mastoboops, ponder with me:

I love to cook, and I love a lot of flavor profiles that are common to various world cuisines, but because of some very frustrating food allergies -- nightshades and dairy both make me violently ill -- I can't really eat, and thus don't really cook, a lot of stuff folks would recognize as authentic.

This leaves me with a question: what do I _call_ this stuff?

http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/ is my shordurpersav. #SubGenius

I had to use extra water and triple sec to bring the crust together, because I used cocoa powder in my cheater's puff. Paul Hollywood would not approve. Mary Berry would add more double cream. The tart filling has no cream, just eggs, chocolate, and TOFFEE that I made while I was HIGH.

STONED. TOFFEE.

That was totally a bad plan. But it __worked__. And it tasted pretty good, even if the dough still rose too much in the middle because I patched a hole too aggressively.

https://awoo.space/media/QaJkCg1IM15wGXQRPwA

I'm baking a chocolate tart.

This is probably a bad plan.

The cheater's puff I made is not exactly... up to spec. This happens sometime. I get moved to _experiment_ before I know what I'm doing. The results are unorthodox.

I _did_ try to dock the dough. it still puffed up weirdly in the middle, so I clearly didn't dock it enough.

And what do you know, it did go awry. Not terrible, just committed to the wrong repo. Ha ha. Time to validate that rollback plan....

Doot-doot-doo... commitin' code directly to master 'cause everyone else on my team's out today....

BIAS THIS FOR ACTION, DEVVERS! :middle_finger_clw_b2:​

(( Under ninety-nine percent of circumstances, this is a terrible move, but there's nobody around who can tell me if my code's good and I can only really test it if it's in staging. I've validated my rollback plan and prod is disconnected in my pipeline. I may take a cavalier attitude at times but I'm still a professional. ))

Doot-doot-doo... installin' 1.1Gb of fonts on my system 'cause it can't find one glyph...

7) As a creator of "fictional" "characters," I'm going to start by saying it would be cheating to declare any of my own works in the list of eligibles. I want to meet Rotwang. I want to get to know him before his breakdown. I want to document his techniques. I want to understand his breakthroughs. And I want, just maybe, to try to nudge him off the path of "can implies should" that led to so much suffering. Though, if I did, maybe Metropolis wouldn't have fallen, and it needed to fall.

6) Writer. Author. Crafter of words and worlds, creator of dreams that others choose to inhabit. Essayist on matters magical, spiritual, literary, and ethical. To get paid enough for... this... that I could get away from the lightning songs and still bring others with me.

5) I think @Soreth said it best: "Always move closer to the truest you." That doesn't mean that "you" is necessarily singular, or that truth is externally measurable. We must all decide for ourselves what our truest selves looks like. Keep swinging on the spiral. Keep rising towards the light. Be honest with yourself about who you are, who you want to be, and where you want to go. If you don't know how, look for those who you think are better at being themselves and ask for help.

4) Right now, my biggest future anticipation is retirement. I've had a twenty-year plan -- now more like forty -- in the works since just after college on how to get to not having to work for a living safely and some idea of how many people I could bring with me into that state. As my resources have grown, the world has collapsed out from under me and the number of people needing help has incrased, but the plan is still largely intact. It's just longer-term now than it was.

3) I value what others think of me to the extent that I think their opinions are valuable. I don't care what most people think of me, because if I did, I'd have been unable to transition in Texas in 2000 at 194cm and 155kg. I'd have been unable to survive being tagged as gay at age ten in 1984. I couldn't and can't afford to care what randos think of me. I value what the beings and entities and minds around me that I respect think of me, regardless of whether they're people.

2) The best answer I can offer is that my loved ones have inspired me more than I can put into words. The vast majority of my relationship with @ElectricKeet has been her trying to get me to be A Good Buni(tm), and all of my mates and friends have given me reason to want to do better in life.

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention Mitchell, the first person to really show me magic from the outside, even if I would outpace his lessons before either of us realized I had.