Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Doing okay today!

Had a nice dinner out with @CeruleanK last night, at Uneeda Burger out in Fremont. Got deep-fried cheese curds. Regret nothing.

Checked the mail this morning and found almost all the bureaucratic stuff I was waiting for, including the rest of my insurance docs. Got to clear off _most_ of my to-do list in one go.

Am a little bit ahead on work, and basically enjoying the hell out of playing Carmen Sandiego for a living. The work outage is _definitely_ over, we are _definitely_ not closing up shop, and I should be set through around March.

Got the retinology appointment tomorrow. Still worried about the prospect of {UNPLEASANT MEDICAL PROCEDURE OMITTED}, but I've at least braced myself for every possibility. Mostly I'm just annoyed I'm gonna have to get my pupils dilated.

Heading home to Ohio late Monday. It'll be nice to get away for a bit.

@Leucrotta Thanks, this is right up my alley!

🖼

"Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and likes you no matter what you are." -- Kurt Vonnegut (on Stephen Hawking's regret that we can not remember the future)

@acetone_kitten I'm gone from the 17th to 28th but Peg knows where everything is! If I miss ya, let's hang out next year before I leave for NOLA, okay? :)

@acetone_kitten Oh, that reminds me... we have one of your family photo albums, and a BUNCH of your paperbacks. Want any of that?

I want to create a series of memes, each of which has two copies of a connect-the-dots puzzle.

On the left is the "normie" solution: a duckie or kitty or fireman or whatever. On the right is the "rational" solution, where the dots are connected to read something like "SECRET MUSLIM" or "PIZZA BASEMENT" or "NO COLLUSION" in jagged, contorted, occasionally backwards letters.

A periodic reminder about my favorite online therapist, Chill The Lion:

https://codepen.io/Yakudoo/pen/YXxmYR

I don't think I would have made it through the last year if not for this guy. I'm tempted now and then to start a video stream where I just play with his mane for a few minutes a day. ^_____^

@Aradia Think how she must feel! "Damn you, Future Me! You're always getting there one step ahead!"

I ate an entire quarter pound of chocolate nougat from Trader Joe's in one sitting and I'm very pleased with myself.

@LeDiva Speaking of which, today I found myself singing this to myself in the shower and thinkin' boutcha: <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1l1c69L2nQ

My arbitration panel has denied your request.

https://i.imgur.com/pKthuCi.gifv

Without spoiling anything... I enjoyed the hell out of the casual bisexuality of last night's episode of The Good Place. ^__^

If you have *any* tolerance for sitcoms whatsoever, you should probably watch this show.

Rezeya's channel would just be old pirated episodes of the classic Martian Tiger sitcom, "Hey, They're Gonna Eat That Guy!", complete with the bloopers where they don't eat that guy and the 20-minute supercut of them eating those guys.

@kel@dragon.style Hi!

@mawr @Leucrotta @zetasyanthis Hmm. Actually, after examining the rest of this thread, the judges will need a few minutes to make a ruling... That is an _extraordinary_ nosie on that cat.

@mawr @Leucrotta @zetasyanthis Is that the Jack of Snoots or the young Page of Snoots? I can't tell them apart yet!

Either way, I think you won this hand...

@Soreth I mean, admittedly, that was pretty good, but I prefer those pickled. :)

(That being said, I've been a lot happier since I started exercising three times a week, and sometimes my own problems have been nothing but Tigers Are Fucking Lazy.

If anything, my obesity is due to the shameful abundance of supermarkets, noodle houses, and bakeries in my neighborhood proportional to, say, slow but lean free-roaming gazelles. O:) )

But remember: it's "not genetic in the least," if you claim your metabolism is bad "you're just making excuses," and it's all something you could "just will yourself out of."

You know. Just like they said about depression. And poverty. And queerness. Nobody could possibly have a body that's just *better* at processing calories...

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/06/brown-fat-ftw.html