A little bit of Sarcassem

A short, rambling missive about the current state of affairs lol

Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons - my friend code is SW-6278-0366-9015 in case you’d like to play. :)

Started Day 1 of 100 Days of Swift because the teaching style was a little more clear than the JavaScript courses I found. We covered variables, simple data types, and string interpolation. Check it out!

What’s annoying about lessons & tutorials for coding I’ve done is that they lack context around why you would use the feature. Example, in JavaScript, I’m learning arrays & the push & pop method along w/ shift & unshift. They don’t explain the point behind using those methods.

Time to learn JavaScript, I think.

So one of my mom’s co-workers tested positive for COVID-19. My mom, btw, had a heart attack while back that resulted in a triple bypass. She’s now on home lockdown until further notice. At least she can work from home.

Oooh. I took Benadryl to see if it would help ease the swelling and itch of a fire ant bite. I started to get sleepy, and then it dawned on me why. Silly me. My foot doesn’t itch though!

Meet Sebastian. His nickname is Sir Bastard because he’s a grumpy old man. He gets along with Onyx, but not so much with Oakley. I’m trying to spend my time at home teaching him to be nicer to Oakley.

I’m curious as to why we are allowing the stock market to operate at all at this point? Honest question.

Sitting on the back patio listening to the birds sing and the squirrels race around from here to there. Drinking coffee. ☕️

Here’s my recommendation: act as if you already have the virus. What would you do to avoid giving it to others?

Well, day one of being at home. It’s going to be interesting since my husband works at a grocery store and has to go to work every day. Also, related to that, people are animals. Entitled little animals. It’s crazy.

One of the most dangerous things given this president’s attack on the media and labeling everything “Fake News” is people become skeptical of everything they see regarding COVID-19.

“Oh, it’s not that bad.”

I was today years old when I learned there is such a thing as a forensic podiatrist. Thanks to the “Crime Junky” podcast! 🎙

Waiting.

“I’m worried about her, Jan,” Marta said. She doodled on the notepad in front of her as she spoke. Each of the little doodles was a little frantic scribble in some random shape. “I think she really needs some help.”

There was a pause before Jan replied, “Well, what do you think we should do? Don’t you think she’ll be upset with us if we confront her?”

Marta shrugged. “I don’t know, but I can’t do nothing. We’ve been friends for over 20 years. I feel like I’d be turning my back on her if I did nothing. She may be upset for a little bit, but I think she’ll come around.”

Jan sighed, “Yeah, you’re right, I guess. Still, I can’t believe this is happening.”

There was a tap on Marta’s shoulder. She turned around and found her boss looking down at her disapprovingly. Marta turned back towards the phone quickly and in a hushed voice said, “Listen, Jan, I gotta run. The boss is here.” She hung up before Jan could respond knowing that Jan would understand. Marta had told her all about her dictator of a boss before. Marta wheeled around to face her boss once again.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Georgan,” she said. “My friend is in some trouble, and I was trying to rally the troops to help, as it were.”

Mr. Georgan frowned. “Not on my dime, Marta. You know better than that. Now where is the Freedman report?”

This is purely anecdotal, but it seems like there’s a boom in the self storage space. Everywhere I look, here in Tampa, there’s a new one being built. Very curious.

I finally did it. I deactivated my Twitter account. Goodbye, you toxic little bird.

Making pulled pork sandwiches for dinner tonight! Yes, sometimes I can cook. TBD, InstantPot is my life, though! Such a damn handy device.

My Elizabeth Warren merch arrived! It’s a tad bit late, but I’m still hella proud of her!

Got my Elizabeth Warren merch (a little too late), but super proud of it. Whatcha think, @Philly? 😀

Practicing with Procreate. 😀

If you would like to know who the most amazing, strong, kind, and wonderful person is, simply reread the second word of this post!

I’m trying out something as a continue to migrate away from services that vacuum up my personal data. I’m transitioning over from Gmail to Fastmail (harder than I thought, but mostly because I just need to commit and make it happen), I’m starting to use Brave as a browser (despite Safari also having most of the same privacy features), and I’m using DuckDuckGo. Next up: I need to ditch Facebook completely.

The Hard Part about Breaking Up with Facebook

I find that I use it for a few things that would be difficult without it. For one, I’m signed into a few different apps and services by Sign In with Facebook. I do use Instagram, and lately that’s for marketing my t-shirts and stickers, so it’s kind of a necessity. I’m using it less and less for personal. I don’t post to Facebook personally anymore, nor do I have the app installed on my devices. I need to figure out a way to transition away from Sign In with Facebook on the services that use it and replace it with something like Sign In with Apple.

What About Twitter?

I’m trying to get rid of Twitter entirely, and I have no excuse for not just ripping the band aid off. The only thing I use Twitter for is politics, and even that is mostly retweets and commentary on other tweets. I could actually do most of that stuff in other venues.

If you’ve managed to make the switch away from these services, how has it gone for you?

While I understood she would most likely drop out of the race soon, it hit me HARD when Elizabeth Warren dropped out today. I was seriously hoping she would hold out through the next debate.