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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • I went from hourly call center to on call 24/7 and being the only point of contact.

    When my phone notifies me, just any notification, I panic. The phone rings, I panic. Its been over a year since I left.

    Yes, its part and parcel to other issues of mental health, but… Man, do you know how often you get notifications? I’ve turned most off and still some days I’m ready to smash my phone so it will shut up and I can breathe normally.





  • I’ve been on a decade long hiatus from multiplayer aspect of games - aside from games I was with people I knew in RL.

    I only occasionally get a twinge for the comraderie of some epic raid in an MMO, or tight unspoken squad tactics where everyone just does their job as expected (not necessarily well lol) and came out on top.

    But really, I don’t have the time to commit to either of those.

    Then I hear about my friend in GW2 (RL friend) who is going through some toxic guild BS and I don’t miss it.


  • Everquest did this to me.

    I mained a bard, and back then you had to stop a song and start a new one every so often…

    Mathematically it translates to a button press ever 1.5 seconds, ignoring movement, other combat abilities, etc.

    I also refused to compromise on spelling and grammar at the time.

    I got real good at typing accurately and quickly.

    I have lost a lot of that speed, but at comfortable pace I’m probably 80-90 words a minute, and the last time it was measured was a keyboarding class requisite. 121 GWAM for an eighth grader isn’t too shabby. As long as I fixed the printer I got to play games in that class.




  • I loved to do that in Everquest.

    Started on my mage who could summon a ring that instantly cast levitate on you.

    So we had games getting up to, and jumping off of, really tall structures and playing chicken with the ground lol.

    On my bard, the combination of raw movement speed and a Lev meant getting into places not designed for players, though I will say they did a good job of making sure you didn’t die out of bounds, back when you had to recover your gear from your corpse.

    I only had to petition a GM once to get me unstuck, lol.

    They just teleported me to the current expansion at the time “hub city.”

    Never got into speed running though, and I don’t think my attention span would allow for it. Respect and all, its impressive what some people can do, just not my thing.


  • I’ve done the graveyard shift for a couple jobs now.

    Usually for medical IT.

    Its usually quiet, I don’t see my boss very often, and for the most part just run the entirety of IT stuff by myself.

    I know how much I value my sleep, so I try not to escalate issues in the middle of the night.

    In a lot of ways its made me a more creative problem solver and just a better more rounded tech.

    Some things I just don’t have permissions for, and have to escalate. Sucks, but I get it.

    It helps that my wife works similar hours to me.

    We can both go to bed in the afternoon, though I’m jealous of her getting to sleep later than me in the moments I’m first awake, but I leave work first so its a fair trade I guess.


  • I keep seeing Pop recommended so hijacking for an issue I ran into switching away from it - I had to completely wipe the drive prior to formatting the drive for whatever Debian based distro I was checking out.

    Long story short, it was due to the bootloader for Pop remaining and interfering with the install process. So a full wipe wouldn’t be necessary most likely, just clearing your boot partition should be enough.







  • If you think that’s ingesting, look into silent migraines.

    Essentially, you get all the physiological issues with migraines except the pain.

    So being sensitive to light and sound, loud noises, nausea, the whole shebang, just no pain.

    Also, interesting bit of theory, in Alice in Wonderland, the growing/shrinking and dilation of space is thought to be a side effect of migraines and its thought the author suffered from them.

    Its actually called Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

    I’ve experiened it myself, if your heads been fucky and seems like that hallway got longer, or that road got shorter, it could be a side effect of a migraine.


  • I’ve had intractable migraine pain, and yes I’ve seen the docs, have meds (that usually knock it out) but sometimes a head massage is needed, especially if you’ve been stressed for a while.

    The temple areas, as well as big muscles in your neck on either side of the spine. I’m lucky my wife seems to know the exact pressure points to hit.

    That’s more of a tension headache fix, but sometimes its part of it.

    Being a long term patient of neurologists (migraines, seizures) and having a wife who works in neurology I tend to believe the doctor she worked with who stated that once you have migraines, all headaches are a migraine clinically. They’re just more or lwwa debilitating based on severity.