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The three of us are STILL having symptoms of covid on a daily basis, and our doc has said don't get around ANYBODY right now because our immune systems are shot.

Doc won't even let us go get our flu shots even though we're REALLY overdue, and my liver enzymes are off from all the meds I was on to get through covid.

Just now one of our outside cams alerted me to movement, and I go out there and my dad is standing there blabbing away with a guy who does work for him.

No mask on either one of them.

The dude who works for him goes into other people's houses for a living.

Seriously?!

Charlie (my uncle) and Marissa have been doing work outside our house for the last week and my mom and I haven't even been able to visit with them because we're being careful about cold, flu, pneumonia (which mom and I have had multiple times), and covid, and you're just gonna traipse out front and blab with a dude in his 30s in perfect health who hangs around people all day and never wears a mask?!

🤬

This isn't a complaint or demand, and I would never directly ask anybody to change how they do things. Because fic is free, and I'm grateful.

And I spent years in fandoms back when writers frequently didn't even list pairings or fic length or summaries at all.

But it's very difficult for me to figure out whether or not I want to read a fic when the summaries are only snippets of the fic itself. Snippets that don't even include key sentences.

Some fandoms seem to do this more than others, but I'm seeing it more and more.

I don't check tags unless there's a snippet summary, but most of the time I can't even figure out what a fic is about from the tags.

Again, I'm not complaining, but I'm asking if this is a trend done on purpose and I'm just not connecting things or missed something.

Is it done so more people read the fic because they want to find out what it's about? Is it a stylistic thing?

If traditional summaries are going out of style, I don't want to fight it like an ass on my own fics.

I left my phone in the freezer.

That's a first for me.

I've put things from the fridge in cupboards before, and I've put dishes "away" in the fridge before, but I've never left my PHONE in the freezer before.

I was going to take a pic of Roo (my dog) and I'm like crap I left my phone somewhere.

Searched everywhere I'd been this morning, and when I was sure I'd looked everywhere, I tried the freezer with a "yeah sure it'll be in there 🙄" sort of vibe and ended up doing Pikachu reaction standing there with the freezer door open.

I've changed my pronouns in my about section on all the social media sites and all the Discord servers.

I changed my PFP to a dude who looks about as close to my old PFP as I could get.

Not sure if I'm gonna stick with this, but for now this feels really comfy and I'm surprised by how all that irritation about ticking the boxes she/her is just GONE. Other things feel more settled in the last few days too.

I really like my RL name and my URL, but it's obviously feminine.

I've gone by Laen and male pronouns in gaming spaces ever since I was a kid (that's how I came up with the fandom name Mayalean) just because I've always felt more comfortable playing as male. I'm not sure if I wanna change my name yet, but it would probably be Laen if I did.

So yeah I'm gonna try he/him out for a while 🙂

(if all the kids I grew up with heard about this they wouldn't be surprised - whenever we played I was always the guy/husband and I could never figure out why the other girls were so happy about me taking that role because what little girl wouldn't want to play a guy?! 😂 My mom has tons of pics of me playing the guy as young as 3 years old)

Technology is unreliable. I'm the anal geek who has not just one backup of everything but TWO backups in different places.

I don't rely on "cloud" tech at all. I don't trust services because the owners can do whatever they want.

But it's so frustrating to have Diigo (social bookmarking), Evernote (note taking and storage with cloud-like backup and available on multiple devices) and Google Docs all with different info.

I've got:

all the fanfic files saved on my computer (easy backups)
the bookmarks saved in Diigo (hard-ish backups)
the files and bookmarks saved in Evernote (hard backups)
the files saved in Docs (slow backups)

They're all organized into folders, and both Diigo and Evernote have tagging for easy search.

But none of them care connected at all! And I haven't found a good one-size-fits-all program.

So every time I want to save a fic, I either have to decide which one I want to save it in or save it in all the places. That's time consuming.

Diigo also has a browser add-on, which is EXTREMELY convenient because my memory sucks and it tells me when I've already been someplace so I don't re-read fics constantly without knowing. It also has a cache feature, which is awesome.

Google Drive now has the ability to sync across my desktop and Evernote, so any changes I make in my desktop automatically gets updated in Drive/Docs and Evernote.

But this is SCARY. I could fuck things up badly with a mistake or a virus (which I haven't had since my early days of being a geek but it can happen any time).

But... CONVENIENCE 😭

I also want to be able to share fics with people easily, and the easiest way is granting access to Docs, which would be sharing a fic from my own computer, which is fine for friends, but just throwing it out there to anybody who asks is weird even if it's view only.

Now that I have all the fics I recently downloaded from a friend, I want to have them all in the same place. That's going to take a lot of organizing, and I need to decide on this before working with over 1 million files.

I fight depending on a tech service this strongly, but the features and convenience are so tempting!

Maybe I could just do more frequent backups?

Seriously if anybody ever built a service that did all this AND made it easy to do backups, I would pay for it.

I lost $900 today because my family STILL won't double check things.

When I first got covid, I was REALLY sick, and they knew it. My brain wasn't functioning right (still isn't but it's better than it was) and I wasn't double checking out-of-state orders for the shop personally for a couple weeks.

It had been a few months since they sent something out that was obviously paid for with a stolen credit card so I was like okay I'm gonna just step back and take care of myself and let them do their thing. It's a slow time of year anyway in the tattoo industry.

more whining under the cut

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I'm now on week 5 of Covid and still feel shitty and my brain is mush.

Cinnamon still tastes like dirt. I really REALLY liked cinnamon (added it to my breakfast shake every day before), and I'm hoping it's not gone forever.

I can't taste tomatoes at all. It's so weird. It's like there's mushy nothingness in my mouth.

I've lost smell/taste before with colds but never like this 😭

I also can't taste anything bitter, so Brussels sprouts (one of my faves) have absolutely no bitterness.

Which you think would be great, but I kinda miss the contrast.

I know I should be glad I lived (I'm pretty sure me and my mom would've been among those to die if we'd gotten Covid before vaccines and other treatments were available) but I'm definitely feeling whiny.

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