Not a wonderful day 🙃
Previous owner of this property has what we dubbed "traps", both in the house and outside. This particular one - a T post, hidden in the middle of dense blackberries with nothing else near it what so ever, is today's expensive adventure.

Whew. Now I can kill off my Starlink service finally.

Serious question - what does it -matter- if what Trump, Musk, et. al. are doing is "Illegal", "unconstitutional", if they're doing it anyway, and the mechanisms for stopping, let alone accountability, are just... not?

Far too often reminded of this passage from Carl Sagan.

Palette cleanser follow-up. Our foster, Casper, lays it on thick when I have to leave after spoiling him with love, scratches, and pets. He looks at me like this when I have to leave his room

The commentary that follows thinking such as "That's illegal!", "There's unconstitutional!", "They must give notice!" are ignoring the entirety of Trump Administration modus operandi.

Thinking that any of those things matter to this Administration or their supporters is unfortunately wrong.

"...we must live the changes we want to see in the world."
(someone smart)

Getting involved in building something, can be immensely beneficial in surprising ways.

If able, what better way to fight the destruction and dismantling around us, other than actively building?

(long thread)

Have a cat photo, cos, everything else basically sucks right now.
(we're fostering this feral dude, currently named Casper. He has a long way to go, but, already making massive progress adjusting to humans and indoor life. We may keep him if he gets along with the rest of our menagerie)

Throwing low notes around for these cool folks (Designer Disguise) in just over a week. Check out the lyric vid and give them a like/whatever over on Facebook (facebook.com/designerdisguise), please!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDev...

Show is on the 18th @ Madam Lou's

#metal #hardrock #hook #seattle

Doing some low low tuning for a fill-in show coming up on the 18th! Going to be down at F standard, on my Dingwall Afterburner I 6 string. Really excited for this show.

#AdventOfCode
Day 5, parts 1 and 2
Part 1 was a breeze. I had the correct answer from a clean solution pretty quickly.
Part 2, I decided to lean into a large reason I'm doing this - to _learn_ things. There was a fairly straight forward answer available to me, but I choose... differently.

#AdventOfCode
Day 4. Today was more string and pattern matching in a 2d matrix. Overall not bad. I completed part 1 pretty quickly. Part 2 I had a solution done over lunch, but wasn't getting the correct result on.

#AdventOfCode
Holy crap today challenged me.
Part 1 was fairly straight forward. Among a sea of shit, find certain things, pluck them out, then Do A Math and bubble up the result.

#AdventOfCode Day two, both parts completed. Spoilers below if anyone else is doing it.
Today was a little bit of a self-induced struggle. Part 1, iterate data set to determine which data is bad, basically. The data has variable length and some rules to determine validity. Should be ez.

I just completed Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

I don't do a ton of coding for my job (despite that being my title). I really wish I did a whole lot more. I'm learning Go now, and this is a fun means to accomplish my goal.

The Last Will And Testament is perhaps the best Opeth album to date.
It's also available officially from Opeth via Bandcamp, for $7, where you can get WAV and FLAC quality (as well as the usual MP3 stuff).
Go do the buying and the listening. And give the volume knob a very generous twist when ya do.