got in last night from alabama. i spent 2 weeks down there (i hadnt intended to do that without stopping back home so ran out of meds and am a week behind on hrt) helping out the family. pop's surgery went well, he had minor complications that resolved in hospital and was discharged after a few days with no ICU. i was not really liking how little phone support healthcare was giving afterwards (read: none) considering that reattaching the bowel is in fact a major surgery even if done w laproscopy?? and there were some minor alarming signs?? and the weekend was coming?? anyway, after a stressful weekend with me checking his temp constantly all was well at monday's followup. home health has been contacted and are visiting, and he's puttering around decently without a walker or a cane.
so take that, cancer and sepsis. not THIS year!!
most of what i did down there was just helping out. my stepmom's COPD flares badly when pop is unwell, and obviously this compounds stressors and makes it worse. my stepsister is extremely brave-faced and has an amazing bedside manner but can be her own brand of stress for her mom, as someone w downs. AND she was getting ready to go to summer camp, so like, camp prep was also rolled in there!! but i did housework and cleaned up and mowed pop's lawn (he would do it immediately unless someone else did) and got attacked by wasps. alabama wasps really have some spicy venom. that was like a week ago and it's still a red welt.
i played with the puppybook for MOST of my time in alabama. it proved to be great for playing videos (i loaded a few onto the hard drive to test before i left) and obviously running furcadia. i was messing around trying to get dogz4 to run on it - almost got it too, i just need to make dog datafiles in hard copy and then put them in the owned folder so it stops freaking out trying to make a savefile. just have one premade to load from that will be fine thank u
it even provided back of the car cartoons on the way to camp for me n roxy (it is a looong ride and i was kind of done playing ghost/spider attack) and then... i shorted the keyboard painting a cool design on it >.> that was entirely on me.
so for the last few days i was kind of crawling the walls. by the time i had time to myself it was often too late to leave the light on and draw, especially if i was waking up to help out. so... puppybook got benched. at least my trusty mp3 player held up. i listened to a few albums on the trip.
MCR's Black Parade was way better than i had any expectation of it being?? i can hear dream theatre and green day in there and the raw struggle with alcoholism rolled into the concept album with the band's own twists. i listened to it a few times thru!
100 gecs 1000 gecs n the tree of clues was a little less my speed. it's def breaking some rules and barriers in what its doing, but i guess for me the habitual noise breakdown part of a song is more of a distraction than an addition. it's def interesting?? i feel like people with more music theory knowledge probably appreciate it in ways i cant access tbh. like microtonal stuff, its a strange sound that might just be its own unique concept of human noise.
tally hall good&evil was kind of mid. but to be fair i was expecting the upbeat energy of their yesteryears that i met in Banana Man. one cant really sustain such energy indefinately so i can't fault them for going in a more mellow direction. it just happens to be a mellow direction a lot of other bands went in with nothing particularly ground breaking to stand it out. sorry tally hall. i hope you still make lots of ticket sales tho.
MIKA's boy who knew too much, Origin of Love and Hyperlove mika is soooo fucking good, maybe i'm just incredibly gay and need a little energy to my music tho. boy who knew too much is like wall to wall instant classics. origin of love has some great tunes and only one whose translation i looked up and was like hot damn mika's pulling no punches about growing up under the voice of a hater telling this tale. hyperlove is a lot more mellow. it's the most new album, and mika has of course grown a lot in this time. there's a sort of anxious feeling to it about worry for what love in this darker new age may mean for all of this. but there's also maximized celebration of love in its true forms. which is really what mika is all about. i didn't fully appreciate hyperlove the first time til i learned mika is the one on piano, and then the keyboards being super featured was something i could listen for. i liked all 3 a lot. listened several times.
Lizzo's Special listen its not the no1 ground breaking sound but its PRETTY great lesbian anthems and anthems of self empowerment for and by lizzo herself. bye bitch!! lmaooo
( so now im home i started working on the puppybook again )
i'll be posting ask kyo tomorrow but i think right now i need to shower chlorine off of myself and put another coat of krylon on the keycaps.
later
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so take that, cancer and sepsis. not THIS year!!
most of what i did down there was just helping out. my stepmom's COPD flares badly when pop is unwell, and obviously this compounds stressors and makes it worse. my stepsister is extremely brave-faced and has an amazing bedside manner but can be her own brand of stress for her mom, as someone w downs. AND she was getting ready to go to summer camp, so like, camp prep was also rolled in there!! but i did housework and cleaned up and mowed pop's lawn (he would do it immediately unless someone else did) and got attacked by wasps. alabama wasps really have some spicy venom. that was like a week ago and it's still a red welt.
i played with the puppybook for MOST of my time in alabama. it proved to be great for playing videos (i loaded a few onto the hard drive to test before i left) and obviously running furcadia. i was messing around trying to get dogz4 to run on it - almost got it too, i just need to make dog datafiles in hard copy and then put them in the owned folder so it stops freaking out trying to make a savefile. just have one premade to load from that will be fine thank u
it even provided back of the car cartoons on the way to camp for me n roxy (it is a looong ride and i was kind of done playing ghost/spider attack) and then... i shorted the keyboard painting a cool design on it >.> that was entirely on me.
so for the last few days i was kind of crawling the walls. by the time i had time to myself it was often too late to leave the light on and draw, especially if i was waking up to help out. so... puppybook got benched. at least my trusty mp3 player held up. i listened to a few albums on the trip.
MCR's Black Parade was way better than i had any expectation of it being?? i can hear dream theatre and green day in there and the raw struggle with alcoholism rolled into the concept album with the band's own twists. i listened to it a few times thru!
100 gecs 1000 gecs n the tree of clues was a little less my speed. it's def breaking some rules and barriers in what its doing, but i guess for me the habitual noise breakdown part of a song is more of a distraction than an addition. it's def interesting?? i feel like people with more music theory knowledge probably appreciate it in ways i cant access tbh. like microtonal stuff, its a strange sound that might just be its own unique concept of human noise.
tally hall good&evil was kind of mid. but to be fair i was expecting the upbeat energy of their yesteryears that i met in Banana Man. one cant really sustain such energy indefinately so i can't fault them for going in a more mellow direction. it just happens to be a mellow direction a lot of other bands went in with nothing particularly ground breaking to stand it out. sorry tally hall. i hope you still make lots of ticket sales tho.
MIKA's boy who knew too much, Origin of Love and Hyperlove mika is soooo fucking good, maybe i'm just incredibly gay and need a little energy to my music tho. boy who knew too much is like wall to wall instant classics. origin of love has some great tunes and only one whose translation i looked up and was like hot damn mika's pulling no punches about growing up under the voice of a hater telling this tale. hyperlove is a lot more mellow. it's the most new album, and mika has of course grown a lot in this time. there's a sort of anxious feeling to it about worry for what love in this darker new age may mean for all of this. but there's also maximized celebration of love in its true forms. which is really what mika is all about. i didn't fully appreciate hyperlove the first time til i learned mika is the one on piano, and then the keyboards being super featured was something i could listen for. i liked all 3 a lot. listened several times.
Lizzo's Special listen its not the no1 ground breaking sound but its PRETTY great lesbian anthems and anthems of self empowerment for and by lizzo herself. bye bitch!! lmaooo
( so now im home i started working on the puppybook again )
i'll be posting ask kyo tomorrow but i think right now i need to shower chlorine off of myself and put another coat of krylon on the keycaps.
later
