Did some stitching
Apr. 19th, 2026 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42
I finished the moon on Upon A Star, and started some trees on the left side. There are still 2 stars to do, once I have enough trees done to have easy reference points.
get used to the taste of ashes
Apr. 16th, 2026 10:47 amjazzfish"I would have liked to have a home with a separate library," I said a few nights ago. And a place where I can practice viola without worrying about irritating a neighbour, and floor space and equipment for yoga and rope, and a cat tree, and and and.
It's always difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but: I do not believe that I will ever again live without roommates once I have to move out of here. The two-legged kind; I also don't expect to find a place to live that I can afford that will accept a cranky cat. This will be increasingly bad for my mental health, but I won't be able to afford counseling either so maybe I won't notice.
I'm still leaving today for the Gathering in Niagara, and Minneapolis for a week afterwards. Perhaps the change of scenery will help. Horse, sing, etc.
( process retrospective )
well.
Apr. 12th, 2026 09:40 pmjazzfishPrice drop mid-week.
Nobody at the open house today.
I'd say I am running out of optimism but I didn't have much to start with. I am running out of hope, though.
Fallback plan: all my stuff to storage, rent out the condo for enough to cover the mortgage, take up residence on someone's couch, go looking for a service job to stanch at least some of the bleeding. Steph has offered to take in Mr Tuppert temporarily, so at least I won't be abandoning him entirely.
I hate this more than I can reasonably express.
(Comments off.)
The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
Sewing
Apr. 9th, 2026 05:17 pmdianec42I need to learn that it's okay to race through prototypes. It doesn't need to be perfect; heck, it doesn't even need to be good. It just needs to prove the fit.
Now I have a brand new Nerd World Problem: I know what pattern I want to use to make the top. It is an older pattern so it's available only as paper, not PDF, which honestly is fine by me, except for a slight distribution problem. With Jo-Ann out of business, where to buy paper patterns?
The answer is, apparently, buy the pattern online and pay the same amount again for shipping. SIGH.
Time to spend some time researching equally interesting patterns that come as PDFs, and see which terrible fate is slightly less terrible.
I actually sewed yesterday!
Apr. 7th, 2026 09:46 amdianec42Some wag once made a pie chart of how one spends time when sewing, with actual "making stitches with the machine" being maybe 5%, the rest being things like pressing, cutting out, pinning, and swearing.
I would add to those: searching the house for things you know you own; rearranging the clutter to actually reach those things; changing the needle and presser foot; winding bobbins; finding a spare spool of thread when you run out winding the first bobbin; swearing at the sewing machine instructions because you can't remember how to actually do any of these things; and most of all KEEPING THE CATS FROM GETTING INVOLVED.
Might need a more detailed breakdown of the swearing wedge of the pie chart...
The other, OTHER mental health problem with generative AI [ai, tech]
Apr. 7th, 2026 03:43 amsiderea2026 Apr 6: Alberta Tech [YT]: "Vibe Coding is Gambling" [56 seconds]: