Trying to Fred Flintstone foot-drive this operation

[slipjig3]

The whole "five things make a post" concept is as timeworn as movie theater carpeting, but posting is a habit that I'm still working on redeveloping and long-form anything still feels like a bridge too far, so here we go:

1) Achievement unlocked: I shared a childhood story that made my therapist go, "What the fuck...?!" (Not quite but almost verbatim.) She was furious on behalf of my younger self, which was gratifying but made me stop and wonder why I hadn't been furious until relatively recently, so I guess we have a Thing to talk about next week.

2) I seem to be back on the Book of Face, which I'm not entirely pleased about, but I did nuke my Xitter account from orbit, so I've got that going for me. (I do have an occasionally-used Bluesky account, user name slipjig, if'n y'all are over in those parts.)

3) We sometimes use a hot water bottle in bed on chilly nights, which we abbreviate to a "HoWaBo," which is why, when hypnagogie requested this evening that I prepare said HoWaBo, I replied that I needed to find the WaBo so I could make it Ho.

4) I don't buy Christmas anything until after Thanksgiving on general principle, but fuck principles when there are white fudge Oreos.

5) I was going to tell a story from Sunday here, but I'm realizing that it's too long for the five-things format, so remind me to circle back around to the crazy dude in the coffeehouse carrying around a 1968 Archie and Jughead comic and a used Barbra Streisand LP.

Also, I sprung for a paid account, so I've got my full set of icons back. Woo.

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[blimix]

Someday I'll probably get onto Bluesky. I made the effort with Mastodon, before Bluesky became The Thing, and now I need to find some more round tuits.

[slipjig3]

I got on Bluesky (rhymes with "brewskie") several months ago, so I've got a little bit of a running start. Were it not for that, I'm not sure I'd be bothering, but I'm glad for it as far as that goes.

[wantedonvoyage]

Wait, there was supposed to be a structure? I've been winging it for 23 years.

1. Therapy sounds so cathartic. But also terrifying.

2. I have, through the use of Social Fixer, FB Purity, and ruthless unfollowing, made Facebrick a Safe Space on the desktop only; I deleted all their apps and the fact that it is so annoying to use on a phone browser largely cured me of the habit of doom scrolling whenever I'm bored. I have no choice to be there at least a little due to the pages/groups I maintain but I try not to wander far from them. Also, I may have a Bluesky. I have built little rock cairns on a number of Mastodon instances and then promptly neglected them. I have not put the time in figure out how to make any kind of a presence outside of your own instance. Did re-find George Takei, though.

3. I got nothing but it does sound appealing. Where in the bed do you put it?

4. Same. I forgot and went into the Maul for lunch yesterday and squealed in terror.

5. You... have my attention.

[slipjig3]

1) So cathartic, so terrifying, and (if you find the right therapist) so worth it. (If you don't, then not so much.)

3) The idea is you fill it with boiling water (or like 75% boiling, 25% hot from the tap) and tuck it under the blankets near where your feet will be. It does an amazing job of keeping things toasty, and I'm now a firm advocate of bringing them back.

[wantedonvoyage]

I made a Bluesky account (shiftynj) and added you.

[slipjig3]

Added back!

[rubian77]

I think our younger selves take many things more in stride because at the time we don't know any better.

I should probably nuke my Xitter account too... I never use it anymore though I should back up the pictures. Is there an option in the settings somewhere?